Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: kendall Date: 10 Dec 99 - 03:22 PM I was referring to Stan Rogers as a boor, not Garnet, I never knew him |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OUTSIDE TRACK (Henry Lawson) From: lamarca Date: 10 Dec 99 - 03:07 PM "The Outside Track" is a poem written by the Australian poet Henry Lawson, and was set to music by Gerry Hallom, an English singer of Australian songs. Garnet Rogers learned it from Gerry. I sing it putting back the first stanza and final chorus that Hallom left out; it's one of my very favorite sad songs: THE OUTSIDE TRACK by Henry Lawson
There were ten of us there on the moonlit quay,
And the world rolls back, They marry, and vanish and die, But their spirits shall live on the outside track As long as the years go by.
The port lights glowed in the morning mist
We roared "Lang Syne" in a last farewell
Then one by one, and two by two
Final Chorus: |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: emily rain Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:54 PM i haven't waded through all the posts on the last thread, so maybe someone's mentioned "there were roses" already. it took me a week of singing it several times an hour before i could get through it without choking up.
we gathered at the graveside on a cold and rainy day oh, that a minister should ever have to do such a thing just tears me up. also, when i'm feeling sad about my love life, i find myself involuntarily singing "loving hannah". depression is the pits, but i guess it's good for something. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Metchosin Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:43 PM The saddest songs of all are Stan's songs 'cause he's not with us anymore.... |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Metchosin Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:36 PM Re Garnet's abrasiveness: Maybe he finds it hard to resolve his love for his brother while being overshadowed by Stan's legendary stature. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Metchosin Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:25 PM Outside Track was Garnet Rogers again. |
Subject: ADD: What Shall We Drink to Tonight? From: Jon Freeman Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:25 PM I can't remember who wrote this one (I think it was a Scottish band) but this another one that gets to me. In some ways, I have been there and certainly done the wine bit. The person I learned it from told me he had was going through a split up when he first heard the tune and it took him a while before he was able to sing it. What Shall We Drink to Tonight?
Remember a time not so long ago?
What shall we drink to tonight?
Now that your gone these things I recall
What shall we drink to tonight?
Now that I've heard that you've found someone new
What shall we drink to tonight?
What shall we drink to tonight? Jon |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: kendall Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:15 PM Jeri, check your personal thread |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Jeri Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:12 PM Outside Track. (Can't remember who wrote it right now.) How about Eric Bogle's The Cockie? |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: kendall Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:59 PM that one that goes, we drifted on home through the public bars, we were ten times less by one... and..I turned around with a lonely glass, and drank to the bar room wall. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: kendall Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:52 PM I'd never heard Small Victory before..wow!! How could such an abrasive boor write such beautiful stiff.?? |
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL ... (R Burns From: Julie Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:38 PM The saddest song for me is this old Scottish Jacobite song. Jamie is King James VIII and III, the old Pretender. It also has a haunting tune - I bawl every time I sing it.
By yon castle wa' at the close of the day,
The church is in ruins; the state is in jar,
My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword,
Now life is a burden that bows me down, |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:14 PM That's lovely................ Spaw |
Subject: Lyr Add: SMALL VICTORY (Garnet Rogers) From: Metchosin Date: 10 Dec 99 - 12:13 PM SMALL VICTORY (Garnet Rogers)
"You've no business buying a mare like that, but buy her if you must." |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Mbo Date: 10 Dec 99 - 11:48 AM I've just read the lyrics to an old Irish song called "Beneath the Gallows Tree" I haven't heard the tune yet, but the subject matter is very sad. --Mbo |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Metchosin Date: 10 Dec 99 - 11:02 AM Garnet Rogers' tear jerker "Small Victory" is a triumph of compassion for those who need a boost. Always does it for me. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: oldest living folkie Date: 10 Dec 99 - 10:32 AM Saddest song...Stan Rogers "White Squall" |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Jeri Date: 10 Dec 99 - 10:29 AM Kendall, don't forget there's a loud-but-friendly session about an hour south of you on Fri evening (as in tonight) starting around 4:30. Great music and great conversation (even if it is during the music.) |
Subject: Lyr Add: SADDEST POEM (Pablo Neruda) From: Håvard Date: 10 Dec 99 - 10:01 AM SADDEST POEM (Pablo Neruda) I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her. How could I not have loved her large, still eyes? I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her. The night is full of stars and she is not with me. That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away. My soul is lost without her. As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her. My heart searches for her and she is not with me. The same night that whitens the same trees. We, we who were, we are the same no longer. I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her. My voice searched the wind to touch her ear. Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once belonged to my kisses. Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes. I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her. Love is so short and oblivion so long. Because on nights like this I held her in my arms, my soul is lost without her. Although this may be the last pain she causes me, and this may be the last poem I write for her. Håvard |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Bert Date: 10 Dec 99 - 09:49 AM I think that most of us guys get very emotional about The Bobbit song by Tom Paxton. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Dan Evergreen Date: 10 Dec 99 - 09:25 AM It isn't exactly the same as sad, but a very emotionally moving song for me is "Sweet Rose of Allendale." I cannot always finish the lines, "My life had been a wilderness,/Unblessed by Fortune's gales,/Had Fate not linked my lot to her,/The Rose of Allendale." The same is true of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen", speaking to the universal theme of love and depression. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Skipjack Date: 10 Dec 99 - 09:17 AM Sorry to hear you've been down, Kendall. It's a black tide many are sucked down by, many more than we know. I am battling my own demons right now, and I play a session every night, which is the firewall I need to keep them away. I hope you have this luxury available to you. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Mbo Date: 10 Dec 99 - 09:10 AM I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but Carlene Carter's "Unbreakable Heart" always makes me want to cry. --Mbo |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: MTM Date: 10 Dec 99 - 09:02 AM Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" is erving the same purpose for me. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: kendall Date: 10 Dec 99 - 08:11 AM I find that what I think is the saddest song depends on the mood I'm in at the time. Lately I've been battling depression and Utah Phillips' song The Faded Roses of December is right up there. Also, his, Ashes on the Sea will usually get to me. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Dec 99 - 07:43 AM Now that is sad - knowing that 'the band played....' goes to 'When I'm cleaning windows'! My saddest song has to be Kate Rusby's version of 'the Recruited Collier', but 'Over the hills and far away' does tend to make the old (hairless) bosom heave somewhat.... LTS |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Skipjack Date: 10 Dec 99 - 07:14 AM Here's a thought. If a song is trembling your bottom lip, try the Humphrey Littleton cure, and sing it to a different melody. For example, why get choked up during "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" when you can sing it to the tune of "When I'm Cleaning Windows!" Just a thought. |
Subject: The Saddest Song of All--Part II From: Mbo Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:23 PM I believe this great long-running thread needs a second part, the first one's the biggest thread I've ever seen. Let see this one prosper as much as it's predecessor! --Mbo |
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