Lyr Req: The Cold Coast of Greenland

Subject: looking for lyric
From:
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 01:11 PM

I've been trying to find the lyrics and music (recorded, preferably) to a song with the line "...and now the shore of Greenland lies between my love and I". I've heard it sung a couple of times, and I may have one or two words in the above line wrong. Has anybody heard it? Know the title? Thanks.

Martin Azevedo [e-mail]

Subject: Cold Coast of Greenland
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 01:21 PM

between my love and I????

Atrocious grammar. Must be a Neil Diamond song.

Actually, it isn't. The song is THE COLD COAST OF GREENLAND (click here). It ends with "And the cold, cold coast of Greenland lies between my love and me." Maybe Neil Diamond changed the words when he recorded it....
-Joe Offer-

The ending of verse 5 sure grates me, though. I can't believe Ewan MacColl recorded it that way.

Subject: RE:
From: Roger Himler
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 06:17 PM

What Joe, no sense of drama or romance. How impractical to mourn forever!

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE:
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 06:34 PM

5. "No shoe nor stocking I'll put on nor comb go in my hair,
Nor broad daylight nor candlelight shall in my room appear
Nor shall I wed with any young man until the day I die,
Now the cold, cold coast of Greenland has parted my love and I."

No, darn it, Roger. Since I am an great admirer of MacColl, I'm betting this is just a typo. What MacColl probably did was pronounce "die" dee like you might expect a Scotsman to, and then end the verse, "parted my love and me." MacColl wouldn't slaughter the language like that - would he?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE:
From: Roger Himler
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 06:37 PM

Joe,

If he's as obtuse about English as I am, he might.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE:
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 07:37 PM

Never heard the song - but it sounds suspiciously like "The Lowlands of Holland" in one of the years they run the Elftedensdocht (or thereabouts) - with the whole country frozen stiff!

regards