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22 Aug 98 - 02:46 PM (#35648) Subject: Lyr Add: BRIGHT MORNING STAR From: Ian HP BRIGHT MORNING STAR Traditional
1. Bright morning stars are rising Verses 1.-3 from Young Tradition version, verses 1. & 5.-6. from Incredible String Band version |
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23 Aug 98 - 10:58 AM (#35722) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bright Morning Star From: BAZ Ian Thanks for posting these songs. I can remember Joe Offer leaving me a message when I was posting a series early on. you sometimes wonder if anyone out there is reading them. There is one here that is for sure. Thanks again. Baz. |
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30 Aug 98 - 07:24 PM (#36492) Subject: Tune Add: BRIGHT MORNING STAR From: Ian HP Dick, I posted the words to this a week or so ago, so here's the tune. T:Bright Morning Star M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:73 C:Trad. K:G B,D|D3DE2D2|EGG4GA|A3GBAG2|BAA4B,D| D3DE2D2|EGG6|A3GBAGD| M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:73 EGG2E2| M:4/4 D6 |
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23 Jul 03 - 10:29 AM (#988791) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bright Morning Star From: open mike glad to see this song again... i broke into song when i saw it! wht a great way to start the day. It brings back memories of a time when a friend asked a group of friends to sit outside her mother's room and sing this song in the yard as her mother was dying...what a send-off! |
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23 Jul 03 - 12:29 PM (#988885) Subject: Tune Add: BRIGHT MORNING STAR From: Mark Clark This is only to help out Ian's ABC code. - Mark
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23 Jul 03 - 11:56 PM (#989331) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Bright Morning Stars From: LadyJean I was 16 when I heard Anne Jackson and Jennifer Armstrong sing Bright Morning Stars, on a bright North Carolina morning. It was the day I discovered how beautiful shaped note hymns are. Thank you for bringing it all back. Messages from multiple threads combined. Messages below are from a new thread. |
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02 Jun 04 - 05:38 AM (#1198347) Subject: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: beardedbruce Ok, I did check the DT, but... I have located verses for mothers, fathers, brothers and children, but not for sisters. Anybody have any idea of the response stanza to: Oh where are our dear sisters? (x3) Day is a breaking in my soul. They are... Day is a breaking in my soul. And yes, I found the Judy Collin's version, but this is about the traditional one. |
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02 Jun 04 - 07:24 AM (#1198389) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: black walnut "American Folk Songs for Christmas" - Ruth Crawford Seeger - just has the mother and father verses, no siblings. Fathers shouting, mothers praying. ~b.w. |
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02 Jun 04 - 07:49 AM (#1198399) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: beardedbruce Here is what I have, from various sources. Everyone has the fathers and mothers: a few have the others. Only one source for the children- it may have been made up by that source. Any ideas? Or should we start writing new verses? 8-{E Trad. Lyrics ................................. Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh, where are our dear mothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are down in the valley praying(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear fathers? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They have gone to heaven shouting(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear sisters? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are….(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear brothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are at the wars and fighting.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear children? (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. They are by the stream a dancing. (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul |
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02 Jun 04 - 12:26 PM (#1198631) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: beardedbruce Not that I think it needs to be any longer... |
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02 Jun 04 - 05:38 PM (#1198791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: wysiwyg Sillies! Dontcha reckon they must be SINGING? :~) Singing or praising, that would be my guess. Most of these zipper-versed things have someone singing. We can put them in the kitchen: "Out in the kitchen singing." ~S~ |
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02 Jun 04 - 05:54 PM (#1198803) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: open mike this sister would rather be in the garden singing! |
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02 Jun 04 - 06:11 PM (#1198813) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: beardedbruce ok... sounds good to me... Lyrics to post in DT: ********************************************** Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh, where are our dear mothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are down in the valley praying(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear fathers? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They have gone to heaven shouting(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear sisters? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are out in the garden singing..(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear brothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are at the wars and fighting.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear children? (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. They are by the stream a dancing. (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul ******************************************* Thank you, open mike and WYSIWYG. I know better than to put sisters into the kitchen without their consent. |
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02 Jun 04 - 09:58 PM (#1198931) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: wysiwyg :~) ~Susan |
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03 Jun 04 - 04:17 AM (#1199014) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: Compton Didn't Bellamy and the Young Tradition do this, eons ago?? |
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03 Jun 04 - 05:58 AM (#1199065) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: The Borchester Echo YT originally recorded Bright Morning Star on The Folk Trailer (1970). Although just about every other released recording has appeared on a double CD re-release from Castle Communications (ESM CD 409), this did not. It eventually resurfaced on the Free Reed Peter Bellamy tribute Wake the Vaulted Echoes (FRTCD 14). In the notes. Heather Wood says they learned it while on tour in Washington DC. Martin Carthy clears up the confusion over the title: "BMS is not called BMSs. Absolutely NOT. It is called Bright Morning Star. English folkies have pluralised it". |
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03 Jun 04 - 05:58 AM (#1199066) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: beardedbruce Thanks, all! 8-{E |
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03 Jun 04 - 02:02 PM (#1199497) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars From: Compton Good man, Countess..you knew more about it than I did...but I do have the original "Folk Trailer"! |
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09 Apr 08 - 11:57 AM (#2311151) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: ClaireBear Reviving this ancient thread to ask: Does that mean that the verse should be properly spelled and sung "Bright morning star's a-rising"? Claire |
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09 Apr 08 - 12:05 PM (#2311164) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning S From: beardedbruce I guess so. But one should sing whichever you like. See you at the Getaway? |
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09 Apr 08 - 12:19 PM (#2311179) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: ClaireBear Yes indeed! I'm hooked, plain 'n' simple. I'm asking about the song because I get to sing a solo at my son's baptism, which just happens to be scheduled for Pentecost, which this year just happens to be Mother's Day. BMS is the only song I can think of that gracefully weaves in mothers, children, the quickening of the spirit associated with entecost (and with baptism) -- and is something I want to sing. My music director will want the words printed up for her, so I need to choose a spelling for her sake. Of course, if anyone else has a better idee... |
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09 Apr 08 - 12:24 PM (#2311183) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning S From: beardedbruce ok. Edited from above: Bright morning star's arising Bright morning star's arising Bright morning star's arising Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh, where are our dear mothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are down in the valley praying(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear fathers? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They have gone to heaven shouting(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear sisters? (x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are out in the garden singing..(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear brothers?(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul They are at the wars and fighting.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear children? (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. They are by the stream a dancing. (x3) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning star's arising.(x3) Day is a-breaking in my soul feel free to drop any sets of verses that you don't like. These are all the ones I found in my search. ( No single version had them all) |
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09 Apr 08 - 12:27 PM (#2311189) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: ClaireBear Thank you, Bruce! I don't have to give her the song til this evening, so just for the heck of it maybe I'll start a new thread and ask for ideas on appropriate hymns, but this one seems about perfect to me. Claire |
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09 Apr 08 - 12:28 PM (#2311192) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning S From: beardedbruce one of my favorite songs- when I can sing it without the tears. |
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09 Apr 08 - 02:56 PM (#2311343) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) The Stanley Brothers recorded "Bright Morning Stars," with three verses (Bright Morning Stars are rising, fathers, mothers). Emmy Lou Harris sang the same three. I have so far been unsuccessful in finding old notes about this shape note southern song, except that is usually sung unaccompanied. The version arranged and adapted by Judy Collins is much enlarged. Lyr. Add: BRIGHT MORNING STARS Arr. & adapt. Judy Collins Bright morning stars are rising (3x) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising The night is almost gone. The sycamores are bending their branches to the dawn. The wind sighs on the river. The willows bend to pray. And dawn is breaking gently upon a brand new day. Bright stars are rising (3x) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising The promise comes again, That heals the broken-hearted That pleads our wars to end. The silver moonlight scatters like tears upon the lawn, But eases sorrow. We greet a bright new dawn. Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising. (3x) Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising. My soul is now renewed. My loved ones safe in heaven, A better world in view. And all our pain and pleasure, Our struggles to break free, Can lead us in this new dawn To true serenity. Day is breaking in my soul. Bright morning stars are rising. (3x) Day is breaking in my soul. www.judycollins.com |
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09 Apr 08 - 03:00 PM (#2311347) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Sorry- The Collins adaption already posted by Joe Offer in the thread 'Origins...' |
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09 Apr 08 - 03:04 PM (#2311352) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: ClaireBear I just found another verse from this site. I am guessing that it is nontraditional, but I may incorporate it anyway as it's so appropriate for the occasion and doesn't reek of modernity: And how can I be lonely My lord is ever near me His wondrous love surrounds me Day is a breaking in my soul Does anyone recognize this verse? Claire |
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10 Apr 08 - 02:01 AM (#2311783) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Joybell Someone already noted this somewhere or other -- and while one can't be too pedantic about these sorts of songs -- It's well known in folk-cultures that there is only one "Morning Star". My gut feeling is that this means the line reads: Bright Morning Star's a-rising. Makes no difference to the way it sings of course. I just used this song, with new verses, for a musical folk-play based on my interpretation of Snow-Drop (She became Snow-White after the Brothers Grimm re-named her). I believe Snow-Drop may once have been a nature spirit of the Winter-sleeping kind. After the first verse I added: 2. Oh where is our dear Sister. 3. She sleeps beneath the mountain. 4. Arise and great the morning. A seven-year-old with an amazing, powerful voice will sing it as a solo. Snow-Drop will then wake up and welcome the Spring. Cheers, Joy |
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10 Apr 08 - 05:37 AM (#2311882) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: GUEST,Cats A few years ago we found this in a copy of the Shaker journal. There were only 2 verses published, father and mother. The father verse was 'singing' and the mother verse was 'shaking'. It also said that Mother Ann, who founded the Shakers, was also called the Bright Morning Star. The forst line was 'Bright Morning Star arising'. Obviously there are so many variations that any of them could be the original, I don't know, but this is the version that I now sing. |
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05 Jan 10 - 04:31 AM (#2803719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Liz the Squeak Anyone know the Christmas version as recorded by Steeleye Span on their album 'Winter'? LTS |
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14 Apr 10 - 10:10 AM (#2886409) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: beardedbruce Went to the Crooked Road NCTA concert, and this was sung. One of my favorites. |
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30 Jun 10 - 06:50 PM (#2937554) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Burke The 3 verse version by the Stanley Brothers & others varies the 3 repeated lines pattern. Instead of asking about each parent in a verse & answering in the next, the answer is in the 3rd line. They also seem to have swapped what each parent is doing. Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear fathers? Oh where are our dear fathers? They are down in the valley praying a Day is a-breaking in my soul Oh, where are our dear mothers? Oh, where are our dear mothers? They have gone to heaven shouting Day is a-breaking in my soul Repeat vs. 1 |
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23 Dec 13 - 12:55 PM (#3586057) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Phil Edwards I got into an argument about this just the other day - I've sung (or led) it a few times, always as "Bright morning star's a-rising" which of course sounds pretty much the same as "Bright morning stars a-rising". Anyway, I was accused of singing about bright morning stars, plural. I explained about the "star's", apostrophe S, and said that I'd got it from the Young Tradition recording (which I'm lucky enough to have). My friend was having none of it & maintained that the YT sang it as "Bright morning star a-rising" no stars plural and no star's apostrophe S. I've just listened to it again, and I'm sure there's an S in there - in fact they linger on the "a-" so long it sounds more like "Bright morning stars are rising" which would be wrong in a whole other way. (Unless you prefer the Stanley Brothers' take on it to Martin Carthy's, of course.) What do other people think? Should it be "Bright morning star a-rising"? And what were the Young Tradition singing? |
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23 Dec 13 - 01:12 PM (#3586062) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Not that it matters, but 'stars' (plural) are more commonly recorded (Judy Collins © sheet music; and others. It is in the title in the Traditional Ballad Index (Shellans from Norman Lee Vass), but a note says "not sure 'bright morning stars' is the traditional title for this song." |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:24 PM (#3586101) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Reinhard Martin Carthy is quoted very emphatically in the booklet of the Peter Bellamy anthology, Wake the Vaulted Echoes: "Bright Morning Star is NOT called Bright Morning Stars. Absolutely NOT. It IS called Bright Morning Star. English folkies have pluralised it." |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:28 PM (#3586103) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Reinhard Of course you could also sing "Bright Venus a-rising". That would not a-rise the singular or plural question ;) |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:55 PM (#3586118) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) The first reference we have is bright morning stars See Traditional Ballad Index. The plural stars is in the version collected from the Blue Ridge Plateau from Norman Lee Vass. This seems to have precedence over them foreign folkies. |
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23 Dec 13 - 04:04 PM (#3586121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) kytrad remembers the song from 1949-1950, as stars. See main thread, origins. |
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23 Dec 13 - 04:27 PM (#3586125) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Shellans, "Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains," contains the song, Bright Morning Stars. I have ordered a copy, so we will soon have the version cited in the traditional Ballad Index. |
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13 Mar 14 - 03:45 PM (#3609460) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: FOR THE DAY IS A-BREAKIN' IN MY SOUL Sung by Norman Lee Vass, VA, 1957 I hear the Savior calling, I hear the savior calling, I hear the savior calling, For the day is a-breaking in my soul.- Oh, how I long to meet Him, How I long to meet Him. Oh, how I long to meet Him, For the ay is a-breaking in my soul. The golden bells are ringing, (3x) For the day is a-breaking in my soul. Oh, how I long to see them, How I long to see them, How I long to see them, For the day is a-breaking in my soul. I want to meet my Jesus, (3x) For the day is a-breaking in my soul. Oh, how I long to meet Him, How I long to meet Him, How I long to meet Him, For the day is a-breaking in my soul. The golden harps are ringing, (3x) For the day is a-breaking in my soul. Oh, how I long to see them, How I long to see them, How I long to see them, For the day is a-breaking in my soul. I want to meet my mother, (3x) For the day is a-breaking in my soul. And how I long to meet her, How I long to meet her, How I long to meet her, For the day is a-breaking in my soul. I want to meet my father, (3x) For the day is a-breaking in my soul. Pp. 89-90, with musical score. The Traditional Ballad Index gives this song in it's brief note on "Bright Morning Stars," although it lacks that verse. Shellans' version is from Whites of the Blue Ridge Mts. Both White and Black congregations have versions of this hymn; its origins are uncertain. The earliest date I have is a recording from 1930s (mentioned in this or another thread). Herbert Shellans, 1968, "Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains," Oak Publications. |
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13 Mar 14 - 04:05 PM (#3609462) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: BRIGHT MORNING STAR White Southern hymn. Bright morning stars are risig (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul. Oh, where are our dear fathers, (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul. They are down in the valley praying, (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul. Oh, where are our deer mothers, (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul. They have gone to heaven a-shouting, (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul. Unattributed, from "On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Religion in the South: A Southern Exposure Profile," edit. Samuel S. Hill, 1983, Mercer University Press. |
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13 Mar 14 - 04:10 PM (#3609464) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) rising ! |
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13 Mar 14 - 04:42 PM (#3609474) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: Q (Frank Staplin) Verse from An Advent SourceBook, Thomas O' Gorman, editor- Some are down in the valet prayin', Some are deep in the mountain sleepin', Some are up in heaven shoutin', Dawn is a-breakin' in my soul. "Appalachian Folk Hymn." |
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21 Apr 20 - 09:28 AM (#4047391) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bright Morning Stars/Bright Morning Star From: GUEST,Ann from Lancs The Young Tradition |