DTStudy: A Hundred Years from Now

Subject: A Hundred Years from Now
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 08:15 PM

Bev Praver found this song in the Digital Tradition. The DT didn't have a tune, so Bev made up her own and added a verse. Anybody know of a proper melody, and any background information?

A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW
(E. Spencer in 1899)

I'd like to see this earth again
A hundred years from now
And walk and talk with living men
A hundred years from now
I'd like to see how farming's done
How business is and how it's run
How votes are cast and office won
A hundred years from now

A hundred years from now
A hundred years from now
A hundred years from now
A hundred years from now

Of course there'll be no wood to burn
A hundred years from now
They'll be some tricks of trade to learn
A hundred years from now
There'll be big towns and steeples high
And buildings that will scrape the sky
And stores where all the world could buy
A hundred years from now

There'll be machines to shuck the corn
A hundred years from now
Machines to nurse the babe that's born
A hundred years from now
Machines that fly and walk by day
Machines that work, machines that play
Perhaps machines to preach and pray
A hundred years from now

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Subject: RE: A Hundred Years from Now
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 08:21 PM

And the verse Bev Praver wrote:

  Will we still be Zooming then?
  A hundred years from now
  I hope that we can leave our homes
  A hundred years from now
  Will we sing in Harmony?
  Will our voices be set free?
  Yes. This will be a memory.
  A hundred years from now.
  
  A hundred years from now
  A hundred years from now
           G                   D
  Yes. This will be a memory.
       D           A7            D
  A hundred years from now
  

Subject: RE: A Hundred Years from Now
From: GUEST,#
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 08:46 PM

Please see pp. xxiii and xxiv

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8r82f9kk/qt8r82f9kk.pdf

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8r82f9kk/qt8r82f9kk.pdf

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“A Hundred Years from Now”
Written by E. Spencer and R[ansom]. H. Randall
Sharps and Flats, For Singing Schools and Conventions
(Chicago: Ransom H. Randall, c1899: 16-17)

1. I’d like to see this earth again, A hundred years from now,
And walk and talk with living men; A hundred years from now,
I’d like to see how farming’s done, How business is, and how it’s run,
How votes are cast and office won, A hundred years from now.

2. Of course there’ll be no wood to burn, A hundred years from now,
There’ll be some tricks in trade to learn, A hundred years from now;
There’ll be big towns and steeples high, And buildings that will scrape the sky,
And stores where all the world could buy, A hundred years from now.


3. There’ll be machines to shuck the corn, A hundred years from now,
Machines to nurse the babe that’s born, A hundred years from now;
Machines that fly and walk by day, Machines that work, machines that play,
Perhaps machines to preach and pray, A hundred years from now.

Chorus:
A hundred years from now, A hundred years from now,
A hundred years . . . , A hundred years, . . .
A hundred years from now, A hundred years from now.

A modern rendition, with music different from that in the original, is found in Songs from the Tall Grass, by Randy Hale (Pasadena, CA: Halesong Records, 1998) who rediscovered the song in “a small archive in Wellington, Kansas”.

Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Hundred Years from Now
From: GUEST,#
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 08:54 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-taxnFOFzw

That was the song mentioned in the doctoral thesis. I was not able to find the book mentioned in the thesis.

Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Hundred Years from Now
From: GUEST,#
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 09:53 PM

I listened to the recording. It ends at 3:20. (There's other stuff in the 7:10 minutes of the video.) If you listen to it, I'd advise you to keep the sound level to 6 outta 10. One of the kid's really goes for it when the children's voices enter the mix.

Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Hundred Years from Now
From: meself
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 12:05 PM

There is chanty with the refrain 'A hundred years from now', and known by that title - otherwise, no connection, AFAIK. A version was recorded by Bert Lloyd & Ewan MacColl.

Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Hundred Years from Now
From: RTim
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 03:31 PM

If you mean the following...It is a different song (Chanty..)

A Hundred Years Ago.

A hundred years on the Eastern Shore,
Oh, yes, oh!
A hundred years on the Eastern Shore,
A hundred years ago

Oh, when I sailed across the sea,
My girl said she'd be true to me.

I promised her a golden ring,
She promised me that little thing.

Oh, Bully John was the boy for me,
A bucko at land and a bully at sea.

It's up aloft this yard must go,
For mister mate has told us so.

I thought I heard the skipper say,
Just one more pull and then belay.