Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well

Subject: So Fare Ye Well
From: Wachara
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:41 AM

I would like you to add lyrics of the following songs:

1. So Fare Ye Well 2. With You Fair Maid

Thanks for your attention.

Wachara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:46 AM

Presumably #1 is "Leaving Liverpool" see Here

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:50 AM

though it could be Goodbye, Fare ye well

or many other songs.

For #2 I'm betting on In Amsterdam there lived a maid...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:57 AM

If so, it's Here

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 10:48 AM

No.1 could be Mary From Dungloe (So fare ye well, sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore, etc).

Pete

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Mudlark
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 01:05 PM

Or maybe it's the one that starts out

So fare ye well, my own true love, fare thee well my dear
For the ship is awaitin' and the wind blows free
And I must sail away to the sea, Mary Ann

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Wachara
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 10:44 AM

Dear friends,

Many many thanks for your help. I never thought that the result would come this quick. It's the first time that I use the forum after becoming a silent admirer for a few years.

So Fare Ye Well is the same one suggested by Mudlark. It was sung by the Highwaymen in the early sixties.

A-rovin' was sung by the Brothers Four as With You Fair Maid.

Again, many thanks for your attention.

Wachara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Susan of DT
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:01 AM

The second song sounds like We'll go no more a roving with you fair maid. The search does not seem to be working ar the moment or you could just put these phrases in the blue search box

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:18 AM

Assuming that Susan is right, click here (The DT search cannot find words starting with fa.., like 'fair' up to 'fam' for reasons unknown).

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:23 AM

Mudlark - got the lyrics for that one?

Subject: Lyr Add: MARY ANN (from The Spinners)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:55 AM

MARY ANN

(Trad)

Fare thee well my own true love
Fare thee well my dear
For the ship is a-waiting and the wind blows high
And I am bound away for the sea, Mary Ann
And I am bound away for the sea, Mary Ann

Oh yonder, don't you see the dove
A-sittin' on his stile
He's a-mourning the loss of his own true love
As I do now for you my dear Mary Ann
As I do now for you my dear Mary Ann

The lobster boiling in the pot
The bluefish on the hook
They're suffering long, but it's nothing like
The ache I bear for you my dear Mary Ann
The ache I bear for you my dear Mary Ann

Oh had I but a flask of gin
And sugar here for two
And a great big bowl for to mix them in
I'd pour a drink for you Mary Ann
I'd pour a drink for you Mary Ann

(as sung by The Spinners)

copied and pasted from My songbook where some notes from Susanne can be found.

A 'Ten thousand miles' variant it seems to be.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Mudlark
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 12:00 PM

Wolfgang....thanks for the rest of the lyrics...this song has a pretty, lilting melody and I'd forgotten all about it until this thread popped up. Also, tho all the other verses were familiar, don't think I've ever heard the lobster one. I particularly like the last verse...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Strupag
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 12:27 PM

Naw ! It couldn't be.

The final chorus in my song "Indiana" goes: - So fare thee well now Indiana Your green land's been good to me

Anyway, fare thee well the noo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 12:32 PM

okay - I *knew* I'd seen this before...but I couldn't find it. There are severa Canandian variants as well I believe.

Subject: LYR ADD: Mary Ann (see above)
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 01:51 PM

Thank you, Wolfgang, I have been looking for those words for a long time. I remember hearing the Spinners sing it at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool when I was an impressionable teenager, and it had quite an effect on me.

So, is it traditional from Nova Scotia, or music hall? (See notes at Susanne's site, link above.) Doesn't sound music hall to me.

Do you want the dots, MMario? :0)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:01 PM

Noreen - yes, of course I would like the dots! (it is on the missing tune list - which is why it seemed so familiar to me )

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:51 PM

See also this earlier discussion, 10,000 miles song from Fly Away Home, which contains some useful references and material, and a text of the burlesque song Mary Ann. Sheet music of 1856 can be seen at The Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection:

My Mary Ann. The Yankee Girls Song; "Words by Barney Williams, music by M. Tyse". Based on earlier material, of course, which turns up not just in in Nova Scotia but in other parts of Canada, the USA, Britain and Ireland.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Deckman
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 03:38 PM

"Mary Ann" is one of my more favorite songs. I learned it from Michael Lieb, Washington state, USA. By the way, Mike seems to have dropped off the earth ... again. If anyone knows his whereabouts, tell him that Bob Nelson and Bride Judy are wanting to serve him dinner ... again! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 06:53 PM

MMario, is the ABC posted here by Bruce, not the tune in question? I'm rather confused by all the cross-referencing, so it may be a totally different tune, and I've not got to grips with ABC (yet).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: GUEST,Gurney
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:52 PM

The song "Farewell she" starts "Fare thee well cold winter, and fare thee well cold frost...." If that sounds like it (I haven't checked if it is posted) I do have it on record somewhere. G.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 13 Jul 02 - 06:55 PM

If "Fare thee well" is allowed, I should point out that the renowned Alex Campbell sang "So fare thee well my rambling boy" in his version of the Tom Paxton song. Rambling Boy. There can't be many people who could improve on a Paxton lyric, or who would dare to even try.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jul 02 - 08:48 PM

Ian and Sylvia do a pretty job on "MaryAnn". It is on several of their albums.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jul 02 - 08:51 PM

Judy Collins did a "Fare thee well" which was a variant of the "Leaving Of Liverpool".

So fare thee well, my own true love.
We will meet another day another time.
It's not the leaving that's grieving me
But my true love who's bound to be left behind."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: MMario
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 11:11 PM

Noreen - yes - it does look like bruce posted a tune for that. I will check it more closely tomorrow. I missed it earlier.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 11:51 PM

Three years ago, when our son caught the last train for the coast & went 3,000 miles away to college, we put a bit of "The Leaving of Liverpool" on our voicemail greeting -- "I am bound for Califor-nye-ay, but I know that I'll return some day -- so fare thee well, my own true love....", etc.

Then there's "The Enniskillen Dragoons", with the chorus

Fare thee well Enniskillen, fare thee well for a while
And all around the borders of Erin's green isle;
And when the war is over we'll return in full bloom
And you'll all welcome home the Enniskillen Dragoons.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 05:01 AM

Sinsull, that was Bob Dylan's version, recorded by Judy Collins. It's listed in the DT, strangely, as Leaving of Liverpool (New Version); I think Dylan's title was "Farewell", but I could be wrong on that, as I so often am.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 05:36 AM

The last stanza of Burns' MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ROSE is related.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Hrothgar
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 08:22 AM

Of course the search can't find anything that starts with f a.

If it doesn't start with anything, it can't be found.

:-))

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: The Pooka
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 08:33 PM

Right, Masato! As always. Another good one.

Hrothgar, HAR HAR yer right, too. / Thanks for Nothing. :)

Farewell to Nova Scotia, the sea-bound coast
Let your mountains dark and dreary be...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 12:00 PM

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