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Subject: LYR ADD: Somebody From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 31 Jul 99 - 12:46 PM SOMEBODY
My heart is sore, I dare not tell,
If Somebody were come again
Ochon, for Somebody
Why need I comb my tresses bright |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: GUEST,laundress6thcr@aol.com Date: 05 Oct 03 - 10:35 PM Does anyone know the origins of this song? what time period is it from? |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: masato sakurai Date: 05 Oct 03 - 11:50 PM Seems to be a remake of Burns' "For the Sake o' Somebody" (Click here). |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: black walnut Date: 06 Oct 03 - 04:53 PM The version Animaterra gave us is the one I learned from a Connie Dover CD. Beautiful song. ~b.w. |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: michaelr Date: 06 Oct 03 - 09:08 PM Connie Dover's liner notes (from the album "Somebody", Taylor Park Music, 1991) say that it's an 18th century "code song" about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the desire for a Stuart on the Scottish throne. Cheers, Michael |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: masato sakurai Date: 06 Oct 03 - 11:06 PM James Kinsley's note to Burns' "For the sake o' Somebody" in The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, vol. III (Oxford, 1968, pp. 1505-6): 'Written for this Work by Robert Burns' (SMM), this song is based on Ramsey's lovers' dialogue in The Tea-Table Miscellany (i. 191). Burns took only ll. 3-4 from Ramsey's chorus. The air is in CPC [The Caledonian Pocket Companion], 1752, iv. 30, and SMM, 1796, no. 436.* For an alternative melody for ll. 5-8 and 13-16, which may have been composed by Urbani and is now commonly sung, see Dick, p. 405. 'Somebody' has Jacobite associations; it was a synonym for Prince Charles Edward. |
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Somebody From: masato sakurai Date: 07 Oct 03 - 12:01 AM From Scots Minstrelsie: A National Monument of Scottish Song (1893), edited and arranged by John Greig, Volume 1: For The Sake O' Somebody (p. 108) |
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