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Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew - 1845 DigiTrad: FRANKLIN THE BRAVE or LADY FRANKLIN'S LAMENT 2 LADY FRANKLIN'S LAMENT LADY FRANKLIN'S LAMENT (4) THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION Related threads: (origins) Origins: Cyril Tawney's 'Lady Franklin's Lament' (49) BS: HMS Terror found! (26) Lyr Req: Lord Franklin parody (10) Lord Franklin in Copyright? (23) (origins) Lyr Req: Franklin (39) Lyr Req: Lord Franklyn / Franklin (8) Lyr Req: Lord Franklin parody Baked Beans (31) (origins) Origins: Bob Dylan's Dream (17) I just discovered something! (28) Source of melody: Lady Franklin's Lament? (19) Lyr/Chords Add: Lord Franklin or Lady Frankli (8) franklin - WARNING not music (14) Lyr Req: Bob Dylan's Dream (Bob Dylan) (32)
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Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: JeffB Date: 19 May 10 - 12:26 PM Hi Norman D, I've always assumed that Lady Franklin's Lament was the older song, simply because it's more developed and a lot of its phrases are in Lord Franklin, but never had any proof. Do you know when they appeared? While on the subject, can you tell me where the tunes come from? I sing the Lament to the the melody of Lord Franklin because I don't particularly enjoy the Lament's sturdy hymn-like tune. I wonder how many others do the same. In 1984 the graves of several sailors were re-discovered on Beechy Island, which is just off the SW tip of Devon Island, by a team from the University of Alberta. One grave was opened for forensic examination. By an astonishing co-incidence, the scientist flown in to supervise the operation was a direct descendent of the sailor. |
Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: Charmion Date: 19 May 10 - 11:34 AM Har, har. Relics of the Franklin expedition still turn up occasionally in the Arctic Archipelago. People who should know better bring them south as curiosities despite strict laws against disturbing archaeological sites. Years ago, I was shown a shoebox containing, among other things, shreds of boot-leather and rusted food cans with their lids and bottoms swollen from decomposition gases. The cans had all been opened with a crude tool, probably a spike. These items were recovered from a cache on King William Island, and kept as a grisly trophy. They sure gave me the shudders. |
Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: Mr Happy Date: 19 May 10 - 11:19 AM FRANKLIN [Stanley Accrington 1993] I was in a folk club the other week Someone sang Lord Franklin and I fell asleep I dreamed a dream, and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew From Baffin Bay where the whale fish play 쳌ecross the frozen ocean in the month of May For a North west passage his course was fixed That's in Canada not up the M6 The expedition had limited means The only food they had was tins of beans Even the Eskimo in his skin canoe Had baked beans and frozen fish fingers too With all those beans the winds began to blow The fate of Franklin no man doth know The fate of Franklin no man can tell All that was left of him was a funny smell In those days the tins were made with lead They should have been made from steel instead The crew grew sick and wished they'd never started And as for Franklin ....... he simply departed But now my story it gives me pain I just can쳌ft listen to that song again Without thinking of that blunder alimentary Which I heard about in a documentary I was down at a folk club where the admission's cheap Someone sang Lord Franklin and I fell asleep Dreamed ten thousand pounds was freely given By Lady Franklin, who'd not seen the television Franklin didn쳌ft die from the effects of lead I think the beans did for him instead I think he exploded in the arctic air And punched a big hole in the ozone layer! |
Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: BusyBee Paul Date: 19 May 10 - 11:11 AM My preferred version by the Duncan McFarlane Band has Stan Rogers' chorus added. Terrific. I doubt it will be featured on this radio programme though!. |
Subject: RE: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: NormanD Date: 19 May 10 - 04:17 AM Also the inspiration for Bob Dylan's "Bob Dylan's Dream", on 'Freewheelin'. He uses the melody, and some lyrics, and acknowledges the source in the sleeve notes. It later led me to this far older song, "Lady Franklin's Lament" - lots of discussion here in the past. |
Subject: Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew From: Rain Dog Date: 19 May 10 - 03:22 AM BBC Radio 3 19.50 Thursday 20.5.10 Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew It was on this day, 20th May in 1845, that Lord Franklin's ships the Erebus and Terror cleared the mouth of the Thames on their voyage to find the Northwest Passage. A traditional song recounts the story 'of Franklin and his gallant crew' and through this Julian May explores Franklin's fateful, indeed fatal, voyage, and reveals how folk song, as well as beautiful and inspiring, can be history. You can read more about it here Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew Hopefully it will be on the iplayer |
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