Rowena the Snow Is on the Ground Again Lyrics
| "Lorena" | |
|---|---|
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| Song | |
| Written | 1856 |
| Published | 1857 |
| Composer(s) | Joseph Philbrick Webster |
| Lyricist(s) | Henry D. L. Webster |
"Lorena" is an antebellum vocal with Northern origins. The lyrics were written in 1856 by Rev. Henry D. Fifty. Webster, after a cleaved appointment. He wrote a long verse form about his fiancée Ella Blocksom, but changed her name at first to "Bertha" and later to "Lorena", perhaps an adaptation of "Lenore" from Edgar Allan Poe's verse form "The Raven." Henry Webster's friend Joseph Philbrick Webster wrote the music, and the song was first published in Chicago in 1857. It became a favorite of soldiers of both sides during the American Civil War. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as 1 of the Top 100 Western songs of all fourth dimension.[one]
History [edit]
"Lorena" was based on the lyricist's dearest for a Zanesville, Ohio girl named Ella Blocksom.
Her parents being deceased, Miss Blocksom lived with her brother-in-constabulary and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blandy. The family attended the Universalist Church in Zanesville where the Rev. Henry DeLafayette Webster was the minister. Miss Blocksom caught the eye of the immature preacher and his feelings became more than than just pastoral. Henry Blandy and his brother Fred were co-owners of the Blandy foundry in Zanesville. As a wealthy and prominent member of the community he could non come across his sister-in-police becoming romantically attached to a poor preacher and then stepped in to put an end to the relationship. Miss Blocksom told Webster that they must part and gave him a letter containing the line "If we endeavour, we may forget," which found its mode into the song. The brokenhearted Mr. Webster resigned his pastorate and left Zanesville. In 1856, Webster met Joseph P. Webster (who later composed the music of "[In the] Sweet By-and-Past"). J. P. Webster was looking for lyrics to a song he was writing and Henry Webster responded by writing a carol almost his lost dear, changing her name from Ella to Bertha. The composer required a three-syllable name and Henry Webster changed the name again, this fourth dimension to Lorena. The song was published in 1857 by Higgins Brothers of Chicago and soon was known across America.
In 1854 Martha Ella Blocksom married William Wartenbee Johnson, Ohio Supreme Court justice from 1879 to 1886. She died in 1917 and is buried at Woodland Cemetery in Ironton, Ohio.
Henry D.L. Webster as well married, fathered four children, and eventually became the minister of a Unitarian church in Chicago, Illinois. He died in 1896, and is cached in Chicago.
During the American Civil War, soldiers on both sides of the disharmonize thought of their wives and girlfriends back home when they heard the vocal "Lorena". One Confederate officeholder even attributed the South's defeat to the vocal. He reasoned that upon hearing the mournful ballad the soldiers grew so homesick that they lost their effectiveness every bit a fighting strength.
Lyrics [edit]
Oh, the years pitter-patter slowly by, Lorena,
The snow is on the ground over again.
The sun's low down the sky, Lorena,
The frost gleams where the menses'rs have been.
But the heart beats on as warmly now,
Equally when the summer days were nigh.
Oh, the sun can never dip and then low
A-downwardly affection's cloudless heaven.A hundred months have passed, Lorena,
Since last I held that hand in mine,
And felt the pulse beat fast, Lorena,
Though mine trounce faster far than thine.
A hundred months, 'twas flowery May,
When up the hilly slope we climbed,
To watch the dying of the day,
And hear the afar church bells chime.We loved each other and so, Lorena,
Far more than than we always dared to tell;
And what nosotros might take been, Lorena,
Had but our loving prospered well --
But then, 'tis by, the years are gone,
I'll not remember their shadowy forms;
I'll say to them, "Lost years, sleep on!
Slumber on! nor heed life's rain storms."The story of that past, Lorena,
Alas! I care not to echo,
The hopes that could non final, Lorena,
They lived, merely only lived to cheat.
I would not cause e'en one regret
To rankle in your bosom at present;
For "if we try we may forget,"
Were words of thine long years ago.Yeah, these were words of thine, Lorena,
They burn within my memory still;
They touched some tender chords, Lorena,
Which thrill and tremble with regret.
'Twas not thy woman's heart that spoke;
Thy center was always true to me:
A duty, stern and pressing, bankrupt
The tie which linked my soul with thee.Information technology matters petty at present, Lorena,
The past is in the eternal past;
Our heads will before long lie low, Lorena,
Life's tide is ebbing out and then fast.
At that place is a Future! O, give thanks God!
Of life this is so pocket-size a part!
'Tis dust to dust beneath the sod;
Simply there, up in that location, 'tis heart to heart.
Usage in more recent media [edit]
Flick [edit]
An instrumental version appears in the film Gone With The Wind (1939) when Scarlett O'Hara is manning the stall at the charity dance in her mourning outfit and Rhett Butler pursues her while she is trying to avoid him.
The melody occurs in two John Ford films. The tune of "Lorena" was used past composer Max Steiner to represent homecoming in various scenes in the 1956 western The Searchers.[ commendation needed ] Composer David Buttolph used the melody to represent bloodshot departing at the end of the 1959 western The Equus caballus Soldiers.[ citation needed ]
In the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove the tune is used in the background as Gus McCrae lies dying – ostensibly played on a whorehouse piano.
The melody of the song is used in the saloon scene well-nigh the starting time of the 2012 moving picture Cowboys & Aliens, played on fiddle. The saloon keeper tells the fiddler that it is likewise melancholy and asks him to play a dissimilar tune. Near the stop of the pic, the piano histrion plays an upbeat version of the melody, and the oversupply celebrates their victory over the aliens by dancing to it.[ citation needed ]
Was featured in the 2017 Colin Farrell/Nicole Kidman picture show, The Beguiled.
Television [edit]
The melody features prominently in several episodes of the 1990 Ken Burn's documentary Civil War, and information technology is referred to as a tune which both Federal and Amalgamated soldiers especially loved.
The vocal features prominently in 1 subplot-line of the television series And so Weird season 1 episode 4 - "Sacrifice".[ citation needed ]
Information technology was used as harmonica background music in the TV series Wagon Train, episode "The Clementine Jones Story" (1961), with Ann Blyth (as Clementine Jones) singing a rendition of the song.
It was besides used as background music in the PBS Ceremonious War drama serial Mercy Street, in a scene in which the characters Dr. Jedediah Foster (Josh Radnor) and Nurse Anne Hastings (Tara Summers) visit a Union encampment to treat an ill general.
Video Games [edit]
In the 2018 western-themed video game Red Dead Redemption ii, the character Karen Jones can be heard singing the song at a bivouac.
Recordings [edit]
- "Lorena" was recorded in 1961 past Tennessee Ernie Ford for his album Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings Civil War Songs of the South, released in conjunction with the centennial of the war.
- A version by Johnny Cash was included on the compilation anthology Johnny Cash – 1970, released in Australia in 1969.[ii]
- The instrumental version by Molly Mason, Jay Ungar, and Matt Glaser used in Burns' Ceremonious War documentary is bachelor on the series' accompanying soundtrack anthology.
- Instrumental version was recorded and released past the Seldom Scene in 1986 anthology, recorded live at The Kennedy Centre, Washington, DC
Sources [edit]
- The American Bicentennial Songbook, Vol. 1 (1770-1870s). William A. Ward, New York, NY, 1975, p. 202.
- Zanesville Times Recorder, May 12, 2007, Zanesville, Ohio.
Notes [edit]
- ^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Superlative 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
- ^ "Johnny Cash – 1970". Discogs . Retrieved ii January 2019.
External links [edit]
- "Lorena" at Lawrence Canton, Ohio Genealogy and Historical website
- The short picture A NATION SINGS: A MUSICAL REMEMBRANCE OF CIVIL WAR TUNES, FEATURING U.South. Regular army Ring AND CHORUS, AND CIVILIAN VOCALISTS is bachelor for gratuitous download at the Cyberspace Archive. (1963)
- Canvass music
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_(song)
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