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Subject: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Jimmy C Date: 29 Dec 03 - 01:02 AM Just came home from watching the movie " Cold Mountain". I couldn't quite catch enough of the hymn/ spiritual they sang in the church, (just as the news of the commencement of the Civil War came in). Has anyone seen the movie yet and could shed some light on this hymn, also does the clapping and pointing of fingers during the hymn have any significance ?. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Marion in Cornwall Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:32 AM I haven't seen the film, but here's a list of what's on the soundtrack. You might be able to identify the hymn you're looking for from it. Regards Marion Cold Mountain (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)" Track Listing: 1) WAYFARING STRANGER - PERFORMED BY JACK WHITE (Traditional) 2) LIKE A SONGBIRD THAT HAS FALLEN - PERFORMED BY REELTIME TRAVELERS (Written by Bobby Neuwirth and Henry Burnett), (Reel Time Travelers are: Thomas Sneed, Martha Scanlan, Brandon Story, Heidi Andrade & Roy Andrade) 3) I WISH MY BABY WAS BORN - PERFORMED BY TIM ERIKSEN, RILEY BAUGUS & TIM O'BRIEN (Traditional) Arranged by Anthony Minghella and Henry Burnett. Additional Lyrics by Anthony Minghella. 4) THE SCARLET TIDE - PERFORMED BY ALISON KRAUSS (Written by Elvis Costello and Henry Burnett) 5) THE CUCKOO - PERFORMED BY TIM ERIKSEN & RILEY BAUGUS (Traditional) 6) SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD - PERFORMED BY JACK WHITE (Written by Walter Jacobs and Lonnie Carter) 7) AM I BORN TO DIE? - PERFORMED BY TIM ERIKSEN (Traditional) 8) YOU WILL BE MY AIN TRUE LOVE - RECORDED BY ALISON KRAUSS (Written and Composed by Sting) 9) I'M GOING HOME - PERFORMED BY SACRED HARP SINGERS AT LIBERTY CHURCH (Writers - Traditional) Arranged by Tim Eriksen 10) NEVER FAR AWAY - PERFORMED BY JACK WHITE (Written by Jack White) 11) CHRISTMAS TIME WILL SOON BE OVER - PERFORMED BY JACK WHITE (Writers - Traditional) 12) RUBY WITH THE EYES THAT SPARKLE - PERFORMED BY STUART DUNCAN AND DIRK POWELL (Traditional) Arranged by Dirk Powell 13) LADY MARGRET - PERFORMED BY CASSIE FRANKLIN (Writers - Traditional) Arranged by Anthony Minghella Henry Burnett and Tim Eriksen 14) GREAT HIGH MOUNTAIN - PERFORMED BY JACK WHITE (Traditional) Arranged by Ralph Stanley 15) ANTHEM - GABRIEL YARED 16) ADA PLAYS - GABRIEL YARED 17) ADA AND INMAN - GABRIEL YARED 18) LOVE THEME - GABRIEL YARED 19) IDUMEA - PERFORMED BY SACRED HARP SINGERS AT LIBERTY CHURCH (Writers - Charles Wesley 1707 Amzi Chapin 1812 Traditional) Arranged by Tim Eriksen |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Barbara Shaw Date: 29 Dec 03 - 10:10 AM Here's a link to the previous thread about the movie: Cold Mountain The hymn was a shape note song (#9 in the list above) actually recorded by the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church. These songs are typically sung with great enthusiasm and gusto. From the little I've seen, the singers often swing an arm in time to the music (something like current "praise worship"). |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I'M GOING HOME From: GUEST,Burke Date: 29 Dec 03 - 11:36 AM I havne't seen it yet, but I've heard that Idumea is used for the battle scene. That leave's I'm Going Home for the church. With the simple lyrics, repeated tag line on every verse along with the chorus I think of this as one of the "camp meeting" style tunes in the book. The music is Here Clapping is not done much now, but moving arms up & down to keep time is. The singing is enthusiastic, but the motions usually aren't. It is normally a straightforward up & down motion, with occasional pointing to parts or a friend. It serves the same purpose as tapping your foot and helps everyone keep together. The singing was done by traditional Sacred Harp singers, but the people in the scene are the actors and Roumanian extras. Tim Eriksen would have coached them in their actions. I'M GOING HOME 282 Tune: Leonard P. Breedlove, 1850 Farewell, vain world! I'm going home! My Savior smiles and bids me come, And I don't care to stay here long! Chorus: Right up yonder, Christians, away up yonder; Oh, yes, my Lord, for I don't care to stay here long. I'm glad that I am born to die, From grief and woe my soul shall fly, And I don't care to stay here long! Bright angels shall convey me home, Away to New Jerusalem, And I don't care to stay here long! (Chorus) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: masato sakurai Date: 29 Dec 03 - 01:06 PM Sound clips are here. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:42 PM Reminiscent of the line in the Negro spiritual "I Don't Want To Stay Here No Longer" (Danville Chariot). Thread 41800: Danville Chariot |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Chris in Wheaton Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:44 PM If you go, be sure to stay for all the credits - to hear Allison's song. I thought the acting was good, but there was not enough traditional music for me and, unlike reading the book over a week or so, it is hard to watch so much pain in one sitting. However, as I pointed out to the negative critic/spouse after the movie, I think the movie portrays the same pain that ocurs daily for families who have and may lose loved ones in Iraq. Chris in Wheaton |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Jimmy C Date: 29 Dec 03 - 09:01 PM Thanks everyone, I enjoyed the movie although there were parts that could have been diluted without making the movie less enjoyable. Brendan Gleason plays the fiddle in it and he also played the fiddle in a scene from "Michael Collins" I was thinking that he must be able to play and was not acting ?. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: GUEST,Sally Burnell Date: 05 Jan 04 - 06:07 PM Does anybody have the lyrics to the new songs on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, "You will be my ain true love" by Sting and "The Scarlet Tide" by Elvis Costello? If you do, could you please post them here? I am eager to learn to sing them. Beautiful songs, both. Thanks, ~Sally |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 06 Jan 04 - 07:00 AM Mrs. Johnny and I saw the film by accident last Saturday. We had no idea what it was about but went in to see it as respite at the end of a long day at Meadowhall (Sheffield, UK shopping mall - horrible), shopping for birthday presents. To say we were stunned is an understatement. Beautiful scenery and camera-work, marvellous story, good acting (Hey guys, I'm English - the Southern accents convinced me alright!) and wonderful, wonderful music. MORE OF THE SAME PLEASE! Johnny |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: GUEST,KentuckyPat Date: 06 Feb 04 - 07:32 PM Lyrics to the traditional tunes included in the Cold Mountain soundtrack are all listed at the following website: www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/coldmountain |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 06 Feb 04 - 07:41 PM Lovely film. Fortunately not too many others there, so the way that people have this insane practice of lurching to their feet and rushing out during the final credits didn't really spoil that lovely song. Best bit in the film, my wife said - and she liked the film a lot. I gather they shot the film in Transylvania partly to save money, but also because the mountains over there haven't been wrecked by golf courses and that, unlike the real place. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Coyote Breath Date: 06 Feb 04 - 09:26 PM There have been two other honest films dealing with our terrible war against ourselves. By honest I mean these films show a detailed look at aspects of that conflict that were not glorious and noble or patrioticly stirring. "Ride with the Devil" starring Skeet Ulrich, Toby McGuire and Jewel and directed by Ang Lee ("The Ice Storm", "Sense and Sensibility", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") a gritty film about the vicious guerilla war of western Missouri/eastern Kansas. "Pharoh's Army" starring Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson and Patricia Clarkson and directed by Robby Henson. A retelling of actual events in a southern Kentucky "holler" when a young woman's small farm is taken over by a patrol of five Union Army "scroungers" seeking food and supplies for their troop. "Cold Mountain" can match the creativity and drama of the first two films easily. I believe that the three, taken in sequence, portray what that war was truly like in an honest and unflinching examination of it's tragedy and terror. We killed well over half a million of our citizens and wounded, maimed, and left scarred forever, a million or more. I am pleased to see directors willing to present these dramatic tales at last. Perhaps they will eventually supplant the moronic histodramas like "Gone With The Wind" and the overblown guts and glory "epics" like "Gettysburg" (which seemed interminable). CB |
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Subject: cold mountain soundtrack From: GUEST,Moana in Melbourne Date: 07 Feb 04 - 04:34 AM I have been waiting eagerly for months for the release of the Cold Mountain, knowing that it would contain some great music (which it did) and start a revival of Appalchian folk music. However when I purchased the soundtrack I was very dissapointed to see so much Jack White, obviously placed to tie in with furthering the cause of film and Jack White rather than trying to promote american folk music. There has been a real missed opportunity here, the collection of songs and performers does not add up to a cohesive whole and therefore I find myself constantly flipping past certain tracks. Gabriel Yared's ochestral/filmic compostions are lovely but have been carelessly tacked onto the end of the CD before the Sacred Harp Singers' Idumea. Like the Songcatcher soundtrack, with it's loose collection of modern interpretations alongside some more authentic renditions of traditionals, there is an inherent insuation that old time mountain music is too uncommercial or too ugly to warrant standing alone unsupported by rock stars and soundscapes. If the movie has introduced you this beautiful music and you want more I would throughly recommend "Songs from the Mountain" by Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien and John Hermann. It was produced as a companion CD for the book, Cold Mountain produced by Tim O'Brien and is available from Sugar Hill records. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Pogo Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:31 AM I just have to say that I'm listening to the soundtrack right now and Idumea has to be one of the most gorgeous accapella (I think it's accapella...not sure you know) songs I think I have heard. There's the lyrics I was able to find. Does anyone know anything pertaining to the origins of this song, by-the-by? And am I born to die? To lay this body down! And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought; The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot! Soon as from earth I go, What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my portion be! Waked by the trumpet sound, I from my grave shall rise; And see the Judge with glory crowned, And see the flaming skies! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: GLoux Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:37 AM Pogo, look back through this thread...origins are listed... -Greg |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MY AIN TRUE LOVE and SCARLET TIDE From: Miss Holly Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:01 PM Sally-- In case you haven't found them yet, the lyrics are: You'll walk unscathed through musket fire, No ploughman's blade will cut thee down, No cutler's horn will mar thy face, And you will be my ain true love, And you will be my ain true love. And as you walk through death's dark vale, The cannon's thunder can't prevail, And those who hunt thee down will fail, And you will be my ain true love, And you will be my ain true love. Asleep inside the cannon's mouth, The captain cries, "Here comes the rout!" They'll seek to find me North and South, I've gone to find my ain true love, I've gone to find my ain true love. The field is cut and bleeds too red, The cannon balls fly 'round my head, The infirmary man may count me dead, But I've gone to find my ain true love, I've gone to find my ain true love. And-- Well I recall his parting words, Must I accept his fate, Or take myself far from this place, I thought I heard a black bell toll, A little bird did sing, Man has no choice, when he wants everything We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountains, And separates the widow from the bride. Man goes beyond his own decision, Gets caught up in the mechanism Of swindlers who act like kings, And brokers who break everything, The dark of night was swiftly fading Close to the dawn of day, Why would I want him, just to lose him again? We'll rise above...etc. Hope this helps--and sorry about the lack of proper punctuation--I'm at work, and trying to just bang it out in a hurry, so I don't get caught! :-) Miss Holly |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cold mountain From: Burke Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:28 PM Pogo, the words for Idumea are by Charles Wesley. The music is by or possibly just arranged by Ananias Davisson, 1816. I don't have time to double check just now, but I think that would mean it published in Kentucky Harmony, one of the early 19th century shape note books. This & tunes like it usually get labeled American Folk Hymns because the tune book compilers were arranging tunes from oral tradition at least as much as they were writing new music. Tim Eriksen's "And am I born to die" on the CD is the same song sung solo. Here's the music. Men & women are both singing the top 2 lines. There's also an alto part being sung on the CD that was added later. The recording was done at Liberty Church in Henagar, Alabama by an invited group of @50 Sacred Harp singers. @30 of the singers were also in the Academy Awards show. Look at some of the other Cold Mountain threads for more details & links about the Sacred Harp singing on the album. Sacred Harp singings are open to the public for any to participate so you can do it too. |
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