The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37682   Message #1674377
Posted By: Judy Cook
20-Feb-06 - 08:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins/ADD: Stodola Pumpa / Stodole Pumpa (Czech)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stodola Pumpa / Stodole Pumpa (Czech)
My sister is reading from a small coverless songbook from her husband. He thinks it had a yellow cover originally:

"This is from the first summer camp in central Europe and is really a description of its 900 year old castle set in the midst of a green meadow full of forget-me-nots and cowslips thru which the girls used to march on their way to the River Elbe (Labe) to swim. Ifca means "YWCA" (from The Songbook of the YWCA copyright 1926)

Above a Plain (Czech marching tune arranged by Fjeril Hess & Lilian Jackson)

Above a plain of gold & green
A young boy's head is plainly seen
Hu-ya, hu-ya, hu-ya-ya
Swiftly flowing water
Hu-ya, hu-ya, hu-ya-ya
Swiftly flowing Labe

But not tis not his lifting head
Tis Ifca's castle spires instead

For our pleasure it was made
This grey old building deep in shade."