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Lyr Add: Bright Harvest Day
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Subject: Lyr Add: Bright Harvest Day From: Noreen Date: 07 Sep 20 - 01:18 PM Bright Harvest Day 'Tis well I remember the blue skies of Galway When white clouds were wreathing o’er bonny Loughrea The soft winds were sighing the brown leaves were sweeping The corn was waving yellow, that bright harvest day. But all the beauty that was around me Could not compare with her, so gay ‘Twas light was the reaping with Mary beside me The love in her glances, that bright harvest day. Her brown hair caressing her brow like the primrose, The smile on her red lips was like the sun’s ray Her voice was the music of songbirds in springtime And my heart she did win there, that bright harvest day. I’ve been enchanted with joys and pleasures I’ve been enraptured with splendour so gay But I will remember when all things have faded My flower of the kind heart, that bright harvest day. This is a song I was taught along with many traditional unaccompanied songs by Mary McAndrew in Liverpool in the 1970s. I assumed in was in the traditional repertoire, but since singing it again recently I find nobody knows it and the only trace of it on the internet is the following version sung as a 'parlour ballad' by a tenor: Bright Harvest Day sung by Michael Nash (tenor) If anyone knows or can find out any more about this song I'd be interested. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bright Harvest Day From: JHW Date: 08 Sep 20 - 05:57 AM Loads of wheat fields remain unharvested here (NE UK) this year. No maidens seen. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bright Harvest Day From: Noreen Date: 15 Sep 20 - 07:41 PM Anything further? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bright Harvest Day From: GUEST Date: 04 Feb 24 - 12:21 PM Hi Any more lyrics for this. Fabulous song |
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