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Thread #7307   Message #756234
Posted By: Haruo
29-Jul-02 - 04:16 AM
Thread Name: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
Subject: RE: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
Anybody know what if anything "And did those feet in ancient time" (lyric by William Blake) was sung to before Parry composed "Jerusalem"? Over a century elapsed. But then I don't think Blake wrote it as a hymn, and it may simply not have been sung earlier. It could be sung to most any LMD tune (e.g. Candler aka Ye Banks & Braes), of course. Or for that matter be lopped in twain and sung as four LM stanzas.

Liland