Lyr Req: the call of the lonesome whippoorwill

Subject: RE: Name this song:whipporwill?
From: harpgirl
Date: 22 May 99 - 08:06 AM

oopps! "courting" should be "waiting"...harpgirl

Subject: Lyr Add: WHIPPOORWILL SONG
From: harpgirl
Date: 22 May 99 - 12:08 AM

...jm...I got this whippoorwill song in Mt. View, Arkansas...

Whippoorwill Song
Oh the stars on the silver moon are shining
All around is the sweetness of the spring
But I'm sad and in loneliness I'm pining
For the one I shall never see again
How I long for the day when I shall meet her
Though it be where the angels sweetly sing
She is mine and the thought of her grows sweeter
When it's time for the whippoorwill to sing
I remember the night she made the promise
And these words said to me great joy did bring
I'll be true and you know you'll find me courting
When it's time for the whippoorwill to sing
How I long for the day when I shall meet her
Though it be where the angels sweetly sing
She is mine and the thought of her grows sweeter
When it's time for the whippoorwill to sing
...wish I had some more whippoorwill songs...anyone want to share one?...harpgirl

Subject: RE: Name this song:whipporwill?
From: Mudjack
Date: 21 May 99 - 07:38 PM

JM,
I'm going to take a shot at suggesting going to Musi-cal web site and looking for Peter Rowan as I recall he having aa bluegrass album by that title. The Bluegrass sites can also connect you to Teter Rowan's music.
I'm not smart enough to get you one of those blue clicky things
Mj

Subject: Name this song:whipporwill?
From:
Date: 21 May 99 - 10:55 AM

Hi: Looking for name of this song and artist, and/or recording that I can find it on. Have been to two funerals lately in Vermont where a group called the Stockwell Brothers sang and played this with banjo's & mandolin..some lyrics below:

Listen to the call of the lonesome whippoorwill
As he sings to his sweetheart on the other hill.....

By the Way...this group.."Stockwell Brothers" seems to have been around for a long time in the bluegrass field and I have heard they did a stint in Washington, DC for a while...they have 2 recordings out...first called "Stobro" is terrific and new one (the name has gone out of my mind) is more update and less bluegrass but good...try them out.

You won't be sorry...I sure wasn't...Marge Howe (a Vermont transplant, longing for my old Virginy home!)