[lit-ideas] Re: More Translation Opportunities, Especially for the Welsh

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:22:46 -0700

On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Robert Paul wrote:

> Judy Evans wrote
> 
>> Six sets of tennis?  Arcane...
>> 
>> I'd say Flower of Scotland's a bit challenging.
>> 
>> England should be beaten every single time for choosing God Save the Queen.  
>> I do though like it when they sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
> 
> I think I'd like it too but I didn't know it was an English spiritual.

Funny that Wallis Willis' song should come up on a day when our newspaper is 
running an article about descendants of freedmen losing benefits associated 
with being part of the Cherokee nation.  Willis was a freedman from Chocktaw 
slavery.

Surely if Americans can take "Amazing Grace" to heart, Brits are allowed to 
have a run at "Swing Low"?  All's fair in love, war and singing.  (I'll draw 
the line at karaoke, which should have been stifled at birth).

David Ritchie,
detesting "Greensleeves" and much "early" music in
Portland, 
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