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Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep
DigiTrad:
THE MASTER OF THE SHEEPFOLD
Related thread:
(origins) Origins: Master of the Sheepfold (63)
In Mudcat MIDIs:
Poor Lil' Brach Sheep
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 18 Nov 13 - 02:58 PM Came out well. Good to see the music. I would guess that the song was written 1895-1900. but haven't found anything earlier than your date. Can't find a bio of her. Gee, I am getting posted twice. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Bill D Date: 18 Nov 13 - 02:25 PM Well... seems to work from here. Mejuba is a couple levels more complicated than MyOpera, but I guess I'll adapt. (one MUST have cookies & javascript enabled to edit & upload) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Bill D Date: 18 Nov 13 - 02:22 PM Uploaded to MyOpera.. which will be good until March, they say. Brack Sheep Also.. I managed to work thru my new page at Mejuba... so let me know if this works Brack Sheepat Mejuba. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 18 Nov 13 - 01:28 PM Other poetry- Our Office Boy Jim c. 1895 A Test of Honor c. 1899 The Dance We Sat Out on the Stair, set to music by H. C. Wade, c. 1896 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: O MY LIL' BRACK LAM'! (Ethel Maude Colson From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 18 Nov 13 - 01:04 PM Lyr. Add: O MY LIL' BRACK LAM'! Ethel Maude Colson, c. 1898 O my lil' brack lam', yo' face wuz dahk, But yo' eyes dey shine laik a firefly spahk, An' yo' voice it sweet ez a cornfiel' lahk, O my lil' brack lam'! Yo' face wuz dahk, but yo' soul wuz w'ite An' yo' spirit pure as de Hebenly Light- An' yo' wuz my darlin', my heart's delight, My lam! My lil' brack lam'! O my lil' brack lam', the night wuz dahk, An' a voice keep callin' an' callin', Hahk! An' it leab yo' silen' an' col' and stahk. O my lil' brack lam' ! For Deaf' ride by in de win' dat night, An' He carry yo' of in de gray dawn light, Laik yo' wuz His darlin', His heart's delight. My lam', my lil' brack lam'! O my lil' brack lam', de way wuz dahk, But de dear Lawd make it a shinin' mahk, An' de lam' ob His love wuz a Hebenly spahk, O my lil' brack lam'! He wanted a flower for his garden bright- Des' a lil' brack bud- so yo' bloom en His sight An' yo am His darlin', His heart's delight. My lam', my lil' brack lam' ! Ethel Maude Colson in Chicago TimesHerald. Printed in the Sacramento Daily Union, 15 May 1898. Found in Google, which is swamped by offers of her book, 1918, "How to Read Poetry." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Bill D Date: 17 Nov 13 - 10:27 PM Found the book. It says E.O. Excell- Chicago, Mar. 1, 1900. This seems to be the copyright date. No indication of the actual printing date. Tomorrow I will re-scan the song and post an image in at least one... maybe two.. new spots. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Bill D Date: 17 Nov 13 - 10:14 PM It appears in a publication of The Charity Organization Society of New York of 1903... still looking. Lots of additional sources since my first post. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 17 Nov 13 - 08:51 PM Ethel Maud Colson Brazelton is cited as author (see RhymeCon, above). Date written, 1906. I haven't found a biography. Included in Hazel Felleman, "Best Loved Poems of the American People," 1936, Doubleday. It appears as a newspaper clipping with "Uncle Tom's Story of His Life, An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson," with a forward by Harriet Beecher Stowe. London, Christian Age 1876. Source and date of the clipping or why it is placed with the text of the Autobiography in the Google "ebook" is not stated. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 17 Nov 13 - 08:06 PM The one in the Sacred Heart Review is the same as posted by Bill D, but author S. A. F. I haven't found an older copy than the one posted by Bill D. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 17 Nov 13 - 08:00 PM The Sacred Heart Review, vol. 44 no. 20, 5 Nov. 1910. Copied as written in that Review. Boston College. Lyr. Add: POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP by S. A. F. Poor lil' brack sheep, dat stray'd away, Don los in de win' an' rain. An' de Shepherd He say, "O hirelin', Go fin' My sheep again." An' de hirelin' frown, "O Shepherd, dat sheep am brack and bad." But de Shepherd He smile like de lil' brack sheep Is de onliest lamb He had Is de onliest lamb he had. An' he say, "O hirelin' hasten! For de win' an' de rain am col'. An' de lil' brack sheep am lonesome Out dere so far from de fol'. An' de hirelin' frown, "O Shepherd, dat sheep am ol' an' gray." But de Shepherd he smile like de lil' brack sheep Wuz fair as de break ob clay (day?) Wuz fair as de break ob day . An' He say, "O hirelin', hasten! Lo, here am de ninety an' nine. But dere way off from de sheep-fol' Is dat lil' brack sheep ob mine." An' de hirelin' frown, "O Shepherd, De rest ob de sheep am here." But de Shepherd He smile like the lil' brack sheep He hol' it the mostes' dear. He hol' it the mostes' dear. An' de Shepherd go out in de darkness. Where de night was col' an' bleak. An' de lil' brack sheep he fin' it An' lay it against His cheek. An' de hirelin' frown "O Shepherd, Don' bring dat sheep to me." But de Shepherd He smile an' He hol' it close, An' de lil' brack sheep-- is me! An' de lil' brack sheep-- is me. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Bill D Date: 17 Nov 13 - 05:52 PM ?? well... one refresh is as good as another.... I guess. The link to the image is long gone, but I'll see if I can find it again. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: GUEST,Make His Praise Glorious Date: 17 Nov 13 - 05:00 PM |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: GUEST,Babadu Cato Date: 05 Dec 11 - 10:07 PM Thank you so much for this. I've wished for this for 40 years. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:04 PM "Massa ..." thread 10649. No midi yet? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Sep 06 - 09:57 PM Unnecessary answers (done in another thread, I think). A note here may be useful. Joe's request for a tune for "De Massa ob de Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene- Sheet music is in American Memory. Music by John Kimball Reynolds. c. 1895. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. Poor Lil' Brack Sheep From: GUEST,RhymeCon Date: 15 Sep 06 - 07:55 PM This is a VERY late post to this thread but I stumbled across "Poor lil' brack sheep in "The Best Loved Poems of the American People" P.313, attributed to Ethyl M. C. Brazelton. (Her maiden name I found out elsewhere was Colson). Later I found in "The World's Best Loved Poems," P.144, the same poem, (minus the 2nd & 3rd stanzas), attributed to Paul Laurence Dunbar, considered the first great American black poet. Now I've learned the poem was written by Colson/Brazelton AND Lucy Rider Meyer but I learn elsewhere that Meyer wrote 6 poems and none of them are named "Poor lil' brack sheep." I really like the poem, especially the longer version, but I'm going nuts figuring out if anybody wrote it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: Alan of Australia Date: 09 Sep 00 - 08:40 AM G'day, Thanks to Joe the tune for "Poor Lil' Brach Sheep" can be found here at the Mudcat MIDI site.
Cheers, |
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Subject: Tune Add: POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Aug 00 - 02:28 AM Here's the tune - I'll also send it to Mudcat MIDIs. Sure doesn't sound like Art's "Master of the Sheepfold" to me- can anybody post a tune for "Sheepfold?" -Joe Offer- MIDI file: BRACKSHP.MID Timebase: 192 Name: POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP 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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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: Bill D Date: 07 Aug 00 - 08:44 PM was listening to Art Thieme's wonderful recording today.....and I'm refreshing this thread because I now have a scanner and thought I'd post a GIF of it...(The song has been discussed in several threads) kind of a big pic...give it a minute |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: Arkie Date: 02 May 99 - 10:53 PM Thanks Campfire. This is one of the threads I was looking for. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: campfire Date: 02 May 99 - 01:14 AM refresh for Arkie |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: Art Thieme Date: 20 Jul 98 - 01:06 AM Bill---I finally found this thread! Thank you! The notes for the new CD (which will have a concert version of this song on it) are with the graphic designer as we speak. So this new info won't be in the booklet. Sure am glad to have this though! Art |
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Subject: Art...did you see this post?? From: Bill D Date: 16 Jul 98 - 09:48 PM thought you might have missed it |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: Bill D Date: 09 Jul 98 - 10:54 PM re-up for Art T. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add.. From: rich r Date: 16 Jun 98 - 12:01 AM Art Thieme has recorded a nice rendition of "Master of the Sheepfold". rich r |
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Subject: Lyr Add: POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP^^ From: Bill D Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:40 PM The title in my book is "Poor Lil' Brack Sheep"...copyright 1900 by E.O. Excell... Book is 'Make His Praise Glorious'....says it was written by Ethel Maude Colson and Lucy Rider Meyer POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP "Poor lil' brack sheep that stray'd away Done los' in de win' and rain An'de shepherd he say:"oh, hirlin' Go and find my sheep again." An de hirlin' froun, "Oh, Shepherd, "Dat sheep am brack and bad.." But de Shepherd, he smile like de brack sheep Wuz de onliest lamb he had" "An' he say, "O hirelin', hasten! For de win' an' de rain am col' An dat lil' brack sheep am lonesome Out dere so far from de fol'". An' de hirelin froun, "O Shepherd, Dat sheep am old and grey." But de Shepherd he smile like de brack sheep, Wuz fair as de break ob day.
An he say, "o hirelin', hasten"
An' de Shepherd go out in de darkness, (last line repeated all the way thru in the book as a sort of 'refrain') the tune given is a 'rough' approximation of what we all sing now, close enough to see the resemblance. ^^ |
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