Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)

Subject: Lyr Req: Down In The Glen
From: GUEST,Jacqued
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:28 PM

Greetings!   Anyone know the lyrics to a song I knew as "Down In The Glen"?   I think it started.........At hush of eventide......... and may have been sung by Andy Srewart. This search must continue until I find it - 'cos my wife's threatening me!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down In The Glen
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:48 PM

You'll find the lyrics here: Down In The Glen (you can reject he ActiveX)

Mick

Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN IN THE GLEN (Gordon, Connor)
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:48 PM

This song became a regular feature of the repertoire of such Scottish singers as Robert Wilson and Kenneth MacKellar.


DOWN IN THE GLEN
Words and music by Harry Gordon and Tommie Connor, 1947.
As recorded by Robert Wilson, 1947.

At hush of eventide,
Over the hills beyond the Clyde,
I go roaming to my cabin, down in the glen.

Though humble it may be,
There an angel waits for me,
In that lonely little cabin, down in the glen.

Across the moonlit heather,
My lassie calls as I roam,
And soon we'll be together
In that heaven we call home.

The sheep are in the fold,
And there's peace worth more than gold,
For that shepherd in that cabin, down in the glen.

Twilight is softly falling
As the sun sinks in the west.
The one I love is calling:
"Shepherd, come home to rest."

Across the moonlit heather,
My lassie calls as I roam,
And soon we'll be together
In that heaven we call home.

The sheep are in the fold,
And there's peace worth more than gold,
For that shepherd in that cabin, down in the glen.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down In The Glen
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:50 PM

Sorry, Mick. Cross-posted.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down In The Glen
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 Jan 08 - 03:00 AM

Version sung at home when young:

My mother said to me,
'Would you like a cup of tea?'
I said, 'No, no, I'd like cocoa,
Down in the glen'.

Don't know if there is any more.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: GUEST,Jacqued
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 01:48 PM

Many thanks, Catters.   I can now go out unaccompanied!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 04:30 PM

it is a total mystery to me why anyone would actually want the lyrics to this apallingly sentimental garbage.

if you had been forced to listen to Robert Wilson sing this as often as I was as a child, trust me you would want to block the memory forever ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 04:50 PM

Although I don't sing this song -- I do sing sentimental old songs. I find them less pretentious than most of the modern songs where content rules over image and poetry.
I understand, though, how you might not want to hear the same one too often. I do have a horror of being trapped in a nursing home with a "Big Print Song Book"
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: GUEST,David
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 03:10 AM

I remember an advertising jingle on Radio Luxemburg in the 1950s which went something like this:

An angel said to me,
'Would you like a cup of tea?'
I said, 'No, no, I'd like cocoa,
Rowntrees for me'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: GUEST,Karl1171
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 01:42 PM

She put no sugar in
So i threw it on the bin
I said no no i like cocoa
With sugar in

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 11:04 AM

I'm always interested in melodies. You can hear this one on YouTube by Robert Wilson himself, with pretty pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TRTiC63eY

I found the tune to be more modern than I expected.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down in the Glen (Gordon, Connor)
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 03:06 PM

`Cabin and Heaven were used in this song for foreign consumption, the original for Scots was Sheilling