Hi all   
      
   I'm a stranger to this forum, but I just wanted to add something that may or   
   may not be useful.    
      
   A few years ago I dated a woman that knew many MANY campfire songs she had   
   learned as a girl, and she used to sing them, happily, at a moment's notice.   
   One of them was "Barges."  The thing that always struck me about the song   
   wasn't so much the lyrics as    
   the melody.    
      
   I was raised in a household full of music, most of which was classical. The   
   melody of "Barges" always always, (I heard it for the first time from this   
   woman) reminded me of a goodly portion of the music from Aaron Copland's   
   "Appalachian Spring." If you    
   do a search for this music (which had its premiered sometime in the 1940s) and   
   listen to it, the section I'm referring to is well past the halfway mark (the   
   piece is about 25-30 minutes long).    
      
   Anyway, perhaps I am only stating something that is already known, in which   
   case, I apologise. I thought I might add this, just in case..    
      
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