{"id":1253,"date":"2005-10-11T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/jody-wants-tunes.html"},"modified":"2005-10-11T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T16:22:10","slug":"jody-wants-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/jody-wants-tunes.html","title":{"rendered":"Jody wants Tunes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jody Bottum, editor of First Things, wants our help<\/a><\/p>\n

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Actually, I\u2019ve been fooling around with ballads and folk songs for a couple of months, now, with the vague idea that I might make my next book of poems something like \u201cNew Words to Old Music,\u201d along the line that Yeats marked out with his lyrics for traditional Irish tunes. Of course, mine will be terrible when compared with his, but that\u2019s a problem with the fact that I\u2019m not Yeats, not a problem with the idea itself. Anyway, I called my publisher, the amazing Bruce Fingerhut of St. Augustine\u2019s Press, and he\u2019s ruefully willing to print it, if I get it done\u2014and there, as in so many other things, is the rub. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Do any good tunes come to mind? I\u2019ve already done the old Child\u2019s ballad \u201cHenry Martin\u201d (you can hear the melody and see the original words here<\/span><\/a>, dropping all the original plot and rewriting it as a woman-scorned tale. I think I\u2019ve got a take on new words for the \u201cGower Wassail,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and \u201cWinyadelpa,\u201d<\/span><\/a> a strange fiddle tune from the Shetland Islands, which has the advantage of never having had words to need replacing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But I need some more melodies that need new words. If you can think of them, please email me at ft@firstthings.com<\/span><\/a>. I\u2019m really looking for traditional melodies that are (1) haunting, (2) saddled with inferior lyrics, and (3) not widely known. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s also a life angle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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