The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51636   Message #789780
Posted By: Mark Clark
23-Sep-02 - 03:31 PM
Thread Name: What's Sentimental and what's Sickening?
Subject: RE: What's Sentimental and what's Sickening?
Bill, Maybe it would help to remember that “The Legend of the Rebel Soldier” is nothing but an Americanization of the venerable Irish song “Shall My Soul Pass Through Old Ireland” which in turn is a rewrite of “Bingen on the Rhine.”

Of course knowing that the song comes from an older tradition doesn't mean it isn't overly sentimental. It's interesting, though, to follow the development of such a sentimental theme.

      - Mark