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The Flowered Road

July 22, 2021 by Bruderhof Web Team

All we know about this song (besides its lilting tune) is that it was originally in French – “La route fleurie” or “The flowered road” – and that both the lyrics and the tune were written by a certain Jean Dumas. (We’re fairly sure that this is not the nineteenth-century chemist of the same name, known for his pioneering work on atomic weights and molecular masses...