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03 Sep 07 - 10:14 AM (#2139649) Subject: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard From: Lynzi Hi folks, however many times I listen to The Watersons wonderful recording of The Old Churchyard ("Come, come with me up to the old churchyard...")I just cannot catch all the words in verse 4, which goes something like this, "But where I am rest me yonder tree (?), O why would you weep my friends for me, I`m so weary, so .........?, why would you retard(?)the peace I seek in the old churchyard." Help appreciated, thanks, Lynzi. |
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03 Sep 07 - 10:30 AM (#2139659) Subject: Lyr Add: The Old Churchyard From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Found at https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/theoldchurchyard.html - The Old Churchyard The Old Churchyard ^^ |
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03 Sep 07 - 10:44 AM (#2139673) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Folk Music Index The Old Church Yard |
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03 Sep 07 - 10:57 AM (#2139681) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard From: Lynzi Thank you very much!! Lynzi |
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03 Sep 07 - 11:49 AM (#2139700) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca You're very welcome Lynzi. Nice words. If someone could locate music for it, we could add a tune in here too. |
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12 Nov 08 - 03:17 PM (#2492033) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,Kim C Anyone got an idea of a date on this song? |
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12 Nov 08 - 04:38 PM (#2492121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,Reinhard Zierke This webpage attributes The Old Churchyard to William Sanford ca 1773-1866. |
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12 Nov 08 - 09:30 PM (#2492379) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: Desert Dancer The tune is the same as "Clamanda", in the Sacred Harp (a different text appears there). No attribution is given for the tune specifically; it's not clear whether the citation, "Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1814" is for both text and tune, or not. At one point I did a search for the 1814 "Collection" and was not able to locate the song. There's an image of the page from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp here (courtesy of the Michigan State University Library special collection, "Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America"). ~ Becky in Tucson |
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14 Nov 08 - 05:21 AM (#2493525) Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD CHURCH YARD From: Jim Dixon From The Christian Psalmist by Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore. Louisville, KY: S. W. Leonard, 1854. [The song is printed there with an odd kind of musical notation. There is no attribution.] THE OLD CHURCH YARD 1. Oh, come, come with me to the old church yard. I well know the path through the soft green sward. Friends slumber there, we were wont to regard. We'll trace out their names in the old church yard. Oh, mourn not for them; their grief is o'er. Weep not for them; they weep no more, For deep is their sleep, though cold and hard Their pillow may be in the old church yard. 2. I know it seems vain when friends depart To breathe kind words to the broken heart. I know that the joys of life seem marred When we follow our friends to the old church yard. But were I at rest beneath yon tree, Why should you weep, dear friends, for me? I'm wayworn and sad. Oh, why then retard The rest that I seek in the old church yard? 3. Our friends linger there in the sweetest repose, Released from the world's sad bereavements and woes, And who would not rest with the friends they regard In quietude sweet in the old church yard? We'll rest in the hope of that bright day When beauty shall spring from the prison of clay, When Gabriel's voice and the trump of the Lord Shall awaken the dead in the old church yard. 4. Oh! weep not for me; I am anxious to go To that haven of rest where tears never flow. I fear not to enter that dark, lonely ward, For soon I shall rise from the old church yard. Yes, soon I shall join that heavenly band Of glorified souls at my Savior's right hand, Forever to dwell in bright mansions prepared For the saints, who shall rise from the old church yard. |
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14 Nov 08 - 07:39 AM (#2493602) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: masato sakurai There are three hymnals in the Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection which contain this: 1. Christian Psalms and Hymns. [text only] Walter Scott and Silas Leonard. [1839] A S Tilden. 2. The Christian Psalmist. Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore. [1850] S W Leonard. 3. Fillmore's Harp of Zion. [Composer: T.H. Bailey] A D Fillmore. [1867] R W Carroll & Co. |
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14 Nov 08 - 07:52 AM (#2493612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: masato sakurai The Max Hunter collection has: Old Church Yard As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on August 29, 1969 |
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06 Jan 11 - 10:39 PM (#3068994) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,hg Does anyone have a handy set of lyrics for this done by the Peasall Sisters? |
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06 Jan 11 - 10:57 PM (#3069002) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,hg got them,nevermine...but that key????? |
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07 Jan 11 - 12:42 AM (#3069050) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: Anglo I believe the Watersons learned this from Almeda Riddle. |
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04 Nov 15 - 02:26 PM (#3748546) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,Guest Please check out The Murphy Beds if you haven't already. Great version. |
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19 Aug 16 - 06:36 PM (#3805860) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: Haruo This is hymn 262 in Daily's "Primitive Baptist Hymn & Tune Book" (1918 ed'), set to AAMBOY, which is a 7-shape melody-in-the-treble version of what the Sacred Harp calls CLAMANDA. The text is pretty much as given above by Jim Dixon. |
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19 Aug 16 - 06:48 PM (#3805863) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: GUEST,Ebor Fiddler Yes, it sounds like one of the Prim's hymns. |
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12 Feb 21 - 10:48 PM (#4092894) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Churchyard (Watersons) From: RunrigFan A Gaelic translation Thugainn còmhla riums’ dhan t-seann chladh thall, Oir b’ eòl leam an t-sligh’ fon an fheur maoth, glas Tha ar càirdean nan suain 's nan tàmh ann gu bràth, Aithnichidh sinn ainmean san t-seann chladh thall Na bithibh fo bhròn, tha an deuchainnean dèant’ ’S ci’n fàth bhith gan caoidh 's nach bi dragh’ orr’ a-rithist? Oir socair an cadal, ged fuar agus trom A’ chluasag fo cheann san t-seann chladh thall Is tha fhios g’ eil e faoin nuair a thig am bàs, Bhith cagar bhriathran coibhneil do chridhe sgàint’ Is tha fhios gum bi aoibhneas ar beathannan caillt’ Nuair leanamaid ar càirdean dhan t-seann chladh thall Nam bithinn nam thàmh fon chraoibh ud thall, Na bithibh gam chaoidh ’s mi sìnte san fhonn ’S mi tha airsneulach, claoidhte, na cuiribh idir maill Air an t-sìth tha ri faotainn san t-seann chladh thall Na bithibh fo bhròn ’s mi deis’ a dhol ann, Gu cala mòr a’ ghlòir far nach sruth deòir fann ’S cha bhi eagal orm siubhal don uaigneas ud thall Far an d’ fhuair ar Tighearna a’ bhuaidh nach gann ’S mi beò ann an dòchas, air aon latha brèagha, Gun làigh deò-grèin’ air a’ phrìosan sa chrèadh Is dùisgidh na mairbh ri fonn Ghabriel ’S ri do ghuth-sa a Dhia san t-seann chladh thall. https://www.sian-music.com/lyrics https://www.discogs.com/Sian-Sian/release/14915652 |
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16 Jan 23 - 06:16 PM (#4162698) Subject: RE: ADD: The Old Churchyard (Watersons, et al) From: Joe Offer Joe - update |