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April 10, 2008

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Jason Presley

If you listed to the Talk of the Nation - Science Friday that featured the story of these sounds, they play a clear version of the song and then play the old recordng back so you can recognize what you were hearing.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200804046

Anne R W

Having learned the song about 45 years ago in junior high school French class, I recognized it immediately when I heard it on the news the other day, though we always sang it a bit faster. If you didn't know the tune already, however, it would be very difficult to make it out, especially as the first six notes are only three different tones, the first three notes being the same.

It's strange to think that this girl sang it about 150 years ago, near the beginning of the American Civil War, but thousands of miles away; a voice from my great-grandparents' time.

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