Lyr Req: There's a Gold Mine in the Sky

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 03:33 AM

Louie, the publication date I have for this song is 1938. But that may be because it was featured in a Gene Autry movie of the same title in in '38. I don't doubt that the Kenny brothers actually wrote it a year earlier.

Thanks for the extra lyrics, Sins.

Genie

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: banjoman
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 06:45 AM

Pat Boone also recorded this as the "B" side to "Remember your Mine"
I still have the record somewhere. A great song and interesting to learn that its quite old & was recorded by Gene Autrey
Thanks

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 03:14 PM

There are diamonds; there is gold way up there
We will find it you and I enough to share
Then we'll sit up there and watch the clouds roll by
When we find that long lost goldmibne int he sky

Far away far away
We will find it you and I some sweet day
And we'll sit up there and watch the clouds go by
When we find that long lost goldmine in the sky

as I remember it from Helen Schneyer's recording...

Subject: Lyr Add: CROSS-COUNTRY WALTZ (Rod MacDonald)
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 02:56 PM

CROSS-COUNTRY WALTZ

--©1976 Rod MacDonald, Blue Flute Music (ASCAP)

There's an old barn outside on the far edge of town
where the ladies keep dancing so fine
their smiles touch their ears,
their dresses the ground
they got all their men in a line
and I thought for a second how fine it would be
to get dancing and feeling so free
take a few turns and get me a girl
and bring one of those smiles home with me.

But it just looked too easy
just too easy to be right
and I'm out on the road walking alone
one step ahead of the frost
and your baby ain't no baby anymore
he's doing the cross country waltz.

I had a lover, she walked through my dreams
til one day she drifted away
and I got me a letter when some months had gone by
saying "Come back, I'll do what you say,"
but in a city I found a new wheel spinning round
like a carnival half of the time
and though I'm walking alone now and counting my dimes
I think I'll just let her go by.

I got me a letter yesterday from home, saying
"How long you think you'll be gone?"
as I looked at the sun, it was warming my hands
that letter fell down on the ground
'cause there's riverboats and drifters and a silvery moon
and the people they all ask your name
and if you never left home you'd never have to go back,
but once you go back you can't stay.

Sanctuary
©1986 Rod MacDonald, Blue Flute Music (ASCAP)

from

www.rodmacdonald.net/white_buffalo.htm

Subject: RE: The Cross Country Waltz
From: GUEST,Marty Peifer
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 01:16 PM

I,m trying to remember the lyrics toa song called "The Cross Country Waltz", written by an old friend named Rod MacDonald. If any body has them, I'd appreciate you refreshing my memory. Thanks.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 11:41 PM

I'll see if I can find it, raoron.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Gold mine in the sky
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 11:39 PM

I sent MMario a MIDI of this a few years ago. It should be in the MIDI section.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: GUEST,raoron
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 10:43 PM

I see where Genie has the sheet music for this song. My father in law is approaching 80 and want this song sung at his funeral. How can I get a copy?
raoron

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 05:39 AM

My old Mum told me that someone sang "There's a Gold Mine in the Sky" at a recruiting rally in 1940 and all the Scots joined the Air Force.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: GUEST,cookieless Genie
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 04:24 PM

Glad you got it, MMario. I'll leave it in your hands to get it into the "missing tunes" thread, so I won't send it to Joe O. and Max.

Louie, thanks for the date info.

Genie

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: Louie Roy
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 10:43 AM

Goldmine In The Sky was written in 1937 Louie Roy

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 08:48 AM

yee-haw! Got it!

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 01:35 AM

Joe has it spot on----just about my favourite old country song, that and "Gold in the Mountains". Jeeze! ----Whaur's my squeezebox???----

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: Genie
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:10 PM

Will do, MMario, as soon as Finale Notepad gets over it's newly-acquired habit of freezing my computer.

Genie

(But stop calling me "Gracie!")
§;-)

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: MMario
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:51 PM

If you can put it into finale notepad and e-mail me the file? [e-mail]

grazie!

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: Genie
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:39 PM

Joe,
Thanks for posting the rest of the song. I'd forgotten the part about saying hello to friends who've said goodbye!

(BTW, Joe, welcome back! Hope you had a great honeymoon!)

MMario,
Yes, I "have" the tune. I could sing it into Voice Mail if nothing else. I don't know how to do MIDI yet, but I can transcribe it into sheet music using a freeware program called "Finale Notepad." You can download the freeware program by going to CodaMusic. If no one else posts a MIDI right away, I can fax Joe or Max a copy of the sheet music. Or is there a Voice Mailbox for Mudcat?

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: MMario
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:22 PM

it's in the DT - One of the "missing Tunes".

Subject: RE: lyric or title request - Goldmine in the Sky
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 07:17 PM

Remember the Hit Pararde? "Gold Mine in the Sky" was top song for weeks and weeks, when I was a GIRL...in the 1930s?

Subject: ADD: There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 06:36 PM

Well, I can't figure why the Cowpie link didn't work. I found it there, - posted by our very own Gene, of course.
-Joe Offer-

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THERE'S A GOLD MINE IN THE SKY
Recorded by Gene Autry
Written by Nick Kenny and Charles Kenny

[D] There's a Gold mine in the sky, [D7] far a-[G] way
We will [D] find it, you and I, some sweet [A] day
There'll be [D] Clover just for you, [D7] down the [G] line
Where the [D] skies are always [A] Blue, [A7] pal of [D] mine.

Take your [G] time, old mule, I know you're growin' [D] lame
But you'll pasture [D7] in the stars
[E] When we [E7] strike that [A] claim
And we'll [D] sit up there and watch [D7] the world roll [G] by
When we [D] find that long lost [A] Gold mine in the [D] sky.

Far a-[G] way, far a-[D] way
We will find that [D7] long lost Gold [E] mine some sweet [A] day
And we'll [D] say hello to friends [D7] who said good-[G] bye
When we [D] find that long lost [A] Gold mine in the [G] sky.

TAG: Far away (far away), far away (far away), in the sky.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: Genie
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 03:55 PM

The full lyrics to "Goldmine In The Sky" (at least first verse and chorus) are posted here.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: DonMeixner
Date: 11 Jan 00 - 12:03 AM

Theres a gold mine in the sky far away,

and I know the we will find it some sweet day,

and we'll sit up there and watch rhe workd go bye,

When we find that long lost goldmine in the sky.

My grand parents favorite song.

Don

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 05:37 PM

That clicky thing doesn't seem to work. Go to Cowpie via Mudcat links and put 'There's a goldmine in the sky' in the 'Search song corral'.

Cheers, Stewie.

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 05:31 PM

It is in Cowpie under the title 'There's a goldmine in the sky'.

click here

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 04:59 PM

That was meant to be "start another thread"

Subject: RE: lyric or title request
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM

Can't help, but if you don't get any joy, I suggest you tart anoither thread, and put the song title in the title.

Subject: lyric or title request
From:
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 04:55 PM

looking for an old, old song:

Long Lost Goldmine in the Sky