Harold,

Found this information in Paine's biography and volume 44 of the Mark Twain Journal:

http://gumbo.blogspot.com/2009/08/mark-twain-and-frederic-chopin.html

Terry

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From: Harold Bush <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:08:01 PM
Subject: MT's favorite songs

Folks;  I have been scratching my head looking for a quote that I knew I ha=
d
somewhere about this topic -- and about our hilltop trance on the last
Saturday of the conference -- and this morning I sound it (it did not make
the final cut for the book, along with about 40,000 other words):

            According to Clara, [MT's] two favorite songs were =93Swing Low=
,
Sweet Chariot=94 and =93Go Chain the Lion Down=94 -- =93When he sang =93Ris=
e and Shine
and Give God the Glory, Glory,=94 he gave out so much fervor of spirit that
one could never forget it=94 (188).
            One fact that DID make the cut in the book:  MT sat at the pian=
o
and sang =93Swing Low, Sweet Chariot=94 as Livy died in Italy.
Now I am going to hunt down some good recordings of =93Go Chain the Lion Do=
wn=94
-- a song that I admittedly do not know off the top of my head....


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Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Professor of English
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO  63108
314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
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