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23 Aug 98 - 09:13 PM (#35762) Subject: LYRICS REQ. From: TonyK. Does anyone have the lyrics to a song that Peter, Paul, and Mary did called "Polly Von", about a young man who killed his lover after mistaking her for a swan? Many thanks. |
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23 Aug 98 - 09:57 PM (#35766) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: Bob Bolton G'day TonyK, I'm sure you will get a flood of versions from the Irish/Celtic contingent whose song it is, but I note that at least one version is collected here in Australia, far from the Irish mist and ghostly white swans (our swans are black). This came from a wonderful old lady, Sally Sloane who would have learned it from her Irish grandmother Sarah Alexander. I think this has ended up with a corrupted title "Polly Vaughan", as if it were a surname but the original is an Irish Gaelic word (something like 'bhan' ... and pronounced 'vorn'), possibly an endearment. I will dig our version out and keyboard in a MIDI/ABC of her tune as well - for those interested in a variant, a long way from home. Regards and Good Luck, Bob Bolton
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23 Aug 98 - 11:43 PM (#35775) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: Check the data base. There are 3 Polly and 1 Molly there. |
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24 Aug 98 - 12:21 AM (#35780) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: Joe Offer Click here to get to the Peter, Paul and Mary home page. I think they have all the lyrics for all the songs. -Joe Offer- |
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24 Aug 98 - 02:07 AM (#35785) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: Dale Rose Then there are those of us who first heard it as Polly Vaughn from the still magical Dillards on their Back Porch Bluegrass album a few years ago. . . (was it really 1963?) There is a sound clip at Tunes on their There Is A Time sampler CD released in 1991. I also checked out CDUniverse, but they had it on back order, and Music Boulevard and CDNow did not have sound clips. |
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24 Aug 98 - 04:39 AM (#35792) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: JB3 I learned Polly Vaughan from Jennifer Armstrong, sitting under a tree at the Knoxville Dance Weekend many moons ago. She said that in the earlier (Scottish?) versions, Polly was a witch that shape-changed herself into a swan to check up on her lover to make sure he wasn't dallying with another girl and the tragedy followed. I believe Jenny is the daughter of Frankie Armstrong, not sure. |
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24 Aug 98 - 08:30 PM (#35875) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: Bob Bolton G'day TonyK and all, I found Sally Sloane's (Australian collected) version. It goes under the name Molly Baun Lavery and I don't know where the Lavery comes from as it always just Molly Baun in the song. I will post this version as LYR ADD: Molly Baun Lavery in a new thread, along with MIDI/ABC of the tune as Sally sang it. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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25 Aug 98 - 12:18 AM (#35899) Subject: RE: LYRICS REQ. From: TonyK Thank you all. |