© by Joseph Braddock (b. 1902)
So went my love See original
Language: English
Goats to raise, goats to graze [ ... ]
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Under the title in the original poem is this explanation: ("The olives on Corfu are small and brown. The peasants sometimes call a mole on the body an 'olive')
Under the title in the original poem is this explanation: ("The olives on Corfu are small and brown. The peasants sometimes call a mole on the body an 'olive')
Composition:
- Set to music by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "So went my love", 1980 [ voice and piano ], from Two Idylls from Greece, no. 2, note: first stanza used as a refrain
Text Authorship:
- by Joseph Braddock (b. 1902), "Greek Folk Song", appears in Quiddities. Poems New and Selected., Cornwall: Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets, first published 1985, copyright ©
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