Sometimes a Song’s origin can be traced back a long, long way. For today, during our week of the “season,” I immediately thought of a “modern” folk song with a lyric from the antiquities. Of course the lyrics, the poetry, we have in English from the King James Version of the Bible, dating to 1611, the time when Shakespeare was coming to the end of wri…
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