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28 Nov 97 - 03:42 PM (#16830) Subject: Father, Come Home From: Richard Looking for the tune of this 1800s song. Have some of the words. |
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28 Nov 97 - 04:37 PM (#16833) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: Bruce O. Words and music by Henry Clay Work. In Henry Clay Work Songs, c 1884. Reprinted by DeCapo Press, 1974. |
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28 Nov 97 - 04:57 PM (#16835) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: Richard Thanks Bruce - you're a living database |
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28 Nov 97 - 05:17 PM (#16837) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: Bruce O. I probably should have added that the song was origianlly published in 1864. The book of c 1884 was compiled by his nephew after Work died. The deCapo reprint is #19 of a series, 'Earlier American Music'. |
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28 Nov 97 - 05:58 PM (#16839) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: Richard The tune was used for a parody called "Mary, Come Home" , wherein a white miner tries to entice a native woman to come home with him to his cabin on the sleigh, with liquor as the lure. There ines of Chinook language in it. I think we have managed to figure out who the two women in the song actually were. It was written about 1868.
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28 Nov 97 - 06:09 PM (#16840) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: Richard Should have mentioned that a version of "Mary" is in Phil Thomas's book of B.C. folksongs. |
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30 Nov 97 - 06:46 PM (#16892) Subject: RE: Father, Come Home From: dick greenhaus Henry Clay WOrk, who wrote it, called it "Come Home Father." If you search for [Father, Dear Father] you'll find it. |