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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:47:49 -0400
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On 9/18/2024 6:45 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
>>
>> <snippo>
>>> Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come
>>> true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological
>>> ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say.
>>> Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears."
>>
>> John Dowland, born 2 years after Francis Bacon and so a contemporary
>> of his, wrote, among others, lute songs with titles like:
>>
>> Can She Excuse My Wrongs
>> I Saw My Lady Weep
>> and
>> Flow My Tears
>>
>> so, yes, I would say people in Bacon's day sung the blues, even if the
>> genre by that name did not exist yet.
>>
>> I wouldn't rule out such songs in Ancient Rome, or even Classical
>> Greece.
>>
>> As I said elsewhere, songs about problems with romance appearto have
>> been around for a /very/ long time.
> 
> But he could also be less serious.
> 
> In a song the singer tells of his love for Cynthia, and how he carves 
> her name into a tree.
> 
> But later in the same song:
> 
> "If Cynthia crave her ring of me I blot her name out of the tree".

Is 'Greensleeves' an early Blues song?

pt