the haunting Christmas song
"I Wonder As I Wander." Henry
Miller's Plexus includes a powerful tribute to Niles's recording of this song. Niles composed "Go 'Way From My Window" when he was a mere 16 years old, but did not perform it until 1930.
Marlene Dietrich recorded it and sang it on stage.
Bob Dylan quoted its first line in his song
"It Ain't Me Babe."
John Jacob Niles - Go 'Way From My Window
“Over coffee and liqueurs we would sometimes listen to
John Jacob Niles’ recordings. Our favorite was
‘I Wonder As I Wander,’ sung in a clear, high-pitched voice with a quaver and a modality all his own. The metallic clang of his dulcimer never failed to produce ecstasy. He had a voice which summoned memories of Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere. There was something of the Druid in him. Like a psalmist, he intoned his verses in an ethereal chant which the angels carried aloft to the Glory seat. When he sang of Jesus, Mary and Joseph they became living presences. A sweep of the hand and the dulcimer gave forth magical sounds which caused the stars to gleam more brightly, which peopled the hills and meadows with silvery figures and made the brooks to babble like infants. We would sit there long after his voice had faded out, talking of Kentucky where he was born, talking of the Blue Ridge mountains and the folk from Arkansas…” –
Henry Miller, Plexus pp. 366-367I Wonder as I Wander - John Jacob Niles
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