Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Jig of Life poem. Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 90 17:10:25 GMT References: <9012211613.AA01673@lewhoosh.umd.edu> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Peter Glen Berger Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes: > Really-From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka) > > > >Really-From: kk4fs!s_fungus@crdgw1.ge.com (Slender Fungus) > > > >Could someone please post or E-mail the little poem in "Jig of Life"? > > > > We are the going water and the gone > We are of water and the holy land of water > And all that's to come runs in > With the thrust on the strand. > > Anybody know if KaTe wrote this part herself or if John Carder not only > recited, but also wrote it? > > Jeff > At least the last paragraph is derived from an anonymous Irish folk song/poem. I'll post it as soon as I remember to bring my Bartlett's to work. Vaguely, it's "Ich am of Irelonde and the Holy Lande of Irelonde". > -- > |Jeffrey C. Burka | "At night they're seen | > | | Laughing, loving, | > |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu | They know the way to be happy" --KaTe | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete Berger || ARPA: peterb@cs.cmu.edu Professional Student || Pete.Berger@andrew.cmu.edu Univ. Pittsburgh School of Law || BITNET: R746PB1P@CMCCVB Attend this school, not CMU || UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!pb1p ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism." -Bernard J. Hibbits ------------------------------------------------------------------------