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Thread #116137   Message #2514756
Posted By: Richie
14-Dec-08 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE SPRINGTIME COMES AGAIN
Away Out on Saint Sabbath seems like floating verses with a slight rewrite of "Bury Me Not." If it was a ballet (printed sheet of lyrics or broadside) maybe we can track it down.

WE should be able to track this verse down:

My mother she lies sleeping beneath the church yard sod,
her body lies there mouldering and her spirit has gone to God.


When the Springtime Comes Again is based on Stephen Foster's Gentle Annie in 1856. There is also a different song by C.W. Baker with that title. The Carter Family recorded the song under the title of 'When the Springtime Comes Again' on 24 May 1930 - Victor V-40293. Sara was the lead singer and Charles Wolfe notes: '... the song was one she [Sara] knew as "Little Annie". She learned it from a neighbour of A.P.'s who gave them the ballet for it (ie the written and printed lyrics)'.

WHEN THE SPRINGTIME COMES AGAIN- Carter Family 1930

Once more Little Annie I must leave you
We shall part at the end of the lane
But promise me Little Annie
You will wait for me til springtime comes again

When the sun shines down on the mountain
And the wild sheep are wandering all alone
When the birds and the bees are a humming
Makes me think that springtime wont be very long

When springtime comes on the mountain
And the wild flowers are scattered o'er the plain
I shall watch for the bees to return to their trees
And I'll be waiting when the springtime comes again

Now springtime is here Little Annie
I am on my way back to the lane
For you promised me Little Annie
You'd be waiting when springtime comes again