Lyr/Tune Req: Early One Morning

Subject: Early One Morning
From: Nena Jo Keefner
Date: 03 Jul 97 - 06:38 PM

I am looking for an arrangement of Early One Morning (the tune is on the midi database). I sang it in the early seventies as an audtion to my high school Madrigal group. It is an SATB choral arangement, and is not the one that is arranged by Dunhill. The chorus in this arrangement is as follows: Oh, Don't deceive me Oh, Never leave me May thy love ne'er from thee go.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Subject: Early one morning
From:
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:03 AM

I think this is the first line to an English folk-song they play every morning at 5:45 on BBC4. Does anybody know the whole lyric, please?

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:16 AM

I guess there are many songs that start with this line:
here's one of them

Wolfgang

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* HERE'S ANOTHER *

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Ian
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 01:49 PM

I think the one you're looking for is

Early one morning, just as the sun was shining/ I heard a maiden singing in the valley below

O never leave me! please don't deceive me/ How could you leave a poor maiden so.

Haven't been able to find it in DT so far.

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Allan C.
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:05 PM

Just put "poor maiden" in the search box with brackets, [ ] around it and it will come up.

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:09 PM

Ah, yes, "morning" is a recurrent theme in folk music. So is "evening." "Maidens," too, for that matter.
Not much about "afternoon," though. It's tough on the meter. It rhymes with "moon," but there are logical problems when you try to put them together.
-Joe Offer, goofing off when he should be working-
Click here for the song (sent by e-mail)

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Sourdough
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:16 PM

Evening, Maidens, Moon, afternoon:

The "composer" of Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea dealt with that problem. THe line goes, "It was on a bright June evening, about the hour of three,/My darling sailed away to leave, to sail out on the deep blue sea."

It used to seem odd to have "evening", "bright" and "the our of three" all describing the same time period but, hey, I can get used to most anything.

Sourdough

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:20 PM

Well, Sourdough, in the southern U.S., "evening" is any time after 12 noon. My coworker friend Charlie from Mississippi would answer the phone "good evening" in the middle of the afternoon. Used to drive me crazy.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Lesley N.
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:36 PM

It's not just that everyone is walking in the morning but it seems to be a lot in May.. Guess October doesn't fit well into metre either. Don't suppose the images it brings up are quite as romantic...

Sure maidens are popular - but so are tarts in folk music. There just isn't a single pleasant sounding word for them like there is for "maidens." Sounds like a great thread - "tarts in folk music"...

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:37 PM

Yeah, but what does "tarts" rhyme with?? Better stick with "strumpets."
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:44 PM

it broke my heart
with her to part ...
Wolfgang (who's, oh, so smart)

(Joe, you didn't allude to that five letter word, did you?)

Subject: RE: Early one morning
From:
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 08:54 AM

Thanx!!!