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Thread #42524   Message #619449
Posted By: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
01-Jan-02 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Subject: RE: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
You Sacred Harpies mustn't have this thread to yourselves: here is the Southern Harmony on Line. (Joke. It was a joke. The link is real, though.)

The words "O Worship the King all Glorious above" is often sung to the tune called Hanover, but it fits with the tune in the same meter called Old 104th, so I wouldn't be surprised if Old 104th were the earlier setting, though I can't document it. In roughly the same meter also is the tune Burns used for "Lady Mary Anne", and also the tune that the Irish band Dervish uses for "The Hills of Greenmore." The tune for "Lady Mary Anne" can also be used for "Away in a Manger", which is in a meter (11.11.11.11) which differs only by two syllables from the meter (10.10.11.11) of "O Worship the King all Glorious above".

T.