Thank you for the words. i do not play Harp, but have
two friends that do, please send me details (direct to
my e-mail) on how to get the book and I will forward
them on to my friends.
Elheran
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << I am trying to find the lyics for the Pipe Tune
> for
> Funerals and Memorials in Scotland called "Going
> Home". >>
>
> Hi,
> They're in my book for the wire-strung harp! It took
> a LOT of time to find
> them, and I'll tell you, if this were a harpers list
> I'd just ask you to wait
> till the book comes out in about 3 weeks. But, since
> otherwise the book
> probably wouldn't help this list's members much
> (unless you're into tune
> histories), here goes. I have to say they're rather
> weak, so I see why they
> aren't too popular.
>
> The story goes like this: (And this is quoted
> directly from my book, so
> please no plagiarizing. Thanks.)
>
> <<This melody is from the Largo movement of the
> Ninth Symphony, From The New
> World, composed by Antonin Dvorák in 1893. Dvorak
> was very familiar with
> elements of folk music: pentatonic scales, flattened
> sevenths, and even the
> Scots snap (the sixteenth note-dotted eighth note
> rhythm common in Scottish
> music).
>
> Dvorák was in America at the time this piece was
> written, serving as the
> Director of the National Conservatory of Music in
> New York. Dvorák’s student,
> William Arms Fisher, writes that this melody was the
> result of Dvorák’s study
> of the spiritual music of the African Americans.
>
> Fisher felt that the words “Goin’ Home” were
> suggested by the melody itself.
> He also believed that the melody was written at a
> time when Dvorák was
> homesick for his native Bohemia. Thus, when Fisher
> wrote the words for his
> vocal arrangement of the melody, he followed the
> theme of going home. Owing
> to the source of the melody’s inspiration, he
> chose to write the lyrics in
> the form of a negro spiritual.
>
> So, while some believe that Dvorák borrowed this
> melody from an early
> American folk song, it seems more likely that it is
> an original melody which
> he wrote in the style of a folk song. The tune has
> since passed into the
> repertoire of the Highland Bagpipe.>>
>
> And here are the lyrics. (Note: the part inside the
> quotes <<...>> is for
> part of the melody that is usually not played on the
> pipes, and I left that
> bit out of my book, so these are "bonus words" for
> you all. To figure out how
> they fit, listen to Dvorak's symphony). So, here
> goes:
>
> Goin’ home, goin’ home,
> I’m a goin’ home;
> Quiet like, some still day,
> I’m jes’ goin’ home.
>
> It’s not far, jes’ close by,
> Through an open door;
> Work all done, care laid by,
> Gwine to fear no more.
>
> Mother’s there ‘spectin’ me
> Father’s waitin’ too;
> Lots o’ folk gather’d there,
> All the friends I knew.
>
> <<All the friends I knew.
> Home, home, I'm goin' home!
> Nothin' lost, all's gain,
> No more fret nor pain,
> No more stumblin' on the way,
> No more longin' for the day,
> Gwine to roam no more!>>
>
> Mornin’ star lights the way
> Res’less dream all done;
> Shadows gone, break o’ day,
> Real life jes’ begun.
>
> Dere’s no break, ain’t no end,
> Jes’ a livin’ on;
> Wide awake, with a smile
> Goin’ on and on.
>
> Goin’ home, goin’ home,
> I’m jes’ goin’ home,
> It’s not far, jes’ close by
> Through an open door.
>
> Hope you enjoyed that...and if you are interested in
> the whole book, do let
> me know! (shameless self promotion). :-)
>
> --Cynthia Cathcart
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