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29 Dec 98 - 10:25 AM (#51244) Subject: Little Belle Brandon From: katlaughing Another request from dad: words to a really old tearjerker called "Little Belle Brandon". My great grandfather, who was a deputy u.s. marshall in the Cherokee Strip, who wound up having to kill a lot of "desperado-types" throughout his career, when he grew old, used to sit with a friend of similar experiences and sing this song and according to dad, "bawl their eyes out". Words to this would really mean a lot to both of us. Thanks to anyone who can help. Kat |
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29 Dec 98 - 02:43 PM (#51276) Subject: RE: Little Belle Brandon From: Bruce O. In Levy sheet music collection (Mudcat's Links), Box 126, Items 6 & 7. |
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27 Jan 04 - 01:00 AM (#1102266) Subject: Lyr Add: BELL BRANDON (Garrett/Woolcott) From: Jim Dixon From the sheet music at The Library of Congress American Memory Collection: BELL BRANDON Words, T. Ellwood Garrett. Music, Francis Woolcott. 1854. 'Neath a tree by the margin of the woodland, Whose spreading leafy boughs sweep the ground, With a path leading thither o'er the prairie, When silence hung her night garb around, There often I have wandered in the evening, When the summer winds are fragrant on the lea. {There I saw the little beauty, Bell Brandon, And we met 'neath the old arbor tree.} x4 Bell Brandon was a birdling of the mountain. In freedom she sported on her wing; And they said the life-current of the Red Man Tinged her veins from a far distant spring. She loved her humble dwelling on the prairie, And her guileless happy heart clung to me, {And I loved the little beauty, Bell Brandon, And we both loved the old arbor tree.} x4 On the trunk of the aged tree I carved them; Our names on the sturdy form remain. But I now repair in sorrow to its shelter And murmur to the wild wind my pain. Oft I sit there in solitude repining For the beauty-dream that night brought to me. {Death has wed the little beauty, Bell Brandon, And she sleeps 'neath the old arbor tree.} x4 |
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27 Jan 04 - 01:02 AM (#1102269) Subject: RE: Little Belle Brandon From: katlaughing Thanks, Jim. I'd forgotten about this. kat |
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27 Jan 04 - 05:10 AM (#1102352) Subject: RE: Little Belle Brandon From: masato sakurai An edition is at Levy too: Title: Bell Brandon. Ballad. 50th Edition. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written by T. Ellwood Garrett. Music by F. Woolcott. F. Woolcott Publication: St. Louis: Balmer & Weber, 56 Fourth St., 1854. |