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Discs with The Fiddler

18 Aug 98 - 02:38 PM (#35246)
Subject: Disc's with The Fiddler
From:

Does anyone know who recorded the song 'The Fiddler'? (Chorus goes 'There's nothing so quiet as a night without music, as dark as a night with no stars')


18 Aug 98 - 06:05 PM (#35272)
Subject: RE: Disc's with The Fiddler
From: Bruce O.

"When the fiddler has played his last tune for the night". The jacket notes on the Mill Run Dulcimer Band recording of it says they learned it from a Guy Carawan recording.


28 Aug 98 - 01:29 PM (#36256)
Subject: Recordings of 'The Fiddler'
From:

Can anyone point me to recordings of 'The Fiddler' (There's nothing so quiet as a night without music ...'


26 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM (#1080125)
Subject: Tune Req: The fiddler
From: ossonflags

Foud this great song on the digitrad, does anyone know or were i can get the tune from?


27 Jan 11 - 07:41 PM (#3083699)
Subject: RE: Disc's with The Fiddler
From: kendall

When the fiddler has played his last tune for the night
The singer has sung his last song
All the mandolins guitars and banjos are quiet
And the loud noisy crowd has gone home.

Nothing's as quiet as a night without music
Or as dark as a night without stars
Nothing's as lonesome as a cold lonely room
Wondering all night where you are.

As we walked along the music was playing
It whispered so soft through the trees
With your arms around me I whispered "I love you"
The words seemed to float on the breeze.

Then when you told me that you would be leaving
I couldn't believe it was true
I stayed at the station long after you'd gone
Wondering what happened to you.

When the fiddler has played his last tune for the night...etc.

Now I walk alone and the music's still playing
But it's not the same without you
My days are endless now that you're gone
My nights are so lonely and blue.

Nothing's as quiet...etc.

Charlie Moore
Additional verses by Kendall Morse.


27 Jan 11 - 07:43 PM (#3083702)
Subject: RE: Disc's with The Fiddler
From: kendall

I think I heard this from Lester Flatt.
It was also recorded by Priscilla Herdman and Yodeling Slim Clarke.


27 Jan 11 - 10:48 PM (#3083785)
Subject: RE: Disc's with The Fiddler
From: Desert Dancer

more info in this thread.