Lyrics?
Can anyone tell me the lyrics to "Goodbye my Lady Love"? I can't quite make out the specific words in the film and the soundtrack doesn't have them. Thanks in advance.
shareGOODBYE, MY LADY LOVE
(Words and music by Joseph E. Howard- abridged)
So you're going away
Because my heart has gone astray.
And you promised me
That someday you'll come back to me.
Goodbye, my lady love,
Farewell, my turtle dove,
You are the idol and darling of my heart,
But someday you will come back to me,
And love me tenderly,
Goodbye my lady love, goodbye.
The dance music is AT A GEORGIA CAMP MEETING- music by Kerry Mills.
Magnolia's song, AFTER THE BALL, has music and words by Charles K. Harris. It was Kern's intention to set the scene in a definite time by using actual songs of the period. None of his own music appears in the scene.
Very interesting -- I'm just going to add that the scenes just before this in the original stage production I'm pretty sure were the ones that were set at the 1893 "Columbian Exposition" aka Chicago World's Fair. That's where the song "In Dahomey" comes in. So if these songs were known songs from, say, the late 1890s or early 1900s, then that would help denote the passage of time between Magnolia and Gaylord's good times and the hard times that followed.
Another reason Kern and Hammerstein integrated period songs (I believe they also used "I'm Just Wild about Harry" to denote the transition to the 20s, at least they used it in the Lincoln Center reconstruction in 1988) was to try to point out the fact that the style of the songs also progresses through the duration of the show, starting in the 1880s and ending in the 1920 with "Hey Fella" and "It's Getting Hot in the North" (which I think was cut). The 20s theme got cut short because of running time mostly.
Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'
"In Dahomey" is Kern-Hammerstein.
share