Flower songs (1)

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 06:02 PM

It was just a moment, a moment of passion
Like a mountain stream, crystalline and clean
Tumbling and crashing
It was something special, few will ever know
Something out of line, standing out of time
A flower in the snow

Flower In The Snow - Allan Taylor (Lines 1988). "The song came so quickly I almost put it aside as it had seemed too easy to write." It was his wife who recognised that it was indeed "something special".

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Miranda
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 03:59 AM

The Roses of Prince Charlie (sort of)
Red is the Rose
Flower of Scotland
Lavender's Blue
Wild Mountain Thyme
Edelweiss (Sound of Music)

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 07:29 PM

There by a river sits a pretty maiden watching the water move along
she sees a lovely blossoming cherry tree and her heart is filled with song

Some day i will go to my home that i love so once more i will be neath that lovely cherry tree

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: breezy
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 11:27 AM

here are the words to the chorus of a much-requested song [The Flowers of England] by Chris Flegg

do visit his website I think you can hear it there

Of all the flowers of England, my favourites I will tell.
The Primrose and the daffodil, the poppy and bluebell
In Countryside and city park, wherever you may dwell
The primrose and the daffodil, the poppy and bluebell

each of the 4 verses go on to describe each flower in greater detail with a poignancy in the last verse

lovely song , well written, easy tune.





I thought the Japanese song was listed slightly earlier 5th may 2008 in this thread

Subject: Lyr Add: A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET (Rose Maddox)
From: topical tom
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 10:46 AM

A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET
As recorded by Rose Maddox

1. For pleasure, I went walking out through the fields one day
I started gathering flowers to make a sweet bouquet
The flowers that I gathered, each one played a part
Each flower stood for someone held dear to my heart

CHORUS: Beautiful bouquet I'm gathering today
Picking the colors that will never fade away
Each flower has a meaning so dear to me
Each flower is a treasure chest of sweet memories

2. Violets for my sweetheart, a white rose for my dad
A red rose stood for mother, the best friend that I had
Forget-me-nots stood faithfully for tried true friends of mine
Daisies for the puppy loves that I left far behind

3. Lilies are for grandma, who watches from afar
Poppies are for brother, who lost his life at war
I put them all together, to make a sweet bouquet
A rainbow full of colors that will never fade away

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,SKT
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:46 PM

Hey im trying to find the song Hitori but i can't seem to find it anywhere! Do you have it? Im trying to learn it on the piano!

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 02:16 PM

omg thats the japanese song i have been trying to find. it starts in japanese and then turns to english. do you know where i can find it?

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: PHJim
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 10:49 PM

Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow - Ola Belle Reed

Dandelion Blues - Incredible String Band (although they admit it's not a blues and it's not about flowers)

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,mnrgirl
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 03:54 PM

im looking for the song Hitori im singing it in my choir.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: WHEN THE ROSES BLOOM IN DIXIELAND
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 11:39 PM

WHEN THE ROSES BLOOM IN DIXIELAND
As recorded by The Carter Family, 1929.

Chorus:

(A) when the roses bloom in dixieland, i am (E) coming back to (A) you

when the birds are singing music grand to the (E) sweetest girl I ever (E7) knew

(E) i am saving up my (A) money to (D) buy a little cabin home for (A) two

when the roses bloom in dixieland, i am (E) coming back to you (A)

Verse1:

(A) i just got a letter from the sunnny south, from my (E) girl in Tennes(A)see

she said she loved me like she used to do, and was (E) waiting there for (E7) me

(E) i answered back her (A) letter though i (D) am far a(A)way

when the roses bloom in dixieland i am (E) coming back to (A) stay

Verse 2

(A) when I left my honey at the railroad train i said (E) honey wait for (A) me

i'm going to make a lot of money up north then it's (E) me for old tennes(A)see

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Mikaela
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 07:14 PM

I am looking for the song " Hitori " I am singing it in my choir.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,june
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 08:54 PM

I'm looking for the lyrics to a song called, "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland." Some friends in Austin used to play and sing a string-band version.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 08:33 PM

In reply to:

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,ASE
Date: 05 May 08 - 09:34 PM

I did this song from my choir class and still have sheet music also. I just can't find anyone singing this on youtube or any video for that matter. Do you know if anyone has a video of someone singing this?

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Barry Finn
Date: 25 May 09 - 03:43 AM

"Come Down You Bunch Of Roses"
"The Yellow Rose Of Texas"
"Coal Black Rose"
"Blood Red Roses"
"Sweet Rosie O'Grady"
"Spanish Harlem"
"Haul Away For Rosie-O"
"Rose Of York"
"Sweet Roseanna"
"Rosie"
"My Rose Of Old Kentucky"
"Banks Of Red Roses"
"Mexicali Rose"
"Rosemary Lane"


Don't get me started on "Lily" or "Flora" or "Heather" or "Sweet Forget Me Not's" or

Barry

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Crowhugger
Date: 24 May 09 - 02:50 PM

"It Must Have Been the Roses" -- was that on a Grateful Dead album 'way back, or a Jerry Garcia solo recording?

Goes something like:
Annie laid her head down in the roses.
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses.
All I know is I could not leave her there.

Chorus:
I don't know, it must have been the roses.
The the roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, it must have been the roses.
All I know is I could not leave her there.

followed by a verse about 10 years of ships rolling something back from somewhere and other typical Garcia/Dead cryptic or poetic stuff, I guess it depends on one's point of view)

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I was delighted to see "When You Wore a Tulip (and I Wore a Big Red Rose)" mentioned earlier in this thread. I sang it with a barbershop chorus and it was great fun with a tempo acceleration to emphasize its basic plot of going from just seeing one another to the excitement of new love.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Neil D
Date: 24 May 09 - 01:03 PM

I would say "La Vie En Rose" except that is actually referring to the color pink, "The Life in Pink", instead of the flower. So how about "Dead Flowers" by the Rolling Stones. And why am I suddenly having a deja vu moment? Did we have another thread about flower songs? [Yes.]

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 09 - 01:03 PM

Here is the Japanese song about which you speak (and, no cherry blossoms specifically mentioned). Maybe there are two different songs? Although the first couplet is exactly the same as in the one with English inserted...

This hauntingly beautiful melody comes from the Sendai area in Tohoko district and can be classified as a tedama (ball juggling) and counting song.

Hitori de sabishii (Alone and Sad)

"Hitori de sabishii,
futari de mairi ma sho.

Miwatasu kagiri,
yomena ni tanpo.

Imôto no sukina
murasaki sumire.

Nanohana saita
yasashii chôchô.

Kokonotsu komeya
tô made maneku."

Literal translation:
"I feel lonely all by myself.
Shall we two go together?
As far as the eye can see there is grass and dandelion.
We can also see the violets my younger sister loves.
The flowers bloom and beautiful butterflies flutter about.
The rice shop welcomes us."

From "Folk Songs of Japanese Children", compiled and annotated by Donald Paul Berger, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan, 1969.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Reba
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 12:07 AM

I sang Hitori in middle school, and I remember the translation under the Japanese lyrics... it's an artistic liberty, certainly, because the Japanese text speaks nothing of cherry blossoms. It roughly says "By myself, I'm so lonely; let's come together, the two of us."

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,marisa nava
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 07:19 PM

the song hitori goes like this...
hitori de sa bi shii fo ta ri de mairimasho
hitori de sa bi shii fo ta ri de ma i rimasho
there by the river sits a pretty maiden watching the water move along
she see a lovely blossoming cherry tree and her heart is filled with song
some day i will go to my home that i love so some day i will be neath the lovely cherry tree

its actually a really pretty tune and very japanese sounding song...i like it...
lol btw im singin it in chorus too =D

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,ASE
Date: 05 May 08 - 09:34 PM

This is the lyric to "Hitori" I'm guessing on the spelling of the Jap.

Hitori de sabishii, futari de ma ii ri mashou
Hitori de sabishii, futari de ma ii ri mashou

Down by the river, sits a pretty maiden
Watching the water move along
She sees a lovely blossoming cherry tree
And her heart is filled with song.

Someday I will go, to my home that I love so.
Once more, I will be. 'neith the lovely cherry tree.

Hitori de sabishii, futari, de ma ii ri mashou

Now as the moonlight dances on the river,
Sadly the maiden must depart
Each gentle breeze that sighs through the cherry trees
Echos the song that fills her heart

Someday I will go, to my home that I love so.
Once more, I will be. 'neith the lovely cherry tree.

Hitori de sabishii, futari, de ma ii ri mashou
Hitori de sabishii, futari, de ma ii ri mashou

(^ this line translates into "Here am I, so all alone, dreaming of the cherry trees of home" and can be put into the song in place of the Jap. The translation comes from my sheetmusic from 5 yrs ago.)

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Compiler
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 11:11 AM

"Old Father Thames"    Geddit!!

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 10:54 AM

"The Faded Roses of December", a most beautiful song recorded by Ottawa's great harmony trio, "Finest Kind".

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,angelgirl
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 09:24 AM

thank you - thank you - thank you

   you've all been a big help

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Fleggy
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 05:05 PM

I have a flower song about The Flowers of England, lyrics and mp3 at
my site

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 10:41 PM

someday i will go to my home that i love so
one day i will be neath that lovely cherry tree.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 08:50 PM

there by the river sits a pretty maiden watching the water move along each gentle brezze that sighs through the cherry tree ecos the song that fills her heart
hitori de sab i shi futari de ma i ri ma sho
""

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Virginia
Date: 04 Feb 07 - 04:56 PM

A song from the mid-30s in school. Think the name was Bendemeer's Stream. Some of the words were

"Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you?
I have decked it with roses, all sparkled with dew.
Will you, will you, will you, will you come to my bower?"

and "There's a bower of roses on Bendemeer's stream and I go there to be with my dear Bendemeer"

Subject: Lyr Add: ROSES FROM THE WRONG MAN (Christine Lavin
From: eddie1
Date: 03 Feb 07 - 03:53 AM

One of my favourite songs had a one-line mention waaaay back. For what it's worth, here's a bit more info.

ROSES FROM THE WRONG MAN
Words and music by Christine Lavin
As recorded by Iain MacKintosh on "Live & Kicking" (2000)

She opens the door, surprised to see the delivery man
Standing there with flowers in his hand.
"For me?" she said. He nods his head.
She takes the flowers in and she's read the note.

Roses from the wrong man,
Poetry written in the wrong hand.
She waits for one, hears from another
Who tells her how much he loves her
With roses from the wrong man.

She puts the flowers in the middle of the living-room
And the air is filled with a delicate sweet perfume
She takes a deep breath, closes her eyes
She slowly shakes her head and sighs
Roses from the wrong man.

Roses from the wrong man,
Poetry written in the wrong hand.
She waits for one, hears from another
Who tells her how much he loves her
With roses from the wrong man.

How long can she hold on for someone who might never come around?
How many times will the other man try if she keeps turning him down?
She's not getting any younger but she doesn't want to settle for less.
And how can such pretty flowers mean so much unhappiness?

Since she was a child of eleven or twelve she'd had a dream
To receive the kind of flowers carried by a beauty queen.
Sometimes dreams can come true
In ways you don't want them to
Like roses from the wrong man.

Roses from the wrong man,
Poetry written in the wrong hand.
She waits for one, hears from another
Who tells her how much he loves her
With roses from the wrong man.


[2000:] There isn't a woman in the audience who can't relate to the bittersweet eternal triangle which Iain's voice sets out with such stark emotion. 'Roses' is an object lesson in songwriting; a story pared down to one event and a few thoughts and dreams, a lifetime offered up by implication. (Notes Iain MacKintosh & Brian McNeill, 'Live and Kicking')

Eddie

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Jim Lad
Date: 03 Feb 07 - 02:53 AM

Ah! You're a sharp one. You know, for years I thought it was "Bus Stop". (The Umbrella Song) Funny how the mind works.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Alba
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 11:22 PM

Ah now Jim Lad...
Was it, by any chance, a song by 'The Move'?

Jude

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Jim Lad
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:30 PM

And what was the first song played on "Radio One"?

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Book Angel
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:22 PM

this is to GUEST,[e-mail]. the lyrics are as follows...

Hitori de sa bi shii, fo ta ri de mairimasho.
Hitori de sa bi shii, fo ta ri de mairimasho.

There by the river sits a pretty maiden,
watching the water move along.
She sees a lovely blossoming cherry tree,
And her heart is filled with song.

Some day, ????

This is what I remember for the song. I am doing this song for chorus and I love it!

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Bronwyn
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 07:04 PM

I know this song, I sang it before. I do remember all of the lyrics. Though my spelling might be wrong. japanese fanatic i am, i loved this song in Middle SChool.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:17 PM

Dandelion Blues by the Incredible String Band

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jun 06 - 07:17 PM

Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose
Mighty Lak A Rose

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Guest : Miko Yuki Sama
Date: 24 Jun 06 - 03:22 PM

Does anyone know of a song that in its native language is called "hitori"? It's of Japanese descent but I can't find it. I tried to google some of the translated phrases I remember but only this came up. Here are some of the phrases:

"there by the river sits a pretty maiden
watching the water move along
each gentle breeze that sighs through the cherry trees
echos a song that fills her heart.

Someday I will go to my home that I love so,
once more I will be 'neath the cherry tree,
(this isn't the exact spell but I will do my best:)
hitori de sabi-she furotori de ma-ei rema-sho,
Now as the moonlight dances on the river
sadly the maiden must depart.

That's all I remember but I really want to find it. Can anyone help me?

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: old salty
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 05:24 AM

the Dransfields recorded "Fair Maids of February", a lovely song about snowdrops

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,lavender cowboy
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 12:52 AM

Lavender Cowboy

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Low Tide
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 07:10 PM

I love Lily of the West! And if that one counts, so does this one ... I don't know the title. It was just a round we sang at drama camp. The lyrics are:

"Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose
When will I see thee wed?

I will marry at thy will, sire,
at thy will."



And since other people were bringing up rock and roll, I'll include "Where The Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, featuring Kylie Minogue. Spooky. :)

~ Low Tide

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Charmain
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 06:57 PM

Fairest of all Yarrow

Kate Rusby sings it though she might not be singing about the flower I guess - does yarrow have some lewd meaning I'm unaware of?

Red Roses for Me
Lavenders Blue
Bunch of Thyme
A Rose in April (Rusby again)
Green Grow the Rushes Oh

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Bob
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 09:00 AM

In the flower song .

Lavender blue dilly dilly
Lavender green
When you are King dilly dilly
I shall be Queen

Who told you so dilly dilly
Who told you so
Twas my own heart dilly dilly
That told me so

Call up your friends dilly dilly
Set them to work
Some to the plough dilly dilly
Some to the fork

Some to the hay dilly dilly
Some to thresh corn
Whilst you and I dilly dilly
Keep ourselves warm

Lavender's blue dilly dilly
Lavender's green
When you are King dilly dilly
I shall be Queen

Who told you so dilly dilly
Who told you so
Twas my own heart, dilly dilly
That told me so

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,MY SWEET AMARLLIS
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:39 PM

MY SWEET AMARYLLIS FLOWER SONG ROMANTIC THOUGHTS PUT TO MUSIC COMPARE A LOVELY WOMAN TO THE REGAL AMARYLLIS FLOWER ENJOY THANKS GEORGE http://cdbaby.com/cd/gjohnson3 SONG NUMBER 8.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 10:41 AM

Mudcat's own Seamus Kennedy has a very good album on which every song is about roses. It appears to be out of print, but I'm sure he would work with any interested party to get a copy.

Australia's John Williamson has a nice song called "Purple Roses."

Gareth and Liz the Squeak, I glad to discover two more apparent Wurzel fans! It is so hard for us here in the middle of America (Missouri) to "discover" and get our hands on some of the less well known treasures of English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh music---like Shag Conners and the Carrot Crunchers!

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 07:08 PM

Scots song The Gairdner Child has as many flowers as you could want
JC

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 06:57 PM

Another Welsh one: Blodam Drain (The Flower of the Thorn) - no idea what the words are, though.

The cornkister "The Buchan Gairdner" (or Gardener) has the most improbable flower names you will ever find in a song. Like pelargoniums.

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 05:05 AM

A few more, with an international touch:

Edelweiss
Ej, ruzha, ruzha; (Hey, Rose, Rose; a Czech mountain hollar)
Ljon, ljon, ljon (Flax, flax, flax. Obviously much prettier in Russian)
Stanu ja cherjomuxoj (I'll become a chokecherry; Russian)
Cupid's Garden (The first verse, at least)
The Sprig of Thyme (not to be confused with Sprigs of the Thyme)
As I Walked Through the Meadows [=Queen of May?]
It's a Rosebud in June

And of course
Botany Bay
;-}

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: GUEST,i love cows
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 12:04 AM

umm... wut?

Subject: Lyr Add: BLODAU'R FLWYDDYN / FLOWERS OF THE YEAR
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 04:56 AM

Blodau'r flwyddyn (Flowers of the year)

My love is like the flowers of the whole year,
April, May, June also,
The sun's radiance shining upon shadow
And, of all girls, the fairest wheat.

Beautiful is the smile of the rising sun
With its embrace of light,
Beautiful are the smiles of the moonlight
More beautiful is the cheek of my love.

Slender and stately as the birch tree
Her face is as pretty as the beautiful clover
Her dawning is like a summer's morning,
It is she who is the subject of praise throughout the nations.

This has a drop-dead-gorgeous tune too.

Couple of notes: the tune was first published in 1845 with different words. This is an example of 'canu penillion, dull y De' or 'versifying in the southern manner', i.e. taking a tune and thinking of a variety of 'floating' folk verses that you can link together. Someone else might sing a whole different set to this tune (a member of the 'Y Dôn Fechan' family) but these days the above are generally associated with it.

I don't know if these references to wildflowers are part of the bardic tradition of referring to an out-of-wedlock child as a 'Flower of May' or not. I'm currently doing a trawl of these folk verses and it seems that there are very few references to garden flowers (I've gone through about 400 of a collection of 700 verses); instead the Welsh go for wildflowers or crops - like wheat.

siân

Subject: Lyr Add: BLODAU'R FLWYDDYN / FLOWERS OF THE YEAR
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 02:33 PM

Blodau'r flwyddyn (Flowers of the year)

Blodau'r flwyddyn yw f'anwylyd,
Ebrill, Mai, Mehefin hefyd,
Llewyrch haul yn t'wynnu ar gysgod,
A gwenithen y genethod.

Hardd yw gwên yr haul yn codi
Gyda choflaid o olueni,
Hardd yw golau gwenau'r lleuad,
Harddach ydyw grudd fy nghariad.

Main a chymwys fel y fedwen;
Berth ei llun fel hardd feillionen;
Teg ei gwawr fel bore hafddydd;
Hon yw nod holl glod y gwledydd.

But I am loth to provide a translation when Siân could probably do so more effectively.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Flower songs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

"Ah, May the Red Rose Live Alway" by Stephen Foster. Also refers to daisies and primroses.

Flowers in songs remind me of these lines in "Charming Molly":
"In her eyes, these things are seen:
Violets, roses, lilies, and daffadowndillies..."

I always cringe when singing that last part--what self-respecting guy would ever dream of saying "daffadowndillies", even if hopelessly besotted or drunk on his patootie? But the rest of the song is too good to pass up. Some day I'll sit down with some gardening books and find a more reasonable substitute. (Side note: A girl with such unusually kaleidoscopic eyes and black lips probably needs the ministrations of a doctor.)

Stretching the topic to the most tenuous flower associations, there's "Lavender Cowboy". :-}

Codgerly yours...