On Ilkla Moor Baht‘At - the tune is not a folk melody but a hymn tune composed in 1805 by one T Clarke. It gets worse. He was a southerner!
Phew!
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What is the biblical basis of Ash Wednesday. Ahna Ziegler/Unsplash 18 February 2026 is Ash Wednesday, which traditionally starts the seas...