British Isles Folk Sheet Music - Queen Jane: Stephen Hatfield (3-Pt Treble)

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Queen Jane

Queen Jane: Stephen Hatfield (3-Pt Treble)

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From the performance notes:
"'Queen Jane'" is Jane Seymour, the third and most beloved wife of Henry VIII, who died giving birth to the short-lived Edward VI. The ballad of "Queen Jane" which adheres to the inaccurate but enduring tradition of a Caesarian delivery, originally acted as both a newscast and tragic legend. Centuries ago the ballad traveled to America where it settled in the musical Galapagos of the isolated Kentucky hills, and slowly developed into a beautiful and distinctive version all its own. Singers prized the song for its melancholy power, but feared it also, and often forbad it to be "sung in the house." By the time musical anthropoligist Cecil Sharp notated the ballad, the singers no longer had any idea that "Queen Jane" was based on English history."