On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, David Swarbrick <david[_at_]swarb.freeuk.com> write:
>
> I had a rather uncomfortably violent laugh when just before Christmas
> they had a 'letter' from their standard made up correspondent suggesting
> that they try singing the Lords Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.
> They quite properly rejected it as an impossibly stupid suggestion.
Perhaps not "impossibly" so. The tune to "Auld Land Syne" -- not the tune to which it was set in the _Scots Musical Museum_ but the other tune, the one most commonly heard -- appeared as a hymn-tune in Samuel Wakefield's _The Western Harp_, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1843, page 86. The tune was called "Kirkland" there.
Tim Phillips
<hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com>
Received on Sun Mar 26 2000 - 19:39:06 GMT
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