Lyr Req: Great Things (Thomas Hardy)

Subject: Lyrics for 'Great Things'
From: GUEST,zetap
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 10:32 PM

The Mellstock Band did a Piece called "Great Things" based on a Thomas Hardy Poem. Started "Sweet cider is a great thing, a great thing indeed. The melody is stuck in my head - need the lyrics

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Great Things'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 06:58 PM

You'd find them in a Collected Poems of Hardy edition, which any good library should,have (but you can't count on having a good library these days).

It's a good song, and should be posted here - so if nobody else has posted them, I'll do it when I can find them. (Which may not be soon.)

Subject: Lyr Add: GREAT THINGS (Thomas Hardy)
From:
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 11:00 PM

When libraries aren't available, there is always the internet. Went on "Google" - then "Thomas Hardy Great Things" and lo and behold

From www.recmusic.org/lieder/h/hardy/things.html


GREAT THINGS
(Thomas Hardy)

Sweet cyder is a great thing
A great thing to me,
Spinning down to Weymouth town
By Ridgeway thirstily,
And maid and mistress summoning
Who tend the hostelry;
O cyder is a great thing
A great thing to me!

The dance it is a great thing
A great thing to me,
With candles lit and partners fit
For night-long revelry,
A going home when day-dawning
Peeps pale upon the lea;
O dancing is a great thing
A great thing to me!

Love is, yea, a great thing
A great thing to me,
When, having drawn across the lawn
In darkness silently,
A figure flits like one a-wing
Out from the nearest tree;
O love is, yes, a great thing,
Aye, greatest thing to me.

Will these be always great things
Greatest things to me?......
Let it befall that one will call
"Soul, I have need of thee":
What then, joy-jaunts, impassioned flings,
Love and its ecstacy
Will always have been great things,
Greatest things to me.

Thanks to McGrath of Harlow

Line Breaks <br> added.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Great Things'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Mar 00 - 01:43 PM

Great stuff - I tried various search engines but they all ran into the ground. You were more persistant or fortunate in your choice.

Definitely should be in the DT.