Lyr Add: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: GUEST,Anita C
Date: 04 Feb 24 - 09:01 AM

Thank you for saving me hours of searching.

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 05:15 PM

Link to "Come Dearest..."
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/n/n14/n1449/
Come dearest

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: Artful Codger
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 04:34 PM

For the Duke site, click on the cover page image. When the new page displays, you'll see a table at the upper right of all the pages, giving you a choice of either low or high resolution. Click on the page numbers to get to the other pages. Yeah, not exactly intuitive but, once you get used to it, better than Levy (where you have to back up to select another page.)

BTW, an instrumental version of this is played by Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Ensemble on "The Civil War: Its Music and Its Sounds" (CD 1, track 15.) Ken Burns used several tracks from this set in his documentary--though he didn't use this song. I heartily recommend this recording.

I'll post "Juanita" (also on the Fennell set) in a new thread.

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:57 PM

The sheet music at Duke is complete, if splotched. It comes up easily at American Memory.
A later copy (1861) is at Levy Sheet Music (but I didn't check the lyrics to see if they were the same).

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: leeneia
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:37 PM

It's a good song, Artful Codger. I'd like to play the music, but the Duke Univ. Historic American Sheet Music site shows the cover and the end page of the sheet music, but not the music itself. Am I missing something, or is this part of the ongoing plot to drive Americans crazy?

I have tried every button and looked at the FAQ's. (It's hard to believe that people don't Frequently Ask "how do I get to see the music?")

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: 12-stringer
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:29 PM

Well folks, right recently down in a little town in Indiana, I was invited over to a party. And seeing that I am a man who never forgets anything, as long as I remember it, I'll tell you about it. It was an ice cream festival and there was a beautiful old maid there, who taught the piano and guitar. And she played such pieces as Siege of Sebastapol and Trovatore, and Dew Drop. Now I'll just give you a little imitation of how she was imitating the dew dripping off the eaves of the porch into the washpan on the shelf, surrounded by fragrant honeysuckles all in bloom. She played it thusly [classical banjo solo].

Hot Dog! I said, "Miss, Sing us a piece, please ma'am." She said, "Well Mister Macon I really can't sing, but as you press me so strongly, I will attempt a beautiful little love song." I says, "All right, let her go." She started off thusly:

Come dearest the daylight is falling, the stars are unveiling to see,
Come wander with me, my loved one, As we stroll by the beautiful sea.
Let us go where the white flowers bloom, for midst the soft dews of the night,
Where the Iris dispel rich perfumes and the rose speaks of love and delight.

Hot dog! I noticed the old maid had her hair bobbed. So I asked her what she cut her hair off for? And she said to show her independence. I noticed she had her dress cut off to match her hair. Ha! Ha! Also, trying to make conversation, I asked her, "How many is there of you all?" She said, "Eleven." And I said, "Which one of you is the oldest?" She said, "Father."

People, when Columbus discovered this country, it was plum full of nuts and berries. But I'm right here to tell you, the berries is just about all gone. Ha!

Now before I go any further, I want to give you young men, if there's any listening to this record, a prescription for kissing your girl.

Now you approach her, face to face,
Then her lovely cheeks in the palm of your hands embrace,
Then lip to lip and gum to gum,
Oh, Lord, yum, yum, yum!

Fare you well, oh my little honey, I'm gone, gone,
Yes my honey, I'm going away.

"Uncle Dave's Travels, Pt 4: Visit at the Old Maid's," 6/29/1929, Brunswick 362.

Subject: RE: Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
From: Leadbelly
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:16 PM

Lovely!

Manfred

Subject: Lyr Add: COME DEAREST THE DAYLIGHT IS GONE
From: Artful Codger
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:10 PM

COME DEAREST THE DAYLIGHT IS GONE (1853)
Brinley Richards (1819-1885)

1. Come dearest the daylight is gone,
And the stars are unveiling to thee,
Come wander my lov'd one alone,
If alone thou can'st call it with me
|: Let us go where wild flowers bloom,
Amid the soft dews of the night,
Where the orange dispels its perfume,
And the rose speaks of love and of light. :|

2. Remember love I must soon leave thee,
To wander mid strangers alone,
Where at eve thy sweet smile will not greet me,
Nor thy gentle voice at morn;
|: But oh 'twill be sweet to remember,
That though I am far, far from thee,
That the hand of fate only can sever
My lasting affection from thee. :|

From sheet music at the Duke Univ. Historic American Sheet Music site.