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Thread #27159   Message #328982
Posted By: GUEST,Jennifer Busick
27-Oct-00 - 11:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Julianne (New Christy Minstrels)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Julie Ann or Julianne
I, too, would like to find the lyrics to Julie Ann. Here's what I know of it, from what my father used to sing to me. I know there's got to be at least one more verse.

'Twas this side of sunny mountain is the place it all began
There once lived a fair young maiden and her name was Julie Ann

[Something's missing, here, I think]

Can't you see her in the moonlight, silver rings upon her hand?
Now she wears a crown of sorrow and her name was Julie Ann.

Julie's beau was tall and handsome just a poor boy, with treasures few
But he promised rings of silver just to prove his love was true.

Off he rode to sunny mountain ere the fields were wet with dew
But instead he went a-wanderin' and a-courtin' Jennie Lou.

[Chorus]

The cabin door was standing open on that dark and windy night
And the hound dog, he lay a-dying in the eerie candlelight

They found an empty, shattered rifle and the shawl she used to wear
But they never found his Julie, and they never found that hungry bear

[Chorus]

If anyone could fill in the gaps (the ones I know about or the ones I don't) I'd appreciate it!

Jennifer Busick^^