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- From: dmr@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Daniel Rosenblum)
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- Subject: "I Come and Stand at Every Door" (was Re: The Great Selkie of Sule Skerrie)
- Summary: Paul Robeson also recorded it; poet was Nazim Hikmet
- Message-ID: <Dec.21.14.59.07.1992.18562@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:59:07 GMT
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- In <1gibdsINNphr@agate.berkeley.edu> sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU
- (Steve Goldfield) writes:
-
- >In addition to Joan Baez' recording [of The Great Selkie of Sule
- > Skerrie -- DMR], Pete Seeger sings an antiwar
- >song, I think the title is "I Come and Stand at Every Door," with
- >words by a Turkish poet and the melody the same as "The Silkie."
- >You can certainly get that album since it was on Folkways, which
- >can be obtained from the Smithsonian on cassette. I think it was
- >on one of the Broadsides albums.
-
- It might have been on one of the Broadside albums, but I have a
- vague recollection that it was on one of the Columbia LPs. I
- can't help with details on that now, since all that stuff is up
- at my parents'.
-
- The Turkish poet was Nazim Hikmet. The poem was also recorded by
- Paul Robeson, set to a different tune. Hikmet was a political
- radical (I suppose a Communist), and, I gather, a major innovator
- in Turkish poetical style whose work was for many years banned in
- Turkey (it may still be for all I know). I've seen English
- translations of only a few of his many poems; these are all highly
- political and often very powerful.
- --
- Daniel M. Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Quantitative Studies Area,
- Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University (Newark Campus)
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