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RE: Trivia question - Steve - Yesterday 01:16 AM
I don't know... but I loved the performance of the song in the clip.
RE: Trivia question - AussieMick - Yesterday 03:54 AM
Yes, she has a magnificent voice.
The language that she was singing has a connection to 1860 and Utica.
( I realise now that this question is similar to one that I used a few years back ... and there are at least 2 connections to Lincoln that I'll accept)
RE: Trivia question - Gene C - Yesterday 07:42 AM
I agree, Charlotte Church has a beautiful voice.
I am drawing these conclusions based upon the link you posted. Charlotte Church is from Wales. This is a patriotic song of the Welsh and later British.
The lyrics go back a long time and have changed some over the years.
Here is a version with English lyrics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XfmYGFOKMg
Welsh voters for the most part went over to the new Republican Party and voted overwhelmingly for its 1860 presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. Several items in the Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress illustrate the very personal way the Welsh of New York State supported Lincoln, before and after his election.
From this web site - Upstate New Yok Welsh
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyunywh/upstatenywelsh/welshlincoln.html
RE: Trivia question - AussieMick - Yesterday 08:37 AM
You got it Gene. Well done.
Here's some more information
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3974971.stm
and https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-21548773
"Abraham Lincoln's great, great grandfather, called John Morris, lived up in Bryngwyn," explains Eirian Roberts, whose farm in Ysbyty Ifan includes the now derelict farmhouse of Bryngwyn."
... John Morris' daughter, Ellen, emigrated to the United States with a group of Quakers, leaving Wales, it is believed, sometime in the first half of the 17th Century.
... While she was out there, she met Cadwaladr Evans and got married to him."
He came from relatively nearby, about 20 miles away in Bala, although the couple had not known each other before they both went to the US.
"They had a daughter called Sarah and she went on to marry John Hanks, and a daughter was born to them called Nancy, who became the mother of Abraham Lincoln."