22 Jan 02 - 09:45 PM (#633465) Subject: Fair Margaret & Sweet William D.Powells From: Anahootz Looking for the complete lyrics to the Dirk Powell / John Hermann / Tim O'Brien version of FM & SW. NOT looking for the Collins version, or the StMarie version, or any of those long ones...this one has the line "For I dreamed that my bower was full of red swine/and my bride's bed full of blood" |
23 Jan 02 - 08:15 AM (#633691) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fair Margaret & Sweet William D.Pow From: Giac refresh |
23 Jan 02 - 08:19 AM (#633693) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fair Margaret & Sweet William D.Pow From: Giac Google's first option has this, including "red swine ...": click Hope this works and is what you seek. Mary |
23 Jan 02 - 09:35 AM (#633754) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fair Margaret & Sweet William D.Pow From: Stewie That is word for word the version by Tim O'Brien on 'Songs from the Mountain' and indeed what Anahootz is seeking. No source is given in the CD booklet apart from noting that Sara sings it in the novel 'Cold Mountain' on which the album is based. It doesn't correspond with any version in Child, nor with any version in Niles' 'Ballad Book' albeit the link to the song given by Giac is to a Niles site. Is it quoted in the novel, or just referred to? --Stewie. |
23 Jan 02 - 11:34 AM (#633819) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fair Margaret & Sweet William D.Pow From: Anahootz great! that was just what I was looking for...thanks Giac |
24 Jan 02 - 10:27 PM (#635080) Subject: Lyr Add: FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM From: Jim Dixon Copied from the above-mentioned web site, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky School of Music: Mus 301 Appalachian Music Dr. R. Pen FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM Child ballad # 74, Fair Margaret and Sweet William, is a rather macabre tale of love, jealousy, death, and the supernatural, that is widely dispersed in America. Charles Frazier' s novel Cold Mountain (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1977) is filled with musical references that create an historical context for the Civil War setting. Pages 253-254 contain a moving rendering of Sara's singing of this ballad. Subsequently Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, and John Hermann recorded a CD, Songs from the Mountain (Howdy Skies record HS 1001) that is based on the novel. In this version Tim O'Brien sings Fair Margaret in the traditional unaccompanied style.
Lady Margaret was standing in her own room door,
The day passed away and night comin' on,
She said "How do you like your bed?
He said, "Very well do I like my bed,
Then, once he kissed her lily-white hand,
Well, the night passed away, the day came on,
Such dreams, such dreams as these,
He asked Is Lady Margaret in her room, Tim O'Brien, Dirk Powell, John Hermann |