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From: kludge@netcom.com (Scott Dorsey)
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In article  bottorff@pconline.com
writes:
> wrote:
>
>> Greensleves is attributed to Henry the Eighth of England.  I suspect
>> that it was later converted as it was a very popular tune.
>
>According a book I was just flipping through, you can't trust song
>attributions when they are attributed to kings.  It was apparently very
>much the accepted practice for kings to take credit for the work of
>lesser known, but more musically talanted, mortals.

This breaks all my wonderful images of Fredrick the Great.
--scott
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