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30 Sep 98 - 06:52 PM (#40064) Subject: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara A friend of mine is looking for these lyrics, so I'm asking, and hoping you all can come up with them. Blessings, Barbara |
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04 Oct 98 - 02:19 PM (#40332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Dale Rose Maybe The Merry Mountain Lasses? It starts out: The Mountain Maid is the maid for me; her step is light and her heart is free, It's at the Levy site. |
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05 Oct 98 - 07:43 PM (#40431) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara I'm pretty sure that isn't it, Dale, but I'll check. Thanks for trying. Blessings, Barbara |
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07 Oct 98 - 05:33 PM (#40751) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: BAZ Barbara I found an old vinyl LP at a sale the other day called Merry Mountain Child by a Yorkshire guy called Arthur Howard.The notes on the back say the song was written by Joe Perkins noted Holmfirth composer and choirmaster. Does this sound like it could be the one? If so I'll try and clean it up find a needle and play it! Regards Baz |
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07 Oct 98 - 05:42 PM (#40755) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara That sounds right, BAZ. Has a repeating line that maybe modulates, something about honor...life and honor I think. Owld English song, my friend heard Willie Noble sing it at Whidbey? Would that be right? And if y'got the album there in your hand, does it tell anything about the song? Thanks. Barbara |
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07 Oct 98 - 06:00 PM (#40760) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: BAZ Barbara It only has the notes about the composer I mentioned. I'll put the record on and come back in a minute. Baz. |
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07 Oct 98 - 06:24 PM (#40765) Subject: Lyr Add: MERRY MOUNTAIN CHILD From: BAZ Come strike the harp I long to hear, Those merry tales of old. Ere youth has lost it's flowery ?ring? And loving hearts grown cold And loving, loving hearts grown cold. It brings me back those happy days When roving free and wild I played about my native home I played about my native home I played about my native home A merry mountain child Oh tell me not of other lands across the deep blue sea This little isle of freedom's sons Is dearer far to me Is dearer far to me is dearer, dearer far to me. There is more and if it's the right one leave a message and I'll type it up. I hope this helps Regards baz. |
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07 Oct 98 - 08:37 PM (#40789) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara Thazit! |
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09 Oct 98 - 06:31 PM (#41076) Subject: Lyr Add: MERRY MOUNTAIN CHILD From: BAZ Barbara Here we go part 2. Sorry for the delay but we were playing at a pub out in the wilds last night. And secondly, I think someone had previously used the record as a plate for a jam sandwich so I had to wash it (the record that is). But tell me of that rural cot Where happy faces smiled And pleasant voices called me there And pleasant voices called me there And pleasant voices called me there A merry Mountain Child I've wandered far through many climes Where dark eyed daughters dwell And beauty charms a yielding soul with her resistless spell with her, with her resistless spell. Yet oft I've turned my face away Where youth and beauty smiled To think of all the joys that blessed To think of all the joys that blessed To think of all the joys that blessed A merry Mountain Child Then strike thee harp I long to hear Those merry tales again O' let me linger oer those stones That native mountain strain That native, native mountain strain. It brings me back those happy times That bleak and stony wild Where nature makes me glad to be Where nature makes me glad to be Where nature makes me glad to be A merry Mountain Child. Just out of interest the rest of the album has the following tracks. Rolling on the grass Old Jepson Brown I bought three pigs at Marsden fair Water Rattle Nutting Girl Powder Monkey Muffin Man Farmers dog Sucking pig The death of poor Bill Brown It was night and the moon illuminated the sky Pace egging song Christmas goose Regards Baz |
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10 Oct 98 - 02:14 PM (#41144) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara Thanks ever so much BAZ, and I'm sure my friend will be pleased too. If you haven't any rug rats of your own, you can consider washing jam off a record as part of your parent training program, or as replacement therapy. It's an essential parenting skill. Blessings, Barbara |
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10 Oct 98 - 07:45 PM (#41168) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: BAZ Barbara Glad to be of service. I'm so old even my rug rats have rug rats but I always kept my records (breakable 78's)on 6ft shelves away from em. Bye for now regards Baz |
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12 Oct 98 - 07:19 AM (#41314) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: Barbara Say Baz, you've already done everything I wanted and more, and here I am, still asking. Is there anything I could trade you in exchange for a tape of that record? Blessings, Barbara |
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13 Oct 98 - 07:18 PM (#41581) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Merry Mountain Child From: BAZ Barbara Let me know how to get it to you and the pleasure is all mine. Regards Baz. |