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27 Jun 02 - 03:12 PM (#738396) Subject: Info on Albion Band - General Wolfe From: GUEST,Eric [Guest] I remember this from an Albion Band album on vinyl which my cousin had. I would like to get hold of some information on it - lyrics, chords, the name of the album would be useful [I have a lousy memory - maybe that is not the title of the song but it is about Wolfe]- I assume it is not available as a cd as I have looked in all the Albion Band sections that I can. The song started with a quotation which I think was from Gray's Elegy in a country churchyard and the tune may be similar to Stan Roger's Northwest Passage. Any assistance gratefully appreciated. Eric [I have always been Eric the Viking but I think you already have a permanent member here with that moniker so I better not use it]. |
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27 Jun 02 - 03:21 PM (#738403) Subject: Lyr Add: WOLFE (Ashley Hutchings) From: GUEST WOLFE Ashley Hutchings
Spoken:
Sung:
Chorus:
It's hard to lose your loved one
Last night I dreamed you lay with me
This land may want you for a hero she can call her very own Source: The Albion Band, Light Shining |
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28 Jun 02 - 03:41 AM (#738712) Subject: RE: Info on Albion Band - General Wolfe From: Skipper Jack 'The spoken verse comes from Thomas Grey's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". The poem was one of two gifts from his lady, Kathleen Lowther prior to his sailing to Canada. She also presented him with a miniature portrait of herself. The song is a lament seen through the eyes of Kathleen Lowther.' These notes were taken from the sleeve notes on the Albion Band's recording "Light Shining"
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28 Jun 02 - 01:20 PM (#738944) Subject: RE: Info on Albion Band - General Wolfe From: Anglo Strangely enough this came out very soon after Stan Rogers "Northwest Passage" (see the first post above). Stan had sung me his song soon after he had written it, and I remember listening to the Albion Band doing Wolfe at the Bracknell Festival, not too long after Stan had died. I was practically knocked over by the similarity, both tune and text motifs. I believe Hutchings later called it just one of those coincidences, great minds sometimes follow the same paths or some such rubbish, but he claimed never to have heard Stan's song. |
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16 Apr 09 - 06:26 PM (#2612736) Subject: Lyr Add: WOLFE (Ashley Hutchings) From: GUEST,Marie O'Connell WOLFE (Lyrics by Ashley Hutchings) The boast of heraldry the pomp of power And all that beauty and all that wealth ere gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour the paths of glory lead but to the grave….. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written On a Country Church Yard The fleet was a floating forest spread before me on the Thames And Greenwich bells saluted all her fine departing sons I stood upon the hillside, my spyglass misted ore and I Turned to make my way to home once more Chorus Oh to cross the line and defy the time forever To take the path of happiness and walk away the pain If for one last time you could hold these hands together Content to scale the heights of home again It's hard to lose your loved one to a nation's grateful heart For now you are her sweetheart and you never more shall part Your virtue she may trade on and your likeness she may buy But she'll not hold you any more than I Chorus Last night I dreamt you lay with me with your head upon my breast You had no thought of trading me for glory in the west The park was then our Eden and the stars our guileless game We charted them until the comet came Chorus This land may want you for a hero She can call her very own To glory you in battle and to honor you in stone I have no need of gratitude and praise and nothing more I want my love beside me as before Chorus |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:09 PM (#2612791) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Keith A of Hertford Thanks Marie. Wolfe lived in Greenwich and is buried there. Greenwich is known for the observatory (reference to stars) and for the famous meridian line (to cross the line). The heights of home is a reference to the Heights of Abraham,the scene of his vicory at Quebec where he was killed. keith. |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:12 PM (#2612794) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Keith A of Hertford and... Greenwich observatory was charged with giving accurate time, and Haley's comet made its return in the year of Wolfe's victory and death. |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:22 PM (#2612799) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Barbara I can't immediately tell from the text whether the quatrain " the boast of heraldry..." or further down "Oh to cross the line.." is the chorus. Also where is this heard and is there a way to get the tune posted? Thanks Blessings, Barbara |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:30 PM (#2612804) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: michaelr Some background info and a first name, please? |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:31 PM (#2612805) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Keith A of Hertford Chorus, Oh to cross the line.... |
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16 Apr 09 - 08:33 PM (#2612808) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Keith A of Hertford General James Wolfe |
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16 Apr 09 - 09:21 PM (#2612820) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: GUEST,.gargoyle GUEST,Marie O'Connell
Thank you for some VERY interesting lyrics. I like them.
If you would be so kind? PLEASE post the source. Your connection to them and your interest in them would also be interesting. They changed my historical perspective:
Sincerely,
I had a twisted of the Canadian French and "retributions" given an American view of some Mudcaters that reaches to such extremes (not mine) that "all bones are sacred and Geronimo cursed the Bush presidency."
For the longest time (35 years) I was under the impression that I had seen Wolf's skull (for an admission price 2.00 Canadian) in a macbre convent attic in Quebec. Thanks to the miracle of Yahoo .... today... I discovered that it is "General Montcalm, the French military officer of the Seven Years' War." It is housed with several alters and hundred of bone relics and miscellania in the Chapelle des Ursulines founded in 1639, the first school for girls in North America. It was mearly under seige by Wolfe in 1759 - and hence - perhaps - my confusion.
Sincerely, |
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16 Apr 09 - 09:38 PM (#2612832) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Sandy Mc Lean Wolfe |
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16 Apr 09 - 11:32 PM (#2612874) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe From: Bert There is a statue of him at Westerham in Kent, his birthplace. |
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17 Apr 09 - 04:12 AM (#2612936) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe (Ashley Hutchings) From: Keith A of Hertford Search the DT for Wolfe. lots of songs. |
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17 Apr 09 - 04:40 AM (#2612948) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wolfe (Ashley Hutchings) From: GUEST,baz parkes From a mid (?) 80s Albion incarnation....Light Shining. Vocals by Cathy Le Surf ex Fiddler's Dram/Oyster Ceilidh Band Why can I never remember anything useful... Baz |