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To: pogo101; AnAmericanMother

That's a good question ... I can't say that I've ever found any of the traditional "Patriotic Songs" hard ... nor very many traditional hymns. And unlike AAM, I'm not a trained singer.

I did grow up in a "singing family", which may have helped

40 posted on 07/02/2009 1:51:19 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)

To: ArrogantBustard; pogo101

Well, I'm not really a trained singer - just have sung in church choirs for a long, long time. This one gave me fits in rehearsal:

Allon Gay Bergeres "Come, happy shepherdesses", Guillaume Costeley (1530-1606).

It's a beautiful little Christmas carol -- but it's tough because it does things that modern music doesn't do, and it goes FAST. If you so much as pause to say to yourself, "Oh, (*&^*^%*^~!" you are instantly 2 measures behind and will NEVER catch up.

Not to mention that it's sung in archaic French . . . and I don't even speak modern French.

If people sang more, easy stuff like the NA wouldn't seem so hard to them. For heaven's sake, just sing along with the RADIO!

42 posted on 07/02/2009 2:48:45 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))

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