It's weird, this, Jon, only on Wednesday I was looking through H.W's
book for the first time in a long time, that is to say it was so long
ago that I first read it I'd forgotten.
2008/9/13 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> And the tune?
>>
>> Fun, indeed.
>>
>
> Thanks for the response. I've never heard it (I mean the original
> Latin version) sung -- presumably it was set to a traditional melody.
> I've heard other medieval songs on CD which had a melody which would
> also fit the meter of this one. If anyone knows of a recording,
> please post.
>
> Helen Waddell called the original the greatest of drinking songs,
> which I'd agree with.
>
> Incidentally, Waddell's Medieval Latin Lyrics is one of those books
> which if you don't know about it you ought not to do anything else
> beginning now until you get a copy.
>
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