Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: BAZ
Date: 13 Oct 98 - 07:18 PM

Barbara
Let me know how to get it to you and the pleasure is all mine.
Regards Baz.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 07:19 AM

Say Baz, you've already done everything I wanted and more, and here I am, still asking. Is there anything I could trade you in exchange for a tape of that record?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: BAZ
Date: 10 Oct 98 - 07:45 PM

Barbara
Glad to be of service. I'm so old even my rug rats have rug rats but I always kept my records (breakable 78's)on 6ft shelves away from em. Bye for now
regards Baz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 10 Oct 98 - 02:14 PM

Thanks ever so much BAZ, and I'm sure my friend will be pleased too. If you haven't any rug rats of your own, you can consider washing jam off a record as part of your parent training program, or as replacement therapy. It's an essential parenting skill.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: Lyr Add: MERRY MOUNTAIN CHILD
From: BAZ
Date: 09 Oct 98 - 06:31 PM

Barbara
Here we go part 2.
Sorry for the delay but we were playing at a pub out in the wilds last night. And secondly, I think someone had previously used the record as a plate for a jam sandwich so I had to wash it (the record that is).

But tell me of that rural cot
Where happy faces smiled
And pleasant voices called me there
And pleasant voices called me there
And pleasant voices called me there
A merry Mountain Child

I've wandered far through many climes
Where dark eyed daughters dwell
And beauty charms a yielding soul
with her resistless spell
with her, with her resistless spell.

Yet oft I've turned my face away
Where youth and beauty smiled
To think of all the joys that blessed
To think of all the joys that blessed
To think of all the joys that blessed
A merry Mountain Child

Then strike thee harp I long to hear
Those merry tales again
O' let me linger oer those stones
That native mountain strain
That native, native mountain strain.

It brings me back those happy times
That bleak and stony wild
Where nature makes me glad to be
Where nature makes me glad to be
Where nature makes me glad to be
A merry Mountain Child.

Just out of interest the rest of the album has the following tracks.

Rolling on the grass
Old Jepson Brown
I bought three pigs at Marsden fair
Water Rattle
Nutting Girl
Powder Monkey
Muffin Man
Farmers dog
Sucking pig
The death of poor Bill Brown
It was night and the moon illuminated the sky
Pace egging song
Christmas goose
Regards Baz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 08:37 PM

Thazit!

Subject: Lyr Add: MERRY MOUNTAIN CHILD
From: BAZ
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 06:24 PM

Come strike the harp I long to hear,

Those merry tales of old.
Ere youth has lost it's flowery ?ring?
And loving hearts grown cold
And loving, loving hearts grown cold.

It brings me back those happy days
When roving free and wild
I played about my native home
I played about my native home
I played about my native home
A merry mountain child

Oh tell me not of other lands
across the deep blue sea
This little isle of freedom's sons
Is dearer far to me
Is dearer far to me
is dearer, dearer far to me.

There is more and if it's the right one leave a message and I'll type it up. I hope this helps
Regards baz.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: BAZ
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 06:00 PM

Barbara
It only has the notes about the composer I mentioned. I'll put the record on and come back in a minute.
Baz.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 05:42 PM

That sounds right, BAZ. Has a repeating line that maybe modulates, something about honor...life and honor I think. Owld English song, my friend heard Willie Noble sing it at Whidbey? Would that be right? And if y'got the album there in your hand, does it tell anything about the song?
Thanks.
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: BAZ
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 05:33 PM

Barbara
I found an old vinyl LP at a sale the other day called Merry Mountain Child by a Yorkshire guy called Arthur Howard.The notes on the back say the song was written by Joe Perkins noted Holmfirth composer and choirmaster. Does this sound like it could be the one? If so I'll try and clean it up find a needle and play it!
Regards Baz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 07:43 PM

I'm pretty sure that isn't it, Dale, but I'll check. Thanks for trying.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Dale Rose
Date: 04 Oct 98 - 02:19 PM

Maybe The Merry Mountain Lasses? It starts out: The Mountain Maid is the maid for me; her step is light and her heart is free,

It's at the Levy site.

Subject: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child
From: Barbara
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 06:52 PM

A friend of mine is looking for these lyrics, so I'm asking, and hoping you all can come up with them.
Blessings,
Barbara