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Subject: RE: Lyric Add: Long, Long Ago From: Jerry Friedman Date: 04 Nov 97 - 06:32 PM I too played this song as a tad. As far as I know, removed-roved-loved holds the record for best eye-rhyme in English verse. |
Subject: Tune Add: LONG, LONG AGO (Thomas Haynes Bayly)^^ From: Alan of Australia Date: 04 Nov 97 - 06:19 PM G'day, I used to play this about 40 years ago ("Get up and do your practice son, I don't care how cold the piano keys are!). Does the tune go like this? It spans two verses. MIDI file: LONGAGO.MID Timebase: 480 Name: LONG, LONG AGO To download the November 2 MIDItext 97 software click here ABC format: X:1 Cheers, |
Subject: RE: Lyric Add: Long, Long Ago From: rich r Date: 03 Nov 97 - 10:32 PM Good song. I used to play it on the piano and it was the first song I learned on the harmonica back in the late 50's, long long ago. My dad's 1928 copy of "Rodeheaver's Socialbility Songs For Community - School - Home" has a third verse. Tho' by your kindness my fond hopes were rais'd, long long ago, long long ago/ You by more eloquent lips have been prais'd, long long ago , long ago/ But by long absence your truth has been tried,/ Still to your accents I listen with pride,/ Blest as I was when I sat by your side, long long ago, long ago. rich r
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Subject: Lyr Add: LONG, LONG AGO (Thomas Haynes Bayly)^^ From: Dale Rose Date: 03 Nov 97 - 08:17 PM This is in response to someone (I forgot the name and Email address) who asked about this song in one of the misplaced threads.
LONG, LONG AGO
Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Now you are come, all my fears are removed,
Do you remember the paths where we met?
Then to all others, my smile you preferred,
This is transcribed from the wonderful Bear Family lp, Just Me And My Guitar, Marty Robbins, 1983. From the notes: Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1829) wrote the oldest song in this collection, appropriately titled, "Long, Long Ago." Originally titled "The Long Ago," it was not published until the early 1840's well after the composer's death. The World War II pop favorite, "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree," borrowed its melodic base from Bayly's classic. The Pickard Family, an early Grand Ole Opry group, featured this song in one of their early song folios. (notes by Ronnie Pugh of the Country Music Foundation, Nashville, TN) The recordings are from 1956 and 1963 (including this one) and only 4 of the 15 titles were previously released by Columbia. In case anyone is interested in finding this treasure, here is the complete list of titles: The Little Rosewood Casket, The Letter Edged In Black, Twenty One Years, The Convict And The Rose, The Dream Of The Miner's Child, The Little Box Of Pine On The 7:29, The Wreck Of The Number Nine, The Sad Lover, The Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me, My Mother Was A Lady, When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley, The Wreck Of The 1256, Just Before The Battle Mother, Long, Long Ago, and Beautiful Dreamer. ^^ |
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