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Thread #120872 Message #2635016
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-May-09 - 03:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Charmaine (fiddle/banjo tune)
Subject: Lyr Add: CHARMAINE (from The Bachelors)
Yeah, it can be copied, but I had to improvise. First, I had to "view page source". I saw that all the lyrics were represented like this:
Waiting just [etc.]
So I copied and pasted it into the Mudcat message box and clicked "preview". This converted the lyrics for me. One more copy and paste got the lyrics into Word. That's where I inserted line breaks:
Waiting just for you
Charmai-ai-ai-ai-ai-aine
I wonder why you keep me wai-ai-aiting
Charmai-aine (my Charmaine) cries in vai-ai-ain (cries in vain)
I wonder when bluebirds are mating
Will you come back agai-ai-ain
And I wonder if I keep on praying
Will our dreams be the same (be the same)
I wonder if ever you think of me too
I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you
I wonder why you keep me wai-ai-aiting
Charmaine (my Charmaine) My Charmaine (my Charmaine)
I wonder when bluebirds are mating
Will you come back agai-ai-ain
And I wonder if I keep on praying
Will our dreams be the same (be the same)
I wonder if ever you think of me too
I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you
Just for you I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you... (Just - for - you...)
[By the way, the above lyrics were transcribed from a recording by The Bachelors, an Irish group who charted CHARMAINE in the UK in 1963.]
[Here is the catalog entry from the Indiana University sheet music collection: (Online images are not available.)]
Title:
Charmaine
First Line:
You went away one dreary day, I knew you had to go, 'mid tears
First Line of Chorus:
I wonder why you keep me waiting, Charmaine cries in vain
Title of Larger Work:
What price glory
Composer:
Pollack, Lew
Composer:
Rapee, Erno
Arranger:
Breen, May Singhi
Published:
San Francisco: Sherman, Clay & Co., copyright 1927
Form/genre:
Moving picture music
Instrumentation:
Piano and Voice
[The above information enabled me to correct one error in the transcription!]