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16 Jun 03 - 11:39 AM (#967017) Subject: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Cookie Does anyone know the lyrics to "Where The Wild Lilies Grow"? Thanks |
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16 Jun 03 - 11:52 AM (#967028) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Sorcha Not Green Briar Shoe? I'll go looking....... |
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16 Jun 03 - 11:53 AM (#967030) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Sorcha Sorry, no luck with Google. Just two hits about Mt. Shasta that mentioned a poem, could that be it? |
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16 Jun 03 - 12:18 PM (#967048) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Wolfgang More hits with "Where the white lilies grow" (e.g., 'Demon lover'). Perhaps that song??? Wolfgang |
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16 Jun 03 - 02:14 PM (#967110) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,James H. Silver I have lyrics to a ballad entitled "Where The Water Lilies Grow". Wonder if by chance this is one and the same. It will take me some time however to dig them out. If anyone has anymore information as to whether or not this is the same song,, I will get them and post them over the next few days. |
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16 Jun 03 - 02:17 PM (#967114) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Q Way down in green hollow, Where the wild lilies grow, Where the winds from the mountain There ruffles the wild rose, Thus dear Evalina, The sweet little chub, The pride of the valley, And the girl that I love. Dear Evalina, sweet Evalina, My love for thee Shall never, never die. Several possibilities- this is one. Please give us a line or two. |
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16 Jun 03 - 04:03 PM (#967174) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Q Checking over "Dear Evelina," the first lines should be Way down in the meadow, where the lily first blows, Where the wind from the mountains ne'er ruffles the rose. The line varies from singer to singer. This song appeared in sheet music in 1863. "Where the Water Lilies Grow" is one of two songs with that line. The song with that title, by Mallinson (words) and Green (music), appeared in sheet music in 1875. First lines: While strolling one evening to pass away the time, I saw a lonely maiden, a fairy form divine. --- Another song, sung by Bryant's Minstrels, also 19th century, was "Near the Banks of That Lone River." It starts out: Near the banks of that lone river, Where the water lilies grow, Breathed the fairest flower that ever Bloomed, and faded years ago; --- The last two are both at American Memory. There may be more---. |
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16 Jun 03 - 11:36 PM (#967356) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Louie Roy Guest I have the words to a song Where the White Lily Grows.It is about a soldier who is dieing.If this is the song I'll dig it out and post.Louie Roy |
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17 Jun 03 - 01:31 AM (#967383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: nutty These may be the Lyrics you are looking for ........ Steeleye Span |
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17 Jun 03 - 10:44 AM (#967614) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Louie Roy refresh |
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17 Jun 03 - 12:43 PM (#967742) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Q Guest Cookie, where are you? Have any of us hit the right song yet? The Demon Lover connection opens up a whole new bag of new possibilities. |
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17 Jun 03 - 04:01 PM (#967870) Subject: DTADD: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,James H. Silver Perhaps thes are the lyrics you are looking for. A song sung by my father and other men who worked the lumber camps in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the late thirties and early forties. I have never found it anywhere in type. My Father would sing many of these old ballads when he came home to entertains the family in the evenings. Where The Water Lilies Grow sometimes entitled By A Brook-side It was summer I remember And the Days were long and warm And the Blackbirds and the Robins Came to cheer me with their songs. It reminds me of a parting Of a parting long ago By a brook-side, shady brook-side Where the water lilies grow. We were comrades three in number But the dearest one to me Was my little blue eyed sister And her heart was young and free We were playing beneath the willow with it's branches bending low By a brook-side, shady brook-side Where the water lilies grow. Good-bye sister good-bye brother it's so sad to part with you Good-bye Father dearest Mother I must bid you sad adieu We will never roam together As we did so long ago By a brook-side, shady brook-side Where the water lilies grow. Transcribed from memory ____________________ |
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17 Jun 03 - 06:30 PM (#967988) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Q Also see- "A Pair of Brown Eyes" in the DT. Guest James H. Silver- There may be songs and versions of songs in your father's repetoire that are uncollected. Put down all you know of them in writing. Perhaps start a thread reproducing them here. |
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18 Jun 03 - 04:17 AM (#968193) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: Joe Offer I'll second Q's request, James. That's a wonderful song you posted. Please post all you can. -Joe Offer- |
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04 Dec 23 - 04:12 PM (#4192931) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where The Wild Lilies Grow From: GUEST,Heather (BarbaryAnne) Ah! It's collected here: https://mmap.mun.ca/folk-songs-of-atlantic-canada/performances/379 They call it "Shady Brookside" |