Happy! - July 7 (Sheila Stewart)

07 Jul 05 - 07:56 AM (#1516829)
Subject: Happy! - July 7
From: Abby Sale


Happy Birthday!

The current singing queen of the remarkable, Traveller clan of Blairgowrie,

Sheila Stewart

was born

July 7, 1937
in a stable

(from Doc Rowe's notes on her CD, From The Heart Of The Tradition)

Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved
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07 Jul 05 - 09:34 AM (#1516938)
Subject: RE: Happy! - July 7
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Among those great horse feet?

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Sanity itself is a form of politeness. :||

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07 Jul 05 - 03:14 PM (#1517251)
Subject: RE: Happy! - July 7
From: Abby Sale

So two iambs equals one horse? I never could quite get that straigt when it got beyond The boy stood on the burning deck.

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08 Jul 05 - 11:59 AM (#1518103)
Subject: RE: Happy! - July 7
From: GUEST,Joe_F

I was alluding to the stanza near the end of "Child Waters" (Child 63), as sung by Peggy Seeger:

"And there she did begin to weep,

She did begin to mourn,

For even among them great horse-feet

She had to bear her son."

It always makes my teeth tingle.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard of it. :||

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