How Can I Keep From Singing
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Quaker hymn from North Carolina, by Susan Warner, 1850? Third verse
by Doris Plenn.
©1964 Sanga Music, Inc.
Pete Seeger - voice, 12-string guitar
Doris Plenn, raised in North Carolina, learned this song from her Quaker
grandmother, who told her:
"Honey, this is my favorite song, and I want you to always remember
it. It was made up years ago when people like us were being thrown in jail
for their beliefs."
The original words were written in the 1850's by Ann Warner, who lived on
an island in the Hudson that happens to be four miles south of my home in
Beacon.
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