Re: Country Related: Christmas
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 26, 1998, 17:42 |
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Orjan Johansen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Tom Wier wrote:
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> > FWIW, I can remember in elementary school choir when we had to
> > sing some song by Mozart that went "Sing a song of Merry
> > Christmas, etc." That's probably not the origin, but it's old enoug=
h...
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> Um, I sort of doubt that Mozart wrote in English.
I didn't say he wrote in English, only that those were the English lyrics=
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old ones. But didn't Mozart visit England on several occasions? I think
I remember something to that effect, so originally English lyrics are not
totally out of the question.
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