Subject: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:23 PM Recorded just today on my wee Fujifilm camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Un87fiduI My Christmas Card to you all! |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:29 PM Thank you, a wonderful adaptation! (Do I take it that 'Wren's Heart' is the name of the tune? We in the UK know it better as 'Searching for lambs'). LTS |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:41 PM Cheers, Liz! Yes - it's Searching for Lambs (which I knew as a tune long before I heard the words, thanks to Times & Traditions for Dulcimer back in 1976) - Wren's Heart comes from the last verse... |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,Progress House Date: 23 Dec 08 - 08:14 AM Thanks for the clip - really enjoyed it. Feeling all Christmassy now... |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 23 Dec 08 - 08:29 AM I've just this minute done Butter and Cheese and All - uploading as I write, link to follow... Xmas card part two. Nice things these wee Fujifilm cameras. Talking of which - did anyone spot the copy of Won't You Go My Way? in the background of The Holly & the Ivy? Peter Bellamy & Louis Killen, live in Norwich, 22.vi.71. I would have only been 9 at the time. |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 23 Dec 08 - 09:48 AM Butter & Cheese & All: 22-12-2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FRvTDWqnM |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Dec 08 - 10:16 AM Is the instrument a bowed dulcimer, a rebek? |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 23 Dec 08 - 10:49 AM It's a similar beast anyway - a 3-string Karadeniz Kemence, or Black Sea Fiddle, from Turkey - which along with its supreme portability, has proved the perfect thing for accompanying Traditional English Song. Lots of supremely gifted traditional Turkish players on You Tube, young & old. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp39yiIl0U8 |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,Meggly Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:30 AM That was great. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you too. Are the words you've used all taken from the same version of the Holly and the Ivy? I've just never heard a version mentioning the wren before and also with a reference to mistletoe in the chorus. I like all the instruments lying around your house (it looks very cosy and musical) :-) |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Dec 08 - 07:11 PM Got it. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:52 PM You'll have to post the lyrics!! Please? LTS |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,Ed Date: 24 Dec 08 - 04:11 AM Liz, If you click the 'More Info' link on the right hand side of the youtube pae you'll find that Sean has already posted the words there. |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: Jack Blandiver Date: 24 Dec 08 - 05:09 AM it looks very cosy and musical That was going to be the dining room originally, but over the months we've lived here it's evolved into an ideal music room. Soon the flame effect gas fire's coming out & the wood burning stove's going in; so even cosier & more conducive to the music - wood ash notwithstanding! As for the words - these go back maybe 25 years or so, to a time when I was of the rather Frazerian belief that all things Folkloric were of ancient & pagan significance. Here they are anyway - those in italics are traditional, the rest are my own... The holly and the ivy Now they both full grown Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown. The rising of the winter sun, The running of the deer The holy seed of the mistletoe In the dawning of the year In winter time I dance alone And felt the growing cold And lighting fires from fallen trees I warmed my dying soul I saw the sun reborn again Melt through the winter snow And drank afresh from holy streams Swollen by the thaw The holly bears a sharp prickle As sharp as any thorn The wren's heart pierced in the darkest night Is healed before the dawn * There were other verses, but I forget them now... |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,hector powe Date: 25 Dec 08 - 10:14 AM yo sedanye! thought it was you. stuffed up bwith festive FAYRE just and seen this which is right enough with Gilly and I though she's not sure what Butter and Cheese is all about - but she never did get Peter Bellamy!! (io io io!!!) cool yule |
Subject: RE: The Holly & the Ivy (Wren's Heart) From: GUEST,RhiONA Wren Date: 26 Dec 08 - 01:49 AM Hi ..i love these words and your recording ..i would love to have a copy of this .I have researched extensively the myths surrounding the Wren and winter in "OLD" times.I am in The U.S. any way I could have you make a CD of your recording ??Thanks RhiONA |
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