28 Dec 01 - 10:42 AM (#617594) Subject: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST,leeneia I'm trying to recall all the words for a song I learned in school about the three kings. It was set to a tune which I now know is 13th C Provencal, and it went:
Late at night, upon a great highway If anybody knows the missing lines or any other verses, I would like to have them by January 1 for our jam. I have tried Google and the Digitrad with no results. |
28 Dec 01 - 11:42 AM (#617615) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: masato sakurai Isn't it Marcho di Rei (March of the Kings) (score with French words)? MIDI (with French words) is HERE. ~Masato |
29 Dec 01 - 02:39 AM (#617973) Subject: Lyr Add: MARCHO DI REI From: Genie MARCHO DI REI (March of The Kings) DOMERGUE |
29 Dec 01 - 04:39 PM (#618222) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST,leeneia Merci, but I need it in English. I plan to teach my friends the words so that they can hear the timing, and I can't sing them the French. This song is more complicated than tha average jig or reel. It has sixteenth rests and tied notes in bizarre combinations. However, once we can sing the words, it will come smoothly. I hope. I'm pretty sure that the book we learned this from back in the late 1950's was widely distributed, and perhaps someone reading this will have sung these words too. |
29 Dec 01 - 06:13 PM (#618269) Subject: Lyr Add: MARCH OF THE KINGS From: masato sakurai The first link posted above has the "Far away, what splendour comes this way?" lyrics.
Another English translation:
MARCH OF THE KINGS
Three great kings I met at early morn
With gifts of gold brought from far away
For Thy mercy and Thy grace
Dark the future; let Thy light
In our weakness and distress
Keep us faithful; keep us pure
These two verses at this thread.
This great day, I met upon the way,
The gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh,
I can't find the "late at night" one. ~Masato
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29 Dec 01 - 11:13 PM (#618393) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST,leeneia Thank you very much, Masato. These are new verses, of course, but they fit the melody and I can and will use them. I believe I will start a tradition of having a session every January 1st, because we have the day off, but what is there to do? My crowd doesn't party much on New Year's Eve, so nobody has a hangover. We don't watch football. So why not make music? Thanks again. |
30 Dec 01 - 10:41 AM (#618496) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: masato sakurai "Marcho di Rei" is in Provençal, to be exact. The standard French version is "Marche de Rois," "translated" by J.F. Domergue (1759). It was also known as M'sieu d'Turenne. The song in French is performed by Le Lyçée Français de Los Angeles Children's Choir HERE. On Bizet's Farandole, CLICK HERE, and HERE (first page of the orchestra score). ~Masato
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08 Dec 12 - 03:59 PM (#3449398) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST,Pam Probably way too late, but this is how I remember it: Late at night, upon the great highway I saw three kings of the East come riding. In the sky there shone a starry ray To guide these kings upon their eager way. While noble courtiers went on before And gold and priceless treasures bore The slaves and warriors with shield and spear Dispelled the dangers that hovered near. |
06 Nov 19 - 09:49 PM (#4017624) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST This might be from Amahl and the night visitors. |
25 Dec 21 - 09:16 PM (#4129991) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Late at night (3 Kings song) From: GUEST,Roger The lyrics that GUEST.Pam posted on 08 Dec 2012 are exactly the lyrics that I remember as well. From way back, probably from the late 1950s. The score that it goes with is "The march of the three kings" by Bizet. Youtube has lots of versions of that, many instrumental and many with vocals. But no two of the versions with vocals have the same vocals. |