Thank you Thank you! That's going in my end of the world lullaby repertoire.
Posted on 12/01/2022 7:15:05 PM PST by conservativeimage
Herbert Stothart quotes this old tune in his film scores frequently. It can be heard at the 17 minute mark here from The Human Comedy: https://youtu.be/t2edLTD9rWY?t=1020 or at the 1 hour 29 minute mark on Men of Boys Town https://ok.ru/video/287229414051
My taste for playing sentimental pieces like this has increased in the last 3 years along with Waltzing Matilda and Ah Leave Me Not To Pine from Pirates of Penzance. It was in a 'best of piano' songbook I had at one time but it's long gone. Can you help me find the title of this song?
Rock of Ages
metal version?
Now the Day Is Over (the hymn)
So heart wrenching.
The 17 minute mark in the first video marks the end of the song
“ALL THE WORLD WILL BE JEALOUS OF ME”. 1917
Rock of Ages comes later.
Oh and the way I found that...
search google for “Lyrics All the world will be jealous of me”
Then look at the lyrics of the songs brought up.
Increasingly I search for a lyric, and the Classic Rock song I’m thinking of is buried behind 5 pages of modern junk.
Not the Def Leopard Rock of Ages, the classic hymn.
Thank you Thank you! That's going in my end of the world lullaby repertoire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-h0wbiosR8
My gosh I thought it was called Tonight My Sleep Will Be Sweet or something like that. Thanks again!
You’re welcome.
I learned it at youth camp back in the 1950s, and have loved it since.
1 Now the day is over,
night is drawing nigh;
shadows of the evening
steal across the sky.
2 Jesus, give the weary
calm and sweet repose;
with your tend’rest blessing
may my eyelids close.
3 Comfort ev’ry suff’rer
watching late in pain;
those who plan some evil,
from their sin restrain.
4 Thro’ the long night-watches
may your angels spread
their bright wings above me,
watching round my bed.
5 When the morning wakens,
then may I arise
pure and fresh and sinless
in your holy eyes.
Source: Christian Worship (2021): Hymnal #786
Thanks for helping Danny but systemjim won the sheepdog this time.
It’s so charming and comforting.
I have heard this dirge played in many funeral homes.
It is called “Now the Day Is Over”.
Rockefeller's not for me;
He is not for GOP.
He is for the welfare state;
He has had more than one mate.
Rockefeller's not for me;
He is not for GOP.
R-O-C-K-E-Y--
Oh, you SOB!
The following is a paragraph from Wikipedia on the movie. It might help.
According to the AFI catalog, music credited in the film included “All the World Will Be Jealous of Me”, by Ernest R. Ball and Al Dubin, and “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”, words by E. A. Hoffman, music by A. J. Showalter,[5] but they are not credited on screen. Music is important to the Macauley family and to those around them, including Marcus’s Army buddies. The score is full of allusive phrases and songs, that were familiar to 1943 audiences, from the strains of the “Star-Spangled Banner” that open and close the film, to little Ulysses’ fascination with “My Old Kentucky Home”, to a long, rousing rendition of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”, sung by the soldiers on the train, where one shot breaks the fourth wall and invites the audience to sing along to the last chorus. Alcoholic Mr. Grogan copes with the despair caused by the relentless stream of telegrams from the War Department by turning to songs — “Rock of Ages” and “Church in the Wildwood” among them — as well as cold water in the face and black coffee. Mrs. Sandoval rocks and croons “Cielito lindo” to the memory of the son she has just lost. Other pieces woven into the score are: “Where the River Shannon Flows”, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”, “Now the Day Is Over”, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”, “You’re in the Army Now”, “Git Along Little Dogies”, “The Happy Farmer”, “Polly Wolly Doodle”, “Onward Christian Soldiers”, “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” and “A Dream”, an old love song sung by Mary and Bess as Tobey and Homer approach the house with news of Marcus’s death. In the scene where Tom and Diana Spangler drive through the Valley Festival, he points out the people wearing traditional costume, playing traditional music and dancing folk dances: “Greeks, Serbs, Russians, Poles, Spanish, Mexicans, Armenians, Swedes and all the rest”.
Reception
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.