Tune Req: Vagabond Song

Subject: vagabond song
From: GUEST,laura t
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 07:04 PM

I'm looking for the music (printed or a recording) of The Vagabond Song, a tune using the words to a poem of that name by Bliss Carmen. The poem starts. "There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood..." (I think that's right anyway.)

Subject: RE: vagabond song
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 07:19 PM

No luck for music at all. All I found was the poem. Sorry. Who sang it, do you know?

Subject: RE: vagabond song
From: GUEST,Laura T
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 10:33 AM

Sorry I don't know who sang it. A friend read the poem and said that her mother used to sing it but she couldn't remember the tune. I have another friend who loves that poem and loves to sing so I thought would be great to figure out the melody. Maybe her Mom just made up a tune?

Subject: Lyr Add: A VAGABOND SONG (Bliss Carman)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 10:02 PM

From Modern American Poetry at Bartleby.com:

A VAGABOND SONG
Bliss Carman.

THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vagabond Song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 11:53 PM

I recall another vagabond song, not Bliss Carmen's. Rudolf Friml, an operetta. Too close to bedtime, maybe someone knows.