20 Sep 00 - 06:32 PM (#301748) Subject: The Box From: GUEST,Guest: Larry Several months ago I heard a poem written by John Denver entitled "The Box". It was based loosely on a Pandora's Box type theme, and i've been trying to find the words, or lyrics, since I'm not sure if it is just a poem, or if it's a song. I've searched the Internet with out any luck, and this is my last resort. Help! |
20 Sep 00 - 06:34 PM (#301753) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: mousethief Is it on one of his albums? Here is a very good John Denver site:
Alex |
20 Sep 00 - 11:23 PM (#301941) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Faded Denim Try Poems Prayers and Promises Album. I like it too! |
20 Sep 00 - 11:25 PM (#301944) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Mbo All I know is "The Box," a song by Randy Travis. |
20 Sep 00 - 11:26 PM (#301945) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: GUEST,Guest-Larry I'm pretty sure it's on one of his albums, but I don't know which one, because the friend I heard "The Box" from moved away, and I don't know her address or e-mail. I went to the John Denver site but didn't find anything. Thanks anyway. |
20 Sep 00 - 11:32 PM (#301948) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Jolly It is on Poems, Prayers and Promises, which says it's written by someone named Lascelles. It's too late to put the album on, but if nobody else does, I'll listen to it tomorrow. Kim |
21 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM (#302180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: A Wandering Minstrel Here you go. (reciting from memory)
Long, long ago in the land of Hushaby
Well the children understood, children happen to be good
But someone did. someone battered in the lid
It bounced right out and went crashing all about
It bumped the children mainly
now theres a way to stop the ball,
Well thats the way it all appears |
21 Sep 00 - 09:48 PM (#302737) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOX (from John Denver) From: Jolly Wandering Minstrel, that's pretty good. I couldn't remember that much of it myself, so I went and listened to the album again. You're only missing a few lines, but I thought it would be easier to cut/paste in the whole thing than to try to explain where the missing lines go, so: THE BOX (Lascelles)
Once upon a time,
Decree was issued round about
Well, the children understood.
Mommies didn't either.
But someone did.
It bounced right out
It bumped the children mainly,
Now there's a way to stop the ball.
Well, that's the way it all appears, I'm glad I pulled out the album. I haven't listened to John Denver in a long time and forgot how much I used to enjoy it. Kim |
22 Sep 00 - 09:59 AM (#302964) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: A Wandering Minstrel Jolly. as you kindly say, not bad for my old memory. particularly since I gave away the LP years ago. I had completely forgotten that gaily coloured mascot. :-) I just love that
"In spite of all the wisdom wizzed" line!
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22 Sep 00 - 06:41 PM (#303453) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Jolly I wonder if GUEST Larry has been back. By the way, Larry, it is a poem rather than a song - maybe that's why it isn't on the website with his other lyrics??? Kim |
24 Sep 00 - 02:18 PM (#304472) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Art Thieme I taped (audio only because there was no video tape yet) this poem recited by the author, Kendrew Lascles, on the old original Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show --back in the 60s--during the Viet Nam War. It was extremely effective. Having this poem in prime time on National TV (there was no cable yet) ruffled a ton of feathers. The brothers were always doing that---making noise about the war. We loved it---and them for doing it. Pete Seeger sang "Knee Deep In The Big Muddy" on this show. Art Thieme |
26 Aug 03 - 08:25 AM (#1008257) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: Jim Dixon Google found 90+ copies of "The Box" on the Internet. More than half of them are associated with John Denver. John Denver recited "The Box" on his 1971 album "Poems, Prayers & Promises." At AMG - All Music Guide, authorship is credited to "Lascelles"--no other name given. On the web sites that contain the poem, sometimes the author's name is given as "Lascelles," sometimes as "Lascelles Abercrombie," and sometimes as "Kendrew Lascelles." I'm betting that the latter is correct, because the Library of Congress lists a 40-page book called "The Box" by Kendrew Lascelles, copyright 1974. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) lists Kendrew Lascelles as an actor and screenwriter. The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) credits him for a couple of Broadway musicals. (Lascelles Abercrombie, on the other hand, was a scholarly English poet and critic who died in 1938. His poetry was called "complex and cerebral in style" by the Columbia Encyclopedia.) One source said Steve Martin recited this poem on the Smothers Brothers Show. The poem has also been posted in the threads called From a Mother's Point of View... Greatest Anti-War Song Ever? and Lyr Req: The Thing |
26 Apr 15 - 05:41 PM (#3704363) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Box From: GUEST |