| Author | Topic: Add: The Moon Shines Bright | |
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Mar 03 - 01:41 pm | |
Moon Shines Bright, The The moon shines bright, the stars gave a light, A little before 'tis day, Our heavenly Father he call-ed to us And bid us wake and pray. Awake, awake, oh pretty, pretty maid, Out of your drowsy dream, And step into your dairy below And fetch me a bowl of cream; If not a bowl of your sweet cream A mug of your brown beer, For the Lord knows when we shall meet again To be maying another year. So dear, so dear Christ lov-ed us And for our sins was slain, He bids us leave off our wicked, wicked ways And turn to the Lord again. Turn to the Lord and our sweet God, O turn to him with praise, For when we are dead and in our graves We are nothing but dust and clay. I have been rambling all this night And the best part of this day, And now return-ed back again, And have brough you a branch of may. A branch of may I have brought you And at your door it stands, It is but a sprout, but well budded out By the work of our Lord's hand. My song is done and I must be gone, No longer can I stay, So it's God bless you all, both great and small And send you a joyful May. Source: Broadwood, Lucy, 1893, English County Songs, Leadenhall Press, London Notes: Lucy Broadwood wrote:
Database entry is here Edited By dmcg - 03-Mar-2004 11:35:02 AM | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 30 Mar 03 - 04:53 pm | |
Versions with the first lines shown below are at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballds; titles given are "The Moon Shines Bright," "The Moon Shone Bright," "St. John's Day," "Christmas Carol," and "Carol." moon shines bright [first line]The version in The Oxford Book of Carols (1928, No. 46) is titled "The Bellman's Song." Edited By masato sakurai - 30/03/2003 17:01:22 | ||
| Irene Shette (guest) |
Posted - 12 Apr 09 - 09:06 pm | |
Just a slight point; the source is given as "Lucy Broadwood" "English County Songs". It should be pointed out that Lucy was only one of the two editors of the work. The full attribution should be given to Lucy Broadwood and J A Fuller Maitland. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 13 Apr 09 - 08:38 am | |
Thanks Irene. I've left the comments in the threads as they are but have updated the "source" fields in the song database entries. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 13 Apr 09 - 09:34 am | |
Also thanks from here. The position is quite complicated in terms of accreditation. For the book as a whole, certainly both need to be credited. For arrangements on individual songs - which I did not record on this site - some, such as "Tripping up the Green Grass" have an annotation "L.E.B."; others such as "Little Sir William" are annotated "J.A.F.M." Then there is the question of who is responsible for what work on the melody. Call it laziness, if you like, but I am afraid I haven't done the work on sorting out the position on each song. Jon recently introduced a facility to do edits to a group of items simultaneously so I will work out with him how easy it is to change all the 'Sources'. As usualy with such general changes, the danger is changing something else we did not expect, so it may be I have to face up to the task by hand. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 13 Apr 09 - 09:51 am | |
A couple of thoughts, Dave. I think we should use the book credit for our source. Annotated "LEB", etc. could be placed in the notes. I think we are looking at hand edits for this. It would be a huge task now but once again, I do wonder whether we should be using a "source" table. Something which would keep our entries consistant, possibly enable a (at least our entries in a book) book index, etc. I'd probably need to go through this one with you via PM if you think it's on. | ||