Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore

Subject: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 03 Jun 04 - 10:10 PM

The Suwanee Shore comes from the Brown University collection referenced in the where black Gospel thread. But I can't get to the lyrics. Help!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jun 04 - 10:51 PM

Hi, Harpy - try this link (click) to the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. If you get a chance to transcribe and post the song, that would be very nice. I've heard of the the song, but don't know that I've ever actually heard it.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: GUEST,harp
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 12:18 AM

JOe, I've got that link buit how do you get to the words of the songs?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 12:57 AM

I guess Joe is out.
The link gets you there, but you have several 'clicks' to make. Click on name to get first link. Click on the cover of the sheet music and that gets the pages. Click 'next image' twice to get to p. 3, where the Suwanee song starts. Click on the image and it will enlarge for a moment, then snap back. At the bottom right of the sheet, a little colored shield appears. Click on that to get a large, readable image.
After you copy that first image, go back and repeat to get the next page, etc.

Don't ask why....?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 12:58 AM

I hope that was understandable...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 03:48 AM

Hi, Harpy - that's a problem at the American Memory Collection, and Levy is almost as bad. If you try to link to the actual sheet music, you come up with an URL that's a yard long, and it doesn't always work. I've found you often have to print out the sheet music to read it.
Good luck.
This link (click) might be a bit easier. Take a look through the Index (click), though - there's some great sheet music there.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SUWANEE SHORE (Buck, Geibel)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 10:07 AM

From The Library of Congress American Memory Collection:

THE SUWANEE SHORE
Words, Richard Henry Buck. Music, Adam Geibel. 1898.

On the shores of yonder river, where the sweet magnolia grows,
A little cottage stands beneath the trees,
And within its curtained window once there bloomed a pretty rose,
A flow'ret kiss'd by ev'ry passing breeze.
It was little sweetheart Bessie, whom I wooed so long ago.
Time seemed to make me love her more and more,
When as boy and girl together, not a sorrow did we know,
So happy on the Suwanee shore.

CHORUS: How bright in the sunlight the Suwanee is gleaming!
What pleasure its mem'ries hold for me;
Oh! I long once again as a child to lie dreaming
On the sweet sunny shores of the Suwanee.

Oh! how well do I remember when the war had just begun,
And married just a year were Bess and I,
The stern voice of duty call'd me, so I said, "My little one,
Look up and kiss your soldier boy goodbye."
But when homeward I returned again, when duty set me free,
A stranger came to meet me at the door,
And he told me how she'd pined away, and pointed out to me
Her grave upon the Suwanee shore. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:16 PM

thanks, Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Suwanee Shore
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 10:29 PM

URL at the bottom of the page is also linkable.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0521