Midsummer songs
Richard Burraston
Richard
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Richard Burraston ric...@combside.demon.co.uk
Abby Sale
Burraston) wrote:
>Can anyone help by suggesting songs for a midsummer celebration ?
>
6/20 this year:
One of my favorites:
"And the larks they played melodians at the dawn of the day"
"Pleasant and Delightful" _Oxford Book of Sea Songs_, Palmer
"We both shook hands and down we sat, it being the longest day of summer,
We sat till the red setting beams of the sun came sparklin' down among the
heather.
"Heather On The Moor," DigTrad filename[ HTHRMOOR
From Bonny Bunch of Roses, Milner and Kaplan
The frosty summer of 1816 began at this time in Vermont.
In the time of the sorrowful famine year
When the crops were scanty and bread was dear
The good squire's fertile and sheltered farm
In his valley nestled secure from harm
When the summer winds blew with an icy breath
In 1800-and-froze-to-death.
"1800 And Froze To Death," tune by & words adapted by Pete
Sutherland - on _the Light of Day_, Gillette/Mangsen
Baltimore, in South Munster, was sacked by Algerian pirates on 6/20/1631 &
most of the citizens enslaved.
"Then flung the youth his naked hand against the shearing sword;
Then sprung the mother on the brand with which her son was gored"
"The Sack of Baltimore," _Irish Minstrelsy_, p184; H. Halliday Sparling;
1899.
Of course you could do "Sumer Is Icumen In" but I'd wait a couple of
hundred years before that. It's been done, you see.
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I am Abby Sale - in Orlando, Florida
Boycott South Carolina!
Gerry Myerson
ric...@combside.demon.co.uk (Richard Burraston) wrote:
> Can anyone help by suggesting songs for a midsummer celebration ?
There are five songs in the Digital Tradition database
containing the word "midsummer":
1) TARRY TROUSERS
As I walked out one midsummer morning
2) ON MIDSUMMER DAY
On midsummer day in the land of Erin
3) HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT
The midsummer breezes are loaded with dust
4) FACTORY GIRL
As I was a walking one midsummer morning
5) DARK ISLAND 2
Of the midsummer dawning that follows the night
There's also one with the word "solstice":
1) OLD TIME RELIGION (2)
Of the Sun on Solstice Morn.
but I didn't check to see whether it was summer or winter.
The URL is http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm and full lyrics
are there.
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
TAsher
of it.
Richard Burraston wrote:
> Can anyone help by suggesting songs for a midsummer celebration ?
>
Stephen Suffet
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> Can anyone help by suggesting songs for a midsummer celebration ?
>
> Richard
Greetings:
Try "Oak and Ash and Thorn," based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling
set to music by Peter Bellamy. One stanza, if memory serves me well,
goes:
Oh, do not tell the priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin,
But we've been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring summer in!
And we bring good news by word of mouth,
Good news for cattle and corn,
Now is the Sun come up from the south,
By Oak and Ash and Thorn!
The Young Tradition and Roberts & Barrand have recorded the song.
Regards,
Steve
Dave Earl
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Stephen Suffet <Suf...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Richard Burraston wrote:
> >
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> The Young Tradition and Roberts & Barrand have recorded the song.
So have Cockersdale (Val Marsden, John O'Hagan & Graham Pirt)
Gerry Myerson
<da...@earld.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
-> Stephen Suffet <Suf...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
-> news:391936...@worldnet.att.net...
-> > The Young Tradition and Roberts & Barrand have recorded the song.
->
-> So have Cockersdale (Val Marsden, John O'Hagan & Graham Pirt)
So have the Sydney group, The Roaring Forties. That is, they have
recorded the song, Oak and Ash and Thorn.
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)