No Man Is an Island

DESCRIPTION: "No man is an island, No man stands alone, Each man's joy is joy to me, Each man's grief is my own." "We need each other," so the singer will stand by all others, and will sing together with them.
AUTHOR: Peter Schickele (source: LyricFind), based on a lyric of John Donne
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 547, 548, "No Man Is an Island" (notes only)
NOTES [46 words]: One of the books I found this in claims it's from Nova Scotia, but I have no evidence of that. Note that this is not John Donne's poem; it merely starts from Donne's 1624 lyric. But it doesn't even quote Donne's complete first line "No man is an island entire of itself." - RBW
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