Got a song in your heart?

[Saffron]

Saffron,
Singing it as a kid? That one came out in my heyday! But thanks.
DWill

Well, you know my age and can count. A kid I was.

[Saffron]

John Prine needs to mentioned. He's not for everyone, but his lyrics are poetry. Here are bits and pieces of some of my favorite songs.


Angel From Montgomery

[bohemian_girl]

This is one of my favourites. It's not too well known though

Beloved by Wendy Matthews

Here I am, I'm right here
Oh I wish you could feel me
Standing so close
I'm right beside you dear
I fly around this old man house
I float through our walls
I scream and I call
While I watch you without me
All I feel, all I am now
Is this love I have for you
Each night it's you
You I lay beside
Close my eyes, never to sleep
I tell you all the things I should have said
But you'll never know
How could I act such a part
As to love the one who breaks my heart
I had to go�
So put your hands here round my waist
Though you cannot feel my touch dear
And dance with me as you did before
I'm bound forever to this house
I can never go beyond that door
I dance alone
So when you think of me, smile
It's the only way that I can see
That you still care for me
Close my eyes, never to sleep
I tell you all the things I should have said
But you'll never know
How could I act such a part
As to love the one who breaks my heart
I had to go�
Here I am, I'm right here
How I wish you could see me dear
Oh my dear

[DWill]

If I had modern computer capability, I'd go ahead and listen to that song. I thinks it's interesting that song lyrics, to see them on the page, often look pretty over-the-top, gushing, but with the music there I accept them very well and often feel moved. Thanks for posting that.
DWill

[Rose Kolarich]

Lately I've fallen for the songs of new-folk (I think, it's hard to pinpoint her music into a genre, I've never heard anything like it before) singer and harpist Joanna Newsom. Her lyrics read like poetry, here's

Bridges and Balloons

We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, like all things, fades
And I can recall our caravel
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine maste and lateen sails
Its bearings on Cair Paravel

Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
To be
The ones
To've seen

The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and bouy the living room
A loom of metals warp woof wimble
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble

Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
To be
The ones
To've seen

Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
It was a funny funny little thing


And here's the youtube link for another of her songs "The Sprout and the Bean" if anyone's interested:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IYl0uLrXP7U

(Keep in mind she's got a love-hate voice).

[Saffron]

Rose,
You are right about Joanna Newsom's voice; it is an acquired taste maybe. I'm a fan of Regina Spektor, so I was prepared for Ms. Newsom. I really like new-folk and am glad to see musical styles that are more melodic return to popularity.

Saffron

[Robert Tulip]

A good source of pop song lyrics is http://www.guntheranderson.com/ I have got sheet music from here with words and chords for many of my favourite songs. Thanks Gunther!

One of my favourite songs to sing at the moment is from http://randysutherland.blogspot.com/200 ... -rise.html

I like to rise
CCFG/:

in the winter when the skies are gray
we hedge and we ditch our times away
but in the summer when the sun shines gay
we go ramble in the new mown hay

I like to rise when the sun she rises
early in the morning
I like to hear them small birds singing
merrily upon the laylum
it's all for the life of a country child
to ramble in the new mown hay

in the spring we sow at the harvest mow
that is how the seasons round they go
but of all the times to choose I may
I go ramble in the new mown hay

in the autumn when the oak leaves turn
we gather all the wood that's fit to burn
we stow and we stack and we pile away
and go ramble in the new mown hay


lyrics/music traditional
arrangement copyright 2003 randy sutherland
from the CD 'the sky starts at your feet'

[Saffron]

Thanks Robert! I checked out the link you posted. I love Morris Dancers, May Day Celebrations, Mummers' Plays and traditional music. In my heart of hearts I guess I'm a bit of pagan. One of my favorite May Day songs is THOMAS MORLEY (1557-1602): Now is the month of Maying. It is based on a text used by Orazio Vecchi in 1590

Now Is the Month of Maying
Lyrics by Sir Thomas Morley

Now is the month of Maying, when merry lads are playing!
Fa la la la la!
Each with his bonny lass, a-dancing on the greeny grass,
Fa la la la la!

The Spring, clad all in gladness, doth laugh at Winter's sadness!
Fa la la la la!
And to the bagpipes' sound, the nymphs tread out the ground!
Fa la la la la!

Fie! Then why sit we musing, youth's sweet delight refusing?
Fa la la la la!
Say, dainty nymphs and speak! Shall we play barley break?
Fa la la la la!

Now is the month of Maying

I try to see the Washington Revels at Christmas time every year. And if you don't know what Revels are go to:



Washington Revels

Saffron
p.s. I think I'm in the wrong season!

[GentleReader9]

What a wonderful string topic! And I can't believe how many of the songs you all chose are songs I already knew and liked, too. Here's one I love which I used to lie still and listen to in order to feel better when I was truly upset with myself. It's sung by Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and misses something without the guitar, but there it is:

From the Beginning

There might have been things I missed.
But don't be unkind.
It don't mean I'm blind.
Perhaps there's a thing or two
I think of lying in bed
I shouldn't have said,
but there it is.

You see it's all clear.
You were meant to be here
From the beginning.

Maybe I might have changed.
And not been so cruel.
Not been such a fool.
What ever was done is done.
I just can't recall.
It doesn't matter at all.

You see it's all clear.
You were meant to be here
From the beginning.

[Saffron]

Nice choice, GentleReader! Here is a Utub link.

From the Beginning