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Catalog: Song Information: Page 66 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "The Little Reader's First Riddle"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/7/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = c. 112. Marked "Very crisp and lively." attractive and lyrical melody that alternates between two transpositions of the mixolydian mode. Text Comments: Where do the humans come from? Where are the humans begun from? And how did I get here so small? Though everyone somehow arrived in it the world keeps adding up odd. If one and one make always two can one and one make one at a time and what's the connection with God? O where did the humans jump from? Where did the humans jump from? And how do the humans fall? Though everyone lands on a mom and pop there's a hitch to a family tree. If two together have to marry does one from two leave one to carry and what is a stork to me? Now where do the humans come from? What are the humans sprung from? And how did I get here at all? This entry contributed by G&K around 10/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Lord Knows..."
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Freely effusive," a capella, introducing the next song in the cycle, "O, For Such a Dream." The music moves with the text from a formal "proper" sentiment, through a more breathless and personal confession of fear and loneliness, back to a rally of the original "proper," weighty sentiment (but with even less conviction than the first time through). Text Comments: The Lord knows best what will end this terrible strife and I pray he will guide the people accordingly. I am almost getting reckless Sometimes I think if you were only out I wouldn't care what they did. Is that not most too selfish? At least I hope they will be able to do as will cause the least bloodshed. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Lost Children"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:25 Still, even, melancholy. Text Comments: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue spruce in the yard, they ran to hide. It was easy to find those who crouched in the shadow of the chicken coop or stood still among motionless horses by the water trough. But I never found the willful ones who crossed the fence and lay down in the high grass to stare up at the pattern of stars and meandering summer firefly sparks. Now I stand by the fence and pluck one rusted strand of wire, harp of lost worlds. At the sound the children rise from hiding and move toward me: eidolons, adrift on the night air. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Lover's Shirt"Song 5 (extractable) from set Welsh Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: As I was washing under a span of the bridge of Cardigan and in my hand my lover's shirt with a golden beetle to drub the dirt, a man came to me on a steed, broad in shoulder, proud in speed, and he asked me if I'd sell the shirt of the lad I love so well. But I said I wouldn't sell for a hundred pounds and packs as well, nor if the grass of two ridges were deep in wethers and the whitest sheep, nor if two hay meadows were choked with oxen which were ready yoked, nor if St. David's nave were filled with herbs all pressed but not distilled. Not even for all that would I sell the shirt of the lad I love so well. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Man of Double Deed"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:10 Violent, rough; unstoppable. Text Comments: There was a man of double deed sowed his garden full of seed. When the seed began to grow, 'Twas like a garden full of snow; When the snow began to melt, 'Twas like a ship without a belt; When the ship began to sail, 'Twas like a bird without a tail; When the bird began to fly, 'Twas like an eagle in the sky; When the sky began to roar, 'Twas like a lion at the door; When the door began to crack, 'Twas like a stick across my back; When my back began to smart, 'Twas like a penknife in my heart; When my heart began to bleed, 'Twas death and death and death indeed. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Metropolitan Tower"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=72, marked "Lyrical, Legato". Beautiful song; tonal with occasional evocative tritone and other dissonances. Although listed for soprano, the song would fit comfortably in a medium voice (easy high E and F). Text Comments: We walked together in the dusk To watch the tower grow dimly white, And saw it lift against the sky Its flower of amber light. You talked of half a hundred things, I kept each hurried word you said; And when at last the hour was full, I saw the light turn red. You did not know the time had come, You did not see the sudden flower, Nor know that in my heart Love's birth was reckoned from that hour. See Winning Artists Series- American Song Recital (Wagner, Weldy) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Mild Mother"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Very, very slow, tender, and intimate" quarter = c. 30. quartal harmony. Spare; excellent. Text Comments: Jesu Christ's mild mother stood, Beheld her son against the cross that he was nailed on. The son hung; the mother stood and beheld her child's blood how it of His wounds ran. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Mystery"Song 4 (extractable) from set Mystery
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 80; marked "very legato and expressive." Text Comments: Your eyes drink of me, Love makes them shine, Your eyes that lean so close to mine. We have long been lovers we know the range of each other's moods and how they change But when we look at each other so then we feel how little we know; The spirit eludes us, Timid and free--Can I ever know you or you know me? This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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