Lyr Req: Fruit of the Yew

Subject: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From:
Date: 21 Feb 98 - 03:47 PM

Does anyone have the music and lyrics to the Welsh song "Fruit of the Yew"?

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: leprechaun
Date: 22 Feb 98 - 01:44 AM

I haven't heard it. Would it be any relation to "My Bonnie Yew Tree?" I think the Battlefield Band did a version.

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: Catldy
Date: 04 Jun 98 - 04:12 PM

Does anybody know who sings the country song that goes like this..... "I'm in a hurry to get things done, oh I rush and rush until lifes no fun. All I really gotta do is live in die but I'm in hurry and don't know why."????

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: Becky
Date: 24 Jan 99 - 08:25 PM

I think that Alabama sang that song I know it and it is on the tip of my tongue. Sorry I couldn't help you out more. I don't even know if you still check this.

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: becky
Date: 24 Jan 99 - 08:27 PM

My reply was to catldy not about fruit of the yew.

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Eric Allen
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 06:03 PM

I am looking a song that I heard in a club down in panama city. I do not know many of the lyrics but here are a few: " Thats what takes me high, your love is what keeps me alive" I want this song for my next party so if anyone knows the title and who sings it email me at [e-mail].

thanks

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Wavestar
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 11:54 PM

Serendipity!

Leprechaun, this may not answer the other question, but I've been looking for the lyrics to My Bonny Yew Tree without success for some time. I heard Marge Bruchac and her husband do it at a festival some years ago, liked it a great deal, and can only remember the premise, of a tree that saw all the happenings of the village it was in for hundreds of years....

"My bonnie yew tree, tell me what do you see..."

Could you please post them?

-J

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Penny S.(elsewhere)
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 12:07 PM

If anyone does know any early songs which mention yews, I'd be grateful, too, as an illumination on some non-musical work I'm doing. Welsh would be especially useful.

Penny

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Kas
Date: 06 May 00 - 01:52 PM

Hi,

I've been looking for the lyrics also, and found a lead:

http://www.cmpmusic.com/trooper.htm

Please let me know if you find a webpage with the lyrics written out; I assume that the words are old enough that nobody holds a copyright.

Thanks, Kas [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Marge Bruchac
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 08:59 AM

Greetings, all

The song is "Bonnie Yew Tree," and it was written by a member of the Battlefield Band, so the lyrics are not public domain. I cannot recall who the author is, in part because I learned the song through the oral route about twenty years ago myself - hopefully someone out there has access to the album on which it was recorded.

Here's the first verse, and chorus, as I recall it, I can't vouch for its absolute accuracy:

A mile from Pencaitland, on a road to the sea
stands a yew tree a thousand years old
And the old women swear, by the gray o' their hair
it knows what the future will hold
For the shadows of Scotland stand 'round her
mid the kilt, and the cairn, and the kine
and the hopes and the fears of a thousand long years
under the Lothian sky

My bonnie yew tree, tell me what do you see

Hope that helps.
Marge

Subject: RE: Lyric Search: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 09:06 AM

The Yew Tree

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fruit of the Yew
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 06:37 PM

Here's a song called FRUIT OF THE YEW, copyright 1989 by James Gahar. It mentions Wales, but I doubt that there's anything authentically Welsh about it. Given that the author uses the name "James Treebull the Stubborn" I suppose that means it's one of those "filk songs" that role-players are so fond of.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,Jim Gahar
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:22 AM

I wrote this in 1988 as a way to motivate the Kingdom of Atenveldt's archers. We were getting our "butts" kicked (archery joke) at Estrella War every year by Caid.

Released it commercially in 1989 on a small cassette project, "Primitive Mind", which was shredded by critics and sold like hotcakes. Pretty much proves that if you want to sell something, first thing you need to do is p*ss off a stuffed shirt.

I left my youthful SCA days behind, now write and record under the name Jim Pipkin for AMAZ Records.

I also work as a roster artist for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and spend a lot of time exploring Arizona's remote nooks and crannies. Not Wales, not Wales at all!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fruit of the Yew
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:31 AM

Jim - do you mind if we copy the words into this thread? And do you have (would you allow) any way of posting the tune?