Okay, must admit I haven't heard the "real words" to Shenandoah for awhile, and
when looking online now, I see there are several versions. I understand also, that more recent versions, e.g.those used in the movie and also the ones Elvis sang, are not the same as the old "O' Shenandoah", which wa-aaay back, was included with other slave songs I learned from my eighth grade teacher. At that time --this was a long, long time ago-- it wasn't called a "slave song", but something more sentimentally offensive even then.
Can someone please send me a link to the words under consideration?
Joanne
Douglas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Doesn't David Hackett Fisher, in his _Bound Away_ interpret Shenandoah
as a slave song, a lament about being sold west? "Away, I'm bound away,
cross the wide Missouri." I have often, when away from Virginia, found
myself pining for Shenandoah. Works for me.
--
Dr. Douglas Day
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