Lyr Req/Add: 'Twas on a Night like This

Subject: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: GUEST,Nogs
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:47 PM

I've seen this referenced in the Forum, but no lyrics available. It has been credited to various artists, but the version that I'm looking for uses the tune from a Sicilian Carole : the Carole of the Bagpipers.
The lyrics on a later verse go: So come with us tonight/and join us on our way/ for we do seek that star again/ to light a better day/ And though throughout the land/ men search the skies in vain/ yet turn their sites within their hearts/ they would find that star again

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: sharyn
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 05:15 PM

I have a recording of this, but I seem to have lost the accompanying notes. However, since it is from a Folk Legacy recording, you could probably get them from Sandy Paton, who posts on Mudcat frequently. The album is called "'Twas on a Night Like This (A Christmas Legacy)"

Good Luck

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 06:37 PM

Not:
"In a little Spanish town
Twas on a night like this.
Stars were peek-a-booing down
Twas on a night like this..."

Back to my corner. Sorry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: GUEST,Nogs
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 05:33 PM

I, unfortunately, don't have a CD player. Can anybody help with the words?

Subject: Lyr Add: 'TWAS ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 05:37 PM

'Twas on a Night Like This

'Twas on a night like this
A beautiful babe was born
The shepherds gathered round
To guard him till the dawn.
Above them shone a star,
A star so wondrous white,
That never since, in all the years,
Have we seen one half so bright.

CHORUS:
Shining so truly, shining so brightly,
Guiding their footsteps from afar,
It led them through the night,
A path to love and brotherhood,
By following its light

Oh, come with us tonight
And join us on our way,
For we have found that star again,
To greet a better day.
Although throughout our land
Men search the skies in vain,
If turned their glance within their hearts,
They would find that star again.

---

Click to play

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 05:40 PM

From the liner notes to the aforementioned Sandy and Caroline Paton eponymous recording:
"Pete Seeger adapted and added to the traditional words of this song for his wonderful album of Traditional Christmas Carols (Folkways 32311). It is based on an Italian song, "The Bagpiper's Carol" and pertains to an old tradition in Naples in which shepherds come down from the Calabrian mountains for a festive stay in that city during the Christmas celebration. The only translation we have seen gives one verse telling about the Star of Bethlehem, thus the song is also known as the Star Carol"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: mg
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 10:42 PM

it is a beautiful song on a CD that I used to have..I think it broke...anyway, the CD is just full of great songs. mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 01:01 PM

I'm so glad you brought it up, Nogs- it's been going through my head ever since and I plan to use it this year!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this'
From: Nogs
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 03:59 PM

Ah, many thanks folks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a night like this
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 04:30 PM

Yummmmmmmmmmy.............

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a Night like This
From: MMario
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 08:31 AM

FolkInfo has this in their database.

Bagpiper's Carol

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twas on a Night like This
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 09:24 AM

See also Origins: Carol of the Bagpipes

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: 'Twas on a Night like This
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 09:20 PM

MMario forwarded a MIDI to me - links are up top and with the lyrics, above.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: 'Twas on a Night like This
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Dec 07 - 04:50 PM

I spent an hour this afternoon, stacking firewood and listening to the Folk-Legacy album titled 'Twas on a Night Like This. Then we built a big fire in the woodstove and the house finally got warm. Now I feel like Christmas. Take a listen to the MMIDI MMario posted - it's one of our best!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
-Joe Offer-