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03 Oct 07 - 10:50 PM (#2163299) Subject: Lyr Req: Mary O'Hara song/lovers love the Spring From: Gudrun Miller Hello--Am bookking for an old Mary O'Hara song. first verse runs something to this effect: It was a lover and his lass whith hey ho hey nonni nonni no (something something...) In springtime The only pretty ringtime when birds do sing hey ding-a-ding hey dinga-dinga-d+ sweet lovers love the srping. Anybody know this--what's it called? |
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03 Oct 07 - 11:18 PM (#2163313) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mary O'Hara song/lovers love the Spring From: GUEST,melinda The poem is called "It was a lover and his lass" and it's by an old English poet with the strange name of William Shakespeare. The most common music for this is the one by Thomas Morley, but I'm not sure if this is the tune you're looking for; other people have written songs for this. The poem and the Morley music are easy to find; try googling them. |
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04 Oct 07 - 12:42 PM (#2163732) Subject: Lyr Add: IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS (Shakepeare) From: GUEST,melinda Here's the original Shakespeare poem. Is this the one you're looking for? There is music for the Morley tune at: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/It_was_a_lover_and_his_lass_%28Thomas_Morley%29 (I can't get the link thing to work right). This is a SATB choral version, but you can sing the top line as a solo, especially if you can figure out an accompaniment from the other parts. IT was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. Between the acres of the rye, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, These pretty country folks would lie, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that life was but a flower In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. And, therefore, take the present time With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, For love is crownéd with the prime In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. |
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07 Oct 07 - 10:16 PM (#2166223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mary O'Hara song/lovers love the Spring From: Jim Dixon Mary O'Hara sings 'TWAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS on her album "Isn't This a Lovely Day," 2003. |
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07 Oct 07 - 10:44 PM (#2166235) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mary O'Hara song/lovers love the Spring From: Don Firth It's also been recorded by every counter-tenor in the world who can find a lutenist to accompany him. Don Firth |