THE OLDEST TUNE IN THE WORLD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2261, 23 October 1889, Page 2

THE OLDEST TUNE IN THE WORLD.

J ' We won't go home till morning " f« said to be one of the oldest tunes m the word Profes3or En sel, a mus'o teaoher, i m a speech at the Musio Toaohera' As«ooia'ion, Louisville, raid tbat when the army of the first Napoleon was m E.ypt •n 1799 ihe camp for a while was near the Py araidi. One afternoon, about sunset, the band waß p'ay'no* and the inhabitants of the deeart oolleoted near and were listening to tne music. Nothing m usual happened until the band struck up a tune w!"i ! ch we now hear under the name off i•• ( * c won't go homo ti I morning." Ini e'antly thore were the wildest demonstra* ' lions of joy among ho Bodou'ns, They embraced each other, and shouted aid danced m tbe delirium of their pleasure. Tho reason was that they were listening to the favorite aid oldest tune of then* people. Professor Ensol stated that >ha tune had been taken t) Europe from Afrioa m the eleventh century by the Crusaders, and had lived .eparate'.y m both oonntriea for over seven hundred years. This is certainly enough to make 11 We won't go home till morning " oTasaio. Its origin is more of a mystery tbaa the source of the Nile.