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Subject: The gypsy's warning From: GUEST,fiddlesticks Date: 27 Sep 02 - 12:08 AM I would like to have the words and a midi file for the song--The gypsy's warning. Thanks |
Subject: RE: The gypsy's warning From: Mudlark Date: 27 Sep 02 - 12:16 AM F'sticks...I've got the words somewhere, but no midi file. If no one else comes up with this I'll be glad to send the words, at least. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:00 AM Say, this is a nice one I wasn't familiar with. We have the lyrics and tune in the Digital Tradition (click). Click here for a related thread. Click here for sheet music for "The Gipsy's Warning [The Gipsie's Warning]," by Henry A. Coard, 1864. Click here for "Do Not Heed Her Warning. Reply to the Gipsies Warning" [Words by Thomas Manahan. Music by Henry Tucker] (1860-sic) -Joe Offer- GYPSY'S WARNING (DT Lyrics) Do not trust him, gentle lady, though his voice be low and sweet Heed not him who kneels before you, gently pleading at thy feet Now thy life is in its morning; cloud not this thy happy lot Listen to the gypsy's warning, gentle lady, heed him not Listen to the gypsy's warning, gentle lady, head him not Do not turn so coldly from me, I would only guard thy youth From his stern and withering power, I would only tell the truth I would shield thee from all danger, save thee from tempter's snare Lady shun the dark-eyed stranger, I have warned thee, now beware Lady shun the dark-eyed stranger, I have warned thee, now beware Lady, once there lived a maiden, pure and bright, and like thee, fair But he wooed and wooed and won her, filed her gentle heart with care Then he heeded not her weeping, nor cared he her life to save Soon she perished, now she's sleeping in the cold and silent grave... Keep thy gold, I do not wish it. Lady, I have prayed for this For the hour that I might foil him, rob him of expected bliss Gentle lady, do not wonder at my words, so cold and wild Lady, in that green grave yonder lies the gypsy's only child Lady, do not heed her warning. Trust me, thou shalt find me true Constant as the light of morning I will ever be to you Lady, I will not deceive thee, fill thy guileless heart with woe Trust me, lady, and believe me; sorrow thou shall never know Stranger, I've been thinking sadly, how you promised, wooed and won How her innocent love gladly heard fair words, built hopes thereon Now she's in the cold ground sleeping by the river's moaning wave And the willows now are weeping o'er that maiden's early grave Warnings from that grave do tell me, and a living voice I hear Of a wooer who would seek me, pleading by a love sincere That without me, life is sorrow; take this hand and heart of mine Promise bliss for every morrow, then forsake me, let me pine Stranger, I will heed the warning coming from the river's side Flowers you strew there in the morning, I'll renew at eventide There we'll walk, but not together, for the gypsy tells me true Mourns her child in tears that smother every kindly thought of you Lady, every joy would perish, pleasures all would wither fast If no heart could love and cherish in this world of storm and blast E'en the stars that gleam above thee shine the brightest in the night So would he who fondly loves thee, in the darkness be thy light Down beside the flowing river where the dark green willow weeps Where the leafy branches quiver, there a gentle maiden sleeps In the morn a lonely stranger comes and lingers many hours Lady, he's no heartless ranger, for he strews her grave with flowers Lady, heed thee not her warning, lay thy soft white hand in mine For I seek no fairer laurel than the constant love of thine When the silver moonlight brightens, thou shalt slumber on my breast Tender words thy soul shall lighten, lull thy spirit into rest Down beside yon flowing river, there bereft where willows weep There must lie that fair one ever. Stranger, why these vigils keep? Why go there alone and early, all those mornings flowers to strew? Did you love, in truth, so dearly? Do you grieve as others do? @gypsy @courtship @death printed in Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin filename[ GYPWARN TUNE FILE: GYPWARN CLICK TO PLAY SOF
Gypsy's Warning, TheDESCRIPTION: "Trust him not, oh gentle lady, Though his voice is low and sweet." "Listen to the Gypsy's warning, Gentle lady, trust him not." The Gypsy tells of a girl betrayed; the lady scorns (her). (The sequel may give the man's self-defense and the lady's answer) AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (sheet music) KEYWORDS: Gypsy love warning FOUND IN: US(MW,Ro,So,SW) REFERENCES (17 citations): Randolph 743, "The Gypsy's Warning" (4 texts, 1 tune, the first being the "Gypsy's Warning" proper, the second the "Answer to the Gypsy's Warning," the third being "The Decision in the Gypsy's Warning," and the last an excerpt from a copyrighted piece by Monroe H. Rosenfeld) Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 525-527, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 743A) Arnold-FolkSongsofAlabama, p. 73, "Gipsy's Warning" (1 text, 1 tune) Henry-SongsSungInTheSouthernAppalachians, pp. 154-155, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text) Brewster-BalladsAndSongsOfIndiana 55, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text plus mention of 1 more); 56, "Answer to the Gypsy's Warning" (1 text) Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 75-76, "The Gypsy's Warning"-"Do Not Heed Her Warning"-"The Decision" (1 text, consisting of the three parts, 1 tune) Stout-FolkloreFromIowa 58, pp. 76-79, "The Gypsy's Warning (And Answer)" (3 texts, two being of the "Warning" and one being the "Answer") Cox-FolkSongsSouth 149, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text) Cox/Hercog/Halpert/Boswell-WVirginia-B, #30, pp. 201-202, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 fragment, 1 tune) Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle, p. 50, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text, 1 tune) Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #60, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text, 1 tune); #61, "Answer to the Gypsy's Warning" (1 text) Finger-FrontierBallads, pp. 116-118, "The Gypsy's Warning" (1 text) Spaeth-ReadEmAndWeep, pp. 19-21, "Love's Ritornella" (2 texts, 1 tune, with this piece listed as an appendix to the song named) Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #744, p. 49, "The GIpsy's Warning" (1 reference) cf. Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan, p. 479, "The Gypsy's Warning" (source notes only) DT, GYPWARN* ADDITIONAL: Aline Waites & Robin Hunter, _The Illustrated Victorian Songbook_, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1984, pp. 82-83, "The Gipsy's Warning" (1 text, 1 tune) Roud #1764 and 3761 and 6421 RECORDINGS: Vernon Dalhart, "The Gypsy's Warning" (Perfect 12330, 1927; Romeo 601, 1928) (Brunswick 122, 1927; Supertone S-2011, 1930) "Gooby" Jenkins, "The Gypsy's Warning" (Okeh 45069, 1926) Arthur Smith Trio, "The Gypsy's Warning" (Bluebird B-7893, 1938) NOTES [123 words]: This probably originated as three separate pieces, the original being "The Gypsy's Warning" (Roud #1764) and the sequels being the "Answer to the Gypsy's Warning" (Roud #3761, in which the young man begs the girl "Do not heed her warning") and the "Decision in the Gypsy's Warning" (Roud #6421, in which the girl decides to heed the warning). The three can, however, be sung together, and they are obviously dependent. What is more, the versions have sometimes merged (e.g. in the version in Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin). So I am listing them as one song even though I know they are multiple. The song seems to have been in tradition by 1880; Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes the first part in By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 22. - RBW Last updated in version 5.2 File: R743 Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2021 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: RangerSteve Date: 27 Sep 02 - 06:39 PM Check the website "Rose, The Record Lady" I don't know the actual web address, but if you enter the name at Yahoo, you'll get it. Rose has the recording by Vernon Dalhart, and you can download it into your computer. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: masato sakurai Date: 27 Sep 02 - 07:56 PM Gypsy's Warning -- Vernon Dalhart [Realaudio] from The Record Lady's All-Time Country Favorites. ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: Mudlark Date: 27 Sep 02 - 08:07 PM My granny used to sing this while doing laundry, throwing her whole heart into it, with an 1890's quiver in her voice. I've had a soft spot for this tearjerker ever since. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 28 Sep 02 - 02:17 AM I first heard this sung by Bob Blair of the musical Blair family in Stone County, Arkansas. I believe it is in Vance Randolph's four volume set of Ozark Folk Songs. This was supposedly the first song sung over the telephone. Does anyone have any verification of this? Somewhere I read that there were many answers to the Gypsy's Warning and even one called a "Final Answer to the Gypsy's Warning". |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 28 Sep 02 - 08:32 AM First time I heard it is this morning. Sticky little tune, can't get it out of my head. Thank you for the Rose Lady - great collection of classics.
Sincerely, |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GYPSY'S WARNING (from Vance Randolph) From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 28 Sep 02 - 02:27 PM Directly FROM -
OZARK FOLKSONGS – Collected and Edited by Vance Randolph Revised Edition, Volume IV Religious Songs and Other Items University of Missouri Press Columbia and London, 1980 p. 219-222 No.743 "THE GYPSY'S WARNING".
" Nobody knows who wrote the words of this piece, according to Cox (Folk-Songs of the South, 1925, p. 439), but it was published "with music arrange by Henry A. Coard" in 1864, and has since appeared in many popular songbooks. It appears in Trifet's Budget of Music No. 15, March, 1892, p.72, with the note "by permission D. S. Holmes, owner of copyright." The famous Cherry Sisters from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who convulsed Broadway in 1896, sang the song as part of their soul-stirring dramatic sketch entitle "The Gypsy's Warning." A piece called, "Do Not Trust Him, Gentle Lady," probably identical with the "The Gypsy's Warning," was the first song ever heard on the telephone, when Alexander Graham Bell, demonstrating his invention before an audience in 1878, persuaded on Thomas Augustus Watson to sing into the transmitter. Finger (Frontier Ballads, 1927, p. 116) reports the song as he heard it years ago in New Mexico and one of the standard versions is printed, without the music, in Spaeth's Read 'Em and Weep(1927, p. 20). There are phonograph records by Harry A. McClaskey (Columbia A1913) and Vernon Dalhart (Victor 20795, Brunkswick 122).
Now thy life is in its morning; Lady, once there lived a maiden,
Then he heeded not her weeping,
Do not turn so coldly from me,
I would shield thee from all danger,
Keep thy gold, I do not want it.
Oh I see thou'rt filled with wonder,
The song which follow is called "The answer to the Gypsy's Warning," mentioned by Belden (Song-Ballads and Other Popular Poetry, 1910, No. 35), Shoemaker (North Pennsylvania minstrelsy, 1919, p. 94), and Cox (Folk-Songs of the South, 1925, p. 439), The present text is from a manuscript belong to Mrs., W. M. Elkins, Hardy, Ark., Apr. 2, 1934.
Lady, do not heed her warning,
Lady, I will not deceive you,
Lady, every joy would perish,
As the stars that gleam above thee,
Down beside the flowing river,
In the morn a lonely stranger
Then do not heed her warning,
When the silver moonlight brightens,
Still another item in this group is know as "The decision in the Gypsy's Warning," and is similar to the "Decision" song in Belden's collection (Song-Ballads and Other Popular Poetry, 1910, No. 35). I have seen two versions of this song in manuscript, and it is said that one was printed in a St. Louis newspaper about 1870. The text which follow is from Mrs. Warren Durbin, Pineville, Mo., Mar. 19, 1927.
Down beside yon flowing river,
Why go there alone and early,
Now she's in the cold ground sleeping,
Warnings from that grave do tell me,
That without me, life is sorrow;
Stranger, I will heed the warning,
There we'll walk, but not together,
Another piece in the "Gypsy's Warning" collection is a much more recent song called "Trust Him Not," in which the gentle lady tells her mother all about her meeting the Gypsy. This opus was copyrighted by Monroe H. Rosenfield in 1899, and I quote only the final stanza:
I can ne'er forget the anguish, dearest mother,
Sincerely, |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The gypsy's warning From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 28 Sep 02 - 02:29 PM Dalhart's tune is slightly different - resolving to the major more frequently - his is the tune that sticks in my head. |
Subject: Lyr Add: GYPSY'S WARNING (Arthur Smith, 1938) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Mar 22 - 03:20 PM My transcription from the recording at Honking Duck. (Yes, that website’s still around after many, many years, and it looks like it’s been modernized.) GYPSY’S WARNING As recorded by Arthur Smith and His Dixie Liners on Bluebird B-7893-B (1938) Gentle lady, do not trust him, though his voice is low and sweet. Heed not him who kneels before you, gently pleading at your feet. Now your life is in its morning; spoil not this your happy lot. Listen to the gypsy’s warning; gentle lady, trust him not. Lady, once there lived a maiden, pure and bright and oh so fair. Then he wooed her till he won her, filled her gentle heart with care. Then he heeded not her weeping, nor cared he her life to save. Soon she perished; now she’s sleeping in a cold and silent grave. Keep your gold; I do not want it; lady, I have prayed for this. For the day when I might fail him, rob him of expected bliss. Gentle lady, do not wonder at my words so cold and wild. Lady, in that green grave yonder lies the gypsy’s only child. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GIPSY'S/GIPSIE'S WARNING (Coard, 1864 From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Mar 22 - 06:07 PM From the sheet music at Johns Hopkins University (the Levy Collection): (Duke University has another copy which I think is identical.) THE GIPSY’S WARNING[1] THE GIPSIE’S WARNING[2] Composed[1]/Arranged[2] … by Henry A. Coard.[3] Published by D. S. Holmes, Brooklyn, N.Y. [1864] 1. Do not trust him, gentle lady, though his voice be low and sweet. Heed not him who kneels before you, gently pleading at thy feet. Now thy life is in its morning; cloud not this thy happy lot. Listen to the gypsies warning; gentle lady, trust him not. Listen to the gipsie’s warning; gentle lady, trust him not. 2. Do not turn so coldly from me; I would only guard thy youth From his stern and with’ring power; I would only tell thee true. I would shield thee from all danger, save thee from the tempter’s snare. Lady, shun that dark-eyed stranger; I have warned thee; now beware. Lady, shun that dark-eyed stranger; I have warned thee; now beware. 3. Lady, once there lived a maiden, pure and bright, and like thee, fair, But he wooed, and wooed, and won her, filled her gentle heart with care Then he heeded not her weeping, nor cared he her life to save. Soon she perished; now she’s sleeping in the cold and silent grave. Soon she perished; now she’s sleeping in the cold and silent grave. 4. Keep thy gold; I do not wish it; lady, I have prayed for this, For the hour when I might foil him, rob him of expected bliss. Gentle lady, do not wonder at my words so cold and wild. Lady, in that green grave yonder lies the gipsie’s only child. Lady, in that green grave yonder lies the gipsie’s only child. - - - 1 According to the title page. 2 According to page 1 of the music. 3 Note that no lyricist is mentioned |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GYPSY'S WARNING (1857) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Mar 22 - 07:34 PM I found a source older than the sheet music; it is presented as a poem rather than a song. It has numerous small differences from the sheet music; I have marked them with boldface. From Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, Vol. 55 (Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, November, 1857), page 448: THE GYPSY’S WARNING. By Georgiana D. S. 1. Do not trust him, gentle lady, though his voice be low and sweet. Heed not that he kneels unto thee, softly pleading at thy feet. While thy life is in its morning, cloud not thus thy happy lot. List unto the gypsy’s warning; gentle lady, trust him not. 2. Do not turn so coldly from me; I would only guard thy youth From a stern, a with’ring sorrow; I would only tell thee truth. I would shield thee from all danger, woo thee from the tempter’s snare. Lady, shun that dark-eyed stranger; I have warned thee; now beware. 3. Lady, once there lived a maiden, young and pure, and like thee, fair, Yet, oh, yet, he wooed and won her, filled her gentle heart with care Then he heeded not her weeping, he cared not her life to save. Soon she perished; now she’s sleeping in the cold and silent grave. 4. Keep thy gold; I do not need it; lady, I have prayed for this, For the hour when I might foil him, rob him of expected bliss. Ay, I see thou’rt filled with wonder at my words so fierce and wild. Lady, in that green grave yonder lies the gypsy’s only child. |
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