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Lyr Req: High Germany (Pentangle) DigiTrad: HIGH GERMANY THE KING'S REQUEST MUST BE OBEYED THE WARS OF GERMANY Related threads: (origins) Origin: High Germany (131) Lyr Req: Scots songs about Poland/Germany/Prussia (23) Lyr Req: 'Oh, Woe Be To The Orders' (5) Ulster Version High Germany (1) |
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Subject: Pentangle Lyrics From: Maelgwyn Date: 29 Jul 98 - 09:36 PM I'm looking for lyrics to the second verse of the pentangle version of 'High Germany.' It starts out: I fear the treacherous journey, bitter cold and burning heat Rough roads and stony mountains they will wound my tender feet I need the last two lines of the verse. |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: Barry Finn Date: 29 Jul 98 - 10:17 PM There's a version in the DT, but not knowing the Pentangle version I can't say that this is what you're after. Good Luck Barry |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: Alan of Australia Date: 30 Jul 98 - 02:12 AM G'day, Wasn't that on the Solomon's Seal LP? If so there should be words on the sleeve notes. I'll check when I get home tonight. Cheers, |
Subject: Lyr Add: HIGH GERMANY (from Pentangle) From: Alan of Australia Date: 30 Jul 98 - 07:52 AM G'day, From the Solomon's Seal (Pentangle) record liner:-
HIGH GERMANY
Oh Polly love oh Polly the rout is now begun
I fear the treacherous journey bitter cold and burning heat
I'll buy for you a horse my love and on it you will ride
Oh Billy love oh Billy now mind what I do say
Oh Polly love oh Polly I love you very well
Oh cursed be the cruel wars that ever they began
Cheers, |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: Maelgwyn Date: 30 Jul 98 - 03:44 PM Go raibh maith 'ad!!! Thank you! Thank you! |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: GUEST,Greg Date: 22 Apr 01 - 04:19 PM Hi there Is there a site out there where someone has compiled a set of Pentangle lyrics? Particularly interested in 'Sweet child' and 'market song'. Do email me on greg@myhome.org.uk, since I probably won't be able to find my way back to this forum! Thanks Greg |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: GUEST,pam.dixon@uwgc.org Date: 02 Oct 02 - 04:38 PM I can't believe this! A site for Pentangle lyrics! There IS a reason for the internet, after all. Can somebody please send me the lyrics to The Cruel Sister? By the way, is this what they call a "chat room"? Thanks, from Pam, a new net-user. |
Subject: Lyr Add: CRUEL SISTER From: GUEST,Marie Date: 02 Oct 02 - 05:21 PM Dear Pam, here is (I hope) what you're after : CRUEL SISTER There lived a lady by the North Sea shore (Lay the bent to the bonnie broom) Two daughters were the babes she bore (Fa la la la la la la la la la ) As one grew bright as is the sun So coal black grew the elder one A knight came riding to the ladys door He'd travelled far to be their wooer He courted one with gloves and rings But he loved the other above all things Oh sister will you go with me To watch the ships sail on the sea? She took her sister by the hand And led her down to the North Sea strand And as they stood on the windy shore The dark girl threw her sister o'er Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam Crying sister reach to me your hand Oh, sister, sister let me live And all that's mine I'll surely give Your own true love that I'll have and more But thou shalt never come ashore And there she floated like a swan The salt sea bore a body on Two minstrels walked along the strand And saw the maiden float to land They've made a harp of her breast bone Whose sound would melt a heart of stone They took three locks of her yellow hair And with them strung the harp so rare They went into her father's hall To play the harp before them all But as they laid it on a stone The harp began to play alone The first string sang a doleful sound The bride her younger sister drowned The second string as that they tried In terror sits the black-haired bride The third string sang beneath their bow And surely now her tears will flow (Don't hesitate to ask for more, I've got 30 Pentangle'songs in store! :-) |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:11 PM The text used by Pentangle in their arrangement of the song (set to a tune which doesn't belong to it traditionally, and with the refrain borrowed, like the melody, from Riddles Wisely Expounded) has been posted here a number of times in the past. I listed most of those, together with quite a lot of other information, in an earlier discussion: 'twasisters' lay the bent to bonny broom |
Subject: RE: Pentangle Lyrics From: GUEST,Pam Dixon Date: 03 Oct 02 - 01:14 PM Thanks so much, Marie! And just in time for Halloween. And thank you, also, Malcolm. I went to the site you suggested and you headed off my next question at the pass. Now I won't even ask you what does that mean, "Lay the bent to the bonnie broom?" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: High Germany (Pentangle) From: GUEST,Anne-Lise Date: 15 Mar 04 - 02:42 PM Hello you guys, I don't really know how this web site works so I don't know whom to thank precisely but I'm really grateful for the lyrics of "THE KING'S REQUEST MUST BE OBEYED", for it is extremely hard to find. It had been days that I was looking for them on traditionnal music sites. Anyway thanks a lot. |
Subject: RE: music and chords: High Germany From: GUEST,Nic Gellie Date: 26 Nov 11 - 05:11 AM I am after the music and chords for High Germany - the John Renbourn version. Does anyone have it and the lyrics in ABC notation? Thanks Nic Gellie |
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