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Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man

11 Apr 00 - 09:27 PM (#210376)
Subject: Tune Add: WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN
From: Jeri

This tune, if I managed to convert it successfully, goes with the song WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN or HOME LADS HOME.

MIDI file: resthors.mid

Timebase: 120

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: G
Tempo: 064 (923077 microsec/crotchet)
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12 Apr 00 - 02:19 PM (#210712)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Ma
From: Liz the Squeak

Goody - now any chance of some words that I can access??

LTS

12 Apr 00 - 02:26 PM (#210716)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Ma
From: katlaughing

LtS, just click on the title which Jeri underlined in her message.

12 Apr 00 - 02:27 PM (#210717)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Ma
From: MMario

Liz! See the big blue clickie thing up at the top of Jeri's post?

it looks like this?

WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN or HOME LADS HOME

you can just click on it....

url =http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7819

12 Apr 00 - 04:07 PM (#210770)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN
From: Songster Bob

I have some of the words different from what's in DigiTrad [my changes in brackets]:

WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN or HOME LADS HOME

Overseas in India the sun was setting low
With tramp [and creak] and jingle as I heard the gun-teams go
[ ] something seemed to set me a dreaming as I lay
Of my old Hampshire village at the quiet end of day

And it's home, lads home, all among the corn and clover
Home lads home, when the working day is over
Where there's rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
[ ] we'll all go home together at the setting of the sun

Proud thatch with gardens blooming with lily and with rose
The river flowing past them, so quiet as it goes
White fields of oats and barley and the elderflower like [foam]
And the sky a [golden] sunset and the horses going home

Captain [Boxer,] Traveler, I see them all so plain
With tasseled earflaps nodding all along the leafy lane
Somewhere a bird is calling and the swallow flying low
And the lads all sitting sideways and singing as they go

Gone is many a lad now and many a horse gone too
[From] All those lads and horses from [those] green fields [ ] I knew
[Poor] Dick fell at Givenchy and Prince beside the gun
On that red road to glory a mile or two from Munn

[Dead] lads and shadowy horses, I see them all so plain
I see them and I know them and I call them each by name
While riding down from Swanmore with all the West a-glow
And the lads all sitting sideways and singing as they go

And it's home, lads, home, with the sunset on their faces
Home lads, home to those quiet happy places
Where there's rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
And we'll all go home together at the setting of the sun

Sung by David Jones about World War I

[I could be mistaken about the words as I have them, but I suspect one or two of my suggestions is right.]

Bob Clayton

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 12-Jul-02.

03 Sep 02 - 08:15 PM (#776481)
Subject: ADD: Homeward (C. Fox Smith)
From: GUEST,Griff Bowles

Bob,

It may be little late to reply to this thread and you may already have this information but here goes.

I have copy of C. Fox Smith's book 'Songs and Chanties' published in 1919 which has a poem called 'Homeward' p. 216.

I think this should settle the question of authorship.

HOMEWARD

Behind a trench in Flanders the sun was dropping low
With tramp and creak and jingle I heard the gunteams go
But something seemed to set me a dreaming as I lay
Of my own old Hampshire village at the quiet end of day

Home, lad, home, all among the corn and clover
Home, lad, home, when the time for work is over
Oh, there's rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
And they go home together at the setting of the sun!

Brown thatch with gardens blooming with lily and with rose
The river flowing past them, so quiet as it goes
Wide fields of oats and barley and the elder flower like foam
And the sky gold with sunset, and the horses going home

Old Captain, Prince and Blossom, I see them all so plain
With tasseled ear-caps nodding all along the leafy lane
There's a bird somewhere calling and, the swallows flying low
And the lads sitting sideways, and singing as they go.

Well gone is many a lad now, and many a horse gone too,
Of all the lads and horses in those old fields I knew;
There's Dick fell at Cuinchy and Prince beside the guns
On the red road to glory, a mile or two from Mons!

Dead lads and shadowy horses -- I see them just the same,
I see them and I know them, and name them each by name,
Going down to shining waters when all the West's aglow
And the lads sitting sideways and singing as they go.

Home, lad, home...with the sunlight on their faces
Home lad, home to the quiet happy places!
There's rest for horse and man when the hardest fight is done,
And they go home together at the setting of the sun!


I hope you find this useful.

Griff Bowles

griffbowles@sympatico.ca

04 Sep 02 - 02:47 PM (#776980)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man
From: Keith A of Hertford

We had a thread about this about a year ago. Worth a look if interested in the song.
With tassled ear caps nodding,
Keith.

04 Sep 02 - 02:50 PM (#776981)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man
From: Keith A of Hertford

Can't clickie, but just put home lads in the filter.

05 Sep 02 - 06:12 AM (#777359)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man
From: Dave Bryant

The tune was written by SARAH MORGAN, who slightly edited the CFS's original words to make them fit better.

05 Sep 02 - 08:58 AM (#777408)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man
From: Jeri

I started this thread way-back-when simply to add the tune for lyrics already in the DT. Probably good evidence that one should add the tune in an existing thread or at least put a clicky to the lyrics ...oops - I did that in the first post. Maybe just post the lyrics a few times - I dunno.

The other thread is Lyr Add: Home lads Home - it has the original CF Smith version and a correction to the DT version ("Mons" vs "Munn"). There are also some interesting bits about Mons. Again,
Another thread about this poem/song is here.