minstrel: A lovely song I wrote

[L Joseph]

--- DKKADE at aol.com wrote:
>  While many may 
> remember the song "Sweet Molly Malloy" that has that
> adorable and catchy refrain 
> to the melody - "Alive, Alive Oh, Alive, alive Oh...
> singing Cockles and 
> muscles - alive, alive oh!"

My Dad used to sing this one to us as kids. 
http://www.contemplator.com/folk/cockles.html has
lyrics and background information on "Molly Malone,"
also known as "Cockles and Mussels."

You are in good company on your poem of "nothing."
Guillaume IX of Acquitaine (Eleanor's grandfather)
wrote:

"I will make a vers of exactly nothing:
There'll be nothing in it about me or anyone else,
Nothing about love or youth
Or anything else.
It came to me before, while I was sleeping
On my horse...."

The whole thing, in the original Provencal and English
translation can be found in Frederick Goldin's "Lyrics
of the Troubadours and Trouveres."

Cheers,
Jehanne de Wodeford, West






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"Sooner or later, everyone has to face the music. When it's my turn, I'm going to sing!" - Anonymous

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