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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: leeneia Date: 11 May 20 - 12:34 PM from She Walked through the Fair ...and then she went homeward, with one star awake, as the swan in the evening drifts over the lake. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: The Sandman Date: 11 May 20 - 11:35 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkhgk13ECE |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: the lemonade lady Date: 13 Nov 11 - 07:06 AM I wish mudcat had the facility to delete posting once you upload and realise you made a typo. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: BTNG Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:52 PM One needs to have taste to enjoy Flanders and Swan :-D "twas on a Thursday morning the folkie came to call...." |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: dick greenhaus Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:18 PM If you search for swan in Digitrad, you get a bunch of his, unfortunately including Flanders & Swan |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: pdq Date: 12 Nov 11 - 01:20 PM The first time this song was recorded in the US was 1962 by the Dillards. They had it as the "B" side of their first single record, before there was and album. Most US Folk fans think of Peter, Paul & Mary when this song comes up, but the Dillards were at least a year earlier and the PP&M version sounds like a fairly direct copy. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: MartinRyan Date: 12 Nov 11 - 12:39 PM Swans are protected in Ireland - though without any particularly royal associations! Regards |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Pete Jennings Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:48 AM Ex-neighbour of mine (still a friend) is Helen Swann, her other half is Richard Lake... |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Nov 11 - 08:52 AM Just a passing reference, but in the version of the Two Sisters that I sing, there's She's floated nigh and she's floated yon till she's come to the miller's pond. Next comes along the miller's young son, "Father dear, here swims a swan," by the bonnie, bonnie bows of London. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: the lemonade lady Date: 12 Nov 11 - 08:50 AM Does the law. Of exist there, then? |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: MartinRyan Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:47 AM Many years ago, when I lived in the Irish midlands, a particular country house hotel ran winter shooting holidays for tourists. They often took some persuading that swans - whether Mute, Whooper or Bewick's - were not fair game... Regards |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: mayomick Date: 12 Nov 11 - 05:31 AM Silent, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water Break not ye breezes, your chain of repose While murmuring mournfully Lir's lonely daughter Tells to the night star her tale of woe When shall the swan, her death note singing Sleep with the wings her darkness furled When will Heav'n, it's sweet bells ringing Call my spirit from this stormy world ? Silent, O Moyle to thy crystal wave weeping Fate bids me languish long ages away Yet still in the darkness doth Erin lie sleeping Still doth the pure light its dawning delay When will the day star mildly springing Warm our isle with peace and love ? When will Heav'n, it's sweet bells ringing Call my spirit to the fields above ? |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: the lemonade lady Date: 12 Nov 11 - 05:22 AM In August 1992 A SOMERSET man had become the first person this century to be jailed for slaughtering swans under a law of 1592 introduced by Henry VIII, writes Mary Braid. Alfred Dines, 20, was sentenced to three months for breaking the 400-year-old law that protects the birds. So even if he did mistake Polly for a swan, why did he shoot it? Does this mean the song was written before 1592? It was however legal to shoot geese. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Joe_F Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:59 PM Well, I swan.... |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: autoharpbob Date: 11 Feb 10 - 10:00 AM The silver swan, who living knew no note, when death approached opened up her throat" - or I think thats what the words are - I last sang that as a treble!! |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Smedley Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:07 AM You're The One That I Swant (from 'Grease'). Sorry. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Mr Happy Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:03 AM Black Velvet Band '.......her neck it was just like a swan And her hairy tongue over her shoulder Tied up with a Black Velvet Band!' |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Snuffy Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:44 AM I'm backit like a salmon, I'm breastit like a swan; Burns, from one of the many version of John Anderson My Jo |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: MGM·Lion Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:08 PM Her brow is like the snowdrift Her throat is like the swan Annie Laurie, verse 2 |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Young Buchan Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:06 PM And whilst we're in that area: At the foot of Benbradden clear waters do flow There dwells a wee damsel her breast white as snow. Her cheeks are like roses, her neck's like the swan She's the Star of Benbradden and I would she were mine. So she was bloody lucky not to get shot! |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Young Buchan Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:55 PM She stepped away from me and moved through the fair. So sadly I watched her move here and move there Neath the sky in the evening with one star awake As the swan in the evening moves over the lake. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Dave Swan Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:32 PM Yeah, laugh it up you guys..... Dave Swan |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Steve Gardham Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:27 PM Brilliant, Acorn. Love it! Seven swans a-swimming........Five cygnet rings..... We'll come a COB-a-calling....and of course all those bloody PEN-knives |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:06 AM Thanks for posting your lovely Tubey GSS. Always love to hear people sharing their music on Mudcat, I do wish more people did so! I don't know of any other swan songs (so to speak) though coinididentally I found Tony Rose's rendition of Polly Vaughan recently on YouTube, and it's rather nice too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2moXB9S3TA I'll be learning this song myself I think. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Rasener Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:51 AM The Ugly Duckling - Danny Kaye Swan day I'll fly away Another Swan Bites The Dust |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Acorn4 Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:21 AM Polly Come all you young fellows, Who like to play with a gun, Don't get trigger happy, By the light of the moon. Young Willy went a fowling, After a skinful of beer When he shot into some bushes Thinking a swan was in there He swore he'd seen a flash of white, And a rustling he heard, And he gave it both barrels, Thinking to bag that bird. You should have heard the language, So blue it turned the air, As out shot his darling Polly, Clutching her derriere Oh, Willy, you stupid Willy See what you have done, And look where you have shot me Do I look like a bleeding swan? I was answering a call of nature, My business was complete, But when I bent down to pull up my knickers, And you got me in both cheeks! Oh, Polly, dearest Polly, It's oh so easily To take your bumcheeks in the moonlight A swan's wings for to be. Oh, you silly billy, Willy Get thee now hence with great speed An appointment with specsavers, For new glasses that you need, Swans don't lurk around in bushes, But swan around majestically Trying to scrounge your sandwiches That's more of a swan thing, you see The number of times I've told you, That gun would bring us grief and pain, You could have taken up the melodeon, Or danced with the Morris team. Just wait until I get you home, Your voice will surely be, A full two octaves higher, When I am done with thee. We were to the church to have gone, But how can we do it with style With a backside full of pellets Walking down the aisle Sadly I must stay at home, Because of you, you stupid berk, With some tweezers and a mirror, Undoing your handiwork. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: GUEST Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:19 AM same more from my data base (searching for "swan"): white swans (frogmorton) the black swan (steeleye) prima donna of swans (jackson c. frank) the SWAN necked valve (mcginn) |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: GUEST Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:13 AM one last cold kiss |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Mr Happy Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:39 AM .......another tragedy caused by myopia, he shoulda gone to specksavers! [bit've a stammering typo there!] |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:38 AM My Europia |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: The Sandman Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:32 AM your Myopia? |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Sailor Ron Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:32 AM Though cleared of her murder, he was prosecuted by the R.S.P.B. |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: Mr Happy Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:29 AM .......another tragedy caused my myopia, he shoulda gone to specksavers! |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:28 AM It was just swan of those things? Swan for the money Swan I fall in love Make a good cygneture song |
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Subject: RE: polly vaughan From: alex s Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:27 AM way down upon the Swanee River......... Soz. i'll get me coat. |
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Subject: polly vaughan From: The Sandman Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:25 AM here is a version of Polly Vaughan,http://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/a/u/0/4fkhgk13ECE apart from the Swan sings so bonny,can anyone name any other swan songs. |
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