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07 Apr 00 - 11:09 PM (#208679) Subject: Lyr Add: WHO IS AT MY WINDOW WEEPING From: MMario If this is a duplicate posting, I apologize. I searched DT and forum and didn't find it. Midi is on Barry Taylor's Great Canadian Songbook. WHO IS AT MY WINDOW WEEPING Who is at my window weeping, Weeping there so bitterly? "It's I, it's I, your own true loved one. Arise, arise and pity me." "Darling, go and ask your mother If thou my wedding bride will be. If she says no, return and tell me. No longer will I trouble thee." "How can I go and ask my mother, For I'm her only child and dear? Oh, darling, go and seek some other," She softly whisper'd in his ear. "Darling, go and ask your father If thou my wedding bride will be. If he says no, return and tell me. No longer will I trouble thee." "My father's on his bed a-sleeping With a shining sword placed on his breast All for to slay my own true loved one, To slay the lad that I love best." Then William took the shining sword And pierced it through his aching heart. "Adieu, adieu to all false loved ones. Adieu, adieu, we both shall part." Then Mary took the bloodstained sword And pierced it through her lily-white breast. "Adieu, adieu to my cruel parents. Adieu, adieu, we both shall rest." |
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07 Apr 00 - 11:33 PM (#208701) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Who is at my window weeping From: Barbara Hi, MMario, did you see this thread? The Cocks Are Crowing Check the words for this song (that I learned from the Voice Squad against the words above. Blessings, Barbara |
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07 Apr 00 - 11:38 PM (#208705) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Who is at my window weeping From: MMario do seem to be related, don't they? |
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08 Apr 00 - 08:10 AM (#208819) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Who is at my window weeping From: Lesley N. Steve Roud's Folksong Indext relates it to Laws M4 - "The Drowsy Sleeper." Laws also relates one version of it to "The Silver Dagger" (which Randolph does also) and a Scottish Song "I Will Put My Ship in Order."
Randolph also has a variant the singer named "Love Will Find a Way." The earliest collected date seems to be 1907, but one of Randolph's singers said she learned it from her father in 1878. Doerflinger too says the song "became crossed with "The Silver Dagger" - and says it is an "Anglo-Irish ballad" but doesn't add more history. Beautiful song and Barry did a wonderful midi (as always!) |