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25 Oct 00 - 08:35 AM (#326868) Subject: Lyr Add: LEGACY OF WOMEN (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,Lynn T When I lived in Indiana ten years ago, I learned a lovely song at a Getaway there about how you could always tell where a woman had lived, because even though "Her old man's work had all gone down/ To ashes and red clay" the flowers she had planted still bloomed and grew in the hills. Does anybody out there know the lyrics, and/or who wrote it? I remember it starts:
Georgeann Crabtree owned our place, 50 years ago
Chorus: Many thanks from a music-and-garden lover... Lynn |
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26 Oct 00 - 03:03 AM (#327607) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: The Shambles Refesh to prevent the thread from falling off the bottom of the world unanswered. Can anyone help? |
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27 Oct 00 - 01:53 AM (#328353) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: Metchosin Lynn, I would love to know this song as well, its beautiful! I'm still a bit choked after reading just what you remember, I hope someone can help find the rest of the lyrics |
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27 Oct 00 - 10:28 AM (#328497) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,Russ The song was composed by Anne McPhee (not sure of spelling). I used to hear her sing it regularly at the Fraley Festival (near Ashland KY.). I've looked but she seems to have no web presence. I think I have one of her tapes. I'll check to see if the song is on it. |
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27 Oct 00 - 12:17 PM (#328578) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: Metchosin Well there is Catherine-Anne MacPhee, but she's Scottish and sings Gaelic folk songs so I guess it isn't her. |
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27 Oct 00 - 02:14 PM (#328642) Subject: Lyr Add: LEGACY OF WOMEN (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,Lynn The tune has been running through my head these past few days (I can halfway hear the delicate banjo accompaniment), and another verse has swum up, though I'm still missing the second part to that first verse:
Then Georgeanne's boy Lawrence lived on the place a spell
Now what his woman's name was, I never heard them say
Chorus: See all them bushes, sprung up with wild rose vines
Does that help any? |
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30 Oct 00 - 09:25 AM (#330297) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,Russ Found my tape, Gentle Annie. The correct spelling is Anne MacFie. Unfortunately "Legacy of Women" is not on that tape. However, there is an address: P. O. Box 271, Stanton KY 40380. Anne is mentioned on several websites but she seems to have none of her own. |
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15 Aug 02 - 06:41 PM (#766146) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: Jim Dixon According to http://wizard.district125.k12.il.us/faculty/lbrown/GeorgeAnn.html, George Ann Howell/Crabtree was a real person. The song is mentioned, but the author's name is spelled there "Anne McFie." I think this is an error. |
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18 Aug 02 - 04:06 PM (#767579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Annie MacFie did write this lovely song. Can't lay my hand just now on the recording, but emailed Annie and I do hope she'll come in as a Guest (or join Mudcat?) and help you with the song. It's well worth it waiting for! Jean |
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29 Jun 04 - 05:54 PM (#1216564) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,kitty I know this song my family has been singing it for years. One of my Aunts had seen Annie McFie at a country sing along and got her tape |
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29 Jun 04 - 05:59 PM (#1216569) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,kitty if you found out where I can get a copy of the tape I would love to own it. The rest of the song goes Not so very long ago, just before she died I heard that Betty Grubbs had called Ruth Perry to her side she said dig those bulbs I planted up divide and pass em round So my flowers will be bloomin after I am in the ground Ruth's voice was still about to break with grief when she said "Ann if you'd like to have some tulips and some irises you can. well I'm gonna plant em round my house so that after I'm long gone the flowers Betty loved and mine and Georgannes will live on. (course) |
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30 Jun 04 - 03:57 PM (#1217250) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: Herga Kitty just to clarify, it was another Kitty, not me who posted the last 2 messages, so if anyone has more info about the song, please post to this thread.. Kitty |
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06 Jul 04 - 04:56 PM (#1220162) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,Nolan I am trying to track the original lyrics to this song for my grandmother's funeral this weekend. Does anyone have a number for Ms. McFie? Thank you |
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06 Jul 04 - 10:56 PM (#1220340) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: GUEST,Kitty We have spoken with Ann she has emailed the correct words to us if you would like a copy please let me know an email address and I will be happy to forward the lyrics as for the recording no one seems to have a copy so if any one out there still does please let us know I would still like a copy. Kitty |
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09 Jul 04 - 12:23 AM (#1221886) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women From: Jim Dixon Why not post the lyrics here? |
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29 Jun 11 - 06:31 PM (#3178661) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,doveroo not sure if you got all the lryics my aunt and now my two cousins sing this to me when we get together,my cousins i think know all i will getwith with them soon have them look this up ajnd send u a mess.great song. |
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29 Jun 11 - 08:57 PM (#3178776) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,Lynn T Well isn't it wonderful how good songs come back around? I would still love to get a copy of the song and/or its lyrics, Kitty -- you can contact me at ltitle2003 at yahoo dot com. Many thanks! Lynn |
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29 Jun 11 - 09:25 PM (#3178788) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: michaelr That was a bit selfish of Kitty, no? She got the lyrics, and sod the rest of us... |
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09 May 12 - 05:33 PM (#3348855) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,LynnT Better late than never -- I realized I left out the second half of the first verse: Georgeann carried on alone for 20 odd years more, Foundation stones are scattered where her old house stood before Her old man's work has all gone down to ashes and red clay, But what old Georgeann left behind survives there to this day. Lynn |
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15 Jun 12 - 09:58 PM (#3364011) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,phyllis I have a copy of this song on cassette tape,Georganne is my husbands grandmother and his dad and aunts are in the song,Anne Mcfie now lives on the old homeplace |
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13 Sep 12 - 02:49 PM (#3404055) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,LYRIC ADD ................ 999 "A Legacy of Women" Georgeann Crabtree owned our place, 50 years ago A widow woman most her life, as folks around here know Her old man, he was bad to drink, it was a sorry sight He fell off his horse in Dox's Pond and drownded there one night. Chorus: See all them bushes, sprung up with wild rose vines With tangled stands of flowering quince their thorny tendrils twine Hens and chickens, fresh and green, and banks of daffodils The legacy of women who settled in these hills. Then Georgeanne's boy Lawrence lived on the place a spell They say that he ran moonshine, and it took his life as well He went up to Cincinnati, playing his guitar Stepped out on the freeway and got run down by a car. Now what his woman's name was, I never heard them say The cabin where they used to live has rotted clean away But I know that she was there, for where the front door used to swing A plant called "live forever" comes up there every spring. Chorus: See all them bushes, sprung up with wild rose vines In tangled stands of flowering quince their thorny tendrils twine Desert yucca in the woods and banks of daffodils A legacy of women who settled in these hills. Not so very long ago, just before she died I heard that Betty Grubbs had called Ruth Perry to her side she said dig those bulbs I planted up divide and pass em round So my flowers will be bloomin after I am in the ground Ruth's voice was still about to break with grief when she said "Ann if you'd like to have some tulips and some irises you can. well I'm gonna plant em round my house so that after I'm long gone the flowers Betty loved and mine and Georgannes will live on. The above lyric which I think is complete is from https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.appalachian/63A6VZaZTUc |
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10 Dec 20 - 09:22 PM (#4082844) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legacy of Women (Anne MacFie) From: GUEST,phyllis crabtree this song is about my husbands grandmother and lawrence is his dad.i would love to have this song.i know anne mcfie lives on the old family property at stanton ky please if you have a copy email me at rcountrydc@aol.com |