


MUSIC: JOSIAH QUINCY
LYRICS: LUCY STONE
LYRICS: LUCY STONE



CAN YOU SOLVE THE RIDDLE?
THE SONG BELOW WILL LEAD YOU TO A SPECIFIC LIBRARY BRANCH IN THE MINUTEMAN LIBRARY NETWORK AND A SPECIFIC BOOK WITHIN THAT BRANCH





THE SOLUTION
What's the solution to the mystifying song riddle? Well, the song is composed with only three notes: C, D and E. Each letter represents a dot, a dash or a space in Morse code. So, the C is a dot, the D is a dash, and the E is a space between letters. When you write out the names of the notes, you get this:
CDDECDEDECECDCEDEDDDECDDEDCEDCECECCCDECECDCEDDEDDDECDCEC
And when you add in breaks for the Es, indicating the end of a letter's code, it looks like this:
CDDE CDE DE CE CDCE DE DDDE CDDE DCE DCE CE CCCDE CE CDCE DDE DDDE CDCE C
And then assigning the dots and dashes of Morse code:
.-- .- - . .-. - --- .-- -. / -. . ...- . .-. / -- --- .-. .
Which spells:
WATERTOWN NEVER MORE
The key was in the Watertown library in the Collected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
