Subject: farewell dan and edward kelly lyrics From: GUEST,lakeman Date: 11 Jun 07 - 11:57 PM Anyone have the lyrics to "farewell dan and edward kelly"? Lyric search has led nowhere. |
Subject: RE: farewell dan and edward kelly lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jun 07 - 12:01 AM Hi, Lakeman - do they have anything to do with Australia's Ned Kelly? -Joe- Yes, as a matter of fact, it does. Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on the song: Kelly Song (Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly)DESCRIPTION: Fragment of a ballad about the Kelly gang: "Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly, Farewell Hart and Steve Byrne too, With the poor your memory liveth; Those who blame you are but few."AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1953 KEYWORDS: outlaw Australia HISTORICAL REFERENCES: 1855 - Birth of Ned Kelly 1880 - Execution of Kelly. His last words are reported to have been "Such is life." FOUND IN: Australia REFERENCES (1 citation): Meredith/Anderson, p. 28, "Kelly Song" (1 text, 1 tune) CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "The Kelly Gang" (subject) cf. "Ye Sons of Australia" (subject) cf. "Kelly Was Their Captain" (subject) cf. "My Name is Edward Kelly" (subject) cf. "Ballad of the Kelly Gang" (subject) cf. "Stringybark Creek" (subject) cf. "The Kelly Gang Were Strong" (subject) Notes: Edward "Ned" Kelly and his gang are perhaps the most famous of all Australian bushrangers. - RBW File: MA028 Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2006 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: ADD: Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jun 07 - 12:30 AM Well, the Meredith-Anderson book was a disappointment:
(attributed to Jack Luscombe) Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly Farewell Hart and Steve Byrne too, With the poor your memory liveth, Those who blame you are but few. Source: Folksongs of Australia, by John Meredith and Hugh Anderson, 1967, 1985 The final three words were spoken, in the manner common to quite a few of the older singers. Click to playFirst line sounds like "Starlight on the Rails," the second like "Go to Sleep, You Weary Hobo." The book says the song sounds like "Just Before the Battle, Mother," or a Boer folk song from South Africa. So, is that all there is to the song? I'll alert Bob Bolton. He'll know. He's the one I got the book from. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: farewell dan and edward kelly lyrics From: GUEST,lakeman Date: 12 Jun 07 - 02:19 AM Joe, the lyrics you posted are the ones and the song is allegedly by a shane howard...however bob sounds the man. |
Subject: RE: farewell dan and edward kelly lyrics From: Bob Bolton Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:08 AM G'day Lakeman and Joe, John Meredith only collected a single 4-line stanza from Jack Luscombe. Three years later, in Singabout vol.3, no. 2, Autumn 1956, p. 12 he published two fragmentary Kelly ballads - adding an extra stanza which was known from Bulletin magazine. Apparently nobody added any more, at that time. In 1972, Warren Fahey - collecting as "the Australian Folklore Unit, collected a 4-stanza version of this from Cyril Duncan: KELLY BALLADS - Two fragments FAREWELL DAN AND EDWARD KELLY Recorded by John Meredith from the singing of Jack Luscombe, aged 86 (in March, 1953), of Ryde, N. S. W. Luscombe learned the song in Queensland during the 1890s. The second stanza appearing In "The Bulletin" of June 10th, 1882. Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly, Farewell Byrne and Steve Hart too, With the poor your memory liveth, Those who blame you are but few. Thirty policemen did besiege you In the hotel owned by Jones, Taken was our gallant leader, Nothing left you but the bones. THE KELLY GANG Sent to the Editor in 1956 by Mrs. H. McKenzie, aged 89, of Balfour Street, Launceston, Tasmania. Just think of the Kelly Gang, Cut down in youthful bloom, At the Shrine of Bathurst, (Bacchus() On the twenty-ninth of June. These heroes of the forest Were hunted to and fro, When tired of their weary life They knew not where to go. Straight into Glenrowan Their wild course they did steer, To drown their grief in rosy wine, Their haunted souls to cheer, May God with his great mercy, For the sake of his dear Son, Forgive the sons of Kelly, And the crimes that they have done. -X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- Collected by Warren Fahey from Cyril Duncan (source: 1- cassette collection of ABC Radio programs: While the Billy Boils, A Panorama of Australian Folklore, devised and scripted by Warren Fahey, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981. [ISBN 0 6442 975817] Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly, Farewell Byrnes and Steve Hart too, Those that blame you are not many, Those that blame you are but few. Thirty policemen did besiege you In the hotel owned by Jones, Then was our gallant leader; Nothing left you but the bones. Dirty policemen did outdo you, In a manner I am told, Dirty policemen did outdo you, For a paltry sum of gold. Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly, Farewell Byrnes and Steve Hart too, With the poor, your memory lingers, Those that blame you are but few. This feels a little like a compilation ... but by whom...? Regards, Bob |
Subject: RE: farewell dan and edward kelly lyrics From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:30 AM Shane Howard recorded Farewell Dan & Edward Kelly, (Trad./Arr.Shane Howard) (Beyond Hope's Bridge - 2001) Song list listen here sandra oooh, I looooove those google ads - one for Celtic music, t'other about buying a car - a Holden (iconic Oz car for those who don't know!!) |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Jun 07 - 02:29 PM Thanks a lot, Bob. Yeah, I think I'd question that last one, too. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly From: GUEST,Lakeman Date: 13 Jun 07 - 12:31 AM Thank you Bob, from Lakeman in Melb. |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly From: Bob Bolton Date: 14 Jun 07 - 12:02 AM G'day all, Just by way of correcting silly error above: The source of the final song was actually:"(source: 10- cassette collection of ABC Radio programs: While the Billy Boils, A Panorama of Australian Folklore, devised and scripted by Warren Fahey, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981. [ISBN 0 6442 975817]". ... One cassette doesn't make much of a collection. This was a boxed set, from 20 half-hour radio programs broadcast by Australian Broadcasting Commission, some time around 1980. Regards, Bob |
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