Tonight, recorded at the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester, Hiawatha complete.

[Pabmusic]

Doesn't a 'tithe' mean a tenth (eg a tenth of the harvest was given to the church)? In which case 'a tithe' means the same as 'decimate'

Yes. From the Anglo-Saxon teogoþa meaning a tenth part.

[Prommer]

Learnt this at school...

When he killed the Mudjokivis,
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That's why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.

[Prommer]

In case you're wondering about the musical relevance of my previous post, I now discover this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgC4Tn5Ogyw

[Serial_Apologist]

Learnt this at school...

When he killed the Mudjokivis,
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That's why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.

Reads like one of RD Laing's "Knots"!

[salymap]

And yet - on the anniversary of his death in 1967- remembering how Malcolm Sargent so enthused the Royal Choral Society with his love of the Hiawatha trilogy that we/they all sang the words and lived them somehow, no sniggering heard.

The mark of a great choral conductor perhaps ?

Isay we/they because I was 'scared' of the sight reading test so was never a member of the choir.