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June 20, 2009 |
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Song
FOUND by Helen Anderson
in University of Exeter Library, Devon, UK
Found between the pages of a book of choral music. I can't say that the page it was marking (a madrigal called "Adieu Sweet Amarillis") looked especially cheerful, but then, I don't read music.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Guess who you'll find working at the Renaissance Faire this summer?
Cheep cheep
chirp chirp
cheer up, cheer up, cheer up
What song do YOU think it was?
I love madrigals.
Wow, the Finds today are just dripping and oozing with love, love, LOVE.
(maybe a little antibiotic could clear that up.)
So does the arrow indicate the song it was paged next to, or was there something on the reverse that we're being denied?
Will's heart must be rank. There are flies circling it.
Where's our Jonathan? Somebody page him...he could tell us all about the madrigal in question, I bet!!
I still owe him a favour for "Inigo Jones."
Will's step-mother Nat still called him Billy, but he was sixteen and preferred Will. His friends Ami and Eve Finny, sisters who were in chorus, knew he was upset about his father Jack's remarriage. They hoped to cheer him up by singing a song. Unfortunately, they didn't speak French, so they didn't know the song was about saying goodbye. It just made him think of his dead mother and he cried. Luckily they had a backup—coat-shitting!
if I remember correctly, seems to me that madrigals, chansons (which this might be, since it sounds French) etc, are mostly about unrequited love, which fits in nicely w/eep op ork's thought.
I wonder what the song sounds like?
Not posted on Opposite day at Lost web site:
WON'T!
You don't know this one. You can't sing it to me to make me upset when I leave home!
You didn't come to look for us downstairs, you won't go back there if you can find us.
Hate us a little!
Ennemi, Morn,
FINNYS
Walking up the stairs, in search of their weekly threesome, Ami became quite jealous and pushed Eve down the stairs. The fall broke Eve's neck, but she didn't die right away.
Eve wrote out her will (see "WILL" with an exclamation mark on the tope left corner) and an arrow pointing to the flip side where her will was written.
She was trying to hide her last will and testament from her killer, so she disguised it as a song.
Actually it's kind of a very tragic song about lost love. So Apparently our 'Will' has had some bad times.
Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis
Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis
Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis
For since to part your will is,
O, heavy tiding,
Here is for me no biding,
Yet once again,
Ere that I part with you,
Amaryllis, Amaryllis, sweet
Adieu, Adieu,
Adieu, Adieu,
Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, Amaryllis, sweet,
Adieu, Adieu.
our dear Will makes me wish i had friends who could actually sing well enough to sing a song to me if they knew i was down
Madrigal music always makes me feel better. Especially if the song is sad.
I like this....some young folks who have a crunch on each other, but can't really show it....I was there a few years back...
It's funny that the last "S" of "Finnys" is underlined. What is Finnys? Is that a name?
...Coming home to clean dishes and madrigals... wouldn't that be wonderful!
I prefer
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us.
They're green when summer days are bright;
They're green when winter snow is white.
O, Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
Strangely, I have an interesting story regarding this song too.