Subject: Eliza From: Wolfgang Date: 19 Jul 01 - 04:39 AM This song has been asked for in another thread, so here it is. Buy Les Barker songbooklets! This man is a great songwriter. His books are a constant source of enjoyment for me. (Of course, one might say that I can profit more from them than others since I am a nonnative speaker and often without a cue to the background. I laugh when I first read the songs, I laugh again, when I understand them, and I laugh a third time, often years later, when I finally get the double sense) Wolfgang
ELIZA |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: Noreen Date: 19 Jul 01 - 10:25 AM 'Gorn' is another way of pronouncing 'gone', Wolfgang, so it was not a typo- it rhymes better! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: Jeri Date: 19 Jul 01 - 10:36 AM Noreen, how do you pronounce "dawn?" Thanks, Wolfgang. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: GeorgeH Date: 19 Jul 01 - 10:41 AM To rhyne with "Lawn". Or almost with "Porn". G. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: Noreen Date: 19 Jul 01 - 12:54 PM Good point, Jeri- I'm trying to think of all possible ways of pronouncing 'dawn' now...! The way I pronounce dawn it rhymes with gorn, and in most English accents this would be the case- though some accents would make more of the 'r' sound in gorn, which is what I imagine George means. Wasn't it the bumbling policeman in Enid Blyton's Secret Seven or Famous Five books who would say that someone had 'gorn orf'? I meant to say, when I posted earlier in a hurry, thank you to Wolfgang for posting Eliza. I printed it out straight away and enjoyed singing it to myself in the car. Noreen |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: GUEST,Ed Pellow Date: 19 Jul 01 - 01:35 PM Many thanks Wolfgang. Much appreciated. Do you have any idea when the song/poem was written? To me it says more about 'Angels and Cigarettes' than anything... Thanks again Ed |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: GUEST,Ed Pellow Date: 19 Jul 01 - 01:38 PM and sorry for crap html... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: GUEST Date: 19 Jul 01 - 04:05 PM Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn Eliza's accordion is greeting the dawn No wonder her parents have packed up and gorn |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: Wolfgang Date: 20 Jul 01 - 04:12 AM Thanks for the thanks. Ed, I don't think there is any print date information in Les Barker's booklets but if there is, you'll read it. The 'gorn' discussion reminds me of a branch of linguistics(?) in which they try to test theories about pronounciation in timeslong past by looking at the rhymes. Our great Goethe who was in general a master of rhymes but has some awful rhymes in his oevre which are only understandable if you know that he comes from Frankfurt and how they pronounce the 'g'. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eliza From: English Jon Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:03 AM I've got a house like that. EJ |
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