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Lyr Req: Harvest Home

07 Oct 99 - 10:15 AM (#121659)
Subject: Harvest Home
From: Allan C.

The Fall Songs thread got me to thinking about a song I learned far too many years ago. It may have been a hymn and I believe I was told that it dated back to the early colonists in America. It begins, "Sing we now of harvest home". I remember the tune but no more words than this. I learned it in first grade as a Thanksgiving song.

07 Oct 99 - 10:29 AM (#121662)
Subject: Lyr Add: HARVEST HOME (Henry Alford)
From: MMario

there is THIS one....

Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home!
All be safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
for our wants to be supplied;
come to God's own temple, come;
raise the song of harvest-home!

All the world is God's own field,
fruit unto his praise to yield;
wheat and tares together sown,
unto joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear:
grant, O harvest Lord, that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Lord our God shall come,
and shall take his harvest home;
from his field shall purge away
all that doth offend, that day;
give his angels charge at last
in the fire the tares to cast,
but the fruitful ears to store
in his garner evermore.

Then, thou Church triumphant, come,
raise the song of harvest-home;
all be safely gathered in,
free from sorrow, free from sin,
there for ever purified
in God's garner to abide:
come, ten thousand angels, come,
raise the glorious harvest-home!

Words:Henry Alford (1810-1871)

07 Oct 99 - 10:34 AM (#121665)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Allan C.

Yep. The very one! It helps to be able to remember the actual first line! Thanks, MMario!

07 Oct 99 - 10:51 AM (#121672)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: MMario

in web-searching I also found several ABC's - which were listed as jigs....not sure if adapted from/to the hymn or totally different

07 Oct 99 - 12:06 PM (#121703)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Alice

I know this as a jig. How is the music different for the hymn?

07 Oct 99 - 12:42 PM (#121716)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Jon Freeman

MMario, where did you find it listd as a jig, I have had a quick look but can't find it although I found a Harvest Home Reel. The Harvest Home I know is a hornpipe and seems to alwlays get played with The Boys of Blue Hill round here.

Jon

07 Oct 99 - 12:45 PM (#121720)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: MMario

Alice - I don't know. I actually had to go back to work (the NERVE of people, having problems while I'm at the 'Cat!) and closed off the links and haven't had a chance to play the jig to hear if it sounds like the hymn I know.

07 Oct 99 - 12:52 PM (#121723)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Alice

jig was wrong, I should have described the tune as Jon did.

07 Oct 99 - 12:53 PM (#121724)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: MMario

the tune finder brought me both a jig and a reel; quite obviously related when I played them. Neither sounded at all to me as if they were related to the hymn, but musically they may be. I found the hymn at the anglican online hymn book

07 Oct 99 - 01:04 PM (#121726)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Alice

the tunebook finder I used (Robinson's) brought up hornpipes of Harvest Home from England, Ireland, and Scotland. The one titled Irish trad is the one we play at the session. the gif is here:Harvest Home

07 Oct 99 - 01:08 PM (#121728)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Jon Freeman

I have just had a look for Come Ye Tkankful People Come and found it at http://tch.simplenet.com/htm/c/comeytpc.htm

The tune they have is the one I know for hymn. It is called "St. George's Windsor" and was written by George Job Elvey, 1858.

Jon

07 Oct 99 - 01:10 PM (#121729)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: MMario

I am going by what the pages told me. I wouldn't know the difference between a jig; a reel; a hornpipe or a flatulence. *grin* well, maybe the last.

just glanced down the list from doing an extended search - showed me a reel, some labeled as jigs, a few labeled as hornpipes; all three of which to my ear sounded RELATED. though obviously differed.

Again, it may be they are ALL related to the hymn, but the hymn doesn't sound it to me.

07 Oct 99 - 03:19 PM (#121774)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Malcolm Douglas

It's very unlikely that there's any connection between the hymn and the hornpipe. "Harvest Homes" have been going on for quite some time, after all; if anything I'm surprised there aren't more tunes with that name!

Malcolm

09 Nov 00 - 02:02 PM (#337236)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Wotcha

I have finally figured out that "Harvest Home" is the title of the hornpipe used by the German Chantey group Black Bush ... I first heard this tune in Cornwall last year with "duelling" concertinas. Black Bush attribute their version to an Irish group, Comos.
Has anyone got some tab notation so that this non-music reader can translate into a concertina (C/G)friendly version? Does the hornpipe have lyrics as well?
Cheers,
Brian

09 Nov 00 - 08:36 PM (#337514)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Malcolm Douglas

If you look for Harvest Home at  J C's Tunefinder  you'll find lots of entries; not tab, but a choice of abc, midi, or staff notation.  The tune (a hornpipe, though regrettably it is often played as a reel, which rather spoils it) is widely known in both Ireland and England; it's more likely to be an English than an Irish tune, but I don't have definitive information on that.  As with most dance tunes, there are no traditional lyrics.

Malcolm

10 Nov 00 - 01:58 AM (#337668)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Home
From: Wotcha

Ta very much!!
Just what I was looking for!
By the way, BAZ is very much to blame for this, as well as the fellow who tends the bar at the Cadgwith Inn, Cornwall (one of the duelling concertina players).
Cheers,
Brian