Tune Req: Annabell Lee?

Subject: Annabell Lee?
From:
Date: 13 May 01 - 11:02 PM

Hey, guys. I'm trying to find out if anyone ever set Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabell Lee" to music. If anyone's heard anything like that, I'd love to hear the song.

-Jeremy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Amergin
Date: 13 May 01 - 11:10 PM

I know that Joan Baez sung it....not sure when or where...though...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Amergin
Date: 13 May 01 - 11:11 PM

oh and it is in one of her songbooks (ballad book maybe?) but i can't remember which...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: IvanB
Date: 13 May 01 - 11:53 PM

It's in The Joan Baez Songbook, and it's credited to Don Dilworth (tune).

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 14 May 01 - 12:04 AM

It's been set, for piano and voice, long before Joan Baez.  The  Lester Levy  site is down at present, but I suspect that you might find music for it there.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:39 AM

I well remember sitting having a quiet lunch in a pub in Athlone in the Irish midlands, about thirty years ago, and slowly becoming conscious of the piped music leaking out of a speaker near me. It had a distinctly country flavour about it - but the words seemed strangely familiar. "I was a child and she was a child..."! Jeez, that's Poe's Annabel Lee! I'd been a great fan of Poe as a young teenager.

Regards

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: sophocleese
Date: 14 May 01 - 08:20 AM

Nancy Telford, a Canadian Composer has also set it to music for choir more recently. Its quite good.

Subject: Tune Add: Annabell Lee
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 May 01 - 11:41 AM

T:ANNABEL LEE
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:140
C:Don Dilworth
S:Joan Baez Songbook
K:Bb
z2 B c || d3 d d2 | c3 c c2| B4 B2 | A4 A A | G4 G2 | E4 E2 | F6-|F6| _G4 G2 | B3 _A _G2| _G6 | F3 E _D2 | E4 E E | E4 _G2| F3 _G F2 | E6-| E4 E E | F2 F2 F2| =G4 G2 | G2 G2 G2 | _A4 G F | E3 E E | E4 D2 | E6-|E6-|E6| z4 Bc|| E6-|E4 z E | F4 F2 | G4 G G | G4 G2 | _A4 G F | E4 E2 | E4 D2 | E6-| E6-|E6| z4 B c || E6-|E6-| E6||

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a bearcat of a tune--I know the key sig. says 2 flats; the book gives 2 flats and says G#minor--when I told ABC G#minor I got 5 sharps.....go with the flats. The accidentals are exactly as given in the book.

The double bars are actually D.S. repeats....the first double bar is for the first and second verses only, the second double bar is for the third and subsequent verses, the last double bar is for the last verse......

Chords are a booger too--I'll put them here but you are on your own to decide where they go, as I think that the Powers That Be prefer we not include them in the actual ABC. Chord changes pretty much come at the beginning of every bar.

Capo-none Play--G#minor(barre)

Gm(G#m) D7(D#7) Gm(G#m) Dm(F#) Eb(E) Ab(A)
Bb(B) Ebm(Em) Gb(G) Cb(C) Db(D) Ab(Em)or Ebm(Em)
Ebm(Em) Bb(B7) Ebm(Em) Bb(B) Eb(E) Cm(C#m) Fm(F#m) Eb(E) Bb7(B7)
Eb(E) (here is the first double bar for the 1st and second verses)
Eb(E) Bb(B) Eb(E) Cm(C#m) Fm(F#m) Eb(E) Bb7(B7)
and this chord Eb(E) is for the 3rd,4th & 5th verses
and the last verse ends on Bb(E)

I have given you exactly what is in Joan's book, and since I am not a guitar player I have no clue what the chords in parentheses mean. Don't ask me, lol!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:04 PM

We had a thread on this one -- I even contacted the author, and he responded here. But I can't find it through the search at the moment. I have another set of chords -- thanks to Rick Fielding, we struggled through this (As Sorcha says, it is a bearcat). If I can find them reasonably quickly, I will post them. The chords in Joan's book are wrong, if I remember.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:27 PM

Peter, I found the thread, Click me! by searching for Don Dilworth, but there are no chords in it.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:49 PM

Yeah, I'll have to hunt down the version we did. It was last year.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Snuffy
Date: 14 May 01 - 07:07 PM

Sorch - 2 flats is G Minor, and 5 sharps is G#minor. If you capo on the first fret the unbracketed Gm chords are what you play, and the bracketed G#m chords are what you actually hear.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Annabell Lee?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 May 01 - 07:13 PM

I know, snuffy. But I just copied it out of the book--which also said Capo--none. Besides that, it ends on E. AArrrgggghhh! We love Joanie, yes we do.