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01 Dec 99 - 08:56 PM (#143444) Subject: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Judy G Howdy, I need the lyrics to I Wonder as I Wander. Please help me out! I need them before Dec 9. Thanx, Judy |
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01 Dec 99 - 09:18 PM (#143449) Subject: Lyr Add: I WONDER AS I WANDER From: MMario I found them her:http://kididdles.com/mouseum/i052.html I Wonder as I Wander Traditional Written By: Unknown Copyright Unknown
I wonder as I wander
When Mary birthed Jesus,
If Jesus had wanted
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01 Dec 99 - 09:58 PM (#143468) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Susan A-R I have always wondered. Is o'nry ordinary or ornery? Susan A-R |
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01 Dec 99 - 10:47 PM (#143494) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Sandy Paton Ornery, to my mind. This was written, I'm pretty sure, by John Jacob Niles. He often claimed as "traditional," songs he had actually made up himself. This would appear to be one of those. Sandy |
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01 Dec 99 - 10:58 PM (#143497) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Bruce O. Sandy's recollection is mine, too. |
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01 Dec 99 - 11:12 PM (#143501) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: catspaw49 Sandy, I just looked up the Niles thread to post here for that purpose. Judy et al...We ran a thread awhile back about John Jacob Niles and his "authorship" of "traditional" songs. Here's a link to that thread. Spaw |
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02 Dec 99 - 10:07 AM (#143645) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Judy G Hey Susan, Ornery is an adulteration of the word Ordinary. |
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02 Dec 99 - 10:32 AM (#143653) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: MMario I was just thinking....and realized that I've always heard or'nry as "lonely"..... MMario |
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02 Dec 99 - 10:34 AM (#143655) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Judy G Dear MMario Thanx for the lyrics! |
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02 Dec 99 - 05:00 PM (#143791) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: bunkerhill Ever see the picture of J.J. Niles carrying Doris Ulman across Cutshin Creek? Or some of Ulman's pictures of Niles in "The Appalachian Photos of Doris Ulman." I almost always think of them when I hear "I Wonder As I Wander." The key line, IMHO, is "why Jesus our savior did come for to die." Ulman became ill on a photo-taking mission with Niles in 1932; he rushed her back to New York, where she died. He dutifully completed developing her photos. "I Wonder..." was published same year. Way I got the story (mostly from Ron Penn, director of JJ Niles Center at Univ of Ky) Niles heard Annie Morgan singing a couplet while Ulman was taking pic of her father, a street preacher in Murphy, NC. He paid her a nickel to sing more, but the couplet was all she knew. Niles completed the song, passed it off for years as collected, then owned up to having written it after learning he could make some money as the author. Seems to me, Sandy, that this song's in season whenever we have to wonder why somebody had to die. |
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02 Dec 99 - 05:06 PM (#143792) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Bruce O. I looked in 'The Ballad Book of J. J. Niles' (first time I've opened it in about 25 years), but don't find the song there. |
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02 Dec 99 - 08:39 PM (#143909) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: Joe Offer Here's a quote from the Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols In the introduction to The Songs of John Jacob Niles (1975), Niles reported that he wrote this carol in 1933, basing it on a fragment he had overheard in the courthouse square in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina. He published it in his Songs of the Hill-Folk (1934), where verse 1 is repeated after verse 3.It may not be traditional, but I love the haunting melody of this song. -Joe Offer- |
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02 Dec 99 - 09:55 PM (#143938) Subject: RE: I Wonder As I Wander Lyrics, Please! From: catspaw49 Interesting post Mark...and I've enjoyed some of your others. If no one has said it, welcome to the 'Cat!! Spaw |