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01 Apr 05 - 01:06 PM (#1449218) Subject: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Bob Coltman I am trying to find words and tune to "Around the Ingles Blazing," a song supposed to be from Massachusetts I think. ("Ingle" is an old word for fire or fireside.) I know Paul Clayton recorded it on a Folkways 10" LP in the long-ago days when they made such things. Is there anyone who has the LP and would be willing to transcribe the lyrics and either a) post a MIDI or b) transcribe the tune in alphabetic notation and post the results? I'd also be interested to know if the song is really traditional. Paul had a way of fiddling with tradition a la J J Niles and neglecting to admit it (with occasionally classic, if confusing results). If he wrote it or any part of it, that would be useful to know. If trad, then from where? I've found no other source. Thanks in advance for your help. Bob |
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01 Apr 05 - 01:16 PM (#1449234) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST see This article http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/7/v7art6.html |
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01 Apr 05 - 01:24 PM (#1449242) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Thanks to Guest above for a good find...a listing of the song by Edith Fowke among those appearing in newspaper columns. No immediate promise that this will provide a text or tune, however. So...still hoping one of you will be able to come up with and post actual lyrics and melody. Bob |
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01 Apr 05 - 01:29 PM (#1449245) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,MMario bob - not only that it was in the newspaper - but to qoute "the shorter list will serve to identify most songs collected in Canada which also appeared in some form in the Family Herald. " certainly implies traditional publication date in the Herald was 1919 |
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01 Apr 05 - 11:05 PM (#1449732) Subject: ADD: Around the Ingles Blazing From: Sandy Paton Around the Ingles Blazing As around the ingles blazin' We're sae happy and so free. Though the northern winds blaw freezin', Friendship warms baith ye and me. Happy we are a' together, Happy we'll be, ain and a'. Time shall find us a' the blyther, E'er we rise tae gang awa'. See the miser o'er his treasure, Gloatin' wi' his greedy e'e; Can he feel the glow o' pleasure That around us here we see? Happy we are.... etc. Paul said that his grandfather used to sing the song at the closing of local dances and social gatherings in the New Bedford area. The song is but a fragment of "Happy Friendship," a Scottish classic, and Willie Scott, the shepherd, sang much more of it on his recording. Ask Dick Greenhaus for Scott's recording. It's a dandy. Sandy Paton (resident folk fossil) |
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02 Apr 05 - 06:01 AM (#1449865) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Hi Sandy, Many thanks for quoting the song. I should have realized you would know this. What's the tune that Paul used? Could you post the tune either in midi or alphabetic notation? Any chance of getting "Happy Friendship" posted on the DT? Best as always to you and Caroline. Bob |
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02 Apr 05 - 06:17 AM (#1449870) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Sandy, a followup: After posting the last I checked out the DT's "Happy roun' the ingle bleezin'," which I noticed you recommended in an earlier thread, and found the tune there as given from Grieg. Was that the tune Paul used? If so, that takes care of my request. If not, though, I would still like to hear his tune. You know, somebody really ought to write Paul Clayton's biography. The more I hear about the man, from you, for instance, the more fascinating he seems, and the odder it is that his life remains obscure and virtually unknown, at least to me. |
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02 Apr 05 - 08:13 AM (#1449926) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: BB The words in DT quoted above seem to be a very shortened form of the song, which I believe is usually known as 'In Friendship's Name' or 'In Freenship's Name'. There was a thread on this back in January, but I don't know how to link to it. You could try putting one of the above titles into the Forum search. Barbara |
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03 Apr 05 - 04:15 AM (#1450656) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: Sandy Paton I fear my musical skills are too limited to let me post a tune, Bob. Why don't you call me and I'll sing the bloody thing for you as i learned it from Paul. You're right about the need for a Clayton biography. His contributions were significant, his talent and intellect exceptional, and his death truly tragic. So why don't you tackle it? You're a fine writer! Sandy |
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03 Apr 05 - 07:56 AM (#1450728) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Sandy: I wish I had the time! But I'm already fulltime on other writing. So, a general call: Anyone out there want to write Paul Clayton's biography? It ought to be an interesting task. I should add that, in my one encounter with him, in a coffeehouse in DC, I found him to be one of the funniest, that is to say, sidesplittingly wittiest, people I ever met. His sense of humor was truly screwball and delightful, and when he was wound up and spouting, he beat any standup comedian I ever heard, hands down. All this and folksongs too. He should be a rewarding topic for the biographer. Bpb |
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03 Apr 05 - 08:05 AM (#1450734) Subject: Lyr Add: IN FREENSHIP'S NAME From: GUEST,Bob Coltman To quote Jim Dixon's post from the "In Freenship's Name" thread: Copied from http://www.geocities.com/magjam/infreenname.txt IN FREENSHIP'S NAME Here aroon the ingle blazing Wha sae happy and sae free, Though the northern winds blaw freezy Freenship warms baith you and me CHORUS: Happy we've been aa thegither Canty we've been yin and aa, Time shall see us aa mair blyther Ere we rise tae gang awa See the miser ower his treisure Gloatin' wi' a greedy ee Wha can fill his woes wi' pleisure As aroon us here we see Can the peer in silk and ermine Caa his conscience half his ain His claes are edged and spun with vermin Though he sits upon a throne Thus then let us aa be tassin Though ower the stoops o generous fame And while roon the board is passin Raise a sang in freenship's name Freenship makes us aa mair happy Freenship gies us a' delight Freenship consecretes the drappie Freenship brocht us here the nicht |
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03 Apr 05 - 02:20 PM (#1450933) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: Sandy Paton I agree, Bob, concerning Paul's wit. He sat in our kitchen one afternoon, while we were still living in Vermont, and spontaneously outlined the plot for a highly imaginative mystery novel, which, of course, he never wrote. It was a masterful display of inventive brilliance. I always thought that a television series based on the Manly Wade Wellman stories of John, the ballad hunter (with the silver strings on his guitar), should have been made, with Paul cast as the protagonist. Of course, that never happened either. By the way, I frequently insert the "peer in silk and ermine" verse when i sing Paul's version of the song. Seems to fit with the "miser" verse. Can you push Don Wade to turn your LPs into CDs? Lots of folks are eager for 'em. Sandy |
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03 Apr 05 - 03:43 PM (#1451017) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Found three threads on this song In Friendship's Name - May 1999 - Unanswered |
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04 Apr 05 - 04:57 PM (#1452001) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Around the Ingles Blazing From: BB Thanks, George - wish I could do that! Barbara |
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04 Apr 05 - 05:33 PM (#1452026) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Around the Ingles Blazing From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca BB, take a look using the Lyrics and Knowledge Search. We have had over the years, a number of threads on HTML and how it relates to the Mudcat. It's easy once you get on to it. Check it out. |
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25 Mar 06 - 10:06 PM (#1702873) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Around the Ingles Blazing From: GUEST,Julia This great song appears with melody in Folksongs of the Maritimes as "Happy are we all together" Apparently Vincent MacPherson of Upper South River Antigonish sang this for Helen Creighton. He said it was a poem by Robert Burns but she never substantiated that cheers- Julia |