Lyr Req: Contentment

Subject: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Apr 03 - 01:30 PM

I'm looking for lyrics to the traditional song "Contentment," as sung by Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman. I checked the DT, but no version is yet on there. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Apr 03 - 01:35 PM

I don't know what their lyrics are, but I know the Shaker song, "Ode to Contentment", which begins,
Come Contentment, lovely guest
Reign unrivaled in my breast...

Could this be it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: MMario
Date: 21 Apr 03 - 01:38 PM

or Drive Dull care away? as discussed in previous "contentment" thread

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 22 Apr 03 - 12:57 AM

Thank you, Animaterra and MMario. Drive Dull Care Away is the one I was looking for. I just didn't know it under that title, so didn't find it myself in the DT. Very much appreciated.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: masato sakurai
Date: 22 Apr 03 - 02:47 AM

The Sacred Harp version is:

The lyrics (Dull Care)

The 1860 edition, p. 98 (with music)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Contentment
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 Apr 03 - 02:39 AM

Fascinating, the different incarnations of this song. The folk process at work.Thank you, Masato.

Chanteyranger