[PW] Very Old Song About Spring Answered

[Shari Haber]

Thanks to Karen Weiss I now have my song. It is called "The Swallows," 
and it was found in a digital collection in Australia.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Weiss" <karen.weiss2 at verizon.net>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Fw: Stumper: Very Old Song About Spring


Hi, Shari!

I hope you have recovered from your surgery.  In Google Books there is
a book, Vale of Anwoth and Other Essays by D. Brown Anderson, 1899.  In
an essay entitled "Song Before Sermon” he quotes a song without giving
the title.

I searched a bit and found the song at the Australian National Library.
  The title is "The Swallows."  You can see it and print out a copy from
this URL

http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an10825502


Karen Weiss

On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Shari Haber wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am going crazy trying to find the piano/vocal score for a very old
> song (possibly from the 1800s) about Spring. It may be a children's
> folksong song. My patron only remembers one line, but I have found 
> some
> more of the lyrics online from somebody who was also looking for the
> song. Here are the lyrics as he remembers them:
>
> When I open wide my lattice, letting in the laughing breeze da da da 
> da
> da da da da da da da da (chorus) The spring the spring is coming Tis
> goodbye to all the snow yes I know it yes I know it for the swallows
> have come back to tell me so for the swallows have come back to tell 
> me
> so da da da da di di da da da da da di di da (chorus) The spring the
> spring is coming Tis goodbye to all the snow yes I know it yes I know
> it
> for the swallows have come back to tell me so for the swallows have
> come
> back to tell me so Where the rosy sun can see it, each night he goes 
> to
> rest Where the rosy sun can see it, each night he goes to rest da da 
> da
> da di di da da dai da di di
> (The da da das denote missing words.)
>
> It may be called "Spring is Coming," but I've already seen plenty of
> songs with that title that are not the song in question. If anybody 
> can
> identify the author and composer of this piece I will be very happy. 
> (I
> will be ecstatic if somebody knows where I can find the piano/vocal
> score!) My e-mail address is listed below in case you do not choose to
> go through the listserv.
>
> Shari Haber
> MCLS Reference Center
> shaber at mcls.org
> TIA!
>
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