10 Feb 02 - 02:02 PM (#646623) Subject: Southern Cross From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com I took the liberty of making a new request as this was embedded in another one. Here are some words to the Southern Cross song about sealing in Newfoundland. I know there are other songs by that name.
We got up steam in early March and shortly did embark .. thought I new more but I guess I forgot it. mg |
10 Feb 02 - 04:07 PM (#646703) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Southern Cross From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com here are the words on a Cassie Brown website. She wrote "Death on the Ice" which has my highest recommendation. http://134.153.160.118/e4142f00/mdymond/dymond1.html To hear the tune, I suggest doing a google search under Anita Best and Southern Cross and see if she has perchance recorded it. mg |
10 Feb 02 - 11:37 PM (#647047) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Southern Cross From: Vinland mg, The Southern Cross appears in many collections - Gerald S. Doyles' "Old -time Songs of Nfld", Ken Peacock's "Songs of the Nfld Outports" and "Favourite Songs of Nfld". I collected a version myself in Placentia Bay in the 70's. There are several tunes to the lyrics, though the Doyle one is my favourite. I'm presently doing an arrangements of it, and can email a midi version if you'd like to hear it. Just PM me. I'm quite sure Anita Best hasn't recorded it, though I think I heard her do a version - I'll ask her next time I see her. EW |
11 Feb 02 - 09:22 PM (#647761) Subject: Lyr Add: THE SOUTHERN CROSS From: Jim Dixon Copied from the web page mentioned above: THE SOUTHERN CROSS
She got up steam the twelfth of March and shortly did embark
She reached the gulf in early March, those whitecoats hove in view,
She passed near Channel homeward bound as news spread out next day,
That very night the storm came on with blinding snow and sleet,
St. Mary's Bay she never reached, the news spread out next morn
The steamship Kyle was soon sent out to search the ocean round,
Now the Southern Cross for twenty days she now is overdue,
All things do happen for the best, but if they're called away, Note from Kenneth Peacock: This famous native sea ballad achieved wide circulation in Newfoundland through the Gerald S. Doyle booklets, where it was reprinted from Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland by Greenleaf and Mansfield. The original singer was Lizzie Rose of Fox Harbour, Labrador. From Peacock, K. (1965) "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, Vol. 3." |
11 Feb 02 - 10:33 PM (#647786) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Southern Cross From: Malcolm Douglas The version given above was noted from Jack Dalton of Codroy, Newfoundland, in 1960. Staff notation is given on that site; rather poorly reproduced, but nobody's perfect and the important thing is that the source was properly credited, though Jim missed that bit.
I've made a midi from the notation, but I can't guarantee it's exactly right, as the image file is not good. Doubtless it will eventually appear at the Mudcat Midi Pages: until then, it can be heard via the South Riding Folk Network site:
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12 Feb 02 - 12:55 AM (#647846) Subject: Lyr Add: THE SOUTHERN CROSS (#2) From: masato sakurai There's another song with the same title.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS (#2)
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"The Southern Cross was lost in the spring of 1914 when returning to St John's from the ice. She was full laden with seal pelts and was last sighted by the Portia. Between 170 and 173 men lost their lives were lost, and there was never a trace found of the ship or crew. This was a particularly sad and tragic time for Newfouldland since the crew of the sealing ship Newfoundland were lost on the ice in the same storm, leaving a total of about 252 dead in one month. There is another more well-known song written about the same event but I believe this is the first time this song has appeared in print." (Genevieve Lehr, Come and I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook, University of Toronto Press, 1985, pp. 175-176)
The lyrics and music are quoted HERE, where verses 3-4 are amalgamated into one. ~Masato |
09 Apr 04 - 01:41 PM (#1157960) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Southern Cross From: Q (Frank Staplin) Refresh, for current question in Mudcat. |