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: Love, shared Mediterranean/Near East mythologies, wealth and penury in the ancient world

Myth: Baucis and Philemon

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