My Girl Friend Hanna

November 24, 2025 00:03:41
My Girl Friend Hanna
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
My Girl Friend Hanna

Nov 24 2025 | 00:03:41

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Show Notes

Doing an episode about desert broom (Baccharis sarothroides) is a November tradition. And, so is singing a verse of an old hymn that I like to fool around with by.changing nouns and pronouns. The melody of the song has had quite a journey from a Dutch folk song of the early 1600s to the early 1800s when Eduard Kremser wrote the hymn using the folk song melody. The hymn is known as the Kremser and starts with the line “We gather together.” I so love the line in the song, “the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.” Hello! What you…

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