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05 Dec 01 - 11:06 AM (#604237) Subject: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: GUEST,Spud Murphy Checked DigiTrad. Nothing there. Nothing in Google. CDNow & BN have it on a Sons of the Pioneers Album I can't afford. Any ideas, Sorcha? Joe? Anybody? Spud |
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05 Dec 01 - 11:23 AM (#604244) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: Sorcha I looked, Spud. Nothing. Checked cowpie, Olga, "Sons of the Pioneers", and Levy just for kicks. (I figured it wouldn't be there.) Sorry. |
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05 Dec 01 - 01:30 PM (#604320) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Also looked. Only found trivia. Written by Herman Lohr and D. Eradley-Wilmot. Sung by Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy in "Sweethearts." Recorded also by Sons of the Pioneers. A favorite of Australia's first prime minister. Text of a book by that title. Etc. But no lyrics! |
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14 Oct 06 - 06:24 PM (#1858959) Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST From: Jim Dixon Here it is, copied from http://noviomagus.tripod.com/littlegreyhome.htm LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST Hermann Frederic Löhr and D. Eardley-Wilmot, c.1911 When the golden sun sinks in the hills, And the toil of a long day is o'er, Though the road may be long, In the lilt of a song, I forget I was weary before. Far ahead, where the blue shadows fall, I shall come to contentment and rest, And the toils of the day Will be all charmed away, In my little grey home of the west. There are hands that will welcome me in. There are lips I am burning to kiss. There are two eyes that shine Just because they are mine, And a thousand things other men miss. It's a corner of heaven itself, Though it's only a tumble-down nest; But with love brooding there, Why, no place can compare With my little grey home in the west. [Allmusic.com lists recordings by Kenny Baker, Andy Cooney, Frances Langford, Josef Locke, John MacNally, Frank Patterson, Paddy Reilly, Robert White, and the Sons of the Pioneers (but they spell it 'GRAY')] |
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14 Oct 06 - 06:25 PM (#1858961) Subject: Lyr Add: MY LITTLE WET HOME IN THE TRENCH From: Jim Dixon And, for good measure, here are two WW1 parodies from the same web site: MY LITTLE WET HOME IN THE TRENCH Tom Skeyhill, 1915 I've a little wet home in the trench, Which the rain-storms continually drench; Blue sky overhead, Mud and clay for a bed, And a stone that we use for a bench. Bully beef and hard biscuits we chew; Shells crackle and scare, But no place can compare With my little wet home in the trench. Our friends in the trench o'er the way Seem to know that we've come here to stay; They rush and they shout, But they can't get us out, Though there's no dirty work they don't play. They rushed us a few nights ago, But we don't like intruders, and so Some departed quite sore, Others sleep evermore, Near my little wet home in the trench. So hurrah for the mud and the clay, It's the road to "Der Tag"—that's "The Day"— When we enter Berlin, That big city of sin, Where we'll make the fat Berliner pay. We'll remember the cold, and the frost, When we scour the fat land of the Bhost; There'll be shed then, I fear, Redder stuff than a tear For my little wet home in the trench. A LITTLE WET HOME IN A TRENCH John Lucy I've a little wet home in a trench, Where the rainstorms continually drench, There's a dead cow close by With her feet in towards the sky And she gives off a terrible stench. Underneath, in the place of a floor, There's a mass of wet mud and some straw, But with shells dropping there, There's no place to compare, With my little wet home in the trench. |
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14 Oct 06 - 07:05 PM (#1858979) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: Joe Offer I didn't have this recording when it was first reqested, but I've since found it in a Proper Box, My Saddle Pals and I, a collection of about a hundred cuts from the Sons of the Pioneers - it costs 25 bucks at Amazon, which is about the price we ought to pay for reissues like this. It sure is a treat. Kudoes to Proper and to JSP for their wonderful, affordable box sets. -Joe Offer- |
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14 Oct 06 - 08:20 PM (#1859051) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: Q (Frank Staplin) Complete sheet music is available from the University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection, the best source for these songs of the west composed in the early 20th c. http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/sheetmusic.pl?WTLittle&WesternTrails&main or start with the alphabetical title sheet- Western trails |
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15 Oct 06 - 04:30 PM (#1859613) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (A) Little Gray Home In The West From: Fliss Nice song. Reminds me of my dad's old wind up gramaphone - one of the 78s he had. fxx |
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16 Oct 06 - 01:26 PM (#1860486) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Grey Home in the West From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Not surprised: John McCormack recorded it in, I think, 1914 or 1916. |
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17 Oct 06 - 09:39 PM (#1861797) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Grey Home in the West From: Jim Dixon The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project lists recordings of LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST by these artists: Sam Ash, Kenny Baker, Brunswick Salon Orchestra (Katzman), Henry Burr, Jesse Crawford, Marie Dawson, Eddie Dean, Al Goodman & His Orchestra, Charles Harrison, Walt Johnston, Frances Langford & Male Quartet, Buddy Morrow, Mary O'Rourke, Prince's Orchestra, Walter Scanlan, Maggie Teyte. |
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18 Oct 06 - 02:50 PM (#1862412) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Grey Home in the West From: GUEST Norfolk traditional singer Walter Pardon a parody to the same tune about a medal that all soldiers who fought in the 2nd World War were given called the 39-45 Star - the troops called it the Spam Medal Oh, the 39-45 Star It's the best little medal by far, I've got one on my chest and one on my vest, One on my pyjamas when I take my rest, Oh, the 39-45 Star, It's the best little medal by far, But I won't ever wear it, there's too many share it; The 39-45 Star. Jim Carroll |