Subject: Faces In The Street From: acormack@ozsupermalls.com.au Date: 25 Jan 97 - 09:12 AM Does anyone have the words to a poem/song called Faces In The Street??? by Henry Lawson. Also, a song about a girl stepping onto a lily pad???? |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 28 Oct 01 - 11:25 PM Faces In the Street Don't have anything on the second song or poem. |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Bob Bolton Date: 28 Oct 01 - 11:57 PM G'day acormack &c, The second song is also a Henry Lawson poem, The Water Lily and is best known to the tune set by Priscilla Herdman and on her LP (probably now a CD) of that name. I can dig out the words ... but I think they should be in the Digital Tradion database attached to Mudcat. Hmmm... I just looked at the DT ... and could not find them. I certainly have them - and tunes - in Chris Kempster's book Songs from Lawson. I will post them, next time round, if someone does not come up with them in the meantime! Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Stewie Date: 28 Oct 01 - 11:59 PM The lyrics to Lawson's 'The Water Lily' have been posted previously to the forum: --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Bob Bolton Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:23 AM Hmmm... It does not look as if the tune was posted. I could submit a MIDItxt of the tune from Chris Kempster's book Songs from Lawson ... if needed ... but tomorrow morning at the earliest! (Hell ... it is tomorrow morning!) Regard(les)s, Bob Bolton |
Subject: Lyr Tune Add: THE WATER LILY (Lawson, Herdman) From: Bob Bolton Date: 03 Nov 01 - 07:08 AM G'day again, I'm sorry I have been doing other things ... but here is the text and the MIDItxt version of the tune for Priscilla Herdmann's setting of Henry Lawson's The Water Lily: THE WATER LILY Words: Henry Lawson (1890) Tune: Priscilla Herdman (1973) A lonely young wife in her dreaming discerns, a lily-decked pool with a border of ferns. And a beautiful child, with butterfly wings, trips down to the edge of the water and sings: Chorus: "Come mamma! Come! Quick! Follow me - step out on the leaves of the water-lily!" And the lonely young wife, her heart beating wild, cries, "Wait till I come, till I reach you, my child!" But the beautiful child with the butterfly wings, steps out on the leaves of the lily and sings: Chorus: "Come mamma! Come! Quick! Follow me - step out on the leaves of the water-lily!" And the wife in her dreaming steps out on the stream, but the lily leaves sink and she wakes from her dream. Ah, the waking is sad, for the tears that it brings, and she knows 'tis her dead baby's spirit that sings: Chorus: "Come mamma! Come! Quick! Follow me - step out on the leaves of the water-lily!" And here is the tune, as one of Alan of OZ's MIDItxt files:
MIDI file: watrlily.mid Timebase: 240 TimeSig: 3/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
The Faces in the Street Regards, Bob Bolton
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE WATER LILY (H Lawson, P Herdman) From: Bob Bolton Date: 04 Nov 01 - 02:00 AM Errr... G'day again, I seem to have left out some line breaks. It should read:
The Water Lily Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: Lyr Add: COCKIE BELL From: GUEST,Cockie Bell Date: 22 Dec 06 - 12:43 AM does anybody know of this song -put out in mid 1970s Cockie Bell -its the tragic story of a cockie in West Australia who was using his tractor to pull over trees when it tipped and pinned him to the ground -he eventually dies fantastic ballad but cant remember all the words and does anybody have the chords or know where I could purchase the song here it is ..........
COCKIE BELL |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Bob Bolton Date: 22 Dec 06 - 02:46 AM G'day GUEST, Cockie Bell, I can't recall ever hearing this one ... certainly not over hear on the East Coast of Australia. Who sang / (recorded .. ?) the song? I know there have been a number of really good, distinctive, locally-ficused groups over in West Australia and I would presume this comes from on of those. If you have a bit more ID on the singers it might turn up something ... and I have a few friends who might be better on that side of our island continent! Regards, Bob Bolton (Leichhardt, Sydney) |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: GUEST,Mike Purtell Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:02 PM Yes -just got this reply from "Bugsy" Syd De Burg used to sing this song. It was given to him by the late (& sadly missed) Val Hastings. so he have found out a bit more would be great to have the words placed on Mudcat |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:39 PM Martin Wyndham-Read sang a lovely version of "The Water Lily" on a now sadly out-of-print CD, "Undiscovered Australia". There's a snatch of it (and other songs) down this link, I think the tune he uses is his own, but I might be wrong there. Incidentally re "a song about a girl stepping onto a lily pad" - there's nothing to indicate whether the child is a girl or a boy. |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Bob Bolton Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:55 PM G'day McGrath, Martyn sings Priscilla Herdman's haunting tune, as I posted above some 5 years back. It's in the "No longer supported by Mudcat" MIDItext program of Alan in Australia ... but it does incorporate an ABC segment that you can feed into an ABC reader and turn into real music stave. The CD notes say: The tune was provided by Priscilla Herdman who gave Martyn the song. BTW: I suspect that, in the original "a song about a girl stepping onto a lily pad" reference the "girl" in question was the mother ... the song being about (possible) suicide by a distraught, bereaved parent. Regards, Bob |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:30 PM I hadn't got the CD handy to check that about the tune. Well, I did say I might be wrong. (I'd seen your post about the tune, but Martin didn't come into it.) Anyway, as you say, it's a lovely tune. I've never been able to get my head round that ABC music. I'll have another go in the New Year. Happy summertime Christmas, Bob. |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: Bob Bolton Date: 24 Dec 06 - 12:49 AM G'day again McGrath, I had Martyn's CD in my left hand (... using only half of my 2-and-2-half-fingers typing...) and "The tune was provided by Priscilla Herdman who gave Martyn the song" should have been in 'quotes'. There are sites (I seem to remember one is attached to www.concertina.net ... ?) where you can drop the ABC notation and get an automatic translation into real music ... and maybe a MIDI for the ear-players! Anyway, the tune is definitely Priscilla's, which I have known for 30+ years from the singing of the late Chris Kempster (himself a prodigious setter of good tunes to Henry Lawson's poetry ... since about 1946!). Chris produced a magnificent collection of settings by himself, other Australians (including one tune composed by me) and other singers around the world, of "The Songs of Henry Lawson", Viking O'Neil/Penguin Books Australia, 1989. This is, sadly, out of print ... but the proceeds of the 2-CD memorial Chris Kempster collection, launched at this year's (Australian) National Folk Festival are seeding a project to bring out a new edition. Regards, Bob Regards, Bob |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:05 PM This is, sadly, out of print... Only too common a story with any number of good records and good books. |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson) From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Dec 06 - 08:57 PM Prisilla Herdman is still doing fine singing. Here is a link to her current website: click here for website Charley Noble |
Subject: Lyr Add: AFTER ALL (Henry Lawson) From: akenaton Date: 25 Dec 06 - 03:15 PM My favourite HL poem......sung brilliantly by Garnet Rogers. After All The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town; My spirit revives in the morning breeze, though it died when the sun went down; The river is high and the stream is strong, and the grass is green and tall, And I fain would think that this world of ours is a good world after all. The light of passion in dreamy eyes, and a page of truth well read, The glorious thrill in a heart grown cold of the spirit I thought was dead, A song that goes to a comrade's heart, and a tear of pride let fall -- And my soul is strong! and the world to me is a grand world after all! Let our enemies go by their old dull tracks, and theirs be the fault or shame (The man is bitter against the world who has only himself to blame); Let the darkest side of the past be dark, and only the good recall; For I must believe that the world, my dear, is a kind world after all. It well may be that I saw too plain, and it may be I was blind; But I'll keep my face to the dawning light, though the devil may stand behind! Though the devil may stand behind my back, I'll not see his shadow fall, But read the signs in the morning stars of a good world after all. Rest, for your eyes are weary, girl -- you have driven the worst away -- The ghost of the man that I might have been is gone from my heart to-day; We'll live for life and the best it brings till our twilight shadows fall; My heart grows brave, and the world, my girl, is a good world after all. Henry Lawson |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson) From: akenaton Date: 25 Dec 06 - 03:21 PM "A song that goes to a comrade's heart" Who says no one can define folk music?......Ake |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson) From: Bob Bolton Date: 25 Dec 06 - 05:38 PM G'day akenaton, I haven't heard this one ... and it must be a later setting by Priscilla than the date of Chris Kempster's book, as he loved Priscilla's tunes and included a lot of them. Colin Roderick, in his 3-volume complete Henry Lawson, Collected Verse says this was: "Addressed to his future wife, Bertha Marie Louise Bredt, and apparently composed during or shortly after the voyage back from a flyinf trip to New Zealand in March 1896. He ends the entry, quoting Bertha: "... I received his poem "After All", and a letter asking me to come to town to meet him, which I did ... His poem won my heart." (from: Bertha Lawson, My Henry Lawson, Sydney, 1943. Regards, Bob |
Subject: RE: Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson) From: akenaton Date: 25 Dec 06 - 06:54 PM Hello Bob, thank you very much for the information. I especially like this poem for the optimism expressed. Not a thick headed optimism like we see in some sections of todays society...and even Mudcat. But optimism held despite awareness of the evils inherant in humanity I think the poem illustrates the spiritual side of our species... "Song that goes to a comrades heart"..."tear of pride let fall" "light of passion in dreamy eyes" "page of truth well read" The re-awakening of spirit in a cold heart. If we are to survive on this planet, these virtues are what will be required...not guns and bombs.....or governments...Ake |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Faces in the Street (Henry Lawson) From: Ross Campbell Date: 31 Dec 09 - 11:40 PM Hi, Bob & Akenaton Two great poems from Henry Lawson there. I heard the late Ken Ferguson sing his own arrangement of "Faces in the Street" a few years back. I had the words from Henry Lawson's Collected Poems, but haven't been able to trace Ken's tune. You mentioned other settings, Bob, any further details? The positive sentiments of "After All" are in marked contrast to the bleakness and anger of "Faces in the Street" which seem more to reflect Lawson's life experience and his own struggle to make a living. There's a link to Garnet Rogers' version of "After All" here, from his "Speaking Softly In The Dark" album, but Real Audio isn't finding it for me at the moment. Any other recorded versions? Ross |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Faces in the Street (Henry Lawson) From: Reinhard Date: 01 Jan 10 - 01:33 AM McGrath, Martyn Wyndham-Read's CD "Undiscovered Australia" may be out of print but it's just a compilation of three Fellside Albums. Water Lily is originally from "Emu Plains", and this CD is still available from Fellside (FECD27). |
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