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From: sms@exodus.UUCP (Stephe Sutor)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.politics
Subject: mistaken lyrics: classic mistake
Message-ID: <136@exodus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 14:42:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 14:42:13 1984
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In the course of Handel's "Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music"
( commemorating among other things the victory of Alexander over Darius )
the only stirring section was a chorus:

	"And many men must die [ with loud applause ]"

with just the right mixture of heroic pathos and fatality.
Imagine the thousands of young men who must die valiantly to create
the fame of Alexander ( or A. Lincoln or R. U. Reagun ).
Unfortunately the words by John Dryden really were:

	"The many rend the skies with loud applause;
	So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause."

	can you hear me major tom
	stephe sutor
	here I am sitting in a tin can, far above the seas.