Quakers don't sing at meeting except in rare instances, nor do
> > we have hymns.
>
> I think Philip meant the Shakers, not the Quakers (slight difference!).
Thanks Anselm. I was thinking Shakers too, but I thought Amazing Grace was
more mainstream than that. It was written by a former slave boat captain as
I recall. Doesn't sound like he was a Shaker either.
>
> Anyway, it's Lord of the Dance (the well-known Irish traditional song
> written by Sydney Carter some time during the 1960s or so) which derives
> from a Shaker (not Quaker) hymn called Simple Gifts. You can hear the
> tune in Copeland's Appalachian Spring, among other places.
Yes I'm aware of Simple Gifts or The Gift to be Simple. I wasn't sure what
tune from Lord of the Dance he was referring to. The Shakers were a distant
offshoot from the Quakers and retained only the belief of being plain and
non-violent. They lived in same-sex dormatories and didn't believe in
<cough> shall we say 'the sins of the flesh', which is why there are only a
few left today.
Thanks for the clarification.
Carol
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