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Jim Hawkins
Aug 6, 2012, 12:18:19 PM8/6/12
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I'm trying to find one particular English setting of the
famous song (I know there are several others), which
I learned at school in the 1930s.
The only lines I remember are:-
"A boatman sits and gazes, and feels a coming woe,
His eye to the height he raises, and sees not the rocks below,"
and the last line:-
"The billows soon will swallow, the boat and boatman too"
Does anyone know where the full verses may be found ?
Jim Hawkins
famous song (I know there are several others), which
I learned at school in the 1930s.
The only lines I remember are:-
"A boatman sits and gazes, and feels a coming woe,
His eye to the height he raises, and sees not the rocks below,"
and the last line:-
"The billows soon will swallow, the boat and boatman too"
Does anyone know where the full verses may be found ?
Jim Hawkins
arlo....@gmail.com
Oct 9, 2012, 12:59:13 AM10/9/12
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I used a search engine on the first set of lines you quoted. The second result was your post, and the first the following site:
http://www.boysoloist.com/lyrics.asp?TrackID=3445&AlbumID=88&ArtistID=201
I also searched 'The Lorelei Poem' and got the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley, which is quite fascinating; I know someone named Lorelei, and now I can tell her (if she does not already know) that her name means 'murmuring rock', or less appealingly 'lurking rock'.
http://www.boysoloist.com/lyrics.asp?TrackID=3445&AlbumID=88&ArtistID=201
I also searched 'The Lorelei Poem' and got the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley, which is quite fascinating; I know someone named Lorelei, and now I can tell her (if she does not already know) that her name means 'murmuring rock', or less appealingly 'lurking rock'.
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