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16 Dec 14 - 01:58 PM (#3686299) Subject: Trying to remember a song From: GUEST,MtnSongbird Hello Mudcatters! I know this is a long shot, but a couple of years ago, I heard a beautiful song-- It was a heartbreaking and lovely ballad about horses, from what I remember it was an ode to the days when horse and man were partners and friends and paid homage to the long history of their service to mankind, that is until the industrial revolution came along and took away our dependence on them Any ideas what this song might be? Sorry I can't be more specific! I just remember that it was so beautiful and poignant, it made me cry. Thanks for the help! |
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16 Dec 14 - 02:02 PM (#3686302) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,# Last Trip Home ?? |
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16 Dec 14 - 02:05 PM (#3686304) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,Helpful Advice Sounds like "Child Owlet" to me. A fine ballad about horses and their divers uses. |
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16 Dec 14 - 02:07 PM (#3686305) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST Yes! That's it!! Goodness I love this site. :D |
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16 Dec 14 - 02:10 PM (#3686309) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,# What's it? :-) |
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16 Dec 14 - 02:47 PM (#3686319) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Dave Hanson What Childe Owlett ? a song about someone getting torn apart by 4 horses, I think not. The Last Trip Home, a really great song, about horses is the one you want methinks. Dave H |
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16 Dec 14 - 03:21 PM (#3686327) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,mike they shoot horses, dont they by Racing cars maybe lovely song but not really a homage. |
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16 Dec 14 - 05:59 PM (#3686366) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Steve Gardham Nothing wrong with paying homage to long service but most folk songs tell of a different relationship between man and horse. Poor Old Horse, The Place where the old horse died, Creeping Jane give plenty of clues. |
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16 Dec 14 - 06:04 PM (#3686369) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Tangledwood Horses of the World by John Warner is another lovely song. |
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16 Dec 14 - 07:36 PM (#3686392) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Tattie Bogle Think I've men this before in another thread ages ago, but there is a superb CD called "Gentle Giants" - ALL. Of the tracks are songs about horses. Well worth putting on the Christmas list. From Greentrax recordings. |
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16 Dec 14 - 10:25 PM (#3686407) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,mrr heavy horses by jethro tull also... And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry and the nights are seen to draw colder They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power your noble grace and your bearing And you'll strain once again to the sound of the gulls in the wake of the deep plough, sharing... |
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17 Dec 14 - 01:35 AM (#3686423) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Artful Codger There's Charlotte M. Hall's touching and true horse saga "Two Bits". Chokes me up most times I sing it. |
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17 Dec 14 - 02:51 AM (#3686428) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Valmai Goodyear There is a thread about the traditional song The Carter here. It's about a very simple man's care for his working horses and is nothing like Jim The Carter Lad. Valmai (Lewes) |
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17 Dec 14 - 04:09 PM (#3686600) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Steve Gardham What about Harry Clifton's 'My Rattling old Black Mare' found in folksong collections but written c1866. There are threads on it here. |
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17 Dec 14 - 06:50 PM (#3686640) Subject: Lyr Add: HORSES OF THE WORLD (John Warner) From: Sandra in Sydney Tangledwood mentioned John Warner's Horses of the World so I got the words from his former singing partner Margaret Walters as they are not on his website part of the trilogy - Horses of the World by John Warner - from his CD The Sea & The Soil. John's CDS are available from his website HORSES OF THE WORLD (John Warner © 1991) And I want to say a word of thanks to the horses of the world Whose solid backs and heaving lungs have placed us where we stand Their eyes speak for their spirits that through the endless years Have shaped us all, as we shaped the fruitful land Such gentle souls that shaped the fruitful land And I saw a fertile valley where a back and heavy soil Promised golden grain and fruit upon the bough And sweating giant Clydesdales thrust their shoulders at the toil And loam rolled back, like the sea, behind the plough And a thousand lowing cattle spread out on the western plain And the thunder spoke from out the roaring cloud But the stockmen rode to calm the herd through squalls of lashing hail On their rough-haired walers, agile, strong and proud So I'll keep an apple by me when I lean upon a fence Where a palamino or some chestnut mare might graze A present from a passer-by to one fine child of earth Whose hoofprints pioneered our present ways And I want to say a word of thanks to the horses of the world Whose solid backs and heaving lungs have placed us where we stand Their eyes speak for their spirits that through the endless years Have shaped us all, as we shaped the fruitful land Such gentle souls that shaped the fruitful land |
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17 Dec 14 - 06:52 PM (#3686642) Subject: Lyr Add: THE HORSE RACE (John Warner) From: Sandra in Sydney part of the trilogy - Horses of the World by John Warner - from his CD The Sea & The Soil. John's CDS are available from his website THE HORSE RACE – GOLDEN SLIPPER TWO-YEAR OLD STAKES (John Warner © 1991) In behind the gate she stood and held her concentration tight A boxer gloved and ready for the fight behind the iron gate Grass beneath her feet, waiting for the blood to turn to fire Her jockey's concentration tight as wire within his leather seat The gate is down and sixteen horses thrust into the light The colours of the jockeys glow like suns A thousand beats a minute from a cloud of whirling legs Each one a hammer driving down five tons, driving down five tons See the lady dance, slow motion shows her agile gliding grace The leaping, stretching splendour of their race, see the lady dance Fragile yet so strong, balance and precision, these are all The timing of the hoofbeats, where they fall, you dare not get them wrong Like a rifle firing there comes a vicious crack The lady screams and stumbles to the earth The riders thunder past her as he shrieks her dire distress Entangled in her saddle, bit and girth, saddle bit and girth. Judgement has been read, cannon bone and sesamoids are broke A verdict that o mortal can revoke, the needle and she's dead The ambulance has gone, they'll set the jockey's fracture, ease his pain Someday he might be fit to ride again, still the race goes on. Out there in the paddock they're pouring the champagne For the ladies in their sunhats and their pride For the favourite came in winner at odds of five to one But who will mourn the lady that just died, the lady that just died In the members bar the syndicate is drinking what it lost Discussing what a two-year-old might cost, curse the members bar Curse the punters all, for two-year-olds have vigour, heart and grace But growing bones too fragile yet to race. Who mourns them when they fall? |
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17 Dec 14 - 06:56 PM (#3686644) Subject: Lyr Add: THE FARRIER'S TRADE (John Warner) From: Sandra in Sydney part of the trilogy - Horses of the World by John Warner - from his CD The Sea & The Soil. John's CDS are available from his website THE FARRIER'S TRADE (John Warner © 1991) Here's to the farrier's trade - may their anvils ever ring true May the Pritchel and Buffer still find employ And proud strong horses to shoe, brave boys Proud strong horses to shoe The anvil rang like an old church bell, the forge it roared like a gale And down the wind came a pungent smell that told an immortal tale A tale well known to the black and the bay, to coachmen, carter, and carrier For the smell was the hoof and the burning shoe and the trade was the craft of the farrier A blue flame leapt from the crackling coals, at its heart was a flame of gold And out of that heart came a red-hot steel in the farrier's tong's firm hold Onto the anvil's face it swept, and a hammer bit into its edge It curved to the farrier's swift hard blows, and it squared to the striker's sledge And many a draught horse, hack or cob stood fast at the hitching rails While the farrier bent to the fetlock's hair with a mouthful of squarehead nails And offered up the shoe to the waiting foot with a sizzle, a smoke and a smell Pritchel and clench, hammer, clip and quench and file down the clenches well Though the motor roars out across the world its message of haste or greed Though the horse has gone from the highway side with its danger and noise and speed Yet down at the fence waits an ancient friend that progress will never unseat And while there's a horse, there's a need for shoes, and farriers to tend its feet |
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17 Dec 14 - 07:02 PM (#3686645) Subject: Lyr Add: HORSES OF THE WORLD (John Warner) From: Sandra in Sydney 4th part of the trilogy - Horses of the World by John Warner - from his CD The Sea & The Soil. John's CDS are available from his website HORSES OF THE WORLD reprise (John Warner © 1991) So if you should see me learning on a nameless paddock fence And I'm scratching some old stock horse at the ears You might come and share the moment and the apples that I bring For humankind's companion down the years And I dreamed I stood upon a hill above a grassy plain Where the windswept sedges heaved like the restless sea And I saw horses flash like jewels before the setting sun Wild eyes and flowing manes in ancient glory So I want to say a word of thanks to the horses of the world Whose solid backs and heaving lungs have placed us where we stand Their eyes speak for their spirits that through the endless years Have shaped us all as we shaped the fruitful land Such gentle souls who shaped the fruitful land All the horses that shaped the fruitful land |
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18 Dec 14 - 07:15 PM (#3686935) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Stewie Another fine song that pays homage to the horse is Fred Small's The Heart of the Apalloosa. --Stewie. |
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19 Dec 14 - 04:27 PM (#3687214) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: RiGGy No one mentioned Sarah Morgan's setting of the C.FoxSmith poem HOME LADS HOME http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=10099 |
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19 Dec 14 - 04:45 PM (#3687220) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Tangledwood Well done Sandra! |
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20 Dec 14 - 03:49 AM (#3687307) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: breezy As If He Knew , by Eric Bogle ? |
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20 Dec 14 - 04:17 AM (#3687313) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Herga Kitty There's also Alan Burbidge's "Empty Echoes", which was the subject of a separate Mudcat thread! Kitty |
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20 Dec 14 - 04:30 AM (#3687314) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,open mike Here is the play list from my radio show from 6-2-13 which was basically 2 hours of music all about horses (I have made a recording from this collection to donate as a benefit for our local horse rescue sanctuary) 1:03pm Juni Fisher Let 'er go, let 'er buck, A Horse Like You 1:08pm Juni Fisher Listen To The Horse Listen to the Horse 1:12pm Andria Kidd Sespe Sky Bucky 12:52pm Leelee and Friends Western Stars Full Moon Full of Love 1:17pm Katie Lee 10,000 Cattle 10,000 Cattle 1:22pm Claudia Nygaard Let the Storm Roll In His Left Side 1:24pm Marie-Lynn Hammond HoofBeats Heavy Horse Song 1:33pm Mountain Saddle Band The Heart of a Cowboy I Dream of Riding Fast Horses 1:36pm Curly Musgrave Range and Romance Same Kind of Horses 1:40pm Kristyn Harris Let Me Ride What a Horse Has Gotta Do 1:48pm The Coyotes and Friends Home Style Cowboy Music Dark Horse 1:52pm The Coyotes and Friends Home Style Cowboy Music My Pinto Pal 1:53pm Rosalie Sorrels Strangers in Another Country I Had a Mule 2:05pm Thomas Snow Friends Stewball 2:09pm Stephanie Davis Crocus in the Snow The Spotted Ass 2:22pm Almeda Terry Voices from the Range Our Last Ride 2:22pm Willie Nelson Heroes A Horse Called Music 2:24pm Christopher Smith Sweet River Grace Dead Horse Trampoline 2:31pm unknown old 78 rpm recording Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) 2:36pm Joyce Woodson She's in Love with her Horse She's in Love with her Horse 2:38pm Juni Fisher Let 'er Go, Let 'er Bcuk, Let 'er Fly Pony Called Love 2:49pm FIDDLE WHAM DIDDLE Old School Old Time Spotted Pony 2:54pm Bruce Sagan and Andrea Hoag Spelstundarna Trollrikepolskan |
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20 Dec 14 - 06:49 PM (#3687449) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: Herga Kitty Also Jon Harvison's "Heavy Horses" on his "High Diving" CD - Kitty |
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21 Dec 14 - 07:00 PM (#3687649) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ballad paying homage to horses?? From: GUEST,Arkie Have appreciated the songs mentioned in this thread. Found several recordings of Last Trip Home on emusic and downloaded the Prickly Pear version. There were also other good versions. |