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29 Dec 99 - 12:06 PM (#155187) Subject: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Redharbour I need the tabs or chords (I have the lyrics) for Dave Van Ronk's version of the song, originally recorded by Judy Collins, "Song of The Wandering Angus", which is a WB Yeats poem set to music. I'm interested in the way Van Ronk plays it, not Judy Collins. Anyone? |
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29 Dec 99 - 03:33 PM (#155275) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Lonesome Dave You should point out, for the uninitiated, this is not a song about a lost cow. |
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29 Dec 99 - 03:34 PM (#155277) Subject: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Just getting this thing to the top again,,, |
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29 Dec 99 - 04:41 PM (#155297) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: ,,,,,, |
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29 Dec 99 - 06:15 PM (#155345) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: |
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29 Dec 99 - 06:35 PM (#155350) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Rick Fielding Hi Red Harbour. I'm trying to find my Van Ronk recording (with his chords). Mine are probably more like Judy Collins' |
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29 Dec 99 - 09:33 PM (#155432) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: kendall I first heard this done back in the 50's by Buryl Ives. He did it acapella. |
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29 Dec 99 - 09:48 PM (#155443) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: thanks! |
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29 Dec 99 - 10:50 PM (#155484) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: margaret I'm not much help here except to clarify that the title, unbovine, is "The Song of Wandering Aengus," -- one of my favorite poems. Cheers! |
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30 Dec 99 - 02:04 AM (#155556) Subject: The title From: Jason Correction: The Yeats' title is "The Song of the Wandering Aengus", but on Van Ronk's record the "The" is dropped and "Aengus" is spelled, perhaps incorrectly, or perhaps american-englishified, "Angus". I would like to hear the chords you use, Lonesome Dave, or those which anyone else has. Thanks. -Jason |
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30 Dec 99 - 02:08 AM (#155557) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: catspaw49 Ya know, somehow this thread was a lot more entertaining when it WAS about a lost cow. Spaw |
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30 Dec 99 - 03:23 PM (#155761) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Redharbour It was never about a lost cow. I just want the chords,,, ("weeping") Where is lonesome Dave?,,,, |
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01 Jan 00 - 09:24 PM (#156807) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Please help. |
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02 Jan 00 - 02:21 PM (#157033) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Redharbour I guess no one has any chords for this song. This will be the last time I bring this to the top. |
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02 Jan 00 - 04:20 PM (#157071) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Lonesome Dave Ever since this started I have wondered what your obsession with this song is. I am abig DVR fan but when that song comes around I reach for the skip button. This collision of high art and low is one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time but thirty years later leaves you wondering what the hell were they thinking. Anyway I was fooling around with it and as near as I can figure it is capoed at the first fret and in Aminor. Lots of Am,C,Dm,E7,G possibly Fmaj7. Sorry if I came across rude, but I am baffled by the appeal of this tune. |
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04 Jan 00 - 01:06 PM (#157870) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: peg I believe Karan Casey has a version of this on her Songlines CD, too; is it perhaps the same song? Sorry, I am not familiar with the other version you seek. Just FYI, I recorded an original version of this poem set to music by composer Barbara Blatner; she plays piano, I sing; it is a rather contemporary sounding piece, a bit of Tori Amos influence, but quite beautiful, I think...if anyone is interested in obtaining a recording, email me. amberapple@aol.com. peg |
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04 Jan 00 - 01:55 PM (#157887) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Redharbour The song was good enough, thirty years ago, to fool you into thinking it was a good idea... but now,,, what? You know better. Your sensibilty is sharper. It seems kind of silly to argue over taste- but I guess I am listening to this song in a different context, right? (and so it's not exactly a battle of taste.) Different context because I assume you're in your mid to late forties. I am in my early twenties, and thus a great deal smarter than you by nature, however, I very well could be confused and under the impression that the collision of high and "low" art is a good idea, I don't really know because I never thought about it before. I'd get back to you in another twenty years, (I'm sure by then I'll have come to consider a whole lot about what people are thinking when they play songs), but that would be silly. And I have some other stuff to do. Please tell me more about the "high" and "low" art and what happens when they collide. Thank You. -Redharbour. |
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04 Jan 00 - 07:28 PM (#158036) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Lonesome Dave I was sincerely interested in why you found that song so compelling. Yes it is just a matter of taste and mine runs more to Green Green Rocky Road. I would be interested in learning if Wondering Angus is still in DVRs repertoire. Had you been around in the late sixties and listened to all the Bob Dylan wanna-bes and all the art-rock that came out after Sgt. Peppers you would not think mixing high and low art was such a good idea. Really I thought that was an idea that has been totally discredited. |
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04 Jan 00 - 09:00 PM (#158082) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Peter T. Er, you mean discredited like Shakespeare, introducing all those damn peasants and bearbaiting and bad jokes into his high class plays? Or like the Yeats of the "foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart?" Or would you like to swing on a star (DVRonk)? yours, Peter T. |
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04 Jan 00 - 09:48 PM (#158125) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: You're still talking about ideas, Dave. See, I'm not "obsessed" with the song as being a good idea. I like listening to it, you know what I mean? You say that if I was around at the time I wouldn't think mixing "high" and "low" art was a credible idea. I never said I thought that it was in the first place. And you're probably right. In fact, even though I wasn't around I still don't think it's necesarilly a good idea. I never thought of this song as an idea in the first place. So, tell me something about this particular song, and, if you can manage, take it out of the context of the "Bob Dylan wannabee" and "art rock" songs (which is where it falls, right?, except its Dave Van Ronk singing it so a little bit better; he just made the mistake so many others like yourself did at the time by thinking his song, what? Sounded good, I guess, and turned out to be wrong, I don't know, thirty years later, etc.), and then, once you've done that, THEN say something about it, you know, without talking about the other stuff. When you find that you don't have too much to say about this individual song in that way, and if you decide that you can't really criticize a song by calling the category it falls under a bad idea, then we're going to have to agree that what it comes down to is that you don't particularly like this song for whatever reasons, and that that stuff about credibility is sort of strange, in a way. It's just a song, Dave. For listening. |
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04 Jan 00 - 10:40 PM (#158162) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Paddy Tommy Makem does a good version of this song. Find it on From the Archives. |
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05 Jan 00 - 12:18 AM (#158210) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: R. Lindner I have seen it done with G C D |
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05 Jan 00 - 03:07 PM (#158490) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Redharbour Thanks for the help Linder, maybe now we can put this thread to rest. |
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05 Jan 00 - 04:09 PM (#158519) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Little Tom I agree, Redharbour- and it's a good song I think. And this "low" "high", as silly of a label as it may be, is where it's at right now in alot of ways. |
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05 Jan 00 - 08:58 PM (#158701) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Little Tom, it IS a silly label- but when you say, "...is where it's at" I don't know if you're saying it in the sense of praise, as in "Polka music is where it's at", or if you're saying that where the song "is at" is under the category of "high-low art." I assume you meant the former, but I wonder why you say so: That "high-low art/(songwriting) is "where it's at. Do you mean that the best original music coming out these days could be placed under that category? The only thing I could think of would be Will Oldham/ aka Palace Brothers/ aka Bonnie Prince Billy,,, and he IS where it's at, in a way. Entirely!, in my opinion. I don't think he would earn the "Credible" award in your case Lonesome Dave, either- so don't rush out and buy one of his records. You'd find yourself in the position of being like one of those middle-aged people you knew thirty years ago who said Dylan was bad: "He can't sing," etc.) And since I think in Lonesome Dave's case Will Oldham would fall under this bizzare label, and seeing as he (Oldham) has taken hold of the same youths that would have been listening to Van Ronk and VilliageDylan back then: The "collision" of high and low art has not been entirely discredited, only somewhat discredited (Credibilty in art is generally an individual thing not a communal agreement, right Dave?), by folks who have had alot of time to think about it. And, let's face it, Dave, you've moved up a notch in the scheme, you're not so naw-ledge-able about what's going on in the scene, and others have taken the place where you used to stand. I think there's a popular Dylan song that talks about this. |
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06 Jan 00 - 09:58 PM (#159327) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Lonesome Dave, why don't you respond anymore? I'll post this message again for you. You're still talking about ideas, Dave. See, I'm not "obsessed" with the song as being a good idea. I like listening to it, you know what I mean? You say that if I was around at the time I wouldn't think mixing "high" and "low" art was a credible idea. I never said I thought that it was in the first place. And you're probably right. In fact, even though I wasn't around I still don't think it's necesarilly a good idea. I never thought of this song as an idea in the first place. So, tell me something about this particular song, and, if you can manage, take it out of the context of the "Bob Dylan wannabee" and "art rock" songs (which is where it falls, right?, except its Dave Van Ronk singing it so a little bit better; he just made the mistake so many others like yourself did at the time by thinking his song, what? Sounded good, I guess, and turned out to be wrong, I don't know, thirty years later, etc.), and then, once you've done that, THEN say something about it, you know, without talking about the other stuff. When you find that you don't have too much to say about this individual song in that way, and if you decide that you can't really criticize a song by calling the category it falls under a bad idea, then we're going to have to agree that what it comes down to is that you don't particularly like this song for whatever reasons, and that that stuff about credibility is sort of strange, in a way. It's just a song, Dave. For listening. |
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29 Aug 01 - 12:06 AM (#537203) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS From: Amos These are the chords I use. Dunno about DvR:
Am G Dm Am Am G Dm Am When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. |
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29 Aug 01 - 05:08 AM (#537280) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: mooman I have an excellent version of this by Jake Walton who I believe (haven't seen him in a long while) does it in an open tuning to great effect. If anyone's interested I could transcribe the version I have. Best regards, mooman |
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17 Aug 08 - 05:46 PM (#2416316) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: GUEST,Lou Yes please Mooman. |
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17 Aug 08 - 08:46 PM (#2416442) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Barry Finn I thought someone was refreshing a wondering Anus Barry |
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18 Aug 08 - 01:29 PM (#2416995) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Jim Carroll Did you manage to get to the bottom of it? Jim Carroll |
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18 Aug 08 - 03:52 PM (#2417148) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Surely that was the last GUEST's job! Regards |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:16 PM (#2417351) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Charley Noble I'm not sure where this "extra verse" came from, other then I collected it while I was resident in Michigan: I went out to a well one night, Soft darkness hid all daytime scars; I held some water to the light And drank a dipper full of stars. Perhaps someone years from now will find some use for it. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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18 Aug 08 - 11:28 PM (#2417441) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: Phil Cooper I was never a big fan of the tune used by Judy Collins and Dave Van Ronk of this Yeats poem. I think a lot of Yeats poems/set to music attempts don't work (poems don't necessarily make good songs, etc). I did like the tune Tom Rapp set to the poem on his "Journal of the Plague Years," however. It was a tune you could whistle out the door, not an art song tune. It is a matter of taste, though. |
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03 Sep 09 - 12:25 PM (#2715474) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus' From: GUEST,Phyllypd Fling does a great job on this too! |