Lyr Req: Bohemian Girl / I Dreamt I Dwelt in ...

Subject: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Chet W.
Date: 23 May 98 - 07:19 PM

There's a song I've looked for - just heard it again on the Prairie Home Companion except with different words - I believe the actual title is The Bohemian Girl, from an old light opera or some such. It starts "I dreamt I dwelled in marbled halls..." and the chorus repeats a few times "You loved me still the same...". If anyone has the whole lyric I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks, Chet W.

Subject: Lyr Add: I DREAMT I DWELT IN MARBLE HALLS
From: Alice
Date: 23 May 98 - 08:37 PM

(I Dreamt I Dwelt In) Marble Halls

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls
with vassals and serfs at my side,
and of all who assembled within those walls
that I was the hope and the pride.
I had riches all too great to count
and a high ancestral name.
But I also dreamt which pleased me most
that you loved me still the same,
that you loved me
you loved me still the same,
that you loved me
you loved me still the same.

I dreamt that suitors sought my hand,
that knights upon bended knee
and with vows no maiden's heart could withstand,
they pledged their faith to me.
And I dreamt that one of that noble host
came forth my hand to claim.
But I also dreamt which charmed me most
that you loved me still the same
that you loved me
you loved me still the same,
that you loved me
you loved me still the same.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 23 May 98 - 08:45 PM

A little info... Marble Halls, or The Dream, from 'The Bohemian Girl', 1843, by Irish composer and baritone Michael William Balfe, 1808-1870.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 23 May 98 - 09:58 PM

There's even a reference to this song in James Joyce's Dubliners.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Cuilionn
Date: 23 May 98 - 10:34 PM

Dinnae laugh at me, but I'm thinkin' th' song appears on ane o' Enya's albums as weel. It micht be ca'd by anither name, but th' wairds are th' same. An' whether some folk are quick tae scoff at her as "new age," She still soonds richt grand. I wish I cuid reca' th' specific album, but I cannae...ane o' th' newer anes, tho'.

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 23 May 98 - 11:04 PM

It's on Shepherd Moons, by Enya, and in the notes in her songbook, it says 'The Bohemian Girl' and in particular, this song, is a favorite of both Enya and her mother.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: chet w.
Date: 24 May 98 - 10:53 AM

Thanks, Alice and everybody,

Chet

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 24 May 98 - 11:22 AM

I remember the first time I heard this song was when I was a little girl, watching a Laurel and Hardy movie. It was the one where they were gypsies who took in a little girl and raised her in their caravan. Jeanette McDonald sang "Marble Halls".

alice

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 24 May 98 - 01:21 PM

ooops, I'm not sure who sang it in the L&H movie. It is not on MacDonald's list, but the Laurel and Hardy 'Bohemian Girl'(1936) is available on video.

alice

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Chet W.
Date: 24 May 98 - 02:36 PM

Has anyone figured out the chords to this song? There's one or two I can't quite get.

Thanks, Chet W.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 24 May 98 - 02:50 PM

I have Enya's songbook with these chords for Marble Halls:
Key of Bflat major

Bflat, F7, Bflat, F7, Bflat, Eflat, Eflat.minor, Bflat, C, A7, D, F7

Bflat, F7, Bflat, Eflat, Bflat, F7, Bflat, Eflat, Bflat, F7, Bflat.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 24 May 98 - 03:17 PM

My mother used to sing this a lot(years ago), but I don't think she knew all the words. Brings back memories.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Chet W.
Date: 24 May 98 - 09:40 PM

Does anyone know all the chords for this song? There's a couple I can't quite get.

Thanks, Chet W.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Chet W.
Date: 24 May 98 - 09:42 PM

Thanks Alice. Don't know how I entered the request for chords twice.

Chet

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Richard Wright
Date: 25 May 98 - 12:46 PM

Well, well well--this is like a terminal case of deja vu all over again. On a shelf in our living room is a picture of me some few decades ago, in drag, as a 8-year-old Bohemian girl. My dad is standing beside me--he was the pirate King, or was it Gypsy King, who stole me. I still remember my lines, " I want to go home, I want to go home." My Aunt is also in the pictiure dressed as a "maid"?. I don't remember her part. They had my Dad play the part of the pirate King as they were afraid to have someone else "steal" me.

Memories.

Richard

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Alice
Date: 25 May 98 - 02:18 PM

Memory? No, That's from 'Cats'.... sorry, Richard, just teasin'. I couldn't help it.

Richard, What did the other 8 year old boys in school do to you when they found out?? Kind of like the having to be a boy playing Little Buttercup in HMS Pinafore. Or did you keep it a family secret? Sounds like it was great fun. Good thing you took photos.

alice

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Richard Wright
Date: 26 May 98 - 01:20 PM

Alice;

I made sure they didn't. In fact the pictures did not surface until recently, by which time I had two grown sons and there was less doubt about my masculinity--which is not to say my brothers and sons don't take the opportunity for some ragging. They aren't something I will post on the web on use on an album cover.

Richard

Subject: RE: LYR REQ - The Bohemian Girl
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 27 May 98 - 03:42 PM

Strange, strange.

While having breakfast thia morning in Crystal River FL. heard the song on their background music.

First time in many, many years. Bob S.