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From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I'm Steve
Ember.
If you've checked your calendar lately, you know - at least in the
northern part of the world – it's spring. And, after a long winter, it's time to
celebrate.
Hey, buds below
Up is where to
grow
Up, from which below can't compare with...
Now,
your English teacher might have had a problem with that phrase, but let's keep
listening, shall we?
Life down a hole takes an awful
toll,
What with not a soul there to share with
If you're
wondering what those words are all about, she is singing to her flower
pots.
Hurry, it's lovely up here
Wake up, bestir
yourself
It's time that you disinter yourself...
Actress
Barbara Harris in the musical "On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever" by Alan Jay
Lerner and Burton Lane.
And what a gift package of showers, sun and
love
You'll be met above everywhere with
Fondled and sniffed by millions
who drift by...
And spring being the season of new growth, I hope
that song, and all the others we're going to play for you, will paint a musical
picture of this lovely season. Come along with us!
Come poke your
head out!
Open up and spread out!
Hurry, it's lovely
here!
She sometimes is slow to
arrive...
Sometimes spring comes slowly – that was
certainly the case this year. It seems like we wear our winter clothes for a
long, long time. The weather stays cold...snow stays on the ground. Trees still
look bare. Everything is changing, but we may not see the changes from
day to day.
And then suddenly, warmth seems to jump up from the earth overnight. Snow
becomes a memory. Tree branches fill out. The gray and brown colors of winter
give way to the green of spring. That's the spirit expressed here by the New
Christy Minstrels.
Springtime, change of scenery, won't that be
fine
Springtime, the grass is greener
And the berry
grows redder on the vine
Into each life, there will come sunshine,
sometime after the rain
Don't be downhearted, before tears get
started,
Let Springtime make you smile again.
You know
that Springtime, change of scenery, won't that be fine
Springtime,
the grass is greener
And the berry grows redder on the
vine.
Springtime, change of scenery...Spring is a wonderful season
to celebrate rebirth and new life. The sun is out again, the daylight stays
around longer...the flowers are blooming. The season represents hope, joy and
beauty.
However, not all songs about spring are happy. This song by K.D.
Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places. She recorded "I Dream of
Spring" in two thousand eight.
She arrives like autumn in a
rainstorm
The threat of thunder above
I'll return from
the streets of Melbourne
I'll return my love
This
world is filled with frozen lovers
The sheets of their beds are
frightfully cold
And I've slept there in the snow with
others
Yet loved no others before
These cold dark
places
Places I've been
In cold dark
places
I dream of spring
Springtime inspires
lasting popular song...
Unlike the other seasons, there are
not many rock songs about spring. Most of the songs about this season were
written in the nineteen thirties and forties by famous American composers
writing for the Broadway stage or Hollywood films or popular vocalists. The
songs became "standards," popular songs recorded by many singers over the
years.
If you're a young person, this may surprise you, but this was the
popular music of its day.
Have you ever had "Spring
Fever?"
Here is one example, "It Might as Well Be Spring." Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein wrote the song for the movie "State Fair" in 1945. Frank Sinatra
sings about having "spring fever." This is not a real sickness. It is a feeling
of restlessness or excitement brought on by the coming of spring.
I'm
as restless as a willow in a windstorm,
I'm as jumpy as a puppet on
a string,
I'd say that I had spring fever,
But I know it
isn't spring.
I am starry eyed and vaguely
discontented,
Like a nightingale without a song to
sing.
Oh, why should I have spring fever,
When it isn't
even spring?
I keep wishing I were somewhere
else,
Walking down a strange new street,
Hearing words I
have never heard,
From a girl I've yet to meet.
I'm
as busy as a spider, spinning daydreams,
I'm as giddy as a baby on a
swing,
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud,
Or a robin
or a bluebird on the wing,
But I feel so gay in a melancholy
way,
That it might as well be spring,
It might as well
be, might as well be,
It might as well be
spring.
A sad side to
Spring...
Richard Rodgers also wrote "Spring Is Here." But
this time, the words were by lyricist Lorenz Hart. They were tender...but sad.
The singer wants to feel happy in the new season, but can't, because
something very important in life...is missing. Ella Fitzgerald had one of the
loveliest versions of this classic Rodgers and Hart song.
Once there
was a thing called spring
When the world was writing verses like
yours and mine.
All the lads and girls would sing
When
we sat at little tables and drank May wine.
Now April May and June
are sadly out of tune
Life has stuck the pin in the
balloon.
Spring is here!
Why doesn't my heart go
dancing?
Spring is here!
Why isn't the waltz
entrancing?
No desire, no ambition leads me,
Maybe it's
because nobody needs me.
Spring is here...
New York has
inspired so many wonderful – and timeless – songs, including those about the
vibrant city in the various seasons of the year. My favorite is Vernon Duke's
"Autumn in New York." And if you'll write a note on your calendar to join us in
September when autumn arrives, we have a date to listen to it together. But, for
now, here's Tony Bennett.
Spring in Manhattan starts after
dark
After a lazy afternoon in Central Park
Washington
Square may be where you'll feel her first warm touch
Down
in the Village, you'll find she may be much too much
Spring in
Manhattan never stays long
Still, if you fall in love, she'll bless
you with a song
And if you listen to every word the song she'll sing
will bring
Spring in Manhattan to stay all winter
long.
Just thinking about all the wonderful songs of New
York, I realize we could actually do a program of New York songs. If you'd like
to hear such a program on "This Is America," be in touch – let us
know!
Have an umbrella handy – After all, it's
Spring...
You know, we have a saying, "April showers bring
May flowers." And, of course, showers happen throughout springtime, and
certainly do their part in bringing out the flowers and making the trees turn a
beautiful shade of green.
Here is a very gentle song about those
springtime showers, from the musical "The Fantasticks."
Soon it's
gonna rain.
I can see it.
Soon it's gonna
rain.
I can tell.
Soon it's gonna
rain.
What're we gonna do?
Soon it's gonna
rain.
I can see it.
Soon it's gonna rain.
I
can tell.
Soon it's gonna rain.
What'll we do with
you?
We'll find four limbs of a tree.
We'll build
four walls and a floor.
We'll bind it over with
leaves,
And run inside to stay.
Then we'll let it
rain.
We'll not feel it.
Then we'll let it
rain,
Rain pell-mell.
And we'll not
complain
If it never stops at all.
We'll live and
love
Within our own four walls.
Kenneth Nelson and Rita
Gardner..."Soon It's Gonna Rain" from Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's "The
Fantasticks."
When Spring comes
late...
Frank Loesser wrote a sad song about spring -
"Spring Will be a Little Late This Year." Why has the season been delayed?
Because the singer's lover has left her. Sarah Vaughan released her version of
the song in 1953.
Spring will be a little late this
year
A little late arriving in my lonely world over
here
For you have left me and where is our April of
old?
You have left me, and winter continues cold
As
if to say spring will be a little slow to start
A little slow
reviving that music it made in my heart
Yes, time heals all things
so I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a
little late this year
Yes, time heals all things so I needn't
cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a little late, a
little late this year
Well, by now you may be thinking: "Enough
with the sad songs, already!" OK, then how about a cowboy song? Gene
Autry was one of America's most famous singing cowboys. In 1937, he recorded
"When It's Springtime in the Rockies."
When it's springtime in the
Rockies
I'm coming back to you
Little sweetheart of the
mountains
With your bonnie eyes of blue
Once again
I'll say I love you
While the birds sing all the
day
When it's springtime in the Rockies
In the Rockies
far away
In most of the United States, spring is a warm and
pleasant season. But this is not the case in the northwestern state of Alaska.
According to Johnny Cash, it can be extremely cold.
I mushed from
Point Barrow through a blizzard of snow
Been out prospectin' for two
years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks, the city was
a-boom
So I took a little stroll to the Red Dog
Sea-loon
When I walked in the door, the music was
clear
Purtiest voice I had heard in two years
The song
she was singin' would make a man's blood run cold
When it's
Springtime in Alaska, it's forty below...
[From Frank Loesser's
"Where's Charley?"]
‘Twas a bright blue sky, and the lark sang
high
On a bough that was blossom laden
And I had my eye
on a very pretty maiden...
"In the Spring," Alfred Lord Tennyson
wrote, "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." To that, I would
simply add, you don't have to be a young man...
We heard a
sad song about spring by Frank Loesser earlier in the program. But
Loesser captured a joyful side of spring – and romance – when two lovers meet
after many years...He wrote "Lovelier Than Ever" for his musical "Where's
Charley." We'll conclude our "This Is America" Songs of Spring program with
Jerry Desmonde and Marion Grimaldi.
Springtime, you're looking
lovelier than ever
Lovelier than ever before
Still
irresistible in the same old gown of green
Still irresistible as
that lilac-scented scene
When I was
seventeen.
Springtime, you haven't changed your way of
whisp'ring
Whisp'ring that romance lies in
store
Springtime, you're being devastatingly clever
And
lovelier than ever before...
This Is America is a
production of VOA Learning English. Steve Ember here. Hope you enjoyed the
music. We'll see you next week.
Springtime, you're being
devastatingly clever
And lovelier than ever before.
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