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Day 196 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg has no tune for this song, but another tune in the American Songbag fits and is related—"Carrickfergus". The tune is among my top favorites—along with "The Broom of Cowdenknows" and "Lady Franklin's Lament".
Sandburg writes: "Sometimes it happens that lovely people write verses, lyrics, with inadequate melodies. The Kentucky mountain song, "Fond Affection," has a tune hardly worth record here but it does have these striking stanzas."
Day 196 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg has no tune for this song, but another tune in the American Songbag fits and is related—"Carrickfergus". The tune is among my top favorites—along with "The Broom of Cowdenknows" and "Lady Franklin's Lament".
Sandburg writes: "Sometimes it happens that lovely people write verses, lyrics, with inadequate melodies. The Kentucky mountain song, "Fond Affection," has a tune hardly worth record here but it does have these striking stanzas."
