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27 Aug 01 - 06:28 PM (#536356) Subject: Rosalee McFall From: GUEST,vandyke@tulane.edu Looking for the words to Rosalee McFall. Tough to understand on the 2 recording I have.
Thanks Messages from multiple threads combined. |
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27 Aug 01 - 06:39 PM (#536368) Subject: Lyr Add: ROSA LEE MCFALL From: Sorcha The title on the LP "Reckoning" was given as 'Rosalie McFall'. But the original Monroe Brothers' LP has the title 'Rosa Lee McFall' and that is what is used on the CD version of "Reckoning".
Out on the lonely hillside
Her hair was brightsome color (note 1)
A asked her to be my darling
Then God way up in heaven
I've searched the wide world over (note 3)
Out on the lonely hillside
Footnotes and other info found here |
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27 Aug 01 - 06:40 PM (#536369) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rosalee McFall From: Sorcha e mail sent.......... |
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27 Aug 01 - 10:56 PM (#536526) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rosalee McFall From: GUEST,rastaaa thanx Sorcha ,ive been lookin for these lyrics for some time , i heaard it from Alan Munde, texas banjo player-----rastaaa |
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06 Aug 03 - 01:34 PM (#998018) Subject: Origins: Rosa Lee McFall From: South Side Curious, does anyone know the origin of this song? I have seen it credited to Charlie Monroe, and as a traditional tune. Not sure which is correct. Thanks, South Side |
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06 Aug 03 - 01:50 PM (#998026) Subject: RE: Origins: Rosa Lee McFall From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Another site says the same thing you say. Rosalie McFall |
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06 Aug 03 - 07:48 PM (#998225) Subject: RE: Origins: Rosa Lee McFall From: michaelr Grateful Dead Songfinder (yep, they played this one, too) says words and music by Charlie Monroe. From the Monroe Brothers LP "Early Bluegrass Music". Cheers, Michael |
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06 Aug 03 - 08:01 PM (#998232) Subject: ADD Versions: Rosalee McFall From: Joe Offer Rosalie McFall (Grateful Dead Version) Out on the lonely hillside in a cabin low and small Lived the sweetest rose of color my Rosie McFall Her eyes were bright and shining and her voice was sweet to me Knew that I would always love her and I hoped that she loved me My eyes turned to me, my darlin' and this is what she said: You know that I would always love you when you and I are wed. Then God way up in heaven one day for her did call I lost my bride, oh how I loved her, my Rosie McFall I searched this wide world over through cities great and small But I never found another like my Rosie McFall This was on the 1980 Grateful Dead Reckoning album. found at This Greateful Dead Website. The link Sorcha posted also has a Peter Rowan version - Peter Rowan's version with the Red Hot Pickers has rather different lyrics: Up on a lonely hillside The Traditional Ballad Index has a little information, but not much. Looks like it's not in any of the songbooks the Ballad Index has covered. Rosa Lee McFallDESCRIPTION: Singer loves Rosa Lee McFall and sings her praises. He proposes to her; she accepts, but then dies. He vows to roam the world alone "'till God prepares my place in heaven With my Rosa Lee McFall"AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: KEYWORDS: grief courting love death mourning travel FOUND IN: US RECORDINGS: Charlie Monroe & His Kentucky Partners, "Rosa Lee McFall" (RCA Victor 21-0054, c. 1949) New Lost City Ramblers, "Rosa Lee McFall" (on NLCR13) Notes: This plot shows up enough times that I have the sneaking suspicion "Rosa Lee McFall" is a variant of another song. Since I don't know which, however, I've indexed it on its own. - PJS File: RcRLMcF Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2003 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
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03 Dec 09 - 10:55 AM (#2779579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rosa Lee McFall (Charlie Monroe) From: Jim Dixon The US Catalog of Copyright Entries says that a "musical composition" called ROSA LEE MCFALL was copyrighted in 1937 by J. M. Pasley. |