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31 Jul 03 - 06:09 PM (#994547) Subject: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: GUEST,Glyn Owen Hi. Would anyone be able to help me find the words to accompany the morris tune Princess Royal. Mrtin Simpson (in the notes for his Bramble Briar CD) mentions that the tune has a set of lyrics in praise of Nelson. Is this true? Where can I find them? Cheers Glyn |
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31 Jul 03 - 06:14 PM (#994551) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Charley Noble Clearly this is not a request for the lyrics to "The Bold Princess Royal," a great traditional song about escaping capture by pirates. Charley Noble |
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31 Jul 03 - 06:26 PM (#994558) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: GUEST,Glyn Owen Correct. I know The Bold Princess Royal, but I would love to be able to sing along with The Princess Royal as it is a tune I play for Morris (Ducklington style) |
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31 Jul 03 - 06:46 PM (#994572) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Malcolm Douglas The Ilmington (Warwickshire) Morris tune Nelson's Praise is a variant of The Princess Royal. Cecil Sharp got a song, Bold Nelson's Praise, from Tom Gardiner of Blackwell, Warwickshire (Worcestershire at the time), in September 1909, which was sung to a Princess Royal variant, and this is probably the song meant. It has been published several times. |
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31 Jul 03 - 07:31 PM (#994611) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Micca with a little gently easing, the poem " the ballad of the good Lord nelson" by Laurence Durrell can be coaxed to fit and it makes a right good song!! including the immortal verses " so there he stands with a phallic air Nelson stylites in Trafalgar Square to remind the British of what Once they were on board the good ship Victory If we treated women in the Nelson way there'd be fewer frigid husbands every day and a lot more heroes on the Bay of Biscay on board the good ship Victory!" |
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31 Jul 03 - 07:58 PM (#994626) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Snuffy IIRC there are three sets of lyrics to the tune on Lesley Nelson's Contemplator site |
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31 Jul 03 - 08:08 PM (#994636) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Snuffy This will get you Bold Nelson's Praise and there are links on that page to the other two sets of lyrics |
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31 Jul 03 - 10:06 PM (#994706) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Malcolm Douglas The first is the set collected by Sharp; the other two are unrelated songs, though set to variants of the same tune. The attribution to Carolan goes back a fair way (further back than Grattan Flood, fortunately, as his opinions are nowadays considered pretty worthless) but is not conclusive. |
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31 Jul 03 - 11:51 PM (#994745) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: Joe Offer See also the thread called Hunt for Princess Royal. Now, I realize that Bold Princess Royal is a different song, but I cross-indexed them together because people tend to mention them in the same breath. -Joe Offer- |
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10 Aug 03 - 05:25 AM (#999593) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: The Borchester Echo Barry Dransfield sings Bold Nelson's Praise in a set called Bold Nelson's Favourite which includes a very fine fiddle version of The Princess Royal on the second Bill Leader recording (with brother Robin) - Trailer LER 2026, long deleted, but the track is included on the Free Reed compilation Up To Now. Not to be confused with the silly version on Morris On with the famous false start! |
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13 Aug 03 - 05:42 PM (#1001501) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: GUEST Thanks to all who helped me on this. I looked up the Illmington tune in the black book and have driven my wife crazy over the weeks holiday trying to learn the song. I'm just about there. Cheers again GLYN. |
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13 Aug 03 - 05:46 PM (#1001506) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: greg stephens The Saucy Arethusa was written to this tune.Cant do a clicky to the words I'm afraid |
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14 Aug 03 - 02:52 AM (#1001709) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Princess Royal. Lyrics required. From: mouldy And if you listen carefully near the start of the "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" during the Last night of the Proms, you'll hear the tune "Saucy Arethusa", which is one of the variations of the commonly known morris tune. (I've got it in my very easy piano book of English tunes!) Andrea |