Lyr Add: Spider's Web

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: Bettynh
Date: 04 Apr 12 - 07:11 PM

Here's an episode of the radio series. This was from WGBH Boston radio in the late 70s (I think). Could the singer have been Tony Saletan? He did several folksong programs for kids on WGBH TV before NPR/PBS was a reality.

Subject: Camp Tattapanum alumni
From: GUEST,Burnie
Date: 01 Jul 12 - 12:36 PM

I worked as a camp counselor at Camp Tattapanum summer of 1974 and then returned as assistant director for the summer of 1975. I was a college student from Kansas at that time and my camp name was "Burnie". The director's name was Gloria. I don't remember many campers or even the counselors anymore... it's been so long. The memories have faded over time, but I remember having tons of fun with the kids and other counselors. It was a wonderful experience that I treasure.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,ARC
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 08:20 PM

http://youtu.be/ZaSQnAG8JY4

Not the best version but gives you an idea of the tune, which is actually the same as the "Gallow Hill Reel."

I spent over 20 years looking for "Spider's Web" lyrics; finally found them several years ago on Google. It was my very favorite Girl Scout camp song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,Lark
Date: 24 Aug 12 - 01:55 PM

Here is the version we sang:


SPIDER'S WEB

CHORUS: There's a web like a spider's web
Made of silver light and shadow
Spun by the moon in my room at night
It's a web made to catch a dream
Hold me tight 'til I awaken
As if to tell me that dreaming's all right

Down in the valley, there's a mission
By the old oak tree
By the mission, there's a fountain
Where my love told me

On the evening I was leaving
My love came to me
I was sleeping, she was weeping
And she said to me

I met a stranger, his name was Danger
We walked side by side
Down in Santa Fe, I killed a man they say
Danger told me to ride

Now if I return, they will hang me
'Neath the old oak tree
By the mission, near the fountain
Where my love told me

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,RJ Lewis
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 11:02 AM

I remember this song from YMCA/YWCA camp in northern Minnesota in the early- mid 70's. Thanks for sharing, as all I could remember was the chorus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,Guest, Mary
Date: 09 Aug 13 - 09:06 PM

My daughter loves to hear this song at night right now--I looked online to see if there were verses I didn't know about. I learned it in 1982 at a girl scout camp called Mitre Peak just outside of Alpine, Texas. The tune was slightly different, as were the words, in which we sang "a web that I weave in my room each night." I loved the idea that I was creating my own dreams, good and scary, and that remembering the dream was a sign it ended all right.
I also sang "made of silver shining shadows" but I bet I just heard it wrong!
Thanks to everyone for posting the lyrics, etc--a 15 year thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Feb 16 - 11:57 PM

that is the one I learned at Camp Mary White in the 60's

There is a fountain
In a valley
By a big oak tree
And by that fountain
In the valley
My love first told me:

(chorus)
There's a web like a spider's web
Made of silver light and shadow
That I weave in my room each night
It's a web made to catch a dream
And hold it there until I waken
There to tell me, my dream is all right

I met a stranger
His name was Danger
We traveled side by side
But then in Santa Fe
I shot a man one day
And I had to ride

And if they catch me
They will hang me
From the big oak tree
Down in the valley
By the fountain
Where my love told me:

(Chorus)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 16 - 11:24 PM

I learned the song at Camp Indian Run in about 1971. Same as above except: "If I return, they will hang me..."
I sang it as a lullaby to my kids. Has anyone figured out its origins?
Miriam

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,Sbg
Date: 17 Feb 19 - 06:26 PM

And I learned it in the mid-1960s at a YWCA camp in Wisconsin, Camp Talaki.

I found this site while googling to find out what the origin of the song was; I remembered the tune and the words – at least I thought I did! Until today, I always thought it was “made of silk and light of shadow.” That’s pretty, too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Spider's Web
From: GUEST,Marsha Grover Keller
Date: 20 May 22 - 12:33 PM

So interesting how things morph over the years and tellings. Not sure if this is already well documented, but none of the words that I learned in the 70's are here. Also learned it at Liahona girls camp in No. Cal, and the midi tune posted is similar but quite different in places. We also sang is as a round, which is very pretty.

Here is how we sang it. -
There's a web like a spiders web,
made of silver light and shadow
Hung by the moon
in my room at night.
IT's a web made to catch your dreams
hold them fast till I awaken
as if to tell me
my dreams are alright.

Then - a tag after
There's a web
A spider's web
Hung by the moon in my room at night
it's a web
a spider's web
as if to tell me my dreams are alright.

The other person sings this - then they switch.

Down in the valley
there is a meadow
down by the old oak tret
Down in the meadow
there is a river
where my dreams flow free.