Hes Gone Away

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This has happened to a lot of the ballads.

Verses get detached and they sometimes spawn a new song. I'll forgive her for the song I like this Jo Stafford recording much better. Apparently, the song is a favorite with choral groups - here's another. It was reissued as a part of a double album by Collectors Choice Music those fine folks in Yondro was a mountain and a desrick is a shack. It's one of those with so many versions and titles that it's hard to tell what's what. I guess that makes it a true folk song. The true lover bids farewell, promising to be true. He asks, "Who will shoe your pretty little foot?

Bronson 76, "The Lass of Roch Royal" 23 versions, of which at least 17, and possibly others, e. Carter Family, "Storms are on the Ocean" Acme , c. This song is officially a catch-all. There probably are recensional variants within this song family; it's just too big and too complex. But the particular items are such a mess that we finally gave up trying to sort them. For the Reeves-Sharp "Suppose my friends will never be pleased and look with an angry eye GreigDuncan8 "Your friends and mine, my only love, Look with an angry eye".

Regarding sources for Burns's "A Red, Red Rose," Hammond writes, "The editor [of Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland ], Farquhar Graham, there mentions a garland, supposed to have been printed about , called 'The Horn Fair Garland, containing six excellent new songs,' one amongst them being a version of 'The Turtledove, or True love's farewell.

Waltz and David G. The lyrics in the Digital Tradition are from Sandburg: Oh, who will tie your shoes? And who will glove your hands? And who will kiss your ruby lips when I am gone? Oh, it's pappy'll tie my shoes, And mammy'll glove my hands, And you will kiss mg ruby lips when you come back! The style of the video is consistent with scores of others from middle school choirs in Texas and the Deep South, especially as submitted for competitions, so the question of just who is singing there remains doubtful.

If it is one person - she did a great job of layering her singing. But I still think that it is simply a marvelously and miraculously trained junior high chorus. The first time I ever heard this tune was when I was a wee one, too busy to stand still very long and watch a whole tv program. But I remember stopping in my tracks when I heard Jim Neighbors sing this. It was either on "the Andy Griffith show" or his Gomer Pyle show. I can't remember which but the song, performed as a guitar ballad by him was amazing. Thanks for the comment, Mary McGuire!

I'll keep an eye out for it; I'd love to add it to the article.

About 'He's Gone Away'

Congratulations for this wonderful post. There's a beautiful version of this song the version who brings me here by Tanya Haden Charlie Haden's daughter , in the album of her father "Rambling boy" I think there is also a documentary with this name. Shenandoah is also sang in this album, amongst other traditional tunes. The song was also featured in an episode of the classic television show "The Munsters". Lily Munster played by Yvonne De Carlo sings the song while playing the harp.

Lovely rendition of the song that is not diminished by the comedic nature of the show. My path to finding this page started with a short story I read in the 's or 's, The Desrick on Yandro, available free online at: It was just today that I finally discovered the title to this beautiful song, "He's Gone Away". I had to research "clumbs of words" from the lyrics to find a match on YouTube with the title words. When I lived in Lincoln, NE, during the 80's, one of the Omaha TV stations played this ballad each evening when they signed off at midnight. It was a beautiful instrumental with strings supporting a haunting harmonica melody.

I would often sit up 'til midnight just to hear it! I'm motivated now to contact the Omaha TV stations for information on that specific recording and the musical group that performed it. If I find out, I'll share it here. If you're a follower of this tune, you'll surely enjoy it. By all means, the best of luck to you, Paul Dexter! And please please - if you find out the information, please come back and post the info here. If we can get a copy of the recording, I'll find a way to get it into this article with appropriate attribution to you, either as a YT video or as a track on my SoundCloud account.

I would have posted Nabors' version here as well but it hasn't been available on YT het - I'll check again this afternoon. My own sign-off moment parallels yours in a way. In my Chicago home of the s and s, WGN now a "superstation" but then just our best local independent signed off at 1am or so with a beautiful video of clouds, some quiet orchestral music, and a moving recitation of John Magee's poem "High Flight" "I have slipped the surly bonds of earth As with your Omaha rendition of this song - that video and poem were well worth staying up late to see.

Thanks, Jim, I sent out an inquiry to one of the Omaha stations and I'm waiting for a response. In the mean time, in my quest to find the mystery recording on YouTube, I did find another vocal recordinng, similar to the one's above, that's very pleasant to listen to, titled, 'He's Gone Away full song '.

Sorry, I don't know how to post it here. The Liberty Singers also do a rendition of it where they describe it as an Appalachian love song. Pardon the spelling and grammar errors but that's how it appears. Amazing, isn't it, how haunting a song can be. Thank you so much for blogging about this song He's Gone Away. I heard it again today when listening to Radio Classics SirusXM with the radio staging of Toni Tennille as a Tennessee gal at the beginning of the Civil War and this is the song she sings parts of throughout the production.

I never got a response from the Omaha radio station but a recent blogger's reference to the movie, "How the West Was Won," got me surfing through soundtrack videos on YouTube. This is the rendition that the Omaha radio station played when they signed off each day at midnight.

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Like I said, I would often sit up late just to listen to this beautiful song. NanSC - thanks for this! I would love to hear Toni Tenille's rendition - she has a marvelous voice perfectly suited to the song.