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02 Mar 14 - 08:41 PM (#3606596) Subject: RE: Mudcat Site Map, PermaThread Index, Memorabilia From: GUEST,Local Color I am trying to find the tune to the poem Birthright We who are born in country places. Anybody have an idea how to track down the tune? |
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03 Mar 14 - 01:24 AM (#3606626) Subject: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: Joe Offer Hi, Local Color - can you give us anything else? Where have you heard the song. Can you post full lyrics? Thanks. -Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor- This page says the music was written in 1936 by Margaret Sutherland, 1897-1984; lyrics by Eiluned Lewis. Partial lyrics were posted in Thread #7247 Message #279857 Posted By: GUEST,C Dye 17-Aug-00 - 07:45 PM Thread Name: Lyr Req: Spider's Web (Girl Scout song) Subject: RE: Help! a Girl Scout folk song?
Can anyone help me with yet another GS song? I can't quite remember it all, but I think it goes(except for the la la's..): |
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03 Mar 14 - 01:44 AM (#3606628) Subject: ADD: Birthright (Eiluned Lewis) From: Joe Offer BIRTHRIGHT (Eiluned Lewis) We who were born In country places, Far from cities And shifting faces, We have a birthright No man can sell, And a secret joy No man can tell. For we are kindred To lordly things, The wild duck's flight And the white owl's wings; To pike and salmon, To bull and horse, The curlew's cry And the smell of gorse. Pride of trees, Swiftness of streams, Magic of frost Have shaped our dreams: No baser vision Their spirit fills Who walk by right On the naked hills. -- Eiluned Lewis As for the poetess, Eiluned Lewis (1900-1979) was born at Newtown, Montgomeryshire. She became a journalist and was assistant editor of The Sunday Times, 1931-36. Her novel Dew on the Grass (1934) won the Gold Medal of the Book Guild. Source: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/07/birthright-eiluned-lewis.html |
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04 Mar 14 - 01:24 AM (#3606953) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: Joe Offer refresh - Animaterra? I looked all around, and couldn't find a recording of this song. There are lots of songs with the title "Birthright," which made the search well-nigh impossible. But apparently this is a choral piece, so I'm hoping some choral director like Animaterra will have a melody for us. It appears the song was also known among Girl Scouts. -Joe- |
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04 Mar 14 - 05:43 AM (#3607012) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: GUEST Is this what you are looking for? http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2250661 Greg |
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04 Mar 14 - 05:55 AM (#3607015) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: GUEST Can't find any other references anywhere though. All you need now is a helpful someone with access to the National Library of Australia in Canberra. Greg |
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01 May 15 - 05:38 AM (#3705653) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: GUEST,Chris Collingwood, Spai |
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26 Aug 15 - 05:12 PM (#3733401) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: GUEST,marjorie This was my school song from 1935-9, at my little prep school in Dorset. We sang it to a tune by Christopher le Fleming: his father was a GP in, I think, Wimborne Minster, the town where I was born. I could still sing it to you, but maybe it's online under his name? |
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01 Feb 17 - 06:52 PM (#3836166) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for poem 'Birthright' From: GUEST,Peter This was my school song at Brockhill Secondary School Saltwood UK which I attended from 1953-1957. I still could remember the words of the first verse by memory after 60 years. I recall the tune as well but have not found any recording on You Tube. |