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Lyr Req: Sailing (sailing over the bounding main)
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Subject: sailing over the bounding main From: Terri Date: 24 Jan 98 - 04:21 PM I'm looking for the lyrics to an old song that includes these words...sailing...sailing over the bounding main. |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Date: 24 Jan 98 - 04:27 PM There'll be many a stormy night ere we come home again. Something like that. Old pop, not folk. |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Jerry Friedman Date: 24 Jan 98 - 05:02 PM I'll try the first verse and refrain from memory:
Y'heave ho, my lads, the wind blows free,
But ere we part from England's shore tonight,
Chorus |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SAILING, SAILING (Godfrey Marks) From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Jan 98 - 05:29 PM Here's some more, not from memory - it's from the "Folksinger's Wordbook" SAILING, SAILING (Godfrey Marks) Y'heave ho! my lads, the wind blows free; A pleasant gale is on our lee, And now across the ocean clear, Our gallant bark we'll bravely steer. But ere we part from England's shore tonight, A song we'll sing for home and beauty bright: ChorusThe sailor’s life is bold and free; His home is on the rolling sea, And never heart more true or brave, Than he who launches on the wave. Afar he speeds in distant climes to roam; With jocund song he rides the sparkling foam. The tide is flowing with the gale; Y’heave ho! My lads, set every sail. The harbor bar we soon shall clear, Farewell once more to home so dear; For when the tempest rages loud and long, That home shall be our guiding star among.
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Subject: Tune Add: SAILING, SAILING (Godfrey Marks) From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Jan 98 - 07:37 PM This is the tune I come up with, but the ABC seems extremely long. Bruce or Alan, what did I do wrong? -Joe Offer- MIDI file: SAILIN~1.MID Timebase: 192 Name: Sailing, Sailing This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Jan 98 - 10:59 PM Say, does anyone know anything about the history of this song? Who the heck was Godfrey Marks, and when did he write the song? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Bruce O. Date: 25 Jan 98 - 12:04 PM Wow, thats's some ABC, Joe. I can't figure out all of it, but 1/8 note is basis for 6/8 time, and you only have to note differences when note is not 1/8. 37/8 in your code is then 37/64 real time (fraction of measure) or a little over a half note. Should be z/2 then for a sixteenth, and 2z for a quarter note, etc. |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Jon W. Date: 26 Jan 98 - 12:08 PM Joe, if you e-mail me a scanned image of the music I'll try and convert it to ABC |
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Subject: Tune Add: SAILING, SAILING (Godfrey Marks) From: Jon W. Date: 28 Jan 98 - 10:44 AM Here is the ABC I entered from the music Joe sent me:
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Jerry Friedman Date: 28 Jan 98 - 12:05 PM In _Twice 55 Plus: Community Songs--The New Brown Book_ (and how DO I make italics?), the title is "Sailing" (only once). The first verse has "And *soon* across the ocean clear". The second verse has "With *jovial* song". The third verse ends "For when the tempest rages wide and far,/ That home shall be the sailor's guiding star". (The version in Joe Offer's book doesn't make sense to me.) There are also some differences in punctuation. As for Joe's question--unfortunately, all this book says is, "Marks was an English composer best known in this country by this very popular song." The familiar "sailing, sailing" part is the chorus in the sense that my book prints it in four-part harmony, but the rest as a solo. |
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Subject: Tune Add: SAILING, SAILING (Godfrey Marks) From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Apr 98 - 05:41 PM I'm going to try posting this again with the latest version of midi2txt: MIDI file: SAILIN~1.MID Timebase: 192 Name: Sailing, Sailing This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Apr 98 - 05:48 PM Alan, I think you've perfected it! -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Frank Phillips Date: 05 Apr 98 - 07:56 PM My copy of "The Book of Navy Songs" has as a last line of the 3rd verse. That home shall be our guiding star and song. It has no info re authorship. Frank Phillip |
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Subject: RE: sailing over the bounding main From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Apr 98 - 08:01 PM Frank, that last line I posted, "That home shall be our guiding star among." was in one or two songbooks I have, but it didn't make much sense to me. I like your version better. Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing (Sailing over the Bounding Ma From: GUEST,david shapiro Date: 22 Aug 08 - 11:17 PM When I was a kid, it was, "Sailing, sailing, over the ocean blue"--the same song, I'm sure, but that's all I recall. For all I know, it wasn't a parody or alternative version, just a parent with a poor memory trying to sing a barely remembered song and getting stuck after the first line. I suppose this doesn't contribute a lot to the discourse--but who knows? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing (Sailing over the Bounding Main) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 23 Aug 08 - 09:40 AM It is interesting to see the rest of the song - other than the chorus. That chorus is so famous that it never occurred to me that there would be 'a rest of the song.' But my goodness, what a rosy picture the song presents of what was basically a dangerous, miserable life. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing (Sailing over the Bounding Main) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 23 Aug 08 - 03:03 PM Godfrey Marks- His real name was James Frederick Swift (1847-1931), born in England. Sailing, Sailing, ..." was composed in 1880, published by Reid Bros. London. Sir Arthur Sullivan borrowed the song and used it in various ways. http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/timeForBeany.html I believe the sheet music is at Sibelius, but I haven't checked recently. "The American Song Reader," William Studwell, p. 83, on line, Google Books, has a note about the song. Swift also wrote the hymn, "All Things Praise Thee." http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/07/singing-loud-with-cheerful-voice.html "Steering Home," a composition for voice and guitar, listed at Allmusic, may be by another 'Godfrey Marks,' a film writer and dialogue specialist. Tune used for "Sailing the Union Way." See Traditional Ballad Index. Other notes in Fuld. |
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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: SAILING (Godfrey Marks) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 23 Aug 08 - 04:28 PM Joe Offer posted the lyrics, but this from traditionalmusic.co.uk has chords. SAILING James Frederick Swift, 'Godfrey Marks' pseud. 1 Y'heave (G)ho! my lads, the wind blows free; A (D7)pleasant gale is on our lee, And (G)soon across the ocean clear, Our (D)gallant bark shall (A7)bravely (D)steer. But (D7)ere we part from (G)England's shores tonight, A (D7)song we'll sing for (G)home and beauty bright. Chorus: (Em)Then here's to the (B7)sailor, and (C)here's to the hearts so (G)true, Who will think of him upon the waters (B7)blue? (G)Sailing, sailing, (C)over the bounding (G)main, For (D7)many a stormy (G)wind shall (Em)blow ere (D)Jack comes (A7)home again(D7). (G)Sailing, sailing (C)over the bounding (G)main, For (C)many a (B7)stormy (Em)wind shall (A7)blow ere (G)Jack comes (D7)home again(G). 2 The sailor's life is bold and free; His home is on the rolling sea, And never heart more true or brave, Than he who launches on the wave. Afar he speeds in distant climes to roam; With jocund song he rides the sparkling foam. 3 The tide is flowing with the gale; Y'heave ho! my lads, set every sail. The harbor bar we soon shall clear, Farewell once more to home so dear; For when the tempest rages loud and long, That home shall be our guiding star among. Sailing Sailing |
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Subject: Lyr Add: Hailing, Hailing (parody of Sailing) From: semi-submersible Date: 24 Aug 08 - 08:02 PM This ad hoc parody by a BC commercial fisherman was provoked by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans introducing a policy requiring commercial fishing boats to report their catch each evening by VHF radio. Sung to the chorus of "Sailing, Sailing," it was composed, probably in the early 1990s, by Iris Griffith (my mother) fishing aboard salmon seiner Tzoonie River with her husband and grown children. In theory, this polling of the fleet by radio should give Fisheries a timely, scientifically accurate estimate of total fish caught for each 24 hour period. In practice, since all the boats in the area were listening, there were strong incentives for fishermen to exercise a little creative license one way or another. A skipper could be tempted to "lowball" or underestimate his catch, lest others who are doing less well come looking. Boats that think he is in a hot spot may set in front of him (intercepting fish swimming toward his net) or (in the case of seiners) spend the day taking turns with him in a lineup for a good fishing spot. For many, the urge to exaggerate their prowess overcame both strategy and veracity. Sometimes the first few boats would hail, say, four or five hundred fish. Someone would report six hundred. The next boat might hail seven or eight, the next nine fifty, a thousand, twelve hundred.... Someone like my father might break such a cycle by hailing a truthful three hundred eighty, then the next few boats would admit to similar catches, until somebody else suspected someone of exaggerating and the flights of fancy would resume. The annoying thing was that the radio hails were as unnecessary as they were inaccurate. There are few places where fresh fish can be delivered for processing. Fish plants and "packer" boats which collect and transport catch while the fishing boats continue their work are required to share boat delivery records with the fisheries department. If catch figures were needed before the end of the opening, fisheries officers would travel from boat to boat in a fast inflatable to ask the fishermen directly and discreetly. They usually get an honest estimate that way, as well as being in the area to observe directly, build understanding and co-operation with fishermen, and walk the streams between fishing openings. Nowadays cell phones are widely available, so for the last couple of years or more the department requires boats to call in their catches by phone. It's an inexpensive way for the government to produce lots of nice numbers, while they go on whittling down field staff. (Fisheries policy is made in Ottawa, over a thousand miles away from any of the three oceans that border this country.) HAILING, HAILING (Iris E. Griffith) Hailing, hailing, over the bounding main, "This is the fisheries patrol; it's six o'clock again. Vessels, vessels, call us and let us know How many fish you have on board: come on, now, don't be slow." "Honest, honest, I've got a hundred thou'. Certainly you can take my word, would I kid you now?" Failing hailing, here is a happy thought: Why don't you read the packer slips to find out what we caught? MP |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing (Sailing over the Bounding Main) From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 Aug 08 - 10:16 PM You can see words and music to SAILING here: McCaskey, John Piersol. Franklin Square Song Collection: Two Hundred Favorite Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes, Nursery and Fireside. New York: Harper, 1881, page 17. There are a few minor differences in wording from the version given above, and the tune is in 6/8 time. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing (Sailing over the Bounding Main) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 24 Aug 08 - 11:05 PM The song was dropped from the 1898 edition of "Franklin Square Song Collection: Two Hundred ...." It is printed with words and musical score in "The Academy Song Book," C. H. Levermore, 1895, Ginn & Co., no. 66, pp. 266-267. Tune in 6/8 time. Correction to text above (23 Aug 08): Chorus, 2nd line- !, not ? Verse 2, line 4- his, not he Verse 3, line 6- and song, not among. |
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