The Great Speckled Bird (song)
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The Great Speckled Bird (song)
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"The Great Speckled Bird" is a hymn from the southern United States whose lyrics were written by the Reverend Guy Smith, and transcribed by singer Charlie Swain. It is an allegory referencing fundamentalist self-perception during the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy. The song is in the form of AA, with each section being eight bars in a two-beat meter, with these sixteen bars forming the musical background for each verse. It is based on Jeremiah 12:9, "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled
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Song by Roy Acuff
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Speckled_Bird_(song)
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2024-03-13T18:12:35Z
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