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"Goodnight, Ladies" is a folk song attributed to Edwin Pearce Christy, originally intended to be sung during a minstrel show. Drawing from an 1847 song by Christy entitled "Farewell, Ladies", the song as known today was first published on May 16, 1867.[1]
Lyrics
[edit]VERSE I: Goodnight, ladies! Goodnight, ladies! Goodnight, ladies! We're going to leave you now!
CHORUS: Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along. Merrily we roll along, o'er the dark blue sea.
VERSE II: Farewell, ladies! Farewell, ladies! Farewell, ladies! We're going to leave you now!
CHORUS
VERSE III: Sweet dreams, ladies! Sweet dreams, ladies! Sweet dreams, ladies! We're going to leave you now!
CHORUS
Note: the "Merrily We Roll Along" chorus has the same melody as "Mary Had A Little Lamb".
Notable uses
[edit]Charles Ives quoted the song in A Symphony: New England Holidays (1897–1913): I. Washington's Birthday, towards the end of the movement.
The 1957 musical The Music Man by Meredith Willson features the song in counterpoint with the original composition "Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little."
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961).
Lou Reed included a version of the song at the end of side two of his album Transformer (1972).
The song appears in the early part of the movie The Four Feathers (2002).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Fuld, James (2000). The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk. Courier Dover Publications. p. 255. ISBN 9780486414751.
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