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Subject: *American Tune* source query - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 30-Dec-83 22:45:17 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Dec 27 09:36:00 1983

If someone can help, please respond by mail (I'll post to the net, if anyone
really cares): I *know* that Paul Simon took the tune for *An American Tune*
from an earlier work; I have heard it several times, but have never gotten the
title. If someone can tell me, please do.

(Possibly interesting similar point: if you check out the English paraphrase
of "Nous Voici Dans La Ville" in the *Oxford Book of Carols*, you'll find

	Hostess:	My guests are rich men's daughters
			And sons, I'd have you know!
			Seek out the poorer quarters
			Where the ragged people go....	)

					The fighter still remains,
					James Jones
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