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From: "Katharine Kirk" <>
Subject: Re: Yonder
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:46:59 -0600


Yes, I think it is called "Waly, Waly". It's a folk song that has been
adapted for more formal settings, I think. I'm interested in folksongs and
their history and that's how I learned it at least. Kathy Kirk, Birmingham,
AL

----Original Message-----
From: Virginia W. Beck <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: Yonder

>Yon: Middle English, day after tomorrow
>Yonder: ME, at a distant place, farther removed.
>
>In a song I sang in HS glee club (DO THEY STILL EXIST?) , this was part of
a
>folk song. The lyrics are "He's gone, he's gone away, over yandro"
>The verse is about a suitor who has gone away "over yandros high hill,
where
>the white doves are callin', and a matin' with their mates". I think it is
>a dialectic use of the same word. Does anyone else recognize this song?
> Virginia.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peggy C. Wilson <>
>To: <>
>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 9:24 PM
>Subject: Yonder
>
>
>>Where did "over yonder" come from? My uncle's in-laws had so much fun
>>with us Texans when we visited New York in the 1980's...they would ask
>>questions over and over just to hear our replys! Not to make fun, just
>>to hear or different dialect! They wanted to know where YONDER was!
>>
>>8^)
>>Peggy
>>Waxahachie, Texas
>>
>
>

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