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18 Aug 00 - 11:41 PM (#280595) Subject: Glenn Yarborough Wisconsin song From: GUEST,Sheila in Wisconsin Wow, I just found Mudcat for the first time. What a great site! Anyway, I would like the lyrics and chords to a song by Glenn Yarborough (spelling?) that I think is called "The Old Wisconsin That I Knew." That is a phrase in the song, in any case. I have also heard that the recording is out of print, and wonder if anyone knows if it's been re-issued, or where I might download it on-line. Thanks! |
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19 Aug 00 - 02:27 AM (#280657) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Glenn Yarborough Wisconsin so From: Joe Offer Well, Sheila, I found some Websites that might interest you: Unfortunately, none seem to have song-by-song listings of the recordings. The lists I did see did not have the song. Apparently, the song is called simply "Wisconsin," on an album called YARBROUGH COUNTRY, Warner 1817 LP. This page (click) shows that Wisconsin Public Radio played it as recently as December 12, 1999, on their "Simply Folk" program. The contact person for the radio program is Judy Rose (click to e-mail), phone 608-263-8162. I'll keep looking. -Joe in Sacramento, formerly from Racine- |
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13 Feb 08 - 12:03 AM (#2261120) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: WISCONSIN (Brian Davies) From: Jim Dixon This looks like it might be the song that was wanted--8 years ago. Copied from David HB Drake's web site: WISCONSIN (Brian Davies) Capo 3 to sound in D# (C) G COther days--might see deer in open field beside the cattle Unafraid--until Chicago rifles taught them all to keep inside the woods. Find the door--many years since this old barn has felt a hammer Many more--since I heard the sound the wind makes fifty feet above the floor It's a sound that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew. F EmIs it late?--In remembering I've forgotten of the hour Come away--watch the sun die in the pine trees, watch the moon rise on the lake It's a land that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew. |
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03 Nov 08 - 06:03 PM (#2483810) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,Bill FYI --- Wisconsin Public Radio also used this song as a theme of sorts for a radio program called, if memory serves me correctly, "Pages from a North Country Notebook". No longer being broadcast, it featured readings from (the late) George Vukelich's books of the same name. There was, however, an audio tape made of some of these same readings. I have it, but it's been a long time since I've played (or even seen) it, so I'm not sure if the song was included on that tape. Bill S. bicyclebill_2000 at yahoo dot com (spelling out 'at' and 'dot' supposedly fouls up the spambots) |
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14 Oct 10 - 06:14 PM (#3007157) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,Marty The song Wisconsin is one of my favorites also and I've looked for a copy for years. I just found out it was re=published in 2008 in an album called "Let Me Choose Life/Yarbrough Country" and it's available through Amazon and lots of other online stores so I'll be ordering it. http://www.amazon.com/Let-Choose-Life-Yarbrough-Country/dp/B001LDRP1M/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287091490&sr=1-1-fkmr0 |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:29 PM (#3049334) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,Karl Noll This is awesome! I have been looking for a copy of this song for over a decade. I had a multiple scratchy cassette recordings of it from Pages of a North Country Notebook on Wisconsin Public Radio but could never get the whole song without some interuption or voice over. Finally, I will get it one on the republished Let Me Choose Life/Yarbrough Country CD thanks to a question posed 10 years ago and anwered 8 years later. Amazing! Thank you! |
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22 Dec 10 - 07:31 AM (#3059217) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,Dave G. Hello Bill S. In your note about the song 'Wisconsin' (by Glenn Yarbrough) you mentioned that "Wisconsin Public Radio also used this song as a theme of sorts for a radio program called, 'Pages from a North Country Notebook'. No longer being broadcast, it featured readings from (the late) George Vukelich's books of the same name. There was, however, an audio tape made of some of these same readings. I have it." This audio tape (from 1988) that you mentioned is out-of-print now but I've been trying to find a copy of it for a couple of years now. Would you be interested in selling your copy? Or loaning it out? Sincerely, daveg888@hotmail.com |
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29 Sep 11 - 06:18 AM (#3230987) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST gewamser@yahoo.com I have most of the old "Pages from a North Country Notebook" radio shows on CD. Am willing to share at no or little cost of production and shipping. I am a radio archivist. |
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29 Sep 11 - 11:46 PM (#3231454) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: Stilly River Sage Guest of 29 Sep 11 - 06:18am, please use a consistent guest name and come back to visit Mudcat. Or join Mudcat! What else have you been archiving? SRS |
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11 Apr 12 - 04:23 PM (#3336888) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,I am brian davies and |
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11 Apr 12 - 08:27 PM (#3337009) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: Joe Offer Hi, Brian - I hope you'll come back and tell us the story behind this song. There's a YouTube Video of the song by another performer, but I don't like it. -Joe, from Racine Wisconsin- |
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12 Apr 12 - 09:41 AM (#3337204) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,leeneia Here's a link to a man who has (in my opinion) one of the finest voices in popular music today. Kerry Christensen. Right click on the symbol next to "Old Wisconsin" to hear a good sample of the song. rich and warm and accurate His yodeling is great, too. |
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13 Jul 13 - 10:02 PM (#3537156) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,underwillows |
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19 Apr 18 - 09:39 AM (#3918472) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,Mark Pedersen Phillip Anich from the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua has a recording called "Riding My Vocal Range" has a version of "Old Wisconsin" that is really nice. Phillip has a great voice. |
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03 Apr 21 - 10:17 AM (#4100588) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wisconsin (Glenn Yarbrough) From: GUEST,# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KvYZYHfuGA Sung there by Maffitt and Davies (the writer of the song). |
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03 Apr 21 - 05:53 PM (#4100646) Subject: ADD: Wisconsin (Brian Davies) From: Joe Offer And just because I like the lyrics unmixed with the chords. This is from Jim's post above. I still haven't found a recording to use to verify these lyrics. WISCONSIN (Brian Davies) There's the town--Guess it's better seen in early light of morning Looks run down--Father wrote that it's been losing since the new highway went through Here's the place--I was born and raised with seven at the table. Looks so small--Wonder how this farm can raise a family comfortably at all? And I want to show you fields I reaped and gathered as I grew And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew. Other days--might see deer in open field beside the cattle Unafraid--until Chicago rifles taught them all to keep inside the woods. Find the door--many years since this old barn has felt a hammer Many more--since I heard the sound the wind makes fifty feet above the floor It's a sound that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew. October brought the winter snows from Canada We'd pass away the time until the spring April brought the good smell of the earth again Too many years ago it seems. Is it late?--In remembering I've forgotten of the hour Come away--watch the sun die in the pine trees, watch the moon rise on the lake It's a land that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew. |
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03 Apr 21 - 08:21 PM (#4100668) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords ADD: Wisconsin (Brian Davies) From: GUEST,# 03 Apr 21 - 10:17 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KvYZYHfuGA Check the lyrics against that link at that post. It is sung there by the song's writer. |