Lyr Req: Hear My Song Violetta (from Josef Locke)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hear my song.
From: DougR
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 05:22 PM

I, too, love that movie!

DougR

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hear my song.
From: GUEST,Fat B****rd
Date: 15 Feb 03 - 03:50 PM

Great film !! My parents had this on a 78 rpm and I was always allowed to play it and all the others, a lovely song and I admit it makes me pleasantly nostalgic. Also, I'm pretty certain a "Mr. X" played Cleethorpes in my youth. But by then of course I'd been swallowed in a morass of elitism and R'n'B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hear my song.
From: GUEST,kat, forgot to set my cookie
Date: 14 Feb 03 - 05:26 PM

This is one of my very favourite songs and movie! Not sure why this thread didn't show up.

kat

Subject: Lyr Add: HEAR MY SONG (from Josef Locke)
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 14 Feb 03 - 04:48 PM

HEAR MY SONG: Pepper/Klose/Luckesch - 1936


Hear my song, Violetta
hear my song beneath the moon
come to me, in my gondola
waiting on the old lagoon

serenade across the water
can you hear it soft and low
a tale of love and lovers
singing long ago

hear my song, Violetta
when the dawn is breaking through
still with me, in my gondola
where we've been the whole night through

serenade across the water
can you hear it soft and low
a tale of love and lovers
singing long ago

hear my song, in my gondola
waiting on the old lagoon

recorded by Josef Locke in 1947

Subject: Lyr Req: Hear my song.-Violetta
From: Jimmy C
Date: 14 Feb 03 - 04:37 PM

Not a folk song I know, but was asked by a friend for the lyrics. I searched a few sites with no results. Can anyone help.

It is the title of a Ned Beatty Movie " Hear My Song" about the Irish tenor Josef Locke who skipped England and returned to Ireland due to non-payment of taxes.

Thanks

Jimmy