Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has really stepped in it this time. He’s ripped the scab off the old state song controversy. If he had his way, said the Governor, who played the harmonica while a bluegrass band performed the tune at a campaign stop in 2005, Virginia would adopt the old bluegrass gospel anthem, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.”
“I’m sure my popularity will plummet even further after having waded into that,” he said, as reported by the Washington Times.
If the legislature adopted a proviso that the official version of “Circle” was the one recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, I just might go along.
