Re: Question about Norman/Nancy Blake CDs
Via this thread, bought Natasha's Waltz and Meeting on Southern Soil. Love Only a Bunch of Violets.
The guitar-playing spouse says it's capo-ed on the A fret (5th), played in C with some interesting accidentals.
I typed out the lyrics (with the interesting flips between present and past tense), in case anyone would care to figure out the chords on mandolin:
It Was Only A Bunch of Violets
Out in a moonlit garden so far from the ballroom bright,
so far from music playing, they stole one moonlight night.
Tomorrow he must leave her, he vowed he would be true
and from her breast she gives to him a bunch of violets blue
Out in the field of battle a soldier has been slain,
a bunch of withered violets across his breast are lain.
He gives them to his comrade, "My life's blood has been passed."
“Oh take them back to her and say I kept them to the last.”
The comrade he returned back home upon her wedding day,
for another with gold had wooed her from her lover away.
She looks down from the altar and sees the soldier's coat,
there on his coat the violets she placed, one evening at the ball.
She fell on her knees before him and the tears did fill her eyes.
Says he, a message I bring you, from where your lover lies.
Only a bunch of violets, a token of the past.
“Oh, take them back to her,” he said, “I kept them to the last.”
Only a bunch of violets, violets so blue.
Pure and fragrant and dainty with diamonds of dew.
Only a bunch of violets he placed next to his heart.
And bound beside, whatever betide, he never from them parts.
Last edited by Mo Soar; Sep-30-2012 at 5:04pm.
Reason: typo
1918 Gibson A, "Lillian";
1940s (?) Kay A style f hole - currently down for a refret and fretboard re-profile, my first attempts (with guidance) at lutherie.
1981 Washburn M7SN (2 point);
2011 Eastman 504, "Belle";
2012 Lafferty mahogany octave mandolin;
2012 Emando (Saga), "Hank"
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