I'm gone this week (this post is scheduled), but I wanted to leave something to keep the blog busy. So I came up with this: a Name Game. The gist is, I'll post the lyrics of some of the songs I'll be immersed in during my musical weekend, and you'll guess the song title.
These are today's lyrics:
"But when ye come and all the flowers are dying,
And I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Go out and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And I will hear tho' soft your tread above me,
And then my grave will warm and sweeter be.
For you shall bend and tell me that you love me,
And I will sleep in peace until you come to me."
This is an extremely sad and touching song. The story behind it is beautiful, if slightly depressing.
Recognize them? If so, leave the title of this song in your comment with an email address. You are on your honor not to look this song up via internet. But asking others about the lyrics or looking it up in a music book is alright.
The prize is simple- we will host an interview, guest blog, guest poem, and/or guest review here at the NSCG site for whoever wins. Plus, if the winner is a blogger, we will add them to our Fantabulous Blogs list and provide a link to their blog in the post featured here.
You do not HAVE to be a blogger to enter this. Regular readers can have their writing/responses featured on our site, as well.
There will be more lyrics up later.
NOTE: There will be only one winner for all the different Name Game posts.
I think this is Danny Boy, but I might be totally wrong. I had a friend in high school named Danny who everyone used to sing this to being silly, so it sounds familiar. But it didn't sound as pretty in high school! And I don't know the story behind it, but I want to check it out now!
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I am pretty sure this is Danny Boy.
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This is Danny Boy... it's on my iPod!
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Great idea!
ReplyDeleteI googled it, and yeah, it's Danny Boy. More info would be: It's a ballad written by Freferick Weatherly in 1910, and most commonly associated with Irish communities.
So cool. I knew of this song back when I was reading a Heather Graham book, I think.
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