LYR ADD: Somebody

Subject: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Jul 99 - 12:46 PM

SOMEBODY

My heart is sore, I dare not tell,
My heart is sore for Somebody.
I would walk a winter's night
All for a sight of Somebody.

If Somebody were come again
Then one day he must cross the main,
And everyone will get his own,
And I will see my Somebody.

Ochon, for Somebody
Och hey for Somebody,
I would do, would I do not
All for the sake of Somebody.

Why need I comb my tresses bright
Oh, why should coal or candlelight
Shine in my bower day or night
Since gone is my dear Somebody.

Oh, I have wept many a day
For one that's banished far away
I cannot sing and must not say
How sore I grieve for Somebody.

Ochon, for Somebody
Och hey, for Somebody
I would do, would I do not
All for the sake of Somebody.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From:
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 10:35 PM

Does anyone know the origins of this song? what time period is it from?

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: masato sakurai
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 11:50 PM

Seems to be a remake of Burns' "For the Sake o' Somebody" (Click here).

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: black walnut
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 04:53 PM

The version Animaterra gave us is the one I learned from a Connie Dover CD. Beautiful song.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: michaelr
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 09:08 PM

Connie Dover's liner notes (from the album "Somebody", Taylor Park Music, 1991) say that it's an 18th century "code song" about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the desire for a Stuart on the Scottish throne.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: masato sakurai
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 11:06 PM

James Kinsley's note to Burns' "For the sake o' Somebody" in The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, vol. III (Oxford, 1968, pp. 1505-6):

'Written for this Work by Robert Burns' (SMM), this song is based on Ramsey's lovers' dialogue in The Tea-Table Miscellany (i. 191). Burns took only ll. 3-4 from Ramsey's chorus. The air is in CPC [The Caledonian Pocket Companion], 1752, iv. 30, and SMM, 1796, no. 436.* For an alternative melody for ll. 5-8 and 13-16, which may have been composed by Urbani and is now commonly sung, see Dick, p. 405. 'Somebody' has Jacobite associations; it was a synonym for Prince Charles Edward.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 12:01 AM

From Scots Minstrelsie: A National Monument of Scottish Song (1893), edited and arranged by John Greig, Volume 1:

For The Sake O' Somebody (p. 108)
For The Sake O' Somebody (p. 109)
Notes (p. vii)