The Wind In The Willows

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  1. Bill Boggs

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    What was your willow song? . I’ve had a willow song in my head for a week or so and think I finally remembered the title. ‘the weeping willow tree’. It may be an old Itish song.
     
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    Could it be Willow Weep for Me?

     
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    At the risk of furthering the wandering...I cannot find that Irish song anywhere, but you reminded me of Willow Weep For Me.

     
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    I had to laugh.

    I almost picked Ella but for those bluesy torch-carrying songs, I instinctively reach for Billie. And both of us as the same time...
     
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    No, that’s not it.
     
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    OK, I finally ask google what it was and he told. It is Bury Me Neath The Willow Tree. I’ve had it in my head
    and playing parts of it on my harmonica but couldn’t think the name. Several groups have sung it as a bluegrass song, the Carter Family sung it as, Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow.
     
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    I was just playing a version of that song by The Stanley Brothers (who were credited with writing that particular version.)

    The Carter Family is big in these here parts. June Carter lived in my county for a spell. As a personal favor to our pastor, some of their distant kin did a benefit concert 3 years ago for a small church I went to. The hat was passed to pay the band and at least buy them some gas, and they gave the church every dime of it. VERY nice folks.

    Back to the book...I was just rereading its WIKI page. There's a quote there from A.A. Milne's son Christopher Robin. Both of his parents used to read this book to him. Apparently his father wrote one of those adaptations that @Ken Anderson alluded to...a child's play titled Toad of Toad Hall. Fascinating how some books organically ripple through the generations this way with no apparent outside hand (like scholars and academics keeping them alive.)
     
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    This song Neath the weeping willow was published before 1909 and the author is unknown. First recorded ineearly Missouri in 1927 as a folk song.
    Back to the book. My wife had that book but i don't know what happened to it It may have been one we donated when we close d up shop in Lubbock and moved
    to the oldvIndian territory.
     
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    This song Neath the weeping willow was published before 1909 and the author is unknown. First recorded in early Missouri in 1927 as a folk song.
     
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