Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale

Subject: Florence Nightingale
From: Julia
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 03:36 PM

Does anybody know a song about Florence Nightingale? The one I am looking for might be called the Lamp Lady. (I'm looking for the tude, too)

Subject: ADD: Lady With the Lamp (Joe McDonald)
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 04:05 PM

Here is a CLICKIE! that will take you to a site that has 4 nursing songs, including "Lady With the Lamp" lyrics and sound file.......just click on it after you get there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 08:17 PM

For something a bit closer to the Crimean War (though probably not what you're looking for), have a look at:  Florence Nightingale

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: DancingMom
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 10:13 PM

thank you, Sorcha. I listened to the songs. Jerry Garcia's "Clara Barton" is just beautiful.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: Fiolar
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 08:48 AM

I recall a TV sketch some years ago regarding Florence "the Lady with the Lamp" Nightingale. It showed the aforementioned lady going among the beds of the soldiers, when a voice shouts out "Turn that effing light out, there are people trying to sleep around here."

Subject: Lyr Add: LADY WITH THE LAMP (Country Joe McDonald)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 11:17 PM

LADY WITH THE LAMP
(Country Joe McDonald)

I don't mind, please don't misunderstand —
I know the score of war.
A soldier's life is give and give
And then they ask for more.
Walking on the picket line
Where my comrades fell,
Holding up the thin-red-line
In the shot and shell.

The lady with the lamp,
You know she understands.
The lady with the lamp,
She's the soldiers' friend.

I don't mind the blistering heat,
I think I can endure.
It's freezing cold and I can't feel my feet —
Well, that's the hell of war.
I never thought about the big red wound
When I saw my comrades fall.
Now I'm in this cold and lonely room
Wondering if I'll live at all.

The lady with the lamp,
You know she understands.
The lady with the lamp,
She's the soldiers' friend.

First they use us
And then they throw us away.
Only Miss Nightingale
Knows the price that we pay,
The lady with the lamp.

Excuse me please, a cup of tea,
I've such a terrible thirst.
Would you please come and sit with me,
I feel it's come to the worst.
Write my mother that I love her so,
I can't seem to hold the pen.
Take this keepsake and send it home,
To those I'll never see again.

The lady with the lamp,
You know she understands.
The lady with the lamp,
She's the soldiers' friend.

She will hold his hand,
Stay with him to the end.
You know she understands,
She's the soldier's friend.

[Sung by Country Joe McDonald on "Carry On" (Shanachie 8019). Copyright © 1994 by Alkatraz Corner Music, BMI, renewed 1996.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: cetmst
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 07:43 AM

See previous thread: LAMPLADY (click)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: cetmst
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 07:58 AM

Sorry it won't come up. Lyrics by Peter Benson can be found by going to my previous postings - Lamplady

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: Abby Sale
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:31 AM

The "Happy!" file for her birthday gives a few lines of:

Where she, who stems the wound that bleeds,
A heroe's life may save:
And heroes saved, exulting, tell
How well her voice they knew:
How sorrow near it could not dwell,
But spread its wings and flew!
"Florence Nightingale" By Francis Bennock, Library of Congress, America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets (but it seems unlikely this ever went into tradition.)

See the American Memory pages for the rest.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Florence Nightingale
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:52 AM

Indeed: see the link I gave earlier in this thread.