LL-L: "Songs" LOWLANDS-L, 14.OCT.1999 (02) [E]

[Lowlands-L Administrator]

 =========================================================================
 L O W L A N D S - L * 14.OCT.1999 (02) * ISSN 1089-5582 * LCSN 96-4226
 Posting Address: <lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org>
 Web Site: <http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn//lowlands/>
 User's Manual: <http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8c/userindex.html>
 =========================================================================
 A=Afrikaans, Ap=Appalachean, D=Dutch, E=English, F=Frisian, L=Limburgish
 LS=Low Saxon (Low German), S=Scots, Sh=Shetlandic
 =========================================================================
 You have received this because your account has been subscribed upon
 request. To unsubscribe, please send the command "signoff lowlands-l"
 as message text from the same account to
 <listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org> or sign off at
 <http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html>.
 =========================================================================

From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Songs

Ron

Thomas Hardy wrote a short story about a village choir in the West of
England in the early 19th century. "Choir" here means the band which
played in churches without an organ. They would write out the sacred tunes
in the front of their manuscript book and profane ones (some with bawdy
lyrics) at the back. At an Open University summer school a
fellow-student got very confused by this and would not be shaken from the
belief that the bawdy songs were also sung in church!

"Green Grow the Rashes" suggests the very open treatment of an aspect of
sexual promiscuity which is rarely mentioned so publicly!

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

==================================END======================================
 * Please submit contributions to <lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org>.
 * Contributions will be displayed unedited in digest form.
 * Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
 * Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l") are
   to be sent to <listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org> or at
   <http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html>.
 * Please use only Plain Text format, not Rich Text (HTML) or any other
   type of format, in your submissions
 =========================================================================