Origins: Where The Wild Lilies Grow

Subject: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Cookie
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 11:39 AM

Does anyone know the lyrics to "Where The Wild Lilies Grow"?

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 11:52 AM

Not Green Briar Shoe? I'll go looking.......

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 11:53 AM

Sorry, no luck with Google. Just two hits about Mt. Shasta that mentioned a poem, could that be it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Wolfgang
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 12:18 PM

More hits with "Where the white lilies grow" (e.g., 'Demon lover'). Perhaps that song???

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,James H. Silver
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 02:14 PM

I have lyrics to a ballad entitled "Where The Water Lilies Grow". Wonder if by chance this is one and the same. It will take me some time however to dig them out. If anyone has anymore information as to whether or not this is the same song,, I will get them and post them over the next few days.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 02:17 PM

Way down in green hollow,
Where the wild lilies grow,
Where the winds from the mountain
There ruffles the wild rose,
Thus dear Evalina,
The sweet little chub,
The pride of the valley,
And the girl that I love.

Dear Evalina, sweet Evalina,
My love for thee
Shall never, never die.

Several possibilities- this is one. Please give us a line or two.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 04:03 PM

Checking over "Dear Evelina," the first lines should be
Way down in the meadow, where the lily first blows,
Where the wind from the mountains ne'er ruffles the rose.
The line varies from singer to singer. This song appeared in sheet music in 1863.

"Where the Water Lilies Grow" is one of two songs with that line. The song with that title, by Mallinson (words) and Green (music), appeared in sheet music in 1875.
First lines:
While strolling one evening to pass away the time,
I saw a lonely maiden, a fairy form divine. ---

Another song, sung by Bryant's Minstrels, also 19th century, was "Near the Banks of That Lone River."
It starts out:
Near the banks of that lone river,
Where the water lilies grow,
Breathed the fairest flower that ever
Bloomed, and faded years ago; ---

The last two are both at American Memory. There may be more---.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Louie Roy
Date: 16 Jun 03 - 11:36 PM

Guest I have the words to a song Where the White Lily Grows.It is about a soldier who is dieing.If this is the song I'll dig it out and post.Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: nutty
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 01:31 AM

These may be the Lyrics you are looking for ........

Steeleye Span

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Louie Roy
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 10:44 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 12:43 PM

Guest Cookie, where are you? Have any of us hit the right song yet? The Demon Lover connection opens up a whole new bag of new possibilities.

Subject: DTADD: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,James H. Silver
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 04:01 PM

Perhaps thes are the lyrics you are looking for. A song sung by my father and other men
who worked the lumber camps in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the late thirties and
early forties. I have never found it anywhere in type. My Father would sing many of these
old ballads when he came home to entertains the family in the evenings.

Where The Water Lilies Grow
sometimes entitled By A Brook-side

It was summer I remember
And the Days were long and warm
And the Blackbirds and the Robins
Came to cheer me with their songs.
It reminds me of a parting
Of a parting long ago
By a brook-side, shady brook-side
Where the water lilies grow.

We were comrades three in number
But the dearest one to me
Was my little blue eyed sister
And her heart was young and free
We were playing beneath the willow
with it's branches bending low
By a brook-side, shady brook-side
Where the water lilies grow.

Good-bye sister good-bye brother
it's so sad to part with you
Good-bye Father dearest Mother
I must bid you sad adieu
We will never roam together
As we did so long ago
By a brook-side, shady brook-side
Where the water lilies grow.

Transcribed from memory
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:30 PM

Also see- "A Pair of Brown Eyes" in the DT.

Guest James H. Silver- There may be songs and versions of songs in your father's repetoire that are uncollected. Put down all you know of them in writing. Perhaps start a thread reproducing them here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 04:17 AM

I'll second Q's request, James. That's a wonderful song you posted. Please post all you can.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow
From: GUEST,Heather (BarbaryAnne)
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 04:12 PM

Ah! It's collected here: https://mmap.mun.ca/folk-songs-of-atlantic-canada/performances/379

They call it "Shady Brookside"