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01 Feb 01 - 05:43 PM (#387800) Subject: The Hermit From: Hawker Hi, I have the words and tune for the song 'The Hermit' what I do not have is info on who wrote it - anybody know the answer? Thanks in hope.....(wherever that is!) Hawks |
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01 Feb 01 - 06:53 PM (#387866) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Zebedee Any chance of posting a few of the lyrics? Given that most seach engines ignore 'the' I can only search by 'hermit' That makes the needle in the haystack seem easy to find. Ed |
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01 Feb 01 - 06:57 PM (#387868) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Sorcha (Herman?) duckingandrunning............. |
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01 Feb 01 - 07:06 PM (#387877) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Hawker I got the words off the database here on Mudcat - Try: THE HERMIT |
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01 Feb 01 - 07:42 PM (#387905) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Snuffy Hawker, You say you've got the tune to the Hermit? That's one of the ones we're missing in the DT. Any chance you can post it - Mmario will love you for ever! Almost any format will do - abc, midi, gif, NWC file, tape or photocopy through the post. You name it, we'll take it! Wassail! V |
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01 Feb 01 - 07:56 PM (#387915) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: MMario yes! I have arrived, now other people are doing my begging for me! |
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01 Feb 01 - 07:57 PM (#387916) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Snuffy For a different version of the story of the hermit and the beautiful maiden see this thread about the Glendalough Saint. It also gives some useful background information about St Kevin (not our own McGrath!) |
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01 Feb 01 - 08:55 PM (#387947) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Bill D you ever sing the bawdy song "Roll Your Leg Over?" thats the basic tune to the Hermit |
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02 Feb 01 - 01:47 AM (#388063) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: GUEST,Murray on Salt Spring The words are evidently by the notorious Canadian, Oscar Brand, and the tune is that of "Roll Your Leg Over". |
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02 Feb 01 - 12:29 PM (#388341) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Hawker Snuffy, I am new to this electronic gadgetry molarky, when I get a little more confident, I will be able to do these things - sadly I am an aural singer - I don't do dots - so it will have to be a tape methinks. See wot I can do. Incidentally many years ago when I were a lass, an ex- boyfreind of mine had a really cute pet rabbit called snuffy! Sorry! Hawks |
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02 Feb 01 - 05:42 PM (#388696) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Snuffy Where are you, Hawks? I'm in England and Mmario is in the States. So wherever it's easiest. Seems like we'll kill two birds with one stone, 'cos "Roll Your Leg Over" is also on the Missing Tunes List. Wassail! V |
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02 Feb 01 - 06:49 PM (#388769) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Hawker Snuffy, Sorry I didn't get back sooner, Just been out to a Guy Fawkes Party....... Yes I KNOW IT'S February.... but they are a little slower with everything down here in Cornwall! UK it is.......Have you heard of Cool Speak? It's like e-mail, but you can send sound messages, I sent a song I wrote to a singer who wanted to use it this way, the sound is not exactly studio standard, butit's good enough. Perhaps that could be one way of getting it on the DT..... where would I send it? Hawks |
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03 Feb 01 - 06:16 AM (#389084) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: Snuffy Sorry, I've not heard of Coolspeak, but it sounds like just the thing. I'll send you a personal message and we can sort it out there. |
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03 Feb 01 - 08:17 AM (#389107) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: bill\sables Snuffy I am in the UK and I know the tune for Hermit I have been singing it since the 60s Send me a PM with your Phone No and I will sing it to you, Bill |
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03 Feb 01 - 02:30 PM (#389246) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: DonMeixner Are we discussing..... "A Hermit there was who lived in a dell, I swear tis the truth of this story I tell, My grandfather's grandfather knew him quite well, This Hermit" Don |
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03 Feb 01 - 08:04 PM (#389369) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: bill\sables I Think so Don, that is the one I know. Bill |
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04 Feb 01 - 06:52 PM (#389991) Subject: RE: Help: The Hermit From: DonMeixner Some place I pulled this up on line about a month ago. I probably used the Lycos search or AOL serch engine but I recall I had no trouble finding it. Don |
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19 Jun 12 - 05:50 PM (#3365586) Subject: RE: Origin: The Hermit From: GUEST,hungryjoe I know all the lyrics to The Hermit. What I don't know is how old this thread is. |
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19 Jun 12 - 05:53 PM (#3365588) Subject: RE: Origin: The Hermit From: tritoneman Steve Benbow used to sing 'The Hermit'. I think I've still got a recording of it somewhere. |
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19 Jun 12 - 06:04 PM (#3365591) Subject: RE: Origin: The Hermit From: GUEST,hungryjoe I'll give you this much... if you want the rest, you'll need to let me know there's still an interest. (Word for word from an Oscar Brand LP): And now of a hermit, a tale I will tell Who lived all alone way down in a dell My grandfather's grandfather knew him quite well, This hermit. (4 rising banjo notes) He lived all alone by the side of the lake Concoctions and herbs for his food he would take, And not but of fish would the good man partake Of Friday. (4 rising banjo notes) Now to ordin'ry mortals his portals he'd close, Once a year he'd bathe his body and clothes How the lake stood it, the Lord only knows, And he wn |
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19 Jun 12 - 06:13 PM (#3365595) Subject: RE: Origin: The Hermit From: GUEST,hungryjoe I'll give you this much... if you want the rest, you'll need to let me know there's still an interest. (Word for word from an Oscar Brand LP): And now of a hermit, a tale I will tell Who lived all alone way down in a dell My grandfather's grandfather knew him quite well, This hermit. (4 rising banjo notes) He lived all alone by the side of the lake Concoctions and herbs for his food he would take, And not but of fish would the good man partake Of Friday. (4 rising banjo notes) Now to ordin'ry mortals his portals he'd close, Once a year he'd bathe his body and clothes How the lake stood it, the Lord only knows, And he won't tell. (4 rising banjo notes) Full lyrics upon request. Even the part where the pretty girls show up while he is bathing naked. (And FYI I have other Oscar Brand lyrics should anyone want them.) |
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19 Jun 12 - 06:39 PM (#3365611) Subject: RE: Origin: The Hermit From: Leadfingers I 'collected' (Stole) this from a mate in Singapore in 1969 , so now I can attribute it to Oscar Brand ! Though my lyrics do vary slightly ( The Folk Process) it IS the same song . |