Music: Fly with Me

It was the kind of lilting, easygoing melody in ¾ time that almost everyone thought he had heard before, but no one could remember exactly where or when.

It had a German title, Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat (Fly with me to the home-land), and a man named Franz Winkler was listed as its composer. Some thought it came from an old German folk song. Whatever its origin, it had become a D.P. song and had swung through the concentration camps after the war. Last week, Fliege mit Mir, dolled up with new lyrics and a new name, Forever and Ever,...

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