25 Jan 99 - 10:01 PM (#55702) Subject: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Gus on Wolftrap Does anyone know where I can get the music for Ambletown mesic as in notes on a staff. I can't play by ear so I need help. |
26 Jan 99 - 01:30 PM (#55753) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara The database doesn't seem to be working at this moment, so I can't check to see if there is a tune there. If there isn't, I can post one, or I can send you a MIDI file by email. If neither of those options help, I can send you sheet music by snail mail. My email is millikan@viclink.com. Blessings, Barbara |
16 Aug 99 - 11:48 AM (#105501) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Winters Wages Im looking for the guitar chords for Ambletown if anyone has them. There is one key in there I do not quite get. Any help would be great Winters Wages |
16 Aug 99 - 03:32 PM (#105580) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: harpgirl Gus, If you have Medairing I'll sing you the song the way I sing it! Can you figure out the chords from hearing it sung? harpgirl PS It must be uncomfortable to be on a wolftrap!!! |
16 Aug 99 - 04:08 PM (#105593) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Winters Wages Kind of need to know the chords...would love to hear ya sing it though Regards Lloyd |
16 Aug 99 - 04:40 PM (#105602) Subject: Chords Add: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: harpgirl weii, let's see...here is the chorus...approximately (D) It's home (A7)deary (D)home, home (A) you want to (D) Be (G)Home once (D) again in (A7)the (D)north country (a7)... (D) where the oak and the (A7)ash and the (D) fine willow (A7) tree are (D) all a growin (G) green in the (A) north amerikay (D).....harpgirl |
16 Aug 99 - 05:04 PM (#105611) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Winters Wages Thanks Harpgirl I'll give it a try Lloyd |
16 Aug 99 - 05:31 PM (#105621) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Lorraine I seem to know different words to the chorus-but no help in written music. Home dearie home/ it's home I want to be /top sails are hoisted and I am out to sea/ with the oak and the ash and the bonny rowan tree /All are growing green in my home country /and it's home dearie home. |
16 Aug 99 - 05:39 PM (#105623) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Mike Cohen nature@pacificrim.net If you know a verse to this song that starts "But her letter never said if it be a boy or girl" you might be interested to know I wrote it in 1956
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16 Aug 99 - 07:02 PM (#105640) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: harpgirl Lorraine...your words are in the DT...the tunes is the same, though Mine came from 'County Down' Mike... Heck, Mike! That must make you a "folksinger"!!! What else have you written? amiably, harp |
17 Aug 99 - 02:31 AM (#105738) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara Guys, I posted that in a separate heading, with the ABC for the tune. Lets look.
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17 Aug 99 - 02:55 AM (#105741) Subject: Lyr Add: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara I sure don't see it. Here's what I remember of the words (from the singing of Ed Trickett, I believe it's on The Telling Takes Me HOme, Folk Legacy and our friendly neighborhood old c...fogey will know)
AMBLETOWN
CHORUS:
Oh Amble is a fine town With ships out on the bay
A letter came today and somehow I cannot speak
if it be a girl, she will wear a diamond ring
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17 Aug 99 - 03:00 AM (#105742) Subject: Tune Add: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara And here's an approximation of the tune. I can't quite remember, and this sounds close, but I think I may have some harmony rather than melody notes in it. Blessings, Barbara MIDI file: AMBLE.mid Timebase: 240 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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17 Aug 99 - 03:06 AM (#105744) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara Or,, you can just look-it-up-in-the-gol-dang-database like Dick is always telling us, and it's here. Blessings, Barbara |
17 Aug 99 - 03:10 AM (#105746) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Barbara Harpgirl's chords look right to me. I'll check to see if they match the tune. (and next time I'll read more carefully and see that you only wanted chords not words). |
18 Aug 99 - 12:27 AM (#106061) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: Sandy Paton Yup. Ed Trickett's "The Telling Takes Me Home" (C-46) - Folk-Legacy. Sandy |
10 Jan 03 - 09:52 PM (#864061) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: GUEST,Q The earliest "Home, Dearie, Home, or "Amble Town" that I have is from 1888, published by Laura Alexandrine Smith, in her collection of sailors songs. She printed two versions, which were combined in the Ed Trickett version printed in the DT. |
10 Jan 03 - 10:02 PM (#864069) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: GUEST,Q One of the versions published by Laura Alexandrine Smith in "A Collection of the Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea," printed in 1888, was this short one: Lyr. Add: HOME, DEARIE, HOME And if it be a lass, she shall wear a golden ring; And if it be a lad, he shall live to serve his king; With his buckles, and his boots, and his little jacket blue, He shall walk the quarterdeck, as his daddy used to do. And it's home, dearie, home! Oh, it's home I want to be! My topsails are hoisted, and I must out to sea; For the oak and the ash, and the bonny birchen tree, They're all a-growin' green in the North Countree, And it's home, dearie, home! |
10 Jan 03 - 10:31 PM (#864084) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: GUEST,Q Here is the other version published in 1888 by Laura Alexandrine Smith. It contains a verse left out of the Trickett song in the DT. Lyr. Add: HOME, DEARIE,HOME (2) Oh, Amble is a fine town, with ships in the bay, And I wish with my heart I was only there to-day; I wish with my heart I was far away from here, A-sitting in my parlor, and talking to my dear. Chorus: And it's home, dearie, home! oh, it's home I want to be. My topsails are hoisted, and I must out to sea, For the oak, and the ash, and the bonny birchen tree, They're all a-growin' green in the North-countree; Oh, it's home, dearie, home! oh, it's home I want to be. Oh, there's a wind that blows, and it's blowing from the West, And of all the winds that blow 'tis the one I like the best; For it blows at our backs, and it shakes the penon free, And it soon will blow us home to the North-countree. Repeat chorus |
10 Jan 03 - 10:36 PM (#864087) Subject: RE: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) From: GUEST,sing.out/Penny The lyrics I know are: A sailor being weary, he bowed down his head Called for a candle to light him to bed She lit him to bed as a lady ought to do And he's vowed and declared, she should lie there with him too. Chorus: Same as Harpgirl's She jumped in beside him to keep herself warm Thinking a sailor wouldn't do her any harm He's hugged her and kissed her and cal-led her "My Dear" And she's wishing that short night could last longer than a year (What does that mean?) Early next morning, the sailor arose Into her apron threw a handful of gold Saying "Take this my dear, it will pay for milk and bread" "It will pay for the lighting of a sailor to bed." So what if I have a baby, then how would I be the worse I've got gold in my pocket, I've got silver in me purse I'll hire a nurse and I'll pay the nurse's fee And I'll pass for a lady in me own coun-ter-y. |
21 Nov 08 - 11:12 AM (#2499353) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ambletown (Home Dearie Home) From: Jim Dixon The Music of the Waters by Laura Alexandrine Smith (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888) can be viewed online at Google Books (if you're in the US, I suppose). It also has a tune for HOME, DEARIE, HOME—click the link. |
16 Feb 17 - 04:24 PM (#3839377) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ambletown (Home Dearie Home) From: Joe Offer Mike Cohen posted up above, way back in 1999. He's been mentioned here at Mudcat a number of times. Anybody know where he is now? -Joe- |
16 Feb 17 - 04:40 PM (#3839378) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ambletown (Home Dearie Home) From: Mrrzy I have yet another version: Oh, Amble is a fine town with ships about the bay And I'm fain and very fain to be there myself today Yes I'm wishing in my heart I were far away from here A-sitting in the parlor and talking to my dear (cho)And it's home, dearie, home, Oh, it's home I long to be My topsails are hoisted and I'm about to sea For the oak, and the ash, and the bonny birchen tree Are all a-growing green in the North country And it's home, dearie, home Her letter comes at last, yet somehow I cannot speak Though the proud and happy tears they go rolling down my cheek There's someone here, she writes, you'll be longing for to see With your merry hazel eyes smiling up from off my knee (Cho) Oh, if it be a lass, she shall wear a golden ring And if it be a lad, he shall live to serve his king With his buckles, and his boots, and his little jacket blue He shall walk the quarterdeck like his daddy used to do (cho) I think I have it by Alan Mills, but not sure. There are lots of songs with "skipping up the rigging" instead of "walk the quarterdeck" |