Favorite Fall Songs

Subject: RE: Favorite Fall Songs
From: Cara
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 09:56 AM

This is a song I used to love as a child. My dad still tries to get me to sing it, as it brings back good memories for all of us of long autumn drives and pumpkin shopping.

The goldenrod is yellow
The corn is turning brown
The trees in apple orchard
With fruit are bending down
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here...

And then I forget. Anyone know the rest? I think I learned it in music class in first grade. My dad and step mom made us sing it in the car. They thought it was very strange that we knew a "fall song".

I love the fall. Something about it just makes me so happy. I'm afraid I may be too busy walking around the woods at the Getaway and ogling the nature to go to workshops. I'm so excited to get out of the city!

Subject: RE: Favorite Fall Songs
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 05:19 AM

Humpty Dumpty - but you all seem to have a different meaning for "fall". I suppose you mean autumn. We speak the same language some of the time.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Favorite Fall Songs
From: Ely
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 01:57 AM

Mine isn't specifically a fall song. I think it's "Weekend Runaways" by Stacey Earle. It reminds me of a weekend trip I took last October with my friend "Socks" (his never match). We went hiking in the loess hills in western Iowa, chewed on some milo because we thought it might be sorghum (no farm kids, we), got buzzed by both grouse and pheasants, went to a friend's farm where we pressed sorghum, pressed apple cider, ate venison stew, and were almost completely pickled by wood-smoke; went to another friend's house and spent the evening jamming and drying out our socks; stayed over, were stuffed full of bacon, eggs, and horseradish the next morning, and headed back to college. Probably the one instance in which Cinderella was happier with the pumpkin and the field mice . . .

Subject: Lyr Add: FALL IS HERE (Charlie Maguire)^^
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 01:27 AM

Here's one of my all time favorites.
Blessings,
Barbara

ROUND THE PLACE YOU'LL KNOW THAT FALL IS HERE
(Charlie Maguire)

When the cows no longer care to go
Out to the pastures far and near
But stand close in the last warm sun
Round the place, you'll know that fall is here.

And when the apple and the pear
Bow down with their fruit so near
And the children come a gathering
Round the place, you'll know that fall is here.

And when the hunters come from town
Seeking the pheasant and the deer
With their dogs in front to point the way
Round the place, you'll know that fall is here

When straw and hay are in the barn,
Stacked to the rafters tier on tier
Smelling like the summer come and gone
Round the place, you'll know that fall is here.

Round the place you'll know that fall is here
When nights come early and the days are clear
Over fallow fields we worked this year
Round the place, you'll know that fall is here.

Subject: RE: Favorite Fall Songs
From: ddw
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 12:13 AM

Hi Cap't.....

I don't know if you have to live in Canada to appreciate it, but the imagry in Joni Mitchell's "Urge For Going" is beautiful.

ddw -- who will definitely miss his annual fall trip to the the mountains of North Carolina....

Subject: RE: Favorite Fall Songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 11:45 PM

It's not folk, but I just heard it on the radio the other day for the first time in yers and I still like it: Johnny Mercer's "Autumn Leaves" sung by Nat King Cole....The autumn leaves drift past my window....

One of my favourite memories of growing up was hearing my grandma, then my mom read the poem When the frost is on the pumpkin. Having grown up in Wyoming and Colorado, where there are not a lot of pumpkin patches, the full meaning of this poem was realised by me after moving to the Berkshires of New England and driving by beautiful & huge patches of the biggest pumpkins my children and I had ever seen.

I posted another song in the Tavern Aftermath thread, "Who Were the Witches" which I always sing this time of year. I love fall, too!

Subject: Favorite Fall Songs
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 11:29 PM

Fall is my favorite time of the year. The bugs are gone and the tree's are ablaze with color. Three of my favorite fall songs are:

Dick Siegel's ~ When the Sumac is on Fire.

Bordon Bok's ~ Turning Towards The Morning

Craig Johnson's ~ Keewanaw Light (last verse)

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER REALLY GOOD SONGS ABOUT FALL?

Cap't Bob