| Author | Topic: Add: Some folks do | |
| dmcg | Posted - 07 Jan 05 - 10:05 am | |
Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do, Some folks like to die, But that's not me nor you. (Chorus) Long live the merry, merry heart That laughs by night and day, Like the Queen of mirth, No matter what some folks say. Some folks fret and scold, Some folks do, some folks do, Soon be dead and cold, But that's not me nor you. Some folks get grey hairs, Some folks do, some folks do, Brooding over cares, But that's not me nor you. Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1974, BBC Publications Notes: None supplied in the pamphlet. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 07 Jan 05 - 02:45 pm | |
According to Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root, The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, vol. 1, p. 491), this edition (at the Levy Collection) is "the earliest known copy." Title: Foster's Melodies No.29. Some Folks. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster Publication: New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Square, 1855. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus (and instrumental interlude) Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do First Line of Chorus: Long live the Merry merry heart that laughs by night and day Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Wakelam & Bro. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 08 Jan 05 - 01:36 pm | |
The earliest edition is also at American Memory: Some folks / by S. C. Foster Some folks / by S. C. Foster From Foster's Melodies, No. 29: Some Folks (1855): SOME FOLKS | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 08 Jan 05 - 01:51 pm | |
My favourite site for Foster songs is http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de. The copy Maseto reffered to is also there together with a MIDI of the tune(http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/Foster28.htm) | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 09 Jan 05 - 12:43 pm | |
See also: Stephen Foster Song Book: original sheet music of 40 songs, selected by Richard Jackson (New York: Dover Publications, 1974), without Introduction and notes. The Music of Stephen Collins Foster (Benjamin Robert Tubb's page), with lyrics & midi. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 24 Mar 05 - 11:17 pm | |
It has been pointed out that Stephen Foster probably wrote 'gray hair', not 'grey hair', as it appears in the BBC document. I would assume that almost all the Singing Together booklets make similar conversions to English spellings for American songs, even though they often try to represent Scottish pronunciations in the spellings. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 17 Feb 06 - 12:54 am | |
Foster wrote "gray hairs." See his sketchbook manuscript here: Some folks like to scold some folks do But they soon grow old That's not me nor you -- Some folks get gray hairs some folks do Counting all their cares That's not me nor you | ||