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Reply To: | Dr. Jurretta Jordan Heckscher |
Date: | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:00:54 -0500 |
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To what or whom does the "Shenandoah" in the song by that name refer?
I learned a version of it as a child that begins,
"Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you;
Way hey, you rolling river;
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you;
Way hey, I'm bound away, 'cross the wide Missouri."
And so I always thought that the phrase "you rolling river" meant that the song was addressed to the Shenandoah River (and that "your daughter" mentioned in a later verse was some girl who'd grown up by the river). Had I learned it first later in life, I might not have been so quick to assume that a song of romantic longing was addressed to a river--but at age about seven, it made perfect sense.
I now need to have that illusion shattered, it seems. Fire away. . . .
--Jurretta Heckscher
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