Talk:Delta Dawn

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Did You Know An entry from Delta Dawn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 20 April 2005.
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Whoever wrote that this song is about Jesus either didn't listen very carefully to the lyrics or has a very low opinion of Him:

Then a man of low degree stood by her side And promised her he'd take her for his bride

There's also no lyric in the song whatsoever that even implies Delta Dawn is in fact dead, or dies.209.169.114.213 16:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the Helen Reddy version, but the Tanya Tucker version includes the line, "And did I hear you say / He was a-meetin' you here today / To take you to his mansion in the sky?" While I'm not arguing with your other point about the lyrics, this line does imply a religious allusion as well as a reference to death. I do not recall the words "a man of low degree" in the TT version, though I may have missed them when I listened to the song heavily as a child. Lawikitejana 00:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing Grace

Since this is original research, I didn't add it to the article, but Alex Harvey, who co-wrote the song, told me that the melody is simply a rip-off of "Amazing Grace." Once he said it, I couldn't believe I hadn't heard it for myself. Rich 06:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New infobox?

Why did InnocuousPseudonym add {{newinfobox|type=singles}} to the top of the article? Currently, no infobox template for music singles is listed. Is anyone working on creating such a template? If not, why make the article ugly by adding the meaningless newinfobox template? —QuicksilverT @ 15:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The {{newinfobox}} template should go on the talk page, so I've moved it here. Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Arts & Entertainment#Musical recordings was very out-of-date, but I've now updated that page to note that there is an infobox for singles: {{Infobox Single}}. --PEJL 18:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)