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24 Nov 05 - 10:13 AM (#1612795) Subject: Touch Me Gently Time From: GUEST,Bob B. I'm looking for lyrics for the song Touch Me Gently Time. I think it may have been written by Ian Bell. Can anyone help? Bob |
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24 Nov 05 - 10:16 AM (#1612797) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Peace Do you have any of the lyrics? |
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24 Nov 05 - 11:24 AM (#1612853) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Amos Do you mean the song by Abba called Andante, Andante? A |
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24 Nov 05 - 02:24 PM (#1612998) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Rasener This is all I could find. Hope it is of some help Ian Bell with The Dawnbreakers and other friends. Free Range: Songs From Right Here. FR961. Free Range Recordings, 41 Jane St., Paris, Ont. N3L 2X8 For most of the CD you'll be up dancing, but then. for the last cut, you'll be singing along softly, with a teardrop in the comer of your eye, to a gorgeously simple rendition of the song that sums up the spirit of Free Range: "Gently, gently, touch us gently, Time." The write up was by Nomi Kaston Calgary, Albel1a |
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24 Nov 05 - 02:33 PM (#1613002) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Peace A Petition to Time Barry Cornwall (1787–1874) TOUCH us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers are We, 5 Husband, wife, and children three— (One is lost,—an angel, fled To the azure overhead.) Touch us gently, Time! We 've not proud nor soaring wings: 10 Our ambition, our content, Lies in simple things. Humble voyagers are We, O'er Life's dim, unsounded sea, Seeking only some calm clime;— 15 Touch us gently, gentle Time! |
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24 Nov 05 - 02:38 PM (#1613003) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: GUEST That is so old Peace and cliche |
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24 Nov 05 - 03:34 PM (#1613048) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Amos Not cliched at all, sir; its age has given it grace, and to our distant eyes, a new demeanour, imparting some small wisdom, to those who will see it. You are a varlet. A |
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24 Nov 05 - 03:40 PM (#1613055) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Peace "That is so old Peace and cliche" It was posted in response to a request for lyrics. YOU, whoever you are, are not the one who decides what is appropriate on a lyrics request thread. Furthermore, your commentary is very inappropriate. Please grow up and save that stuff for the BS section. Also, have the decency to post under your Mudcat name. Thank you so much. |
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24 Nov 05 - 05:28 PM (#1613096) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: GUEST,Bob B. Thanks for the quick responses. I am not familiar with A Petition to Time but the song that The Villan wrote about is indeed is the song that I am referring to. Does anyone have all the lyrics? |
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24 Nov 05 - 05:57 PM (#1613109) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Peace Hey, Bob. Do you have any lyrics at all? The title is bringing up lots of what yer NOT lookin' for. Stupid question, I guess, but are you sure of the title? |
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25 Nov 05 - 11:24 PM (#1613932) Subject: Lyr Add: TOUCH US GENTLY (TIME) (Ian Bell et al.) From: GUEST,Bob B. I've now got the words to Touch Us Gently, thanks to Eve Goldberg who found it in a collection of songs that her late mother, my dear friend Sue Goldberg, used to lead. Sue was at the very heart of the folk music community in Toronto until her death this past June. TOUCH US GENTLY (from the Star of Bethlehem, Dayton, VA, 1882) Additional verses by Ian Bell and Kate Murphy) In the spring of early years Touch us gently, gently time (refrain) With its budding hopes and fears Touch us gently time (refrain) CHORUS: Gently, gently, touch us gently, gently time Gently, gently, touch us gently time Let the summer sun and rain Refrain Make us grow as grows the grain Refrain Chorus In the autumn's lonely grief Refrain Fading light and falling leaves Refrain Chorus As the twilight o'er us creeps Refrain We are weary let us sleep Refrain Chorus In the summer's warming light Refrain Long the day and short the night Refrain Chorus |
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25 Nov 05 - 11:32 PM (#1613935) Subject: RE: Touch Me Gently Time From: Dave'sWife Guest Bob B. - those lyrics sound lovely. I am not familiar with this song at all. Any chance someone might have a link to a Music seller webiste that might offer a RealPlayer or Windows snippet of the song? Also Bob B. , it's not uncommon for someone here to post a question and after a little more effort, find the answer for themselves. I've done that. We all benefit from both the questions and the answers no matter who posts them, so don't be shy about asking. Why not join the Mudcat? Membership free and you'll certainly be a welcome addition to the community. The more the merrier. |
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10 Jun 18 - 04:41 PM (#3930176) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Touch Us Gently, Time (Ian Bell) From: GUEST,Elizabeth Block I sing this song. I learned it from Ian Bell, who got it from a 19th c. Mennonite hymnal. I sing a different last verse, written by Junetta Chenard, a Quaker from the Niagara region. She didn't like the original, and wrote Winter's sleep does strength revive Budding hopes again alive There's a YouTube video, so you can hear the tune. I sang this at my 25th college reunion. Five years later, at our 30th, a classmate remembered it and asked to hear it again. I've sung it at every reunion since then. |