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"I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christian folk hymn, typically performed as a Christmas carol, written by American folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. The hymn has its origins in a song fragment collected by Niles on July 16, 1933. While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. In his unpublished autobiography, he wrote of hearing the song:

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  • I wonder as I wander (“Mi chiedo mentre vago”) è una celebre canzone natalizio statunitense, adattamento del 1933 di un canto popolare della Carolina del Nord, ad opera del cantante e folklorista John Jacob Niles (1892 – 1980), da cui fu pubblicata l'anno seguente in . Pur essendo il brano di origine popolare, la paternità è stata tuttavia ufficialmente riconosciuta a Niles, che ottenne i diritti d'autore per lo sfruttamento dello stesso. (it)
  • I Wonder as I Wander är en amerikansk julsång. (sv)
  • "I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christian folk hymn, typically performed as a Christmas carol, written by American folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. The hymn has its origins in a song fragment collected by Niles on July 16, 1933. While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. In his unpublished autobiography, he wrote of hearing the song: (en)
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  • "I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christian folk hymn, typically performed as a Christmas carol, written by American folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. The hymn has its origins in a song fragment collected by Niles on July 16, 1933. While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. In his unpublished autobiography, he wrote of hearing the song: A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes were unbelievable dirty and ragged, and she, too, was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins. ... But, best of all, she was beautiful, and in her untutored way, she could sing. She smiled as she sang, smiled rather sadly, and sang only a single line of a song. The girl, named Annie Morgan, repeated the fragment seven times in exchange for a quarter per performance, and Niles left with "three lines of verse, a garbled fragment of melodic material—and a magnificent idea". (In various accounts of this story, Niles hears between one and three lines of the song.) Based on this fragment, Niles composed the version of "I Wonder as I Wander" that is known today, extending the melody to four lines and the lyrics to three stanzas. His composition was completed on October 4, 1933. Niles first performed the song on December 19, 1933, at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. It was originally published in in 1934. Niles's "folk composition" process caused confusion among singers and listeners, many of whom believed this song to be anonymous in origin. Niles undertook lawsuits to establish its authorship and demanded royalties of other performers of the song. The biography of Niles by Ronald Pen uses the song title: I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8131-2597-8). (en)
  • I wonder as I wander (“Mi chiedo mentre vago”) è una celebre canzone natalizio statunitense, adattamento del 1933 di un canto popolare della Carolina del Nord, ad opera del cantante e folklorista John Jacob Niles (1892 – 1980), da cui fu pubblicata l'anno seguente in . Pur essendo il brano di origine popolare, la paternità è stata tuttavia ufficialmente riconosciuta a Niles, che ottenne i diritti d'autore per lo sfruttamento dello stesso. (it)
  • I Wonder as I Wander är en amerikansk julsång. (sv)
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