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From: tzf@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Terry Friedman via parallax )
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Subject: Re: Sexual Life of the Camel
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Ed,

Read the rest of the $%^#*$^%$ message! Or am I just hallucinating
that I already included answers - possibly unsatisfactory - with the
song?

Ok, in case my senility is at fault - I learned camel here in Tucson,
from one Dave Firestein, mandolin player extraordinaire but camel
seems to be the only thing he ever sings, usually as we're cleaning
up after jams. Probably first heard him sing it in 1992, give or take
a year or so. I dunno where he learned it, but it is in several
published works.

Tune: "The sexual life of the camel". If it's based on any earlier
tune then it's one I don't know, or perhaps don't recognize in the
current rendition. As I may have already said: it's always 3/4-ish
(nominally: it's not accented as a waltz), but I suspect that the
exact tune changes from month to month.

Um, there isn't any problem fitting "Lydia" into the same melodic line
as the rest of the song - the melody contours change slightly, but
not drastically.

That's all I can think of to say, short of writing it out, which isn't
really a reasonable task for my email editor.

	terry