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hub...@ccanoemail.com
May 7, 2012, 7:47:45 AM5/7/12
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Hi all ;
" when I return, it will be <in / to this > spring
to watch the river <flow / glide > and hear
the nighingales sing .. "
My elderly <senile> mother has been reciting this -
as if from a long-ago poem that was memorized as a young person.
I did some google searches and found an old folk song :
" Wild Rippling Water " also called "The Nightingale Song"
or "One Morning in May", this song is found in every English
speaking Irish settlement in the world.
Maybe the folk song was taken from a classic poem ?
Could my mom be remembering a popular version of the song
from her youth in Newfoundland ?
Thanks for any comments.
John T.
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" when I return, it will be <in / to this > spring
to watch the river <flow / glide > and hear
the nighingales sing .. "
My elderly <senile> mother has been reciting this -
as if from a long-ago poem that was memorized as a young person.
I did some google searches and found an old folk song :
" Wild Rippling Water " also called "The Nightingale Song"
or "One Morning in May", this song is found in every English
speaking Irish settlement in the world.
Maybe the folk song was taken from a classic poem ?
Could my mom be remembering a popular version of the song
from her youth in Newfoundland ?
Thanks for any comments.
John T.
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Abby Sale
May 7, 2012, 10:50:26 AM5/7/12
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On Mon, 07 May 2012 07:47:45 -0400, hub...@ccanoemail.com wrote:
>Hi all ;
>
>" when I return, it will be <in / to this > spring
> to watch the river <flow / glide > and hear
> the nighingales sing .. "
>
>My elderly <senile> mother has been reciting this -
>as if from a long-ago poem that was memorized as a young person.
>
>I did some google searches and found an old folk song :
>
>" Wild Rippling Water " also called "The Nightingale Song"
> or "One Morning in May", this song is found in every English
>speaking Irish settlement in the world.
>
> Maybe the folk song was taken from a classic poem ?
>Could my mom be remembering a popular version of the song
>from her youth in Newfoundland ?
>
It's a good song. Depends on the tune she's using. As you found, it
>Hi all ;
>
>" when I return, it will be <in / to this > spring
> to watch the river <flow / glide > and hear
> the nighingales sing .. "
>
>My elderly <senile> mother has been reciting this -
>as if from a long-ago poem that was memorized as a young person.
>
>I did some google searches and found an old folk song :
>
>" Wild Rippling Water " also called "The Nightingale Song"
> or "One Morning in May", this song is found in every English
>speaking Irish settlement in the world.
>
> Maybe the folk song was taken from a classic poem ?
>Could my mom be remembering a popular version of the song
>from her youth in Newfoundland ?
>
was very popular - she could be remembering from her wild youth in the
60's or from Newf - it was known there. See Mac Leach's collection at
http://www.mun.ca/folklore/leach/songs/NFLD2/4A-03_51.htm. The
excellent site has a collected (not commercial) text and good notes
about the song.
Unfortumately, thery seem to have lost the audio clip. The error page
gives a phone number to call and ask them to go find it.
I think it would be a wonderful thing for you to sing or play the song
for your grandmother.
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I am Abby Sale - in Raleigh, North Carolina
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