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Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)

21 Sep 00 - 02:31 AM (#302046)
Subject: Proper name of song
From: GUEST,machtolf@arn.net

Can someone please tell me the name of the song thats about sweet adaline,and where I can fins the lyrics. Thanks so much Shirley Duncan machtolf@arn.net


21 Sep 00 - 07:18 AM (#302094)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Proper name for song thats about Swe
From: Pene Azul

The song is called "Sweet Adeline." You can get the sheet music in .pdf format and a MIDI on this page (click).

(also emailed)

Jeff


21 Sep 00 - 03:02 PM (#302445)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Proper name for song thats about Swe
From: GUEST,Bruce O.

It's "You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline", 1903, in the Levy sheet music collection (in Mudcat's Links). Box 150a, item 108.


17 Sep 11 - 11:49 PM (#3224978)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)
From: Jim Dixon

You can see the sheet music at the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection: Click for a PDF.

YOU'RE THE FLOWER OF MY HEART, SWEET ADELINE
Words by Richard H. Gerard. Music by Harry Armstrong
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, ©1903.

Lyrics have been posted here in the thread called "Flower Songs."


18 Sep 11 - 07:04 AM (#3225072)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)
From: Max Johnson

Interestingly, you can hear a 1977 recording of Threadbare Consort singing 'Sweet Adeline' at the Lost Folk Tapes website www.lostfolktapes.com.


18 Sep 11 - 12:39 PM (#3225173)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)
From: open mike

Why are(female) barbershop quartets often given the name of Sweet Adelines?
http://www.lostfolktapes.com/1/category/threadbare%20consort/1.html


18 Sep 11 - 01:51 PM (#3225205)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)
From: Max Johnson

Dunno, but there was, and possibly still is a female barbershop group called 'The Sweet Adelines'. I remember seeing them around 30 years ago when a U.S. barbershop contest was televised. I think they were a Barbershop 'choir', but memory could well be at fault. The best male barbershop quartet I ever heard was in the same competition. They were called 'The Pacific Airs'.


18 Sep 11 - 04:28 PM (#3225256)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Adeline (R Gerard/H Armstrong)
From: RunrigFan

Sweet Adeline Lyrics
Artist(Band):Elliott Smith
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Cut this picture into you and me
Burn it backwards, kill this history
Make it over, make it stay away
Or hate'll say the ending that love started to say

There's a kid a floor below me saying "Brother, can you spare
Sunshine for a brother, old man winter's in the air"
Walked me up a story, asking how you are
Told me not to worry, you were just a shooting star

Sweet Adeline,
Sweet Adeline,
My Clementine,
Sweet Adeline

It's a picture-perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun
Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead