16 Oct 99 - 10:51 PM (#124730) Subject: who will take care of the old home place From: lloyd61 One more tonight, "who will take care of the old home place"? You guys found the other three tonight, lets see what you can do about this. lloyd61 |
16 Oct 99 - 11:17 PM (#124734) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: who will take care of the old home p From: John of the Hill I think I heard this one on the radio a couple of times, I believe Laurie Lewis recorded it. |
17 Oct 99 - 12:58 AM (#124752) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: who will take care of the old home p From: Stewie It's on the Rounder double CD 'Hills of Home' Rounder CD AN 18/19 - last track. Cheers, Stewie. |
27 May 00 - 02:43 AM (#234690) Subject: Who will tend my home place? From: Joe Offer A friend of mine heard a song on the radio, and she asked if we could find it for her. The chorus is something like: Who will tend my home placeDoes this sound familiar to anybody? Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
27 May 00 - 06:27 AM (#234708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: GUEST,Mrbisok@aol This wonderfully sentimental song is sung by Laurie Lewis. I'd categorize it as bluegrass, but of the gentelist kind. I'd say it surfaced on my fav. radio stations about 4 years ago. That's about all I can contribute. Oh, wait: when my wife heard it she cried. |
27 May 00 - 07:35 AM (#234717) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Banjer Joe, yes I've heard it but can't remember the artist I heard doing it, although it was a female voice ala Allison Krause....Sorry can't help more. |
27 May 00 - 07:50 AM (#234719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Giac As Mrbisok noted, the artist is Laurie Lewis and the tune is called Who Will Watch The Home Place. It is on the Rounder label.
Hang on, I'll see if I can dig up the words, or at |
27 May 00 - 07:52 AM (#234720) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Giac The Laurie Lewis album, from 1993, is entitled True Stories. It is Rounder 0300. The lyrics may take a bit longer. |
27 May 00 - 09:24 AM (#234732) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Giac Joe: sorry, I can't seem to get the lyrics, maybe someone else can. If they don't show up soon, I'll try another avenue. |
27 May 00 - 11:29 AM (#234763) Subject: Lyr Add: WHO WILL WATCH THE HOME PLACE? (K Long)^^ From: GUEST,Bert C. Joe, This may be one of the most beautiful songs ever written. (Written by Kate Long) It's also available on Bluegrass Today: The Hits EasyDisc CD 9001). If you email me at acoffman@easy-pages.com, I could send you a RealAudio file, but it's almost 4Mb. I've transcribed it below, but there's one word I can't make out. Bert C. WHO WILL WATCH THE HOME PLACE Leaves are falling and turning in showers of gold
There's a lovely green (Knoll????) by a clear running stream. REFRAIN In my grandfather's shed there are hundreds of tools. Now I wander around, touching each blessed thing: REFRAIN (2) (Kate Long/Feeny Feemster Music, BMI) ^^ |
27 May 00 - 12:10 PM (#234769) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: GUEST,rmadden@suffolk.lib.ny.us I would like to contribute lyrics to the mudcat which I think is a great lyric data base.Please let me know if this is the proper way to send lyrics and if there is any problem with copywrite. Please reply rmadden@suffolk.lib.ny.us |
27 May 00 - 01:47 PM (#234807) Subject: Guidelines for Posting Lyrics From: Joe Offer Well, thanks a lot, everybody! -Joe Offer- Regarding submitting lyrics, here's a copy of my e-mail to rmadden: Hi - we'd love to have any folk lyrics you'd like to post at the Mudcat Cafe. All lyrics that are submitted stay in the forum, and people can find them using our search engines. Many of the lyrics are also "harvested" and included in the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, which now has lyrics for some 8,500 songs (you can access the database in the blue DigiTrad search box you find on most Mudcat pages). |
27 May 00 - 02:36 PM (#234829) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Joe Offer Dale sent me a RealAudio recording of this wonderful song, and I'm having trouble with the second verse, just like Bert did - "there's a lovely whatchamacallit..." So, what's the whatchamacallit? -Joe Offer- |
27 May 00 - 02:51 PM (#234836) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Dale Rose "there's a lovely green nook..." |
27 May 00 - 02:55 PM (#234837) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Banjer Addtional info: This song can be found on the "Hills Of Home" Rounder C AN 16/17 two cassette set. The editor's note in the liner says that this song received the International Bluegrass Association's 1994 Song of the Year award. |
27 May 00 - 03:00 PM (#234839) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Dale Rose Banjer, I KNEW I had the LL version somewhere, but forgot where ~~ the version I sent Joe was a fine one though, by Paul, Win, Ellie, and Leela Grace from 1996. Ellie was 17 at the time of recording. |
27 May 00 - 03:06 PM (#234841) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Banjer Joe, back on 29 AUG 99 Barbara Shaw posted this version. I believe the missing word is 'KNOLL' |
27 May 00 - 03:16 PM (#234844) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Dale Rose You know, somehow the song was connected in my mind with Barbara, but couldn't figure out why. Now I remember THAT too. Got any more memory jogs for me?
I'll stick with nook, though.
P. S. to all of us: When will we remember we have the super search, and we're supposed to do that first?? |
27 May 00 - 05:37 PM (#234865) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will tend my home place? From: Banjer No more memory jogs for now, but as for the word, knoll is a small rolling hill, while I think of a nook as a hidden spot. It makes sense to me that a small hill would be green and possibly form the bank of a river while a nook would be dark rather than green....But if you want it to be a nook, then that is what the folk tradition is all about....Long live folk tradition!!! But what ever the word turns out to be it is a very pretty song.... |
14 Oct 09 - 09:01 PM (#2746116) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: GUEST,Tom Dailey Yup, touched me too - especially since the last of the family farms were sold this past year, and our "home place" was actually bulldozed down, about 2 days after I played banjo on the front porch, sittin' in Grandma's old porch swing, during a gentle rainstorm. Poetic, yup... sorrowful... painfully so. Kate wrote it, but Laurie made it cry. TC - Denver |
14 Oct 09 - 09:39 PM (#2746138) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: Barbara Shaw I've always had trouble listening to this sad song, and now especially so. Frank and I have spent the last several months emptying out my mother's house now that she's in a nursing home. All the tools my father left there 10 years ago when he died had to finally be moved, every single little scrap and all the accumulation of their lives had to be sorted and moved, given away, sold or stored. Dishes for 25th, 40th, 50th anniversaries. Old photo albums, housewares, linens, furniture, books, clothes, souvenirs. All the "stuff" we hang onto is often meaningless in the end except as vehicles for memories of people we've known and loved. I look forward to this space being brought to life again someday with new people in their own way with their own stuff. |
14 Oct 09 - 10:05 PM (#2746153) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: GUEST,DWR Right Barbara and Tom, as the time draws near for my Mom to give up her place and go to a nursing home, whether it be next month or next year, the memories are all that remain in the end. The things that they are attached to live on "only in dreams." By the way, another really nice version which has come up since we last talked about it is by the Ramona Jones Family Band. Someone mentioned it in our "other" thread: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13369 |
15 Oct 09 - 08:56 AM (#2746467) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: Brian Peters My old band the Rocky Mountain Ploughboys used to do this song, so it was a real privilege to find myself on staff with Kate Long at Augusta Vocal Week last year. A very nice lady, and it's a wonderful song. The way it's hit home to the real experiences of the people who have written here is testament to that. |
19 May 10 - 12:57 PM (#2909997) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: who will take care of the old home pl From: Jim Dixon I think the song you want is WHO WILL WATCH THE HOME PLACE. Lyrics have been posted in this thread. |
20 May 10 - 11:36 AM (#2910604) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: Murray MacLeod I think you have your links twisted , Jim, the link you wanted is this thread. For an exquisite live version of this beautiful song, check out Laurie Lewis singing "Who will Watch the Home Place" |
20 May 10 - 11:30 PM (#2911007) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate From: Jim Dixon Murray: Here's what happened: While browsing through some old, old threads yesterday, I found a thread called "Lyr Req: who will take care of the old home pl". I added a message to that thread linking it to this thread. That bumped the thread to the top of the queue. Then (I'll bet) Joe Offer saw it and decided to combine the two threads. So now you see a message linking this thread to itself. If you're interested, you can look for messages with that subject line; it will make it clear what happened. That reminds me: Some time ago, Joe asked me to notify him whenever I find 2 threads that ought to be merged. That's what I should have done instead of creating my own link. Then I wouldn't look like such an idiot. On the other hand, sometimes I accomplish that without any help. It does create needless confusion when we have several threads about the same song. Combining threads is a good idea. It just seems like there's a huge amount of work to be done. |
21 May 10 - 02:22 PM (#2911415) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: GUEST Its definitely "nook". Our autoharp tutor at Sore Fingers this April was Cathy Britell, who was touring with Kate Long when she drove past her old home and was inspired that night to write this song. And one correction to what has been posted in this thread - the other thread has it correct - second line is "hill" to rhyme with "bills". |
15 Aug 13 - 06:36 AM (#3549281) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long From: GUEST The orignal singer of who will watch the home place |
25 Oct 20 - 07:56 PM (#4076844) Subject: RE: ADD: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long) From: YorkshireYankee Interesting to see what Guest says, two posts above this one. I attended Augusta's Vocal Week back in the early 90's, and took the songwriting class as one of my daily workshops (can't remember who the 'teacher' was, unfortunately). Of course we all worked on songs that week. Kate Long was in that class, too, and towards the end of the week she shared "Who Will Watch the Home Place?" (I remember her hands shaking as she sang it, very quietly and gently.) Ten-20 years later, I was amazed to hear someone sing it in a session in Sheffield UK (where I live now). He told me he had learned it from a Laurie Lewis CD – and I remembered that Laurie Lewis had been one of the Vocal Week instructors that year. I believe she heard Kate sing it that week and decided to cover it. I probably would not have been surprised if I was someone who followed bluegrass music closely, but I don't, so it was quite amazing to hear Kate's song all those miles away and all those years later. |
25 Nov 20 - 11:36 PM (#4080977) Subject: RE: ADD: Who Will Watch the Home Place? (Kate Long) From: Joe Offer Could it be "turning to showers of gold"? and "lovely green nook"?? |