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07 Mar 99 - 02:31 PM (#61742) Subject: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: mxtommy@aol.com I've been trying to find lyrics to "A Village Churchyard" from Roscoe Holcomb's "The High Lonesome Sound". It states that the hymn is from "The Old Baptist Songbook", but I have been unable to find it anywhere. Can anyone lend a hand? Thanks! mxtommy@aol.com |
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01 Aug 01 - 03:25 PM (#519256) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: MMario refresh |
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01 Aug 01 - 04:53 PM (#519329) Subject: Lyr Add: VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (Roscoe Holcomb?) From: nutty Is this it? VILLAGE CHURCHYARD In a dear old village churchyard I can see a mossy mound That is where my mother's sleeping In the cold and silent ground There in a weeping willow Sweet little bird to sing at dawn It's I've no one left to love me Since my mother's dead and gone I was young but I remember Well the night my mother died There I saw her spirit fading When she called me to her side Saying darling, I must leave you And God's voice to lead you on Pray that we may meet in heaven Where your mother's dead and gone Oft I've wandered to the churchyard Flowers to plant with tender care On the grave of my dear mother Darkness finds me weeping there Looking at the stars above me Waiting for the early dawn There by mother I'll be buried And no more be left alone |
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01 Aug 01 - 05:09 PM (#519340) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: nutty Number 182 in this Carter Family compilation is another possibility ...... no lyrics though In a little village churchyard |
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01 Aug 01 - 08:11 PM (#519410) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: Stewie Nutty, your first one is the the right one - the link to the lyrics for Tim Eriksen's recent self-titled solo album. Eriksen notes that he learned it from an unlabelled tape he found in a friend's basement which turned out to be from John Cohen's recording of Roscoe. Eriksen met Cohen at a Cordelia's Dad concert where he (Eriksen) opened the show with the song. Cohen told him that 'Churchyard' was the last song Roscoe sang in public when, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, his voice gave way to tears and he couldn't carry on. --Stewie. |
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02 Aug 01 - 03:36 AM (#519522) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: nutty e-mail sent |
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02 Aug 01 - 03:47 AM (#519526) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: nutty e-mail returned as "mailbox not found" - just hope they check Mudcat |
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02 Aug 01 - 08:40 AM (#519606) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: MMario *grin* it's an old request - but hey, it resulted in two more songs being clickied.... |
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02 Aug 01 - 11:20 AM (#519719) Subject: Lyr Add: VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (Roscoe Holcomb) From: Burke VILLAGE CHURCHYARD From Roscoe Holcomb's "The High Lonesome Sound". It states that the hymn is from "The Old Baptist Songbook"
In a dear old village churchyard 'Churchyard' was the last song Roscoe sang in public when, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. BES |
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02 Aug 01 - 08:40 PM (#520101) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: Art Thieme 1962 --- Roscoe was singing in an out of the way grotto on the 3rd floor of Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago Folk Festival for just one other person and myself. I had asked him to do "The Unreconstructed Rebel" and he didn't want to sing it for the whole audience at a concert so we went off after a workshop and he sang it for us. Then he took my guitar, tuned it to an open chord (G probably), took a knife out of his pocket and played 2 or 3 songs sliding the knife blade on the strings. It was one of those transcendant moments that I'll always remember. Art Thieme |
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21 Feb 05 - 05:17 PM (#1416791) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: GUEST,larry Looking for the words to Holcomb's "Across The Rocky Mountains" in a hurry. Need the words for next week's show. Can anyone help me?? Thanx, Larry |
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21 Feb 05 - 05:27 PM (#1416802) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: Mark Ross Look in the OLD TIME STRING BAND SONGBOOK which used to be THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS SONGBOOK, it's in there I believe. Mark Ross |
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21 Feb 05 - 11:26 PM (#1417068) Subject: ADD: Across the Rocky Mountain From: Stewie ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Across the rocky mountain I walked for miles and miles Across the rocky mountain I walked for miles and miles I'll never forget my mother's looks, God bless her sweetly smile There was an old rich farmer who lived in the neighbourhood by He had one lovely daughter, on her I cast my eye She was most tall and handsome, blue eyes and curly hair There's no other girl in this wide world with her I could compare She was courted by three squires, so well they did agree She was courted by three squiers so well they did agree But to no one like Jack the sailor who crossed the deep blue sea Well your cheeks they are too rosy, your fingers they are too small Your cheeks they are too rosy, your fingers they are too small Oh, your cheeks they are too rosy to face the cannonball No, my cheeks are not too rosy, nor fingers not too small My cheeks are not too rosy, nor fingers not too small Oh, it would not change my conscience to see ten thousand fall She was walking through the battlefield, searching up and down She was walking through the battlefield, searching up and down All among the dead and wounded, her darling Jack she found She picked him up all in her arms, she carried him to the town She picked him up all in her arms, she carried him to the town She took him to the doctor for to quickly heal the wound Source: as printed in Cohen/Seeger/Wood 'Old-Time String Band Songbook' Oak Publications 1976, pp 30-31. --Stewie. |
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22 Feb 05 - 08:29 AM (#1417369) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: Dani Does anyone know more about the relationship between this song and "Jackaroo" (or "Jack-a-Roe?") They seem mostly the same, only a wealthy merchant's daughter from London who goes to see to find Jack, and they marry in the end? Dani |
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22 Feb 05 - 03:48 PM (#1417795) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: Stewie Known by a variety of titles, including those you mention, 'Jack(ie) Monroe' was Holcomb's main source for the song. The first stanza is his own. --Stewie. |
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22 Feb 05 - 04:08 PM (#1417814) Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics From: GUEST,Pinetop Slim I see this thread was started 6 years ago, but what the hey ... My guess is that Mr. Holcomb was citing "The Old Baptist Songbook" generically; the lyrics might have come from "The Sweet Songster," or one of the pamphlet books of lyrics that elders and deacons frequently self-publish for their churches or "sosations" (associations) in Holcomb's corner of Kentucky. |