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After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impu | dG1fMDdQeW82b0o5TzA
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00:00T'was in the merry month of May, when all gay flowers were blooming, sweet William on his
00:18deathbed lay, for the love of Barbary Allen.
00:24Ladies, where did you learn that song?
00:26My granny gave it to me.
00:30What on earth are you doing in such a dreadful place?
00:32Great discovery.
00:34Old English ballads.
00:36And I am going to be the first to publish them now.
00:39Nice and loud.
00:39My intention is to exalt the fine music of these mountains.
00:43It means to lift up.
00:44You mean exploit.
00:46It means to steal.
00:48First of us are calling lumber companies coming in here, now they want to take our music too.
00:53The only way to preserve our way of life up here is to keep your way up down there.
00:58The ballads are precious musical legacy.
01:00No one knows that these songs are being sung right here in the mountains of America.
01:03I believe that you can win public sentiment over with your music.
01:08We're not really interested in what you people out there think about us.
01:11Lily!
01:12I'm not risking life and living.
01:14Please come with us.
01:15Don't butt in where you don't belong.
01:22I have never been anywhere where the music is as much a part of life as it is here.
01:31It's beautiful.
01:33Come with me.
01:34I'm a jinx for a woman, Millie.
01:35I'm not your average woman.
01:36When I first come to this country in 1849, I saw many fair lovers.
01:54You made most of us feel real proud.
01:56I have never heard such, such singing.
02:07Stranger and a long way from home.
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