Lyr Req: Brookland Road (Kipling/Bellamy)

06 Sep 01 - 06:34 PM (#543859)
Subject: little green lantern
From: vectis

Does anyone know the words to this tune? I only have a few fragments of it at the moment.
It starts

"I was very well pleased with what I know"

The chorus goes
"Low down, low down where the little green lantern shines,
Maids I've done with you all but one and she can never be mine"

Any help from everyone out there would be greatly appreciated.

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07 Sep 01 - 10:01 AM (#544429)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: A Wandering Minstrel

Its a poem by Kipling called "Brooklyn Road" I think its either from "Rewards and Fairies" or "Puck of Pooks Hill"

It recounts how the singer meets a fairy on the road and falls in love with her. There's quite a good version sung by Charley Yarwood and Ian Woods on their Hooks and Nets album

if you can't find it, post back and I will transcribe it from my "Complete Works" (though I'm away till Monday - sorry)

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07 Sep 01 - 10:12 AM (#544439)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: Sorcha

Try Brookland Road from the Complete Works of Kipling

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07 Sep 01 - 10:30 AM (#544448)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: A Wandering Minstrel

Sorcha,

Sorry I menat Brookland. Ive overdosed on Posh 'n Becks I suspect :P

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07 Sep 01 - 11:20 AM (#544470)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: Sorcha

LOL, minstrel. At least now you don't have to type it!

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07 Sep 01 - 05:31 PM (#544766)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: vectis

Brilliant work folks!!!!!
That looks like it.
Thanks a lot. I much appreciate your help.
My mate has spent months looking for the words, without success.
I knew someone here would solve the mystery.
Thanks once again:-)
Mary

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08 Sep 01 - 03:18 AM (#545027)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: Mark Cohen

Score another for the 'Cat! When I saw the thread title, I thought he might have been looking for

In brightest day, in darkest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power -- Green Lantern's light

...but I guess she wasn't.

Aloha,
Mark

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23 Jan 02 - 12:41 PM (#633861)
Subject: Lyr Add: BROOKLAND ROAD (Rudyard Kipling)
From: Jim Dixon

BROOKLAND ROAD
(Poem by Rudyard Kipling)

I was very well pleased with what I knowed,
I reckoned myself no fool--
Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road,
That turned me back to school.

CHO: Low down-low down!
Where the liddle green lanterns shine--
O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one,
And she can never be mine!

'Twas right in the middest of a hot June night,
With thunder duntin' round,
And I see'd her face by the fairy light
That beats from off the ground.

She only smiled and she never spoke,
She smiled and went away;
But when she'd gone my heart was broke
And my wits was clean astray.

O, stop your ringing and let me be--
Let be, O Brookland bells!
You'll ring Old Goodman out of the sea,
Before I wed one else!

Old Goodman's Farm is rank sea-sand,
And was this thousand year;
But it shall turn to rich plough-land
Before I change my dear.

O, Fairfield Church is water-bound
From autumn to the spring;
But it shall turn to high hill-ground
Before my bells do ring.

O, leave me walk on Brookland Road,
In the thunder and warm rain--
O, leave me look where my love goed,
And p'raps I'll see her again! CHO.

[Recorded by Ian Woods and Charley Yarwood on "Hooks And Nets," Tradition TSR044.]

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23 Jan 02 - 02:33 PM (#633934)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little green lantern
From: Dave Bryant

I don't think that anyone mentioned that the words were set to music by the late Peter Bellamy. When I first heard Charley Yarwood sing it (with Tom and Barabara Brown as Regalia) I was sure that it was a Cornish Song - it had the right lilt. It was only flicking through my copy of "The Complete Works of Kipling" that I found out where it came from - It's actually set on the Kent/Sussex border. "Old Goodman" is suppose to refer to the Goodwin Sands.

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