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11 Mar 13 - 02:24 PM (#3489213) Subject: Lyr Req: Service- Any others that strike you ? From: beardedbruce As worth posting for musicians? From FiddleHangout... Fiddler by Robert Service Oh! I have built a house at last, To fill with music night and say; For I have laboured in the past And had no small a time to play. My house is of a whin-grey stone; Its walls are bare for poor I be, But with my fiddle all alone, I'll have rare company. My fiddle's old and so am I. For it I've often longed in vain. Bleak years and years I've laid it by, But now I'll take it up again. For in four frail gut strings I know All music sleeps for me to wake, And here before the peat-fire glow Fine melody I'll make. I'll leave my fiddle by the bed, And take it in the morning bright, So all the dreaming in my head Will weave into a web of light. Or lone lament - I'm fearing so, For I have waited far too long, And all a life of want and woe May well into my song. But no! I'll make these wintry walls like Spring, with dancing day and night; And when the Great Conductor calls, My fiddle I'll be holding tight. My last love! Worth its weight in gold . . . Yet - on its strings my fingers lie So warped and worn, so stiff and cold . . . Too late! - I want to cry. |
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11 Mar 13 - 06:34 PM (#3489314) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Service- Any others that strike you ? From: GUEST,999 Some (lots of some) of his work available at this site. I had his complete works at one point but a public library ended up with it all. |
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12 Mar 13 - 12:42 AM (#3489411) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Service- Any others that strike you ? From: GUEST,Gerry There are other threads where we've discussed musical settings of Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, Cremation of Sam McGee, and other Service poems. |
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12 Mar 13 - 11:36 AM (#3489550) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Service- Any others that strike you ? From: beardedbruce OK. I have several volumes myself, but had not seen any that directly involved musicians- or instruments. I was wondering what other ones I had missed that called out specific instruments or songs. Might be a good concert idea- read the poems and play the songs or perform on the instrument being discussed. |
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12 Mar 13 - 01:07 PM (#3489585) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Service- Any others that strike you ? From: GUEST,Stim Did you remember this,Bruce? "War, War, War" Country Joe does Robert W. Service |