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Thread #12357 Message #96807
Posted By: Animaterra
19-Jul-99 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: The Saddest Song of All
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All
I know it's hardly folk, but Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" does me in every time, thinking about his little boy who died. Other than that, "There were roses," and a Yiddish song, "S'dremlen feygl" which was a poem written by Leah Rudzinski after a Polish ghetto was "cleansed"- there were few survivors, among them a 3-year old for whom the lullabye was written. Rudzinski later disappeared before WWII was over. Allison