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21 Dec 01 - 07:47 PM (#614453) Subject: help with this song please From: GUEST,barry I always thought the name of this song was Palace Grand. But I have searched everywhere for it under that name and have come up empty handed. Here is the first verse,any help would be very much appreciated. I sat midst a mighty throng within a palace Grand In a city far beyond the sea in a distant foreign land I listened to a lovely refrain my ears had ever heard Enraptured charms amazed I stood for my inmost soul stirred.
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21 Dec 01 - 08:18 PM (#614470) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please From: Jeri Barry asked for the lyrics in Jun 00 in this thread, and no one could help him. It's not Lady Mary. Barry, I wish I could help. It looks like a poem that has been set to music. but I'm just guessing. |
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21 Dec 01 - 08:40 PM (#614479) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please From: Noreen But on that earlier thread, Jeri, the 'Shop' picks up 'Palace Grand' and links to the following recording: Title:BALLAD OF THE BOONSLICK Which includes Palace Grand in the track list. Is that any help, Barry? I don't know the song myself. Noreen |
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21 Dec 01 - 08:57 PM (#614493) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: Deckman I may know it Barry ... let's have some more verses. Bob |
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21 Dec 01 - 09:01 PM (#614495) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: Jeri That's the "Lady Mary" one, Noreen. I can't find anything with search engines. Sounds sort of Kubla Khan-ish. Has this one stumped Mudcat? |
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21 Dec 01 - 11:23 PM (#614573) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Barry, do you know of the name of the singer, when it was, or any more about the song. We seem to be coming up blank. |
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22 Dec 01 - 12:02 PM (#614790) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: GUEST,barry Many Thanks,Jeri,Noreen,Deckman,George. Jeri,not sure about Kubla Khan-ish?? George I do not know the singer,but It Is definatly a song I have heard sung many years ago. Deckman, here is the only other verse I can remember. I looked at the singer fair,for never had I heard A song to thrill me ore and ore within my fond heart stirred But then she sang a song that made the tear drops start She sang a song of home,a song that reached my heart. George this verse may have a few lines mixed in from other verses, but there you go. many thanks again barry. |
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22 Dec 01 - 10:14 PM (#615105) Subject: ADD: Castle Grand (Palace Grand) From: Deckman Hi Barry ... sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. This might be the song you are looking for. I always have called it "Castle Grand." I hope it's what you want. Castle Grand (Palace Grand) He came from his castle grand And he came to my cottage door His words were few, but his looks Will linger forever more The smile in his sad dark eyes More tender than words could be But I was nothing to him Though he was the world to me While there in his garden strolled All robed in satins and lace A lady so strange and cold Who held in his heart, no place For I would be his bride With a kiss for a lifetime fee But I was nothing to he Though he was the world to me Today in his castle grand On a flower strewn bier he lies The beautiful lids fast closed On his beautiful sad, dark eyes. Among the mourners who mourn Why should I, a mourner be For I was nothing to he Though he was the world to me And how will it be with our souls When we meet in that spirit land What the mortal heart ne'er knows Will the spirit then understand Or in some celestial form Will our sorrows repeated be Will I still be nothing to he Though he is the world to me I wish I could give proper credits, but all I know of this song is that I learned it from the beautiful Patti, of Seattle and Santa Cruz fame. I hope this helps to give you alead. CHEERS, Bob |
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22 Dec 01 - 10:33 PM (#615121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: Malcolm Douglas I suggested that in the original thread (see Jeri's link above). It wasn't the one then, either. |
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23 Dec 01 - 12:11 AM (#615169) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: Deckman Hi Malcolm ... I'll bet that you are the one person that can tell me the history of the song that I posted! I would appreciate knowing more of the background. And, by the way, Merry Seasons Greeting from the West tip of America to you and yours. Cheers, Bob |
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23 Dec 01 - 10:25 AM (#615293) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: Malcolm Douglas I'm afraid I don't know anything about the antecedents of Lady Mary/ Palace Grand/ Sad Song. All I can tell you is that the best-known set of it came from May Kennedy McCord of Springfield, Missouri; the song was noted from her in the 1930s by both Vance Randolph (Ozark Folk Songs) and Carl Sandburg (American Songbag), and again by Max Hunter some thirty years later. You can hear a "field" recording of Mrs McCord singing it at the The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection:
Palace Grand As sung by May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, Missouri on October 21, 1960.
Other traditional sets have been found in Texas (William A. Owens, Texas Folk Songs) and from Evelyne Beers in Virginia in 1964 (Michael E. Bush, Folk Songs of Central West Virginia). That information from Steve Roud's Folksong Index.
And I still can't help with the other song, unfortunately. It's the sort of thing that ought to be at Levy, but it's not... |
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23 Dec 01 - 05:28 PM (#615490) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help with this song please - Palace Grand From: GUEST,barry Many thanks all you who searched about yhe place looking for palace grand,The fault is at my end,(wrong title) So I'll leave it alone for now. By the way I must say,this is a magic site,with very nice people. thank you all,and happy holidays barry.
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