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Graceful And Charming (Great Big Sea)
See also: My Sweet Forget Me Not (Eddie Coffey)
And also: Sweet Forget Me Not (Ryan's Fancy)
And also: The Sweet Forget-Me-Not (A. Frank and Carson Willis)

          #1880 YouTube video by drdargenson ©2011.
                        ~ Used with permission ~

Fancy brings a thought to me of a flower so bright and fair,
Grace and beauty both combine to make that far more rare;
Like a maiden that I know who shared my happy life,
Where we parted, when she whispered, "You'll forget me not."

She's graceful and she's charming like the lilies in the pond,
Time is flowing swiftly by, of her I am so fond;
The roses and the daisies they bloom around the spot,
Where we parted, when she whispered, "You'll forget me not."

We met I really don't know where, I guess it's all the same,
Love grows in a village green as well as in a lane;
I gently took her by the hand and a glance at me she shot,
She dropped a flower, I picked it up, it was a sweet forget-me-not.

She's graceful and she's charming like the lilies in the pond,
Time is flowing swiftly by, of her I am so fond;
The roses and the daisies they bloom around the spot,
Where we parted, when she whispered, "You'll forget me not."

And then there came a happy time when something that I said,
Caused her lips to murmur "yes", shortly we were wed;
Now there's a cottage by a lane and a tiny garden spot,
There grows a flower, I know it well, it's the sweet forget-me-not.

She's graceful and she's charming like the lilies in the pond,
Time is flowing swiftly by, of her I am so fond;
The roses and the daisies they bloom around the spot,
Where we parted, when she whispered, "You'll forget me not."
You'll forget me not."

####.... Variant of Song With Waltz Chorus published in 1877 by Bobby Newcomb ....####
This variant was sung by Séan McCann of Great Big Sea (The Hard And The Easy, Warner Music Canada, 2005).

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A variant was sung by Vincent Ledwell [1888-1982] of Calvert, NL, and published as The Sweet Forget-Me-Not in MacEdward Leach And The Songs Of Atlantic Canada © 2004 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA).

A variant of was recorded as See also: My Sweet Forget Me Not by Eddie Coffey of Branch, NL, in the 1970s.


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A variant was also recorded as Sweet Forget Me Not by Ryan's Fancy (Dance Around This One ©1981, Boot Records).

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A variant of The Sweet Forget-Me-Not was recorded by A. Frank and Carson Willis (Singers For Fishermen ©1992 SOCAN. All rights reserved.)

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And a variant of The Sweet Forget-Me-Not was recorded in 1999 by Ed Power of Grand Falls-Windsor, NL, on the album Kitchen Songs by Mark Bishop of Soundscape Productions in Grand Falls-Windsor.

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The YouTube video below features an excellent cover pwerformance by Johnny Fray of Woburn, Massacusetts.


          #240 YouTube video by JohnnyFray785 ©2008.
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