Subject: laura lee From: roro Date: 26 Dec 98 - 12:50 PM I need the words and tune to the old song "Laura Lee" or "Lauralee" or "Loralee". Thanks for any help! |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: Alice Date: 26 Dec 98 - 01:02 PM The title is "Aura Lee". You will find the lyrics by searching the database using the box in the upper right corner of this page. Type in [aura lee] with square brackets, and it will be the first to come up on the list. |
Subject: DTADD: NORA LEE / AURA LEE From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Dec 98 - 11:06 PM I'm going to transfer over a message from Big Mick about a related song. Subject: RE: want to find a song Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on "Aura Lea": Aura LeaDESCRIPTION: "When the blackbird in the spring On the willow tree Sat and rock'd, I heard him sing, Singing Aura Lee." In praise of a "maid of golden hair." The singer describes how even the bird praise her. He begs her hand in marriageAUTHOR: Words: W. W. Fosdick / Music: George R. Poulten EARLIEST DATE: 1861 KEYWORDS: courting love nonballad lyric FOUND IN: US REFERENCES (3 citations): RJackson-19CPop, pp. 14-17, "Aura Lea" (1 text, 1 tune) Fuld-WFM, p. 117, "Aura Lea--(Love Me Tender)" DT, AURALEE* Notes: At times like this, one wishes we had a keyword, "Great-tune-lousy-words." Originally published as a minstrel tune in 1861, verses were printed by both Union and Confederate presses, and the first important parody ("Army Blue") was used by the West Point class of 1865. As for what Elvis Presley did with the tune, the less we say of that here, the better. - RBW File: RJ19014 Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2004 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: John Hindsill Date: 27 Dec 98 - 12:58 PM Laura Lee is a song...written by Stephen Foster. The first lines:
If this is the song you were looking for, glad to help. |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: roro Date: 29 Dec 98 - 01:40 AM Thank you all so much. It seems that what I was looking for was a combination of the two---my dad often "filled in" words he couldn't remember (or tunes) with others that he could. It was definitely the words to the Stephen Foster song that I was remembering, but stretched to the tune of Love Me Tender--at least partly. Thank you for helping me to solve the mystery! |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: Dani Date: 29 Dec 98 - 09:39 AM I've unearthed a version from the cobwebs of my memory: Aura Lee Aura Lee Maid of golden hair sunshine came along with thee and music filled the air |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: Bruce O. Date: 29 Dec 98 - 04:04 PM "Aura Lea", is in the Levy sheet music collection (Mudcat's links), Box 24, item #2. The copy there is dated 1861. I had to use DT's composer information for searching, because 'Aura Lee' doesn't work. |
Subject: ADD: Laura Lee (Stephen Foster) From: GUEST,Q Date: 14 Nov 02 - 10:20 PM "Aura Lea" is mis-titled "Aura Lee" in the DT. Needs correction. The sheet music is in the Levy Collection as noted by Bruce O. "Nora Lee:" This song, in this thread, should be in the DT. It seems close to "Aura Lea." Which came first? "Aura Lea" is 1861. Any firm data? "Laura Lee" by Stephen Collins Foster has not been posted in its entirety. It may be found accurately reproduced at the University of Pittsburgh site: Foster songs . Perhaps not distinctive enough to deserve posting. The Pittsburgh website has many of the "unknown" Foster songs. This thead needs a new title: "Aura Lea, Nora and Laura Lee." Why has thy merry face Far from all pleasure torn, When will thy winning voice Lyrics copy-pasted from the link cited above. |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: masato sakurai Date: 15 Nov 02 - 04:13 AM Two editions of "Laura Lee" in the Levy collection: Title: Laura Lee. Song. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written and Composed by Stephen C. Foster. Publication: Baltimore: F.D. Benteen, 1851. Form of Composition: strophic with refrain (and instrumental interlude) Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Why has thy merry face Gone from my side First line of refrain Passed like a flitting beam, Sweet Laura Lee? [text varies with each verse] Advertisement: ads on back cover for F.D. Benteen stock Plate Number: 2150 Subject: Courtship & love Call No.: Box: 067 Item: 094 Title: [Foster-Hall Reproductions]. Laura Lee. Ballad. Arranged for the Guitar. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written & Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster. Publication: Baltimore: F.D. Benteen & Co., 1852. Form of Composition: strophic with refrain Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Why has thy merry face Gone from my side First line of refrain Sweet Laura Lee! Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Webb Plate Number: 2371 Subject: Courtship & love Subject: Death Subject: Emotion--pain Call No.: Box: 071 Item: 077 MIDI from Public Domain Music: The Music of Stephen Collins Foster ~Masato |
Subject: RE: laura lee From: open mike Date: 15 Nov 02 - 04:52 AM or the three Lee sisters: Aura, Nora and Laura |
Subject: Lyr Add: AURA LEA (Fosdick, Poulton, 1861) From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Jan 04 - 07:36 AM From the sheet music at The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music I have italicized the differences between the Levy version and the version in the DT. AURA LEA (Words, W. W. Fosdick. Music, George R. Poulton. 1861.) When the blackbird in the spring, on the willow tree, Sat and rocked, I heard him sing, singing Aura Lea. Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair; Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air. CHORUS: Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair; Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air. In thy blush the rose was born, music, when you spake. In thine azure eye the morn, sparkling, seemed to break. Aura Lea, Aura Lea, birds of crimson wing Never song have sung to me as in that sweet spring. CHORUS Aura Lea! the bird may flee the willow's golden hair, Swing through winter fitfully, on the stormy air. Yet if thy blue eyes I see, gloom will soon depart; For to me, sweet Aura Lea is sunshine through the heart. CHORUS When the mistletoe was green, midst the winter's snows, Sunshine in thy face was seen, kissing lips of rose. Aura Lea, Aura Lea, take my golden ring. Love and light return with thee, and swallows in the spring. CHORUS |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Splott Man Date: 26 Jan 04 - 07:42 AM Any time you take a pill Take it orally. 'Cos you know the other way Is more painfully. Allan Sherman |
Subject: Lyr Add: AURA LEE From: masato sakurai Date: 26 Jan 04 - 08:19 AM There's a song sheet titled "Aura Lee" at Levy (Click here), with other differences in words. Title: Song Sheet (1) Aura Lee. (2) Ella Ree Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: na Publication: n.p., n.d.: , . AURA LEE When the blackbird, in the Spring, Warbling o'er the lea, Sat and rock'd, I heard him sing, Singing: Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Maid of golden hair, Sunshine came along with thee, And swallows in the air. CHORUS:Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Maid of golden hair, Sunshine came along with thee, And swallows in the air. When the Mistletoe, ever green 'Midst the winter snows, Fairer face was never seen Kissing lips of rose. Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Take this golden ring, Love and light it brings to thee, And swallows in the spring. CHORUS: |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: dick greenhaus Date: 26 Jan 04 - 05:34 PM And the less couth among us used to sing: "Love me tender, Love me long Love me, Aura Lee." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Jan 04 - 01:10 PM Egad! Love me tenderLY. Humpff! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: dick greenhaus Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:02 PM Q- Pedantry and Elvis don't miz worth a damn. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Jim Dixon Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:09 PM Wasn't "Love me tender" an established saying BEFORE the song was written? A quote from Shakespeare or something? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: laura lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:33 PM Always liked the Delta songs the younger Elvis did, used to listen to them on the radio while driving in the Delta, but when he sang "Love me----" I stopped listening. TenderLY isn't pedantry, just good old grade school grammar- Forget the -ly, etc., and get a rap on the hand- oh, the good old days! |
Subject: ADDPOP: Love Me Tender From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jan 04 - 08:14 PM Well, we have all the others. I think we ought to have this one, too: Love Me Tender (recorded by Elvis Presley) (words & music by Vera Matson - Elvis Presley, 1956) Love me tender, Love me sweet, Never let me go. You have made my life complete, And I love you so.
Love me true, All my dreams fulfill. For my darlin' I love you, And I always will. Love me long, Take me to your heart. For it's there that I belong, And we'll never part. Love me tender, Love me dear, Tell me you are mine. I'll be yours through all the years, 'Til the end of time. (When at last my dreams come true Darling this I know Happiness will follow you Everywhere you go). |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Amos Date: 27 Jan 04 - 09:09 PM I learned it as a child beginning "As the blackbird..." also. Wonder where that branched into or from the Levy version? A |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Jan 04 - 09:40 PM Amos, it's "As the Blackbird..." in some of the books. One is "Heart Songs, Melodies of Days Gone By," p. 398. Many copies of this book were sold or given with "The National Magazine." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Amos Date: 27 Jan 04 - 10:28 PM Thanks, Q! A |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: masato sakurai Date: 24 May 04 - 06:18 AM The "As the blackbird in the spring" lyrics are also those in The Most Popular College Songs (Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1904, 1906, p. 15). |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Davetnova Date: 24 May 04 - 02:19 PM There are a nice set of lyrics to this tune here That one glass more and a british version from about the same time here Murray collection version. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 24 May 04 - 03:58 PM Murray-Glasgow Trying again for the Murray Index, see Davetnova above- What was the name of the version? I have tried to give a link directly to songs there, but with no success. It seems you have to browse the list. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Davetnova Date: 25 May 04 - 03:44 AM Blue clicky went wrong heres the adress - www.cc.gla.ac.uk\courses\scottish\ballads\mu23y1006.htm |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Davetnova Date: 25 May 04 - 03:46 AM The American one is "That one Glass more" the Murray one is "One Glass More" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 25 May 04 - 07:50 AM Thanks. Didn't think to use the MS numbers to get the songs. One Glass More |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Feb 09 - 09:14 PM As most of us did, I learned this tune from the Elvis recording of Love Me Tender." Are there any subtle differences in the tunes of the two songs? If I sing "Aura Lee," are people going to scoff and say I got the tune from Elvis? -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:42 AM The "Aura Lee" I know is the one posted by Masato from a song sheet; the song sheet published by Johnson (at American Memory) has the same lyrics. The lyrics are much simplified from those of the 1861 sheet music by Fosdick and Poulton. Not the same words at posted by Masato, but this youtube version is close to the way I remember my grandfather sang it. Dave Matthews sings the lyrics, which are printed in "Heart Songs," p. 398. Aura Lee The song has a much different emphasis from the Elvis song, although the basic tune seems similar. Listen to Matthews, and see what you think. Where did the simplified lyrics of the song sheets and "Heart Songs" come from? I would guess that they date to the Civil War, following closely on publication of the sheet music. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: GUEST Date: 05 Dec 23 - 03:35 AM In 1997 at Redhill I sung the song Love Me Tender first recorded in 1956 by Elvis Presley. i already knew the song from singing it in karaoke clubs in Edinburgh. In 1995 my mum gave me a birthday present of a 1956 film called the same name of the song. In 2005 i moved to where I am and sung it in a folk way sound in my band Braveheart. When I got my talking computer I did not know that the tune of Love Me Tender existed as another folk song. When Braveheart split I was going through bad time but after that I wonted to do more folk collecting and do music reviews. I did a version of Aura Lea and the first version of Love Me Tender but most folk know that this is a pop song written in 1956. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Georgiansilver Date: 05 Dec 23 - 05:40 AM Aura Lee..... the tune Elvis used in 'Love me tender' |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: GUEST,Julia L Date: 10 Dec 23 - 09:14 AM I remember my dad singing this- one of the few I ever heard him sing. Unfortunately, being "that kind" if inquisitive child, I mis-heard it as "singing orally". I was always puzzled as to how one could sing any other way.... |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: Nigel Parsons Date: 10 Dec 23 - 11:45 AM Also the 10 lines used by a barbershop quartet in the film 'Trading Places': Constance Fry Here |
Subject: RE: Origins: Laura Lee / Aura Lee / Nora Lee From: GUEST Date: 21 May 24 - 04:02 AM I now love singing the song aura lee in pubs in aberfeldy perthfshire. when folks in my home in edinburgh they are welcome to listen to my review on this song and i still have it on myself. sometimes i do not believe that i am speaking on it. |
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