Songs of Lost Love

Subject: Songs of Lost Love
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 01:41 PM

In thinking about songs for the best love song thread, I am reminded of several songs of lost love (many of which were mentioned in the that thread). My favourite of these is "Boots of Spanish Leather" by Bob Dylan.

How about it 'catters, what's your favourite song of a love lost?

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 02:12 PM

Queen of Hearts (Ace of Sorrow)
Once I had a Sweetheart (but now I have none)
Ghost Lover
How Can We Hang on to a Dream (Tim Hardin)
In a lighter vein: My Baby done left me (the Fugs)

Mark

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: tomtom
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 02:34 PM

In the Shadows of the Pines, Bascom Lamar Lunsford

The Butcher's Boy, Buell Kazee

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Bert
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 04:17 PM

Ah Then

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Harald
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 04:30 PM

Sally Wheatley (reminiscing earlier days ?)
Black Velvet Band (how men suffer from women)
The Nightingale (tragic / how women suffer from men)
Long Black Veil (more tragic)
The Blantyre Explosion (calamitous)

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From:
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 05:02 PM

Anyone for "Greensleeves"?

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 05:11 PM

Dear Companion Every Night When the Sun Goes In If He's Gone, Let Him Go Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies and a zillion others.

This is probably the most widely used theme in traditional lyric songs. Pete Seeger once observed that there were so many songs of "unrequited love" because when love was requited folks were too darned busy to make up songs.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Gene
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 05:18 PM

Heard a great one last week by
The Austin Loungs Lizards
Tag line: The Dogs Miss You And So Do I

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Frank Of Toledo
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 05:30 PM

From 1970...Paul Siebel's "Long Afternoons"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Arkie
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 06:08 PM

There's Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone. On the serious side, may I suggest the Loch Tay Boat Song.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Shack
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 07:14 PM

"Molly Malone"

"There Goes My Everything"

"Fire and Rain"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Harald
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 07:18 PM

Why is Molly Malone a lost love ?

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Shack
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 07:24 PM

"Molly Malone"

"There Goes My Everything"

"Fire and Rain"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 07:35 PM

My brother's songs, Evenings in Crystal, Flowers of Summer, and Karmic Lover. I'll ask him if I can post the lyrics. Everybody who has heard them loves them and they are quite poignant.

katlaughing/katlaf

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: John Hindsill
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 10:38 PM

Just about any blues song.

Sea of Heartbreak - Don Gibson (...lost love, loneliness; mem'ry of your caress...)/ Heartbreak Hotel - May Axton...I forget who had the big hit on this**grin**/ Home of the Blues - John R. Cash/ Ribbon of Darkness - Gordon Lightfoot.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 10:45 PM

Well, Molly Malone's dead, isn't she? That's about as lost as you can get.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 01:03 AM

Well damn Sandy...and I'm the one who gets in trouble for wisecracks!!!!! Obviously it must be your tone of voice. Delivery is everything.

catspaw...LMAO

Subject: Lyr Add: In Dreams^^
From: LEJ
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 01:29 AM

"I close my eyes, and drift away

into the magic night- I softly say

a silent prayer, as dreamers do

I close my eyes and dream my dream of you.

In dreams I walk with you- in dreams I talk with you

In dreams you're mine all of the time

We're together in dreams-

But just before the dawn, I awake and find you gone

I can't help it- I can't help it if I cry

I remember when you said Goodbye

It's too bad that all these things

Can only happen in my dreams

Only in dreams- in beautiful dreams."

Roy Orbison wrote that for his wife after she died in a tragic accident in the early 1960s. I can't say whether it is the song or the ache in Roy's voice when he sings it, but I think it's my favorite song of lost love.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: reggie miles
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 03:46 AM

I like this one Johnny Mercer popularized called "I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City". Reggie Miles

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: bbc
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 10:44 AM

Sueno by Bill Staines.

bbc

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Big Mick
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 11:10 AM

I still laugh every time I hear Tim Irvine sing this line from his song "1-2-3-4":

She hauled off half my double wide, now I'm living in a house divided......

Mick

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: AlistairUK
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 11:29 AM

Ruby- Kenny Rogers...now that is a tragic love song...i break down in tears every time I hear it.

Alistair(with tongue firmly planted in cheek)

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 11:59 AM

"Fire and Rain" is a song of a lost friendship, I believe.

"Ruby" is about the best anti-war song in history, intended or not.

"(Sittin' on) Top of the World" as sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock. 'course blues has already been mentioned ...

-- MA

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Matthew B
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 12:20 PM

Folkie that I am, the best song about lost love is Harry chapin's "Taxi"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Alice
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 12:38 PM

"The Galway Shawl"
"She Moved Through the Fair"
"The Quiet Land of Erin" (....ah, my heart is weary all alone, and it sends a lonely cry....and the lonely Sundays pass me by....I would rather back the twisted years, in the bitter wasted winds, if the God above would let me lie...)
Mary O'Hara wrote in her autobiography that The Quiet Land of Erin became somewhat her themesong before she went into the convent. Her husband, Richard Selig, died at age 27, only 15 months after their wedding.

alice

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Matthew B.
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 12:43 PM

Oh Alice, you're such a romantic

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 01:08 PM

Mary O'Hara's book could turn anyone into a romantic!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 05:54 PM

Try a search for @parting. If you've got a lot of time.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Gene
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 06:49 PM

Porter Wagoner [mabye w/Dolly parton [I forget]
Her And The Car And The Mobile Home Was Gone...

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Barry Finn
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 08:31 PM

"Eight lovers they say combed your waving black hair
Eight men knew the feel of your dark velvet wais
Eight men heard the sounds of your tan leather skirt
Eight men heard the bark of the guns that you wore"

Poor Belle Starr 8 lovers, coludn't hold on to some of them & couldn't keep the others from dying. The funerals must've been very family/friend oriented with muost of the hubby/lovers either sharing the same blood or at the very least the same bloody history. Is Belle the one who coined "Beter to have loved & lost than...". Barry

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Alice
Date: 17 Apr 99 - 08:45 PM

"Spanish is The Loving Tongue"
"There is a Tavern in The Town"
'Blow Away the Morning Dew" (She's gone with all those
flowers sweet of white, of red, of blue, And unto me,
about my feet, is only left the rue.)
"Loch Lomond"(me and my true love will never meet again)
"The Winter It Is Past"
"The Fanaid Grove"
"Oh, Mary, Thy Laugh Was Sweet"

... I guess I could have just searched the DT, instead of my memory, but that takes the challenge out of it.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 03:24 AM

Barry, gawd love Belle Starr, but I think it was Byron, wasn't it? Can't remember!

If anyone is interestd, we do have the sheet music available for the songs of my brother's I listed above, sose ya' can hear the very beautiful tunes these words were written for. They've never been done in a folk style, but having sung them in concert, I can tell you I think they would lend themselves well to folk and they have always been well-received. There, blatant plug and nepotism to boot! Here are the lyrics.

EVENINGS IN CRYSTAL

1)
Evenings in crystal, Sparkling in the candlelight's glow
Evenings in crystal and love, Lost in the stream of time's flow
Now it is so long ago, that you were my love

2)
Evenings in crystal, bright as the love in your eyes
Evenings in crystal and love, something inside me still cries
Something inside me tries to bring back your love.

Refrain

Evenings of radiance, bright in the flame
Of love and romance, your power to entrance
I remember the love lines you read to me
Your voice I still hear, you somehow seem near
And I long to repeat, those hours so sweet we shared
And, I'll dream of you, yet, I can never forget our love.

Repeat Verse 1
copyright Delton L. Hudson all rights reserved

KARMIC LOVER:

1)

Karmic Lover, your path crosses mine,
Karmic Lover, the stars have set the time,
Karmic Lover, you are my destiny, you were meant for me
And my love for you is the fate I bear
Karmic Lover, why don't you care?
Karmic Lover, why don't you care?
Why don't you care, Karmic Lover?

Repeat

The wheels of time go round and round
You were lost to me, but now you're found
The heavens above have blessed our love
The planets in their trine have marked the sign
Now our lives must intertwine
How can you be so cold, when our love has been foretold?
How can you be so cold, when our love has been foretold?

Repeat 1

copyright Delton L. Hudson ARR

THE FLOWERS OF SUMMER

1)

The flowers of summer are bloomin' in my mind
Our love when young then and time was kind
Those days I cherish, they'll never perish
The flowers of summer are bloomin' in my mind.

2)

No thought of parting then chilled my mind
No winds of autumn left summer behind
The days were warm then and love's reborn when
The flowers of summer are bloomin' in my mind.

Refrain

Golden sun of summer, return now and shine your rays
On my heart, warm my life and let my love return,
And in my hours of remembrance the flame of my love shall burn
And though the roses of June are gone
The Dream of Summer and Love lives on

Repeat Verse 1

Copyright Delton L. Hudson ARR

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 04:48 AM

Kris Kristopherson has several good ones: My favorites are "When I Loved Her," "Jodie and the Kid," and, of course "Me and Bobby McGee." Others are "Help Me Make It through the Night" and "Loving Her Was Easier." All of these were on his first two albums. Reba McEntire's "What Am I Gonna Do about You?" is another one (one of the better committee products you'll see--written by Doug Gilmore, Bob Simon, and Jim Allison--of course, it may just be Reba's interpretation that makes it seem so good.) I wonder--am I the Mudcat's only Reba McEntire fan? Another of her songs (by Harlan Howard and Chick Rains) is about a different kind of lost love: "Somebody Should Leave" is about a couple who stay together despite their love being painfully over because "You need the kids, and they need me." --seed

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Graham Pirt
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 07:10 AM

I think it could be Snow it melts the soonest.

Last verse,

Oh never say me farewell here, no farewell I'll receive, But I will set ye tae the stile an kiss and tek your leave, And I'll stay here till the woodcock comes and the martlet takes its wing, Since the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin tae sing.

From the Northumbrial Minstrelsy

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Banjeray (inactive)
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 08:00 AM

Romantic and heart rending love songs....Roy Clark had one back in the 70's I believe, that would aptly describe my first attempt at matrimony....A poignant little number which was known as..."Thank God And Greyhound You're Gone!"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 09:07 AM

Rose Coloured Glasses: can't remember the country singer, someone like Don Williams.

These rose coloured glasses that I'm looking through
See only the beauty(?)

Also, I've said on another thread, a couple of songs off Donovan's latest cd "Sutras". He doesn't have lyrics printed with it. I will go look for them today and try to get them posted.

katlaf

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Alice
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 09:26 AM

"The Lament of the Irish Immigrant"
"Adieu, Dundee"
"Sad Am I, And Sorrow Laden"
(Why deny my heart is rending, for the fair one of the lead, After all my careful tending, She has now forsaken me)
"The Islay Maiden"
(Since thous has left me, and without warning, Alas, and taken a man for gold!)
"My Own Dear One's Gone"
(Happy be his lot, though I'm broken hearted)
"Jackets Green" "Carraig Donn"
"Far Over Yon Hills - Flora McDonald's Lament"

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Alice
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 10:22 AM

That should have been "fair one of the lea"... not the lead.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Night Owl
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 02:32 AM

"Bird In The Wind" Bill Staines ("....I know there's one thing for sure...When you walked out the door,....you went and took all the heart out of me. And left me spinning all around like a storm on the prairie, running circles like a horse in a pen, just as dry as a toad on an old dusty road, losing ground like a bird in the wind.")

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 01:10 PM

I LIVE NOT WHERE I LOVE

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 19 Apr 99 - 03:37 PM

Once More (I think the orig recording is the Osborne Bros)

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Camilla
Date: 25 Apr 99 - 05:48 PM

Here's a few,,,

Black is the colour of my true love's hair Moorlough Shore The Banks of the Lee Once I loved Curragh of Kildare She moved through the fair Raglan Road A stor mo chroi Gullbor og Rideboll (Traditional Norwegian)

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: arkie
Date: 25 Apr 99 - 06:11 PM

Kat, I think John Conlee had the most popular recording of Rose Colored Glasses - good song.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Chas (inactive)
Date: 25 Apr 99 - 07:09 PM

"The Wagoneer's Lad"

Also, "Vasija de Barro" -- at least the story has it that it's a song from a Catholic priest in Peru, who was a accused of having an affair with his young Indian housekeeper, so he moved to another village to avoid the scandal; and returning some years later, learned that the girl had killed herself out of sadness; so he dug up her remains and made a quena out of her shin bone, and spent the rest of his life softly playing sad melodies into an earthen jar ("Vasija de Barro").

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Tucker
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 01:04 AM

Maybe it's here and I missed it but no one has mentioned "Barbara Ellen" (Barby Ellen). Green Leaves of Summer is a nice tune too albiet recently written.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 01:54 PM

One of my favourites is After the Ball is Over. A tune from the 1800's...I was glad to hear a few years (4 or 5) back that Mary Black (if my memory serves me correctly) had a No 1 hit with it...

~ SingsIrish

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Rick Haverty
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 02:48 PM

My best two for lost love...

"Where are You Tonight I Wonder" - Andy M. Stewart

"Banks of The Lee" - The version in Andy's Songbook (there are quite a few by this title - in this case the song begins with;

"Where true lovers meet, Beneath the green bower Where true lovers meet, beneath the green tree And Mary, Fond Mary, she says unto her True Love You have stolen my young heart, on the banks of the Lee"

Rick

Subject: Lyr Add: Seven Spanish Angels^^
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 03:09 PM

I don't think that he wrote it, but Willie Nelson and Ray Charles recorded "Seven Spanish Angels"

Seven Spanish Angels

He looked down into the brown eyes
And said "Say a prayer for me"
And she threw her arms around him
Whispered "God will keep us free"
They could hear the riders coming
He said "This is my last fight,
"If they take me back to Texas,
"They won't take me back alive"

(Chorus)
There were seven Spanish angels
At the altar of the Sun
They were praying for the lovers
In the Valley of the Gun
When the battle stopped and the smoke cleared
There was thunder from the throne
And seven Spanish angels
Took another angel home

She reached down and picked the gun up
That lay smoking in his hand
She said "Father please forgive me,
"I can't make it without my man"
And she knew the gun was empty
And she knew she couldn't win
But her final prayer was answered
When the rifles fired again

Chorus

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Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 03:33 PM

Here are some pop songs you might consider. I don't know who wrote them, but Frank Sinatra sang "One More for the Road"--"We're drinking, my friend, to the end of a brief episode, so give me one for my baby, and one more for the road."

Nat King Cole had some good ones: "Blue Gardenia," "Dance, Ballerina, Dance."

And did anyone mention Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues"?

--seed

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Driscoll
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 05:11 PM

"Raglan Road" is my favorite.

Anyone mention Simon & Garfunkle's "Dangling Conversation"; think it qualifies although more like love drifted away rather than lost.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Searcher45
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 05:44 PM

Great songs mentioned! With some songs, like "Ruby", you get lost love and a message, like the anti-war one: it wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war.

(Two other favorite anti-war songs, both from CCR: Fortunate Son, Wrote a Song for Everyone. But that's another thread.)

Re: lost love.......

How about Hank Williams? Did he go without mention, or did I miss someone's post?

I'm so Lonesome I could Cry You Win Again Cold Cold Heart Cheatin' Heart

How about Linda Ronstadt: Love Has No Pride Long Long Time Faithless Love

God, who did this one? Lenny Welch?:

first you love me then you snub me but what can I do? I'm still in love with you... well, I-- guess I'll never see the light I get the blues most every night since I fell for you....(that's the title!)

Everly Bros.: First In Line So Sad All I have to do is Dream Ebony Eyes

Misc favorites: You Don't Know Me: damn near everybody. Long Black Limousine (somebody already mentioned Long Black Veil; picked this up from Elvis.) In the Pines: Louvin Bros./traditional? I can't stop loving you: damn near everybody. It Hurts Me: Elvis

and a kajillion others. Bill [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: John OSh
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 06:27 PM

A couple of classics (in my opinion):

Peggy Gordon

Will ye go, lassie, go (also known as "Wild Mountain Thyme"

I will love you (by Davy Arthur & the Fureys

OOOpps, guess thats three not a couple....

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 11:38 PM

Spainish Is The Lovin' Tongue,(The Border Incident) By Badger Clark

Celia By Phil Ochs

Love Will Endure By Pat Sky

Peggy Gordon By P. Domain

Empty Chairs by Don McLean

Don

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Apr 99 - 11:58 PM

John,

I Will Love You is in fact a Tom Paxton song that he wrote some time in the last century, certainly before the telephone came into common usage.

Don

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 06:51 PM

Dimming of the Day, a Richard Thompson song sung by him and Linda.

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: Elmore
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:56 AM

"Do you think that I do not Know?" sung by Priscilla Herdman on You Tube,

Subject: RE: Songs of Lost Love
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 12:40 PM

I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
I'm Sending You a Big Bouquet of Roses
I Loved You Better Than You Knew
Little Darling, Pal of Mine