Go With You

Genre/Style: Tin Pan Alley

Touchstones: Gershwin and Caesar, “Nashville Nightingale”; Gus Edwards, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”; Charles K. Harris, “After the Ball”

Themes:

Myth: Baucis and Philemon

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 8.612-727 (8 AD)

Read the myth in Latin at the Perseus Project (ed. Hugo Magnus 1892)
Read A.S. Kline's translation through the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection