The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7516   Message #45760
Posted By: Murray on Saltspring
17-Nov-98 - 03:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Linden Lea
Subject: RE: Linden Lea - Plea for help
RVW wrote the music for "Linden Lea" in 1901, but he lived till 1958, so take notice that his stuff is still in copyright, and can't be recorded without royalties to his estate, whoever they are. The words, by the way, are by William Barnes (1800-1886), rector of a parish in Dorset; his dialect poems were gathered in 1879. The text usually sung is actually a "normalised" version of what was originally in good Dorset dialect.