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Best October and fall songs
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GerryM Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:28 AM But October is Spring, not Fall. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Oct 23 - 12:33 PM Westlin' Winds by Robert Burns has the alternative original title of "Song Composed in August"! But fair enough, those westlin' winds (and slaughterin' guns) bring Autumn's pleasant weather. It's a double-edged song - love and the beauty of nature in parts, with the contrasting middle verse protesting against the game-shooting season! |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 03 Oct 23 - 06:20 AM October Roses by Linda Allen |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:39 AM “The Autumn Leaves” (Les Feuilles Mortes”) must be up there as one of the best. The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Oct 23 - 12:33 PM Westlin' Winds by Robert Burns has the alternative original title of "Song Composed in August"! But fair enough, those westlin' winds (and slaughterin' guns) bring Autumn's pleasant weather. It's a double-edged song - love and the beauty of nature in parts, with the contrasting middle verse protesting against the game-shooting season! |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:39 AM “The Autumn Leaves” (Les Feuilles Mortes”) must be up there as one of the best. The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GerryM Date: 03 Oct 23 - 08:28 AM But October is Spring, not Fall. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 03 Oct 23 - 06:20 AM October Roses by Linda Allen |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Eric the Streetsinger Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:23 PM My all time favorite has always been "Harvest Home" "Come ye faithfull people come sing the song of harvest home! All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. And the maker doth provide all our needs to be supplied come ye faithfull people come, sing the song of Harvest Home!" (this song has a pagan root!) "John Barleycorn Must Die" (the last verses deal with harvesting!) "The Dancing of the Sheets" (always brings a smile!) "Burning Times" |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: bbc Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:04 PM Gold upon the trees by Lui Collins is a beautiful fall in New England song. It's on her Stone by Stone cd. Just heard her recently in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; she sounded great! Her website is: http://www.luicollins.com/ bbc |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Celtaddict Date: 06 Oct 04 - 08:29 PM Also Danny Quinn's "Lady of the Autumn" on his "For Friends and Family" CD. And "Castle of Dromore" (The October winds lament around the castle of Dromore...) And the poem I learned in school with the evocative verse A mist on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, (something; OK, I almost learned...) And wild geese winging by, And all over woodland and meadow The charm of the goldenrod; Some of us call it autumn, And others call it God. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Stewie Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:59 PM Not a song, but Hopkins' 'Spring and Fall' is magnificent. I posted it HERE some time ago. Paddy Reilly recorded a beaut song, titled 'Autumn Has Come' by S.Healy, on his 'The Town I Loved So Well' album. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST,GUEST Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:15 PM Glad to see that one person (though only one so far!) submitted "October Song" by Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band (on their 1st, 1966, album). This gets my vote not just for being the best Octobe song but the best song of all time (and I don't just say this because I was born in October). Mind you, though fortunately I haven't heard anyone do a cover version of it I think it would be very disappointing by comparison, as I don't think they could emulate Robin's voice and guitar playing. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: fat B****rd Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:19 AM ......and not forgetting "September Song" 'cos it's a long, long time...... |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: breezy Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:19 AM '...and leaves are Irish setter red...' 'When the acorns line the walkways, then winter cant be far' |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:06 PM Forever Autumn..........by Moody Blues. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST,Bernie Date: 05 Oct 04 - 05:45 PM "On a day like today" [in the first golden days of October...etc.]...by Missouri's Bob Dyer.......first heard it from my friend Anne Dodson in Maine........it's on Cathy Barton & Dave Para's recording of the same name on Folk-Legacy......one of the loveliest seasonal songs ever..... |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST,Seaking Date: 05 Oct 04 - 04:45 PM Mary, it's Westlin Winds (Forever Autumn). Dick Gaughan does a great live version. Chris |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: breezy Date: 05 Oct 04 - 03:19 PM 'When fall comes to New England' is my favourite and I am familiar with most of those posted here with 'My Lady of Autumn' a close 2nd I heard the former played mid way thru a news programm whilst in Boston Mass 10 years ago almost to the day. I couldnt believe it , a song half way thru the news! the video that went with it contained images depicted in the song. The following morning we drove to Cambridge and bought the album. My wife still has the cassette in her car. Its still brilliant with its lyrical imagry and bring back a memory of a pleasant holiday touring around. aint it windy on top of Mt Washington!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Grab Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:38 AM A friend at a local club does "Sunday morning, Saint-Denis" which is a classic. The opening lines are great: "Autumn was waiting in the street for me/Blown by the cold wind from the river". Same guy also does "Urge for going". I'd rather listen to him than some of the people you pay to go and see. :-) Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: muppitz Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:31 AM The House Band have an album called October Song, and if I remember rightly it is titled from the track. Muppitz |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:02 AM Sorry this isn't a song, but a poem by Ted Hughes....we had to learn it at school and I still love it now. OCTOBER DAWN. October is marigold, and yet A glass half full of wine left out To the dark heaven all night, by dawn Has dreamed a premonition Of ice across its eye as if The ice-age had begun it heave. The lawn overtrodden and strewn From the night before, and the whistling green Shubbery are doomed. Ice has got its spearhead into place. First a skin, delicately here Restraining a ripple from the air; Soon plate and rivet on pond and brook; Then tons of chain and massive lock To hold rivers. Then, sound by sight Will mammoth and sabre toothed celebrate Reunion while a fist of cold Squeezes the fire at the core of the world, Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart, And now it is about to start. TED HUGHES. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Cornflake Date: 04 Oct 04 - 09:36 PM I second Urge for Going and Four Strong Winds. October does seem to bring out the songs about changes. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: leeneia Date: 04 Oct 04 - 09:28 PM A song I learned from a CD by Martin Wyndham Read. I guess it's public domain. The hills are clad in purple, and the trees are clad in gold. The autumn wind is sighing for a beauty growing old. The grey grouse in the heather and the wild deer in the glen are longing for the summer, when they'll see their joy again. The merry, laughing summer, with its mantle cloak of green, the trees and all the flowers, such a beauty to be seen! But autumn, gentle autumn, with its quiet eyes of grey, enwrapped me in the twilight and stole my joys away. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Ron Davies Date: 04 Oct 04 - 07:12 PM From "Schoolhouse On the Hill"---Carter Family There climb the vines and there the berries grow Which once we prized so high And there the ripe nuts glistened in the glow Of rich October skies |
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Subject: ADD: When Fall Comes to New England-Cheryl Wheeler From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:40 PM When Fall Comes To New England---Cheryl Wheeler 75 Septembers--------------------Ditto Bill Hahn When Fall Comes to New EnglandA beautiful song about fall in New England. This song contains some of the most beautiful visual pictures that Cheryl has painted. She started writing this while on a little island called Cuttyhunk, which is part of the Elizabeth Islands in September of 1990. When Christine Lavin first heard this song, she insisted that Cheryl record it. It first appeared in the Christine's compilation album When October Goes.
Cheryl recorded a version for Driving Home, but didn't like it that much. She got the original from When October Goes and remixed it to produce the version on Driving Home.
There are several clips on YouTube with fall pictures that use this song as a background. Here is a live version that you can find on YouTube. Lyrics |
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Subject: ADD: The Best of Autumn (Mike O'Connor) From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 04 Oct 04 - 12:44 PM The Best of Autumn, composed by Mike O'Connor, as recorded by Martin Wyndham-Reed. Just like an advanced art class - every stanza paints a picture: THE BEST OF AUTUMN (Mike O'Connor) The sunlight blazing through the trees in flames of red and gold The leafy carpet underfoot as crisp as nights are cold The stubble field new put to plough, the hedgerow growing thin They mark the turning of the year, the harvest gathered in These are the best of autumn, these are the best of autumn The coals new burning in the hearth, dusty damper down The firelight glinting on each glass of amber and of brown The voices raised in songs of praise, the tales in trust retold They mark the passing of the year, the season's roundless roll These are the best of autumn, these are the best of autumn And as the silent stars survey the sleeping hills around The frosty moon casts shadows laced with silver on the ground And deep within the earth itself the land its strength renews To bring to each and everyone the gifts none can refuse These are the best of autumn, these are the best of autumn The seven stars are in the sky, the wind is in the west The weary ploughman's to his bed, the hawk is to his nest And all along the rolling downs the clouds like hunters ride The winter days will not be long, from joys we should not hide These are the best of autumn, these are the best of autumn These are the best of autumn, these are the best of autumn ((c)Mike O'Connor) |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Alonzo M. Zilch (inactive) Date: 04 Oct 04 - 10:17 AM Urge for Going by Joni Mitchell. Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny. Changes by Phil Ochs. Four Strong Winds by Ian Tyson. October Song by Robin Williamson. Grey October Clouds, sung by Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 04 Oct 04 - 07:44 AM Just a fraction late but "All among the Barley" is always worth a singing in the autumn. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: fat B****rd Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:50 AM Call me old fashioned but "Autumn Leaves" does it for me. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:47 AM My Lady of Autumn by Dave Webber |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Splott Man Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:10 AM Autumn Song by Harvey Andrews, about the struggles of growing old |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: Geoff the Duck Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:54 AM "Old Father Fall" - written and sung by Sally Rogers on her 1982 LP "In The Circle of the Sun". Also "Fall is Here" written by Charlie Maguire and sung by Sally Rogers on the same LP. Both excellent songs from a record which does not have a poor track on it. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: nutty Date: 04 Oct 04 - 02:54 AM The Long and Lonely Winter by Dave Goulder Summer comes October, the green becomes the brown |
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Subject: RE: Best October and fall songs From: mg Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:49 AM I forgot the last Halloween in France by Violet Jacobs..also her Geese one..oh yes..Westrin??? Winds by Robert Burns. mg |
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Subject: Best October and fall songs From: mg Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:48 AM I like fall songs..just thinking of best October ones and I guess November and generic fall... October October Roses by Linda Allen Cliffs of Baccelieu October Winds Connemarra by the Lake Three score and ten boys and men..Grimbsby November Turning toward the morning by Gordon Bok Raglan Road Autumn General: When I mowed Pat Murphy's meadow in the sunny long ago Road to Dundee I still miss someone by Johnny Cash Bells of St. Mary's..the young loves the true loves to come from the glen Wild Geese..Ian Tyson? Red Velvet Ian Tyson Way down in east Cape Breton where they knit the socks and mittens that's all for now. mg |
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