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09 Sep 02 - 05:23 PM (#779994) Subject: Ah Bella Margarita From: 8_Pints I am working with someone who has a neice called Margarita. She only remembers a fragment of this song. She would love the lyrics to enable her to sing it to her neice. The bit she remembers is :- Ah, bella Margarita Beautiful to see Ah bella Margarita Drink the wine with me Can anyone help please? Sue vG |
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09 Sep 02 - 05:26 PM (#779996) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: GUEST 'In September when the grapes are growing ..' I'll remember the rest later. Cheers, Jim McLean |
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09 Sep 02 - 06:09 PM (#780027) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: McGrath of Harlow Well, this isn't the one you're after (which will probably be along in a moment, if I know the Mudcat - but here's another Margarita song, by mudcatter Harvey Andrews - and anyone called Margarita deserves to know it, even if it brings her to tears, which it probably will if she ever hears it sung.. |
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10 Sep 02 - 04:25 AM (#780249) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Jim McLean The chorus is La Bella Margarita So beautiful to see La Bella Margarita, Margarita drinking wine with me. Verse: In September when the wine is growing Margarita... .. Margarita drinking wine with me I'm sorry about the missing two lines, they just won't come. Maybe someone else can fill them in. Jim McLean |
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10 Sep 02 - 04:39 AM (#780255) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Nigel Parsons From memory, the 'Chorus' changes in line with the words of the verse, The first verse (I think) starts "In September when the leaves are purple", And the song charts the course of the love affair by the seasons of the vintner's year
The last line of the chorus progresses through Nigel |
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11 Sep 02 - 12:47 PM (#781357) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Nigel Parsons Refresh: because I would like the full words now as well. Nigel |
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11 Sep 02 - 02:38 PM (#781426) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Noreen Yes, but not now as I'm off out. Remember it well- sang it in school :0) |
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11 Sep 02 - 02:40 PM (#781430) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Noreen (Ma Belle Marguerita, as I remember) |
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11 Sep 02 - 05:25 PM (#781525) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Jim McLean I always link this song with 'The Donkey's Serenade'. Was it the same writer, same singer? Cheers, Jim McLean |
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12 Sep 02 - 10:14 AM (#782018) Subject: Lyr Add: MA BELLE MARGUERITE From: Noreen MA BELLE MARGUERITE lyrics by AP Herbert, Music by Vivian Ellis In September when the grapes are purple Marguerite pick the grapes with me There are silver bells upon her fingers All the little boys come out to see Ma belle Marguerite So beautiful to see Les mains de ma petite Marguerite pick the grapes with me. Ting -a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling-a-ling-ay, Ting -a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling-a-ling-ay. Ting -a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling-a-ling-ay, Ting -a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling- a-ling-a-ling-ay. In October when they fill the wine press Marguerite tread the grapes with me Marguerite has the feet of angels All the little birds come out to see Ma belle Marguerite So beautiful to see Les pieds de ma petite Marguerite tread the grapes with me. Ting -a-ling- (etc..) In December when the wind is blowing And the snow is on the Bois d'Issy (?) Sunshine still is in the golden glasses Marguerite drink the sun with me Ma belle Marguerite So beautiful to see La bouche de ma petite Marguerite drinking avec moi, Marguerite drinking avec moi! Note, this is from memory, and the little boys/little birds might be transposed! From the musical Bless the Bride, Book and lyrics by AP Herbert, Music by Vivian Ellis, opened in London in 1947 starring Georges Guetary and Lizbeth Webb. |
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13 Sep 02 - 04:32 AM (#782835) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: Jim McLean Great Noreen! That's stopped the sleepless nights. Jim McLean |
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13 Sep 02 - 06:06 AM (#782872) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: GUEST,Lanfranc at the orifice Thanks, Noreen! That song always makes me think of the old BBC radio programme "Down your way" for some reason. I could remember bits of it but not enough to be useful, but now I have it all! A song I heard on my Granny's knee! Alan |
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13 Sep 02 - 09:07 AM (#782936) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: McGrath of Harlow All down to correct spelling! "Margarita" and "Marguerita" didn't come up with the goods - "Margeurite" does first time. |
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19 Sep 02 - 08:28 PM (#787896) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: 8_Pints Thanx to everyone for your contributions. My colleague at work is delighted to have the words, she is really looking forward to singing the song to her own "Bella Margarita"! I knew Mudcatters would come up trumps, but even I have been amazed by the speed and detail of your responses. Thanks again, Sue vG xxx |
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03 Sep 08 - 09:44 AM (#2429772) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: GUEST Patricia V I was so pleased to find these lyrics. My mum used to sing "Marguerita" to me when we lived in England many years ago. There were two other songs she used to sing; one was "Dashing away with the smoothing Iron" and the other had the line "Horsey keep your tail up" at the end. She used to sing the latter while dancing around and holding her dress up at the back. Does anyone have any idea of the rest of it. My Mum died when I was eleven so memories of her are so treasured and they often seem to revolve around music.Thanks, this is a great site. P |
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04 Sep 08 - 05:00 AM (#2430622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita From: MikeofNorthumbria "Strange how potent cheap music is." (N Coward) Anyone remember "Pedro the fisherman was always whistling" - "Old Father Thames keeps rolling along" - or "We'll gather lilacs in the spring again"? Songs in that mode flooded the airwaves when I was a kid. At the time I detested their tweeness and complacency, and was delighted when skiffle and rock blew them away. Now, over half a century later, they bring back fragrant memories of an age of innocence. Or was it really so innocent? Probably not - the press was more discrete then about the private lives of entertainers, but we know now that most of them were at it like rabbits backstage. Meanwhile, in the playground, those supposedly vulnerable schoolkids the BBC was trying to protect from the evils of rock and roll were singing dirty parodies of the apparently harmless pop songs they were allowed to hear on the radio... Times change, musical styles change, official rhetoric changes - but human nature doesn't seem to change all that much. Wassail! |
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18 Feb 09 - 02:50 PM (#2570229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Adolf Fiinkensein This song is a favorite among many of mine from the Black and White Minstrel Show - sung by John Boulter and the George Mitchel Singers. What a disgrace that such wonderful and wholesome entertainment was struck down by the dead hand of socialist political correctness. |
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19 Feb 09 - 06:10 PM (#2571274) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Jim Dixon I see nothing objectionable about this song. What was objectionable about "The Black and White Minstrel Show" was that people dressed up in blackface! They could have quit wearing blackface and continued to perform songs like this one. Why didn't they? Whatever the reason, it has nothing to do with "political correctness." |
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08 Jun 09 - 05:54 AM (#2651152) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Fairfax Why didn't they? Because their sole raison d'etre was the continuation of that particular old trasition of entertainment. After all, they were called the Black and White Minstrels. I regret the passing of an age of innocence. Almost anything can be banned if we search for darkness in its roots. Should we ban American Gospel Music because it had its beginning in enslavement, or our National Anthem because of the historical repression of the Highlanders? We should be allowed a little more freedom from political correctness. Would there have been men on the moon if the Nazis had not developed the V2? My great objection is the stealing of my mother tongue. I long for the days when I could use the word gay in its true context, and I remember when the N word was simply the Latin for black, and could be used to describe anything of that colour. |
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12 Jun 09 - 01:47 PM (#2654996) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST My name is Marguerite and I can remember my family playing this on an old 78rpm to embarrass me while I hid my head in a cushion. I do have the score for it. |
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18 Jun 09 - 05:19 PM (#2659736) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,A grateful guest! Have been searching for these lyrics to sing to my mum. She is in a nursing home with dementia and I saw a programme about how songs can still be remembered by people with dementia so I am collecting all the songs that I heard from my parents 78s as a child including this one. My middle name is also Marguerita. (not many people know how to spell it as I find when I tell people my name!) Thanks for the lyrics. I am very appreciative!I can sing this to mum on mynext visit together with The Gypsy Rover!! |
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19 Jun 09 - 12:22 AM (#2659965) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Abdul The Bul Bul was looking for this for ages since the kids broke my '78'. My mum used to sing it around the house and so did I. Then this turned up. George Enjoy... Al |
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27 Oct 09 - 08:15 AM (#2753538) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Margue From: GUEST,alan gibbs-grigglestone oh my God!!! in 1964 when I was just seven years old, my twin brother and I had a gramophone and just two 78 rpm records, the laughing policeman and..... mario lanza singing..... Ah bella Margarita, we must have played each about a thousand times!! Thanks for posting your question, because now I have the Lyrics again and I can impress my bro with my amazing memeory!!! |
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27 Oct 09 - 11:47 AM (#2753668) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Joe Nicholson Two other songs from Bless The Bride were Pedro the Fisherman and This is our Lovely Day. Guetary had a delightful french accent and he and lisbeth Webb sang superbly together. Joe Nicholson |
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28 Oct 09 - 11:20 AM (#2754126) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Penny S. My mother was Margaret, and my Dad used to sing this for her. I think the last line was "Marguerite drink the sun with me." I do have the sheet music somewhere, but it's boxed up for my move. Penny |
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18 Jan 10 - 01:21 AM (#2814713) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Would love the lyrics, my granddaughter is name bella margarita |
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18 Jan 10 - 09:46 AM (#2814894) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Andy Jackson Thread creep but I have to agree with Fairfax, they are a sad loss for stupid reasons. But what a wealth of memories evoked by this thread. "This is our lovely day" indeed! |
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30 Aug 10 - 07:19 AM (#2975771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Which show is this from? |
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30 Aug 10 - 07:24 AM (#2975773) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: fat B****rd Bless The Bride |
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14 Sep 10 - 06:39 AM (#2986439) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Here's a youtube video of the song...and dance for you....presumably from the film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MThbZUkeWo |
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16 Oct 10 - 08:59 AM (#3008380) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Thanks for that, guys. I've been interested in this song for years but could never find a full set of lyrics. My Auntie Ethel used to sing it when I was working in her hotel kitchen as a youthful chef de commis. Though her French was by no means perfect - her favourite wine was 'New-its' (Nuits Saint Georges). As a food and wine writer (day job) I might make the following observation."Purple grapes", "golden glasses (presumably it's the wine that was golden, not the glass)" - whatever wine they were making it wasn't fremented on the skins! |
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16 Oct 10 - 09:02 AM (#3008383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Sorry, typo - "fermented" |
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23 Jan 11 - 02:48 PM (#3080852) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Thanks to all of you - this has been driving me mad fo 40 years |
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07 Apr 11 - 11:08 AM (#3130541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Herbert Crumm Lovely experience in reading this thread. It brings back happy memories. |
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12 May 11 - 05:05 AM (#3152612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Here is the song from the show Bless the Bri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MThbZUkeWo Georges Guetary is the singer. The lyrics are reasonably clear. |
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25 Mar 12 - 12:25 PM (#3328653) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST This is the tune you are looking for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MThbZUkeWo |
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21 Apr 12 - 12:14 AM (#3341148) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Phillip. Benfleet. Just type La Bella Marguerite into You Tube search. |
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23 Aug 12 - 02:37 PM (#3394130) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Pip Grinham I used to sing this to my baby when he cried: always at 3pm and only for half an hour. I sang what I could remember of it to my grandson today and he immediately picked it up and asked about the missing lyrics... Would love to track down a Nelson Eddy recording of it. |
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23 Aug 12 - 02:56 PM (#3394134) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Anne Neilson I have a notion that we had a Bing Crosby 78 of this -- can anyone else confirm if he sang this? (Although the Georges Guetary version sounds very familiar, probably from Family Favourites programme on the BBC -- he had a lovely lyrical lightness on the 'Aaah!' at the start of the chorus.) |
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25 Nov 12 - 09:44 AM (#3441945) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Such wonderful memories! My mother Margaret used to dance me around the kitchen as a child singing this song to me, her daughter Margaret. Happy days! |
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18 Apr 13 - 07:45 AM (#3505233) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST Interested person. I think the song for which you are looking is: La Belle Marguerite, From the 1947 stage musical 'Bless the Bride' staring and recorded by Georges Guetary. Links to him will get you the correct lyrics |
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18 Apr 13 - 11:50 AM (#3505334) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Steve Parkes I have Guetary singing it on a 78, and the other side is Cupid on the Wedding Cake. It's been entertaining me since about 1960 -- I'm glad to see it's still going strong! |
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19 Apr 13 - 06:55 PM (#3505976) Subject: Lyr Add: MA BELLE MARGUERITE (from Georges Guétary From: Jim Dixon Here are the French lyrics; they can be found at several web sites: MA BELLE MARGUERITE As sung by Georges Guétary Les raisins du beau mois de septembre Marguerite les cueille avec moi, à ses doigts elle a des gouttes d'encre L'oiseau chante dès qu'il l'aperçoit, Ah ! belle Marguerite Ah, qu'ils sont merveilleux, Les doigts de ma petite Egrenant les grappes du bon Dieu. [Refrain, x2] Qu'elle est belle, belle, Celle que mon cœur aime tant, Qu'elle est belle, belle, telle Que la fleur au printemps ! En octobre on presse la vendange Marguerite foule auprès de moi Le raisin doré de ses pieds d'ange Et chacun regarde avec émoi. Ah ! belle Marguerite Ah, qu'ils sont merveilleux, Les pieds de ma petite Piétinant les grappes du bon Dieu. [au Refrain, x2] En décembre, quand le vent s'affaire Et balaie la neige sur le toit, Le soleil d'été brille en nos verres Marguerite alors trinque avec moi. Ah ! belle Marguerite Ah, que c'est merveilleux, Des lèvres si petites Dégustant les grâces du bon Dieu. [au Refrain] Ah, ah Et chacun regarde avec émoi Ah, ah Belle Marguerite Ah, que c'est merveilleux, D]es lèvres si petites Dégustant les grâces du bon Dieu Dégustant les grâces du bon Dieu. |
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23 Jun 19 - 09:59 AM (#3997510) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: GUEST,Jan May Just been on a coach tour and our Manager sang La Bella Marguerite to us as we were ending our tour. Just wonderful! I sang it with her in my mind and the words came back to me! Oh what memories! |
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23 Jun 19 - 10:30 AM (#3997517) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ah Bella Margarita? / Ma Belle Marguerite From: Mrrzy Lovely French words! Fyi for nonFrancophones, "grappe" is bunch of grapes, "raisin" is grape. And though not in the song, raisin would be "raisin sec" (aren't languages fun). |