Date: 25 Feb 1997 10:28:22 -0500



In article ,
Jackie Lee Mowery  wrote:
>On 24 Feb 1997 12:38:11 -0500, dickeney@access5.digex.net (Dick Eney)
>wrote:
>
>>This is not a new discussion on this group :) IIRC in a previous run of
>>this thread, it was revealed that in the Middle Ages, filk was called
>>"Contrefait" and referred to both writing a secular song to a religious
>>tune and writing a religious song to a secular tune. 
>>
>I always wondered, which came first Greensleeves or What Child Is
>This?

A quick check of the available hymnal (Presbyterian, not filk!) reveals
that the tune, titled "Greensleeves," dates from the sixteenth century,
while the "What Child is This?" lyrics were written c. 1871 by one William
Chatterton Dix.  So Greensleeves came first.

--Margaret Dean
  



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