Chords Req: Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

Subject: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Singout
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 12:35 PM

Does anyone know the chords for this old song? I'm am a beginning guitar player and have not been able to figure them out.

Thanks! Penny

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 12:55 PM

It is in the Levy Collection. With no chords, but with piano arrangement.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Singout
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 03:56 PM

Thanks, Masato, for taking the time to scan all that for me. It confirms I have the right melody. I wish I could figure out the chords for it!

Penny

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 04:27 PM

"Somewhere the guerdon won" - well, that's a word you don't see everyday. But since it means reward it's correct enough. A confusing line though. I bet the author was using a rhyming dictionary.

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 04:39 PM

Well, Singout, if you print that from Levy and ask a piano player what the chords are, that should do it.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 10:00 PM

The images from the Historic American Sheet Music are clearer. MIDI and information are given by The CyberHymnal. The printed sheet music is in Robert A Fremont, ed., Favorite Songs of the Nineties (Dover, pp. 11-14).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: pavane
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 06:51 AM

If you have a MIDI with accompaniment, my program MIDI chords will tell you what chords are being played, and can even simplify the complicated ones. You can buy it from Hands-on MIDI software - it doesn't cost much, and there is a free demo to download.

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: pavane
Date: 30 Sep 01 - 06:53 AM

Forgot to say it can also transpose the chords into any key. And I have written a shareware program which will transpose the actual MIDI.

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Subject: Chord Req: Beautiful isle of somewhere
From:
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 04:22 AM

Hi there
Just wondered if anyone happened to have this chorded??
Much appreciated
P

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Beautiful isle of somewhere
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 05:00 AM

This score (at Levy) may be of help:

Title: Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Music by J.S. Fearis. Words by Jessie Brown Pounds.
Jessie Brown Pounds Publication: Chicago: E.O. Excell, Fine Arts Building, Michigan Avenue, 1901.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus; includes separate arrangements for Men's and Women's Voices
Instrumentation: piano and voice

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Beautiful isle of somewhere
From: Nathan in Texas
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 08:56 PM

Lots of hymns & gospel songs with chords at this site including Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 11:05 PM

Here are chords from the site Nathan linked to.
-Joe Offer-

  Words and Music: Jessie B Pounds and John S Fearis
  From: Guitar Picker - www.gospelmusic.tk
  
  Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
  
  A                    E
  Somewhere the sun is shining,
                          A
  Somewhere the songbirds dwell;
                            E
  Hush, then, thy sad repining,
  B7                    E7
  God lives, and all is well.
  
  
  Chorus:
  A          E7
  Somewhere, somewhere,
  F#m               E7
  Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!
  A           E              A7    D
  Land of the true, where we live anew,
  A                 E7   A
  Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!
  
  
  Somewhere the day is longer,
  Somewhere the task is done;
  Somewhere the heart is stronger,
  Somewhere the guerdon won.
  
  Chorus
  
  Somewhere the load is lifted,
  Close by an open door;
  Somewhere the clouds are rifted,
  Somewhere the angels sing.
  
  Chorus
  
  
  

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Sing.out
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 10:58 AM

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Sing.out
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 11:01 AM

Thanks for the chords! What a surprise to check in today and see a response to my request from two years ago. How amazing.

Penny

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 10:47 PM

Thanks so much guys
Perfect!!

Subject: RE: Chords-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: GUEST,Julie
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 04:06 PM

My father wants played at his funeral Beautiful Isle of Somewhere, played on Cornet or trumpet - he is now 85 and not destined much longer for this world.

Wartime memories of a huge battle in El Alamein when, one night at dusk, all dropped quiet as a solo cornet could be heard bringing the battlefield to a contemplative halt. Where can I find a cornet recording please?-

Subject: RE: Chords Req: Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 10:54 PM

The correct lyrics for verse 3, from the sheet music at the Levy collection:

Somewhere the load is lifted,
Close by an open gate;
Somewhere the clouds are rifted,
Somewhere the angels wait.