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From:  Dean FH Macy <deanmacy@m...>
Dean FH Macy <deanmacy@m...>
Date:  Wed May 23, 2001  8:53 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] William Blake's "Jerusalem" absolutely NOT about Scotland!!! (was: Digest Number 692)


Karen Mercedes wrote:

> AUUGGHHHH!!!!!! That is *NOT* what William Blake wrote!!! "Jerusalem" is
> about England, England, ENGLAND! It's "England's mountains green",
> "England's pleasant pastures" and "England's green and pleasant land"!
> Don't you DARE consider using the spurious text below! It's an absolute
> sacrilege!!! And as for you, Dean Macy: Shame, shame, SHAME!!!!

Hey, don't lambaste me too much. This was from a crib sheet from a performance
of
this when I was in college glee club. The music teacher did it. I just looked
it up
on the internet and by golly, it is England.

Sorry. I was mistaken. But my memory is excellent as I do remember singing it
to
kilted personages.

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