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06 Nov 01 - 12:39 AM (#586504) Subject: Campfire song From: GUEST,Sandra Gordon A friend of mine is looking for the lyrics to a song that she can only remember "all the day a singin', supper on the ground" as being one of the lyrics. Could any of you help. Thanks. |
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06 Nov 01 - 12:50 AM (#586509) Subject: ADD: All Day Singing ^^ From: Joe Offer Hi, Sandra - Mudcatter Susanne (skw) has it on her Website click here -Joe Offer- ALL DAY SINGING Trad All day singing, supper's on the ground Old folk and young folk gathering round All of the neighbours you'll get to see Oh come along Mary, come sit by me Some from Leicester and far away Come early in the morning and stay all day Every kind of fiddle that you ever did see Oh come along Mary, come sit by me Bring your fried chicken and your chocolate cake Bring all of the goodies that you can bake Bring along your guitars, harmonica too Oh come along Mary, oh come along do Repeat 1 (as sung by The Spinners) ^^ |
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07 Nov 01 - 12:43 AM (#587210) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Campfire song - All Day Singing From: GUEST,Sandra Gordon Thanks for the lyrics. I emailed the person who asked me for the song and enclosed the lyrics you provided. Many thanks! |
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10 Nov 01 - 09:58 PM (#590056) Subject: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,Sandra Gordon Some one posted back to me the song I was referring to with the only lyrics this woman knew "all day singing, Supper on the ground". Now the same friend told me she needs the tune which I thought she knew because she knew the tune to the first verse. Could someone help me out here? The website I was referred to had no tune on it, but would appreciate any help you could offer in finding the tune. Written music is fine. Thanks Click for lyrics in previous thread |
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10 Nov 01 - 10:19 PM (#590073) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: Sorcha I did not have any luck at all. Does the website have an e mail link? Lots do......I'll see if I can find an e mail for you. |
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10 Nov 01 - 10:24 PM (#590075) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: Sorcha AHA! Here is her e mail.... skw@worldmusic.de Just write and ask her if she has the tune. I can't find it anywhere on line, and the only one I know is an original by Elkin Thomas called the Singing School Song. I don't know if the tune is the same as the original or not. Elkin based his song on this one........ |
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11 Nov 01 - 09:48 PM (#590538) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,Sandra Gordon Thank you Sorcha, I already emailed this woman and am waiting for her reply. If you can give me the URL to her website, I'd like to go back there. Have a good one and thanks again |
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11 Nov 01 - 10:39 PM (#590557) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: Joe Offer Hi, Sandra - Susanne's wonderful Website is http://www.mysongbook.de/. If you e-mail me, I can probably arrange to get a recording of the song to you. -Joe Offer (click to e-mail)- |
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12 Nov 01 - 12:19 AM (#590593) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,Susy You can find the lyrics and melody in Albert E Brumley's book titled "All the Day a Singin'" I can't put my hands on my cjopy at the moment, but he has several old-time music books out: Songs of the Pioneers, America's Memory Valley, Gospel (his dad wrote I'll Fly Away.) Publishing address is: 345 West Highway 54 Camdenton, Missouri 65020. Since I have no idea what part of the country you're from, writing them is probably the best way to get it. It was probably published in the late 70's. |
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12 Nov 01 - 05:19 PM (#591094) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,BigDaddy Ricky Skaggs sings "The Little Mountain Church House," which contains the line, "all day Sunday singing and supper on the ground." Chords and lyrics can be found at Cowpie. The song is on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Part Two." |
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16 Jan 06 - 06:06 PM (#1649772) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,Joelle Are you referring to these lyrics: Al the day a singin'/supper on the ground/older folks and young'ens/gathered around/Every kind of vittle/you ever did see/Come along Mary/and set by me I know the melody but I don't know how to notate and I don't know who wrote it. |
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17 Jan 06 - 09:51 AM (#1650159) Subject: ADD: The Cheat and Birdie From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Brumley's claim may be full of holes unless he published the song before about 1950. As far as I know, "All Day Singin'" was written by the fine New Orleans singer Adelaide Van Wey. She sang it on her Folkways LP, issued sometime around 1951 I think. Van Wey should have been recorded more than she was. Her record had French songs on one side -- En Avant, Grenadier, Tan Patate-la Tchuite, and others -- and on the English side had the following: All Day Singin', The Cheat, Birdie, and Blackbird and Crow. Of these I think she wrote the first three, the remaining one being a version of the song sometimes known as "Leatherwing Bat." Her melodies were ravishingly simple and beautiful, and I never understood why they had not spread more widely. I totally love her stuff and wish I still had the record. The "All Day Singin'" lyrics given in the other thread are correct, I believe, except one line, the word she uses is "COME from Gloucester, and Toxaway." Bob P.S. Because her songs are so beautiful and so unusual, here are the other two. Apologies if they're already in the DT, I haven't looked, but in any case these are Van Wey's original versions, and may differ from the DT. THE CHEAT Up in horse pastures I used to go campin', me and my friends of yore, Now they pass like they never knowed me, all my friends they pass by my door. CHORUS All my friends they pass by my door, all my friends they pass by my door, Now they pass like they never knowed me, all my friends they pass by my door. They caught me cheatin' at poker and blackjack, caught me stealin' their corn, Now they pass like they never knowed me, oh, I wish I'd never been born. CHORUS Oh, I wish I'd never been born...etc An ABC of the above: G G G E G G A A A F A G G G F E D---G A A F G A G G E C C D E E F E D C E F G G A F A G---E E F G G G F E D----G A A F G A G G E C C D E E F E D C Loveliest of all is the love song, I always wanted to record it, never did: BIRDIE There's others that are much more handsome, And have finer clothes to wear, But there ain't ary girl any sweeter Than Birdie with the coal black hair. CHORUS My Birdie with the coal black hair, My Birdie with the coal black hair, There ain't ary girl any sweeter Than Birdie with the coal black hair. She's little and light when she dances, You don't hardly know that she's there, Whenever we go to the square dance, My Birdie with the coal black hair. There's some girls can cut a fine figger, And some that make all the men stare, But there ain't ary girl any sweeter Than Birdie with the coal black hair. An ABC: G E E E F E D E G G A A A C' B A G G G A F F C' B A G E E ED D E G-F D C E E D D E F-E D E-G G A A A A D'-C' A G G A F F C' B A G E E E D D E G-E D C Enjoy...Adelaide Van Wey is a secret too good to keep. |
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17 Jan 06 - 10:44 AM (#1650180) Subject: RE: Tune Req: All Day Singin' From: GUEST,Bob Coltman By the way, I should have noted that the phrase "All day singin' and dinner on the ground" is a commonplace, used in advertising revivals and camp meetings in the south for probably the best part of a century or more. The idea was, if you would come to hear the preachin', you could get to eat a vast array of food, wonderful delicacies fixed specially for the occasion ... source, also, of the "Methodist Pie" song: Well, they all go there for to have a good time And to eat that grub so sly, Have applesauce, butter, and sugar in the gourd, And a great big Methodist pie. Needless to say, the food you could get at the revival gatherings was home cooking and the very best the community ladies could produce. They vied for tastiest and best, fanciest and most delicious, sometimes held bake-off and eating contests as well (though not necessarily under the auspices of the revival), and it was stuff you would be unlikely to get at home unless your Mama or wife was an especially good and versatile cook. Usual meals were not necessarily sparse but they were plain. Most women had too much to do to have time for fancy cooking every day. They fed men needing a lot of calories, mostly fat, for field work -- they burned it off and many stayed thin as a rail on pork, lard, drippin's, hoecake, johnnycake, etc. But the usual home meal did not offer many choices. "Dinner on the ground," by contrast, attracted top dishes from every woman in the congregation, and was SOME eatin'. Applesauce was rare. Butter was rare, most people made do with lard in the country. Sugar in the gourd was a real special item for parties only, sucked by the kids to keep them quiet. And the average farm wife did not bake pie very often, maybe only for a Sunday treat or not at all. To this day southern wives love to spread a table groaning with food for guests, in part to show they can: barbecue, fried chicken, two or three sorts of potatoes, green beens fixed with salt pork, salads of greens, salads of jello and fruit, biscuits, rolls and other bread, chocolate cake, and pies, pies, pies... Gawd, and me on diet. You can tell it, can't you? I do think if it wasn't for "dinner on the ground," religion would never have made such headway in the south. Bob |
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11 May 11 - 09:58 PM (#3152448) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Campfire song - All Day Singing From: GUEST,David N MO As learned from Music Now and Long Ago (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 3) many years ago: ALL DAY SINGING All day singing, supper's on the ground Older folk and youngins gather around All your friends and neighbors you'll get to see Come along Mary, and sit by me Some from Leicester and far away Come on in the morning and stay here all day Every kind of viddle that you ever did see Come along Mary, and sit by me Bring some watermelons and some chocolate cake Bring all of the goodies that you can bake Bring along your fiddle, your dad's guitar too Come along Mary, oh come along do |
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11 May 11 - 10:33 PM (#3152460) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Campfire song - All Day Singing From: Joe Offer Hi, David - I was looking for the melody for the song, but couldn't find it. I don't see it in my copy of Music Now and Long Ago. Any idea where it might be? -Joe- |
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11 May 11 - 11:02 PM (#3152468) Subject: ADD Version: All Day Singing From: Joe Offer I did find a recording of the song on a Smithsonian Folkways album, All Day Singin' - Louisiana and Smoky Mountain Ballads, by Adelaide Van Wey. The album notes have these lyrics: ALL DAY SINGIN' All day singin' Supper on the ground; Old folks and young 'uns Gathered round Every kind of vittle You ever did see; Come along, Mary, And set by me. Some from Gloucester And Toxaway; Come in the mornin' And stay all day. Bring along your fiddle And gittar too; Come along, Mary, Oh, come along, do. Bring your fired chicken And your choc'let cake All the best food You can make All of the neighbors You'll git to see Come along Mary, And set by me. All day singin' Supper on the ground; Old folks and young 'uns Gathered round Every kind of vittle You ever did see; Come along, Mary, And set by me. You'll see above that Bob Coltman thinks the song may have been written by Adelaide Van Wey, who recorded the song on this 1951 Folkways album - but in the album notes, Van Wey says that "All Day Singin'," "Birdie," and "The Cheat" were found by Donald Lee Moore of Brevard, North Carolina. So far, I haven't been able to find anything earlier than Van Wey's 1950 album. |
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29 Jun 14 - 03:06 PM (#3637703) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All Day Singing / All Day Singin' From: GUEST,He idi Learned in elementary school. Have melody. |