Now is the cool of The day
Danny
group have a great deal of knowledge, so I am back. Was "Now is the
cool of the day" ever a shape note song? I am looking for the sheet
music so I can make a piano solo for myself and it is not in any of my
"fake" books and I can't find it on-line books. The lyrics have been
copyrighted Jean Ritchie. I Thought this was an old time Folk tune
and she just put her name on what she remembered.
Thanks for any help.
Carlton, David L
This is Jean Ritchie's song. The words are contemporary [basically an environmentalist sermon], and I wouldn't be surprised if some traditionalists found them theologically suspect. The tune is very much in the manner of an old mountain ballad, but that's what you'd expect from a mountain balladeer. Yours, David.
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1988 cassette recording by the Bayley-Hazen Singers, a group associated with
the Northern Harmony songbook. All the other songs on the recording are
from The Sacred Harp 1991 or from out of print shape-note and round-note
books containing Sacred Harp types of song.
Berkley Moore,
Springfield, IL
rgoodell
have discussions of the tunes and their origins. Sorry, don't have the
website for them but they surely have one.
Jean Ritchie was also connected to Berea College in Kentucky, another
source of information.
Sing on,
Bobbie Goodell
Wade Kotter
Day" appears in the following songbook:
Ritchie, Jean. 1971. "Celebration of Life: Her Songs, Her Poems." New York, NY:
Distributed by Music Sales Corp.
This songbook is out of print and I don't have access to a copy, but it may be
available in your local library or you could request it on inter-library loan.
Used copies may also be available on sites like Amazon or AbeBooks.com.
Wade Kotter
South Ogden, UT
Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn
Mount Enterprise, TX
http://baptistsearch.blogspot.com/
Ask for the old paths, where is the good way.
http://mtcarmelbaptist.blogspot.com/
For ask now of the days that are past...
http://oldredland.blogspot.com/
Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
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Wade Kotter
http://www.singout.org/so-song-index.html
a lead sheet including music, guitar chords & lyrics of "Now is the Cool of the
Day" was published on p. 76 in Vol. 39, No. 1 (1994). This issue is not
available online on their website, but you can order a copy for $3.50 (which
includes shipping) at the following page:
http://www.singout.org/backiss.html
Also, I have a couple of Jean Ritchie song books at home which may include this
song. I'll check them when I get home.
Wade
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Will Fitzgerald
http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1331
Will
Annie Grieshop
Danny. It's in "Rise Up Singing", too (the songbook published by Sing
Out Magazine), although that only includes the chords.
Here are the verse and chorus chords, in case that'll do you.
1. My Lord he said unto me
Do you like my garden so fair
You may live in this garden if you keep the grasses green
And I'll return in the cool of the day.
Am E A - /Em - A - / A - Em A / E7 - A -
Now is the cool of the day
Now is the cool of the day
O this earth is a garden, the garden of my Lord
And he walks in his garden in the cool of the day.
Am E Am - / G - Am - / Am - G Am / Am - - - C - Am -
Each set of chords separated by a slash indicates the chords for one
line of text; a dash means, continue with the same chord. Think of
strumming a guitar four times during each line of the verse (and
apparently 8 times in the last line of the chorus).
So for the first line of the first verse, you'd play Am to start, then
switch to E at the appropriate time (I don't know the tune), go back to
A and stay there through the end of the line. (And I know that you know
how to transpose to a different key, if that one doesn't suit you. ;->)
Hope this helps! I'll look through the SO mags when I have a minute,
but it might be a couple days.
Annie
On 12/2/2010 12:17 PM, Wade Kotter wrote:
> According to the SingOut magazine song index at:
>
> http://www.singout.org/so-song-index.html
>
> a lead sheet including music, guitar chords& lyrics of "Now is the Cool of the
Danny
point -- that is there are more people on this board with extensive
knowledge on just about any subject than anywhere else. I suppose If
I wanted to repair my car I would come to this group for an answer.
I ordered Sing Out Magazine Vol. 39 number 1 as Wade Kotter pointed
out in his reply. That should save Annie from having to go thru her
old copies. I wasn't able to find the old Shape note recording by The
Bayley-Hazen singers as Berkley Moore pointed out.
Thanks for putting up with my odd requests. I love and work with most
all types of music except I am not much interested in the current Pop
scene or the Nashville sound. I hope that doesn't make me a snob.
One final note about 20 years ago I bought a christmas recording by
Jean Ritchie and it had "Now is The Cool, of The Day" as well as Star
in the East. I was pleasantly surprised to find Star in The East in
My Christian Harmony shape note book and am "fixing to get ready" to
lead it next Saturday. That discovery lead me to hope that maybe Now
is the cool of the day might be an old shape note song. It certainly
sounds like one, But I guess it is just the way we sing here in the
southern Appalachian mountains.
Thanks Again everyone
Danny
Gabriel Kastelle
Danny:
I may need to be double-checked on this, but I believe I've heard a Jean Ritchie rendition of Star in the East sounding to me in a unique modal interpretation, neither what is on the page in shape note versions NOR what many traditional [shape note] singers might sing as a modification of the notes on the page....
.... just to say that you may or may not hear what you expect if you lead the tune....
:-)
[[I just looked at two different mid-size 50's albums by her that I have, but neither included the tune as I expected, so it must have been a different album that a friend has that I am remembering with feeling of 90+% confidence...]]
And, yes-- seems like you found the right list !!
-- Gabriel Kastelle --
New London, CT
Steve Fletcher
You might be interested to know that Coope, Boyes & Simpson, a wonderful
British male a capella trio, released a cd earlier this year which includes
this song. The cd is called "As if...", issued by No Masters Co-operative
Ltd, NMCD35. www.nomasters.co.uk
Steve Fletcher
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
UK
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