It's not clear to me if the song is still being published but I'm sure a quick email to Mr. Miffleton would answer the question for anyone interested. Merry Christmas!
posted by JTC 6:46 PM
An old friend sent me this video link. It's amazing how so much and so little has changed. The issues are all the same they have only become that much worse. "The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant. It's that they know so much that isn't so."
ok, not much more really. But, the aforementioned kind reader, Ian, emailed to say that though he now resides in Massachusetts, he in fact lived in Maryland when he learned the song. So really, it appears to have covered the mid-atlantic and is now trying to make it's way into New England. A lost gem of Catholic folk culture to be sure.
posted by JTC 4:09 PM
Monday, December 08, 2008
Jesse Tree update
Well I got an email from a kind reader the other day revealing that this song was known as far away as Massachusetts. So, conferring with Eileen we are not absolutely sure now that Norm Wahl actually wrote it. Though Eileen is fairly confident that she saw his name associated with it somehow. Perhaps on a program or something. So the plot thickens. If I could sing or play anything worth a darn I'd record and post it here but that's a punishment I probably shouldn't inflict on the world.
posted by JTC 1:35 PM
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