Tune Req: A Nation Once Again

Subject: A Nation Once Again
From: Ellen
Date: 18 Jan 98 - 03:22 PM

I can't believe I can't find this melody. Can find the words lots of places, but not the tune. Can anyone point me to a web page where it lives, abc, MIDI, or gif? Or does anyone have it in one of those forms?

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Lyrics and tune in the Digital Tradition

Subject: Tune Add: A NATION ONCE AGAIN (Thomas Davis)
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 18 Jan 98 - 11:37 PM

Ellen,
Here it is, MIDI AND ABC. The words are in the DT naturally.......
Written by Thomas Davis (1814-1845)

MIDI file: ANATION.MID

Timebase: 480

Name: A Nation Once Again
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: G
Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
1447 1 62 127 0442 0 62 127 0031 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 71 127 0718 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0238 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0478 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0958 0 67 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 71 127 0718 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0238 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0478 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 62 127 0958 0 62 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0718 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 62 127 0718 0 62 127 0002 1 62 127 0238 0 62 127 0002 1 64 127 0718 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 71 127 1438 0 71 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 72 127 0718 0 72 127 0002 1 71 127 0238 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0718 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 71 127 0478 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0718 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 67 127 1438 0 67 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 71 127 0718 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0238 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0478 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 1438 0 64 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 72 127 0718 0 72 127 0002 1 71 127 0238 0 71 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 1438 0 66 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 62 127 0478 0 62 127 0002 1 64 127 0238 0 64 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0478 0 67 127 0002 1 66 127 0238 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 64 127 0478 0 64 127 0002 1 69 127 0478 0 69 127 0002 1 66 127 0478 0 66 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 69 127 0238 0 69 127 0002 1 71 127 0478 0 71 127 0002 1 72 127 0478 0 72 127 0002 1 69 127 0718 0 69 127 0002 1 67 127 0238 0 67 127 0002 1 67 127 1438 0 67 127
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:A Nation Once Again
M:4/4
Q:1/4=100
K:G
D7/4D/4|-D2EFG2FG|B3AG2F2|E2A2GFEF|A2G4D2|
D2EFG2FG|B3AG2F2|E2A2GFEF|E2D4D2|D2E2F3G|
A2D2D3D|E3FG2A2|B6GF|E2E2c3B|A2G2F3E|D2B2A3G|
G6D2|B3AG2F2|E6E2|c3BA2G2|F6E2|D2EFG2FG|E2A2F2GA|
B2c2A3G|G6||

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: Chords Add: A NATION ONCE AGAIN (Thomas Davis)
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 19 Jan 98 - 07:34 AM

And here's how the chords fit the words:-

A NATION ONCE AGAIN

by Thomas Davis (1814-1845)

      G  
When boyhood's fire was in my blood
   C      D7        G   
I read of ancient freemen,
                Em        G       C   
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
       Am      D7  
Three hundred men and three men;
      D 
And then I prayed I yet might see
     C       A7       B7  
Our fetters rent in twain,
     C       Cm      D  
And Ireland long a province, be
   G      D     G  
A Nation once again!

       G            C  
    A nation once again,
       Am           D7  
    A nation once again,
         G        Em      C        D   
    And Ireland, long a province, be
     G      D     G  
    A Nation once again!

                                      Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: leprechaun
Date: 20 Jan 98 - 01:27 AM

I love this song! This is another one the band plays at the Knights of Columbus on St. Patrick's Day in my little town. Now my brother and I can study the words and sing along with more than just the chorus.

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: jane
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 02:23 PM

it is an overtly political poem full of rhetorical and inspiring meanings. it is patrioticstating that freedomshould be noble and holy

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: j0_77
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 02:48 PM

I completely concur with Jane - I always wondered why three and not four or five or six even could have been the number ??? :)

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From:
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 06:05 PM

Perhaps it refers to Horatius at the bridge (3 Roman men). yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: Martin _Ryan
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 03:05 PM

Peter

Yes, that's what it was!

Regards

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: Mark D (inactive)
Date: 02 Mar 99 - 10:32 PM

Ellen:

I think the original publication source for this song was THE NATION newspaper - an Irish Nationalist newspaper which began publication in the 1840's. Many of the nationalistic poems printed there were compiled in a book entitled THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION (1845) and some were put to original music at that time. That was apparently the case with a Nation Once Again. I am not a great reader of music, but it seems clear that the melody written in The Spirit of the Nation for A Nation Once Again is not the same melody that the Clancy's and others have made popular. If you send me your snail mail, off forum, I can send you a photocopy of the music. Any Mudcatters who want a copy, let me know. Maybe someone of you more talented than I can post a MIDI file.

Keep the music alive - Mark D.

Subject: RE: A Nation Once Again
From: Don Meixner
Date: 02 Mar 99 - 11:24 PM

Not only the Three at the bridge, the Roman reference. But the 300 Spartans who held against the Persians at Thermopylae is my guess for the Greecian reference.

Don Meixner