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Stephen Foster’s 1850 tune Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway<\/a> (mp3)<\/a> is both death-obsessed and over-the-top pussy, like a Hallmark card that says “So sorry you’re rotting in the grave!” Very emo.<\/p>\n \nLulled be the dirge in the cypress bough, The way it slips briefly from major to minor during the instrumental hook is chilling.<\/p>\n About the musicians here, that floaty singing is a gal named Merja Sargon. The accompanist is a fellow named Bernard Rose, who I think is using a genuine 1850 piano.<\/p>\n Can’t say I like the famous Stephen Foster tunes. Mainly they get on my nerves. But this one is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen Foster’s 1850 tune Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (mp3) is both death-obsessed and over-the-top pussy, like a Hallmark card that says “So sorry you’re rotting in the grave!” Very emo. Lulled be the dirge in the cypress bough, That tells of departed flowers! Ah! that the butterfly’s gilded wing Fluttered in evergreen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steamboing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat tells of departed flowers!
\nAh! that the butterfly’s gilded wing
\nFluttered in evergreen bowers!
\nSad is my heart for the blighted plants–
\nIts pleasures are aye as brief–
\nThey bloom at the young year’s joyful call,
\nAnd fade with the autumn leaf:
\nAh! may the red rose live alway,
\nTo smile upon earth and sky!
\nWhy should the beautiful ever weep?
\nWhy should the beautiful die?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n