Lyr ADD: Spring Song (Alan Bell)

Subject: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: GUEST,allp1br
Date: 01 Jun 13 - 12:50 PM

Hi,

Can anyone help me find the lyrics to Alan Bell's song "Spring Song"?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jun 13 - 01:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKWcJ_MEGYQ

Words are easy to make out.

Subject: Lyr Add: SPRING SONG (Alan Bell)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jun 13 - 08:52 PM

SPRING SONG
As sung by Alan Bell on "The Definitive Collection" (2005)

1. Early one evening as I strolled along,
I heard a girl singing an old country song
To welcome the new days, the coming of spring,
The bleak winter over, new life to begin.

CHORUS:
Love is a pleasure; love is a pain.
Love is desire to share yet again
The sweetness of caring, the joy and the tears,
Love everlasting, enduring the years.

2. She sang it so sweetly; she sang it so fine,
I thought of my own life and all that was mine,
For having and holding are better than dreams,
And lucky in love means more than it seems.

3. A time comes for living; a time comes for love,
And spring is a good time to give all you have,
For seasons will come and so quickly roll on,
But spring brings that young girl to sing the old song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwg1hwtKXiA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: bradfordian
Date: 16 Apr 17 - 06:30 AM

Here is an additional verse which has been sung for several years by someone I know at one of my folk clubs. I finally noted these words but as to the provenance, I don't have any information. If anyone does, please share!

"I left her still singing that beautiful song
I hope she will find her own love before long
To share all the good days, the summers for years
The sweetness of caring, the joys and the tears"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: leeneia
Date: 26 May 20 - 12:17 PM

You can hear Alan Bell singing "Spring Song" here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwg1hwtKXiA
It seems to me that the tune is one I have played for country dancing under another title, but I can't recall its name.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: leeneia
Date: 26 May 20 - 06:26 PM

Now I remember - the tune is one I first heard as a German folk song, 'Rosmarin Heide.'

I have transcribed the tune, and if any trusted Mudcatters want a JPG of the melody and chords, they can PM me. I called it Spring Song.

I think that if I were going to sing this song, I would invent a second theme for alternate verses. This theme gets repetitious, I think.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 May 20 - 06:36 PM

Sorry Leeneia, I was responding to GUEST Eileen Finch's request for the lyrics of "The Boy and the Dream".
I guess she would do better to start a new "Lyrics Request" thread to get the song she wants.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Apr 26 - 04:59 AM

Leeneia, Rosmarienheide zur Maienzeit blüht, also titled "Verloren (Lost)", is a poem by Hermann Löns (1866-1914) with musical settings by Carl Pfister (1917) and by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1925).