lyrics? marblehead morning
John Bartmess
>From: ssin...@mac.cc.macalstr.edu (MANDY)
>Subject: lyrics? marblehead morning
>Date: 7 Dec 93 11:22:47 -0600
>
>I have a question about lyrics for anyone who can help me. i can only remember
>a few pieces of the song here and there and the title, but if you all could
>enlighten me with the lyrics, and who sung it , ect i'd appreciate it.
>
>The song is called Marblehead Morning.
>
>--mandy sindoris
I don't know if he wrote it, but it's on a Jim Post album that I have
at home. I'll transcribe tonight, and post tomorrow.
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MANDY
I have a question about lyrics for anyone who can help me. i can only remember
a few pieces of the song here and there and the title, but if you all could
enlighten me with the lyrics, and who sung it , ect i'd appreciate it.
The song is called Marblehead Morning.
It's a marblehead morning, colored cobblestone gray...
Haul away , heave away,
He's going to leave today.
Farewell, good jo nell,
How i wish i could stay.
goodbye, true(first)love of mine
i'm going to sail on the first day of may.
--mandy sindoris
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>I have a question about lyrics for anyone who can help me. i can only remember
>a few pieces of the song here and there and the title, but if you all could
>enlighten me with the lyrics, and who sung it , ect i'd appreciate it.
>The song is called Marblehead Morning.
>It's a marblehead morning, colored cobblestone gray...
>Haul away , heave away,
>He's going to leave today.
>Farewell, good jo nell,
>How i wish i could stay.
>goodbye, true(first)love of mine
>i'm going to sail on the first day of may.
Written by Mason Daring, sung by Jeannie Stahl & Mason Daring, a star local
Boston duo from the 70s. They've recently issued a compilation CD (which
will surely include this song) & done touring in the area to promote it,
despite the fact that they haven't been a duo (or a couple) for many years
(&, despite the fact, they still sound fine together). (I always thought
this song was a little overdone but so what. Its the one you asked about.)
Mason Daring is better known these days for the music production on all of
John Sayles' movies, & some PBS & commercial stuff. Jeannie Stahl sings
on the sound track to the Sayles movie "Leanna".
Stahl was featured around 13 years ago in some segments filmed
to go along with a Masterpiece Theater series about the 30s & 40s,
singing songs of the era (accompanied by Bill Novack on
clarinet & a local band). (I didn't like the segments that much, but do like
what I've lately heard off an album of the same material; maybe they rerecorded
them when the cameras & campy costumes weren't around to distract). She had
an album of originals co-written with a local woman out about 7 or 8 years ago,
then had a bad accident to her back & cancelled the promotional tour.
She said in a local interview prior to a the release of the CD last year
that she lives in California, that she & her husband run a company that
produces the music for educational & Discovery-channel-type videos,
& that she doesn't sing at all anymore
(but that was before these few area shows).
This is a lot more than you really wanted to know, & you still don't have
those lyrics...I could remember some if I really have to...
appleg...@gmail.com
It's a Marblehead morning colored cobblestone gray
Coming on strong to a New England day
The harbors are forests of tall sailing trees
Getting ready to sail on a mid-morning breeze
(Chorus 1)
Fair is my captain, I long to tell him so
Haul away, heave away, he's going to sail away
Good times are passing by, high tide is running high
Haul away, heave away, he's going to leave today
For three hundred years of going to sea
The Marblehead men left the woman to keep
A close watch upon the fine line between
The blue of the sky and the green of the sea
(Chorus 2)
Farewell, good Jonell
How I wish I could stay
Good-bye, first love of mine
Look for my sail on the first day of may
Out ancestors sailed on a day such as this
Widows watch curtains hung in the gray morning mist
While up on the commons a church chime would ring
And down on the landing a young maiden sings
(group splits 1/2 sing chorus and other 1/2 sing chorus 2)
It's a marblehead morning colored cobblestone gray
As long as I'm gone, I'll remember today
** I was looking for these as well, and found them on a website through a Google search. The young woman posted them as part of songs she remembered from summer camp.