{"id":23489,"date":"2024-02-07T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=23489"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:14:38","slug":"skylark-skylark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/skylark-skylark\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylark! Skylark!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>The boy’s message<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1902<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>EW Rogers<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN24501 and 29923 and V11027<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Arthur Lennard<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Baker, Arthur ; England : Hampshire<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall Memories No. 19<\/strong>\n\n\"Skylark\" said a dear little boy.\nPray, where do you go when you fly so high?\nSkylark, say, it is true\nThat you sing to the angels in the sky?\nIf so, my Mother's an angel up there.\nAnd we do miss her so, you see\nSo would you please, the next time you go up,\nTake this message from Dad and me\".\n\nSkylark! Skylark! winging your flight so high,\nSkylark! Skylark! when you get up in the sky,\nIf among the angels Mother you should see,\nAsk her if she will come down again\nTo poor dear Daddy and me.<\/em>\n\nSkylark!  'Twas a message of love\nPathetic enough for an angel's tear\nSkylark trilled it in song\nAnd it reached to the angel-mother's ear\nGod must have heard for that night in his sleep\nThe boy smiled and said \"Mother Dear\nI knew you'd come to your own little boy\nIf my message you got to hear.\"\n\n\"Skylark!\" said a desolate man\nYour message has robbed me of my dear boy.\nSkylark, death's angel came\nAnd took up to Heaven my pride and joy.\nDon't sing today for each beautiful note\nSeems to bring back the days gone by.\nThe wife I adored, and the darling who gave you\nThat message to sing on high.\"<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A popular sentimental song from the early 20th century remembered by a least one traditional singer. It was originally performed in the Halls by Arthur Lennard (sometimes spelt Leonard), written and composed by \u00a0EW Rogers\u00a0<\/a> who later came up with a similar song about a young girl asking a Seagull<\/a><\/em> to take a message to her daddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arthur Lennard <\/strong>(1867-1954) was a comic singer born in Plumstead, London. He was a well-known star of Music Halls and pantomimes for over 40 years. He first appeared at the Royal Holborn in late 1887 and was still performing in the 1920s. His tenor voice was much admired and his material included both broad comic songs and serious ballads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s an Edison Bell Cylinder recording of Lennard singing Skylark<\/em>, with unknown friends providing the voice of the boy and birdsong:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arthur “Leonard”, British Edison-Bell Indestructible cylinder #5911 archive.org<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another early recording by  Will F Denny<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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