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lyrics to silver bells (NOT the Xmas song)

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susan

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Aug 15, 2000, 1:32:15 AM8/15/00
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anyone have the lyrics to "silver bells"--not the xmas one...
thanks

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Carl Baron

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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susan wrote:

> anyone have the lyrics to "silver bells"--not the xmas one...
> thanks

If you're referring to the fiddle tune, then I've never heard any words
for it. A cursory web search tuned up nothing.
Carl


Kerry Blech

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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I vaguely recall hearing lyrics to it ("Silver Bell"
or "Silver Belle" rather than "Silver Bells"?). I seem
to recall it was about an Indian Maid, kind of like "Red
Wing." I'll have to dig through material at home, but
no guarantee it will show up. Hopefully someone else out
there can come up with it.
Kerry

Carl Baron wrote:


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> susan wrote:
>
> > anyone have the lyrics to "silver bells"--not the xmas one...
> > thanks
>

> If you're referring to the fiddle tune, then I've never heard any words
> for it. A cursory web search tuned up nothing.
> Carl

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Joel Shimberg

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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In article <39995CDA...@Wolfenet.com>, Blec...@Wolfenet.com wrote:

>I vaguely recall hearing lyrics to it ("Silver Bell"
>or "Silver Belle" rather than "Silver Bells"?). I seem
>to recall it was about an Indian Maid, kind of like "Red
>Wing." I'll have to dig through material at home, but
>no guarantee it will show up. Hopefully someone else out
>there can come up with it.
>Kerry

Percy Wenrich wrote it, as I recall. I've got sheet music somewhere, but
it may just be instrumental -- I'll have to do some digging.

My heart is singing (?), my Silver Bell.
Under your spell, I'd love to dwell

something like that.


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Paul Mitchell

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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Hey Carl and Susan,
Words to Silver Bells can be found on Jess Young's fine version. As
yet, unissued on plastic, but available from Mr. Bussard, et al. I have
it at home, and soon as the smoke clears, I'll dig it up.

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Carl Baron wrote:

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> susan wrote:
>
> > anyone have the lyrics to "silver bells"--not the xmas one...
> > thanks
>

Kerry Blech

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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Paul Mitchell wrote:
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> Hey Carl and Susan,
> Words to Silver Bells can be found on Jess Young's fine version. As
> yet, unissued on plastic, but available from Mr. Bussard, et al. I have
> it at home, and soon as the smoke clears, I'll dig it up.

Jess's fiddling is great on that track, but I find the singing
rather dreadful (Dan Hornby??). Bob Douglas plays many of
Jess Young's recorded songs as instrumentals (a major
improvement, in many ways). I never asked him (Bob; I never
had the chance to meet Jess) if he played this one. But I
bet he does. Bob has great taste, he never tries to sing
any of Jess's songs.

Best,
kerry

Library Guy

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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Kerry Blech wrote:

>Bob Douglas plays many of Jess Young's recorded songs as instrumentals (a major

>improvement, in many ways)...Bob has great taste, he never tries to sing


>any of Jess's songs.

So what are you saying about Susan's taste, Kerry?

FD

Peter S. Shenkin

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Aug 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/15/00
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Are you perhaps thinking of the Webb Pierce hit:

Down below the Rio Grande a seniorita held my hand, etc.?

-P.

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Paul Mitchell

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Aug 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/22/00
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Joel Shimberg wrote:

> Percy Wenrich wrote it, as I recall. I've got sheet music somewhere, but
> it may just be instrumental -- I'll have to do some digging.

Having finally made it upstairs to the sheet music mound, I've rechecked
that, in fact, Percy Wenrich is responsible for the Dixie Darlings Song
(and Two Step).

Given the current thread regarding tin pan alley origins for oldtime
music, I thought that it was a given that "mass" culture survived in the
discarded and forgotten artifacts which made their ways into the rural
areas. Hell, they mine the remains of dinosaurs.

Paul


Adia Buckle

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