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- From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
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- Subject: Re: The Holly and the Ivy, and other Yule songs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.213826.11151@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:38:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.140710.9752@ac.dal.ca> jblain@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >Yule greetings --
- >
- >A number of us were trying to sing at the solstice. We wanted to sing "The
- >Holly and the Ivy" but found that nobody knew the words! I know six lines
- >but after that i only know the Xtian version which was drilled into me
- >in school (and which always seemed to be not quite right . . .)
- >
- >Help please! Can anyone forward me the words?
- >
- >I'd also be interested in "The Holly King" and "Lord of the Dance" --
- >and anything else you see fit to send along!
- >
- >Thanks in anticipation!
- >Yule blessings --
- >
- > Jenny Jblain @ ac.dal.ca
- >
- Yes, please post, anyone who has them! Or, even if you know of new
- words to them... I've been stuck on the refrain of "Lord of the Dance"
- for a month now, and basically, changing the X-tian words as I go along
- the other songs. Then again, I should be able to sing them without too
- much trouble, because it's just one myth among many... I wouldn't have any
- problem singing songs from other religions (such as a song about Isis &
- Osiris, or Channukah songs, or a song I sang once in a choir that was from
- the Rig Veda), so why should I have a problem with the X-tian ones?
-
- Nonetheless, I'd still like to know more pagan solstice songs and/or
- the pagan versions of the ones that got X-tianized...
-
- Blessings!
- Angela
-
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