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   Dink to Glenn Knickerbocker   
   Re: name that pentatonic Gaelic blessing   
   22 Mar 09 23:17:55   
   
   XPost: rec.music.classical, rec.music.christian   
   From: churls.in.charge@invalid.domain   
      
   On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:32:21 -0400, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:13:37 -0400, I wrote in rec.music.makers.choral:   
   >   
   >>My sister taught our Sunday School a tune this morning that her choir in   
   >>Dallas had used for the "May the road rise to meet you" text, possibly   
   >>while Hal Hopson was directing there.  It's a pentatonic tune that starts   
   >>out like this:   
   >>   
   >>    C C | F - F A | G F D C | F A G F | G   
   >>   
   >>Shaker?  Traditional Irish?  Anybody know who set the text to it, and   
   >>where to find it in print?   
   >>   
   >>¬R      http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/kartuli       "Hush!   
   >>They sing choruses in public.  That's mad enough, I think."   
      
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