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Missing Song from Soundtrack--Help me out here!


Everyone notes the regrettable omission of "Jack of Diamonds" from the celebrated soundtrack, but this is driving me crazy...another omission I've discovered.

Remember when poor Mr. McCorkindale dies in the slop of his pig sty, and then they cut to the scene of his funeral where Jesse's mother is interviewed by the reporter? A man is singing a beautiful calming hymn-like song there that I would guess is traditional. I don't believe it's listed on the soundtrack, and I can't find it anywhere in my searches.

It's driving me crazy enough to go out and rob a train. Someone please help me out here w/ a title and/or some lyrics! Among what he sings is "No more stormy clouds arising." I think there may be more than one title b/c my searches have turned up inconsistent results. Movie has played on Encore Western lately, so I can't see their listing.

Thanks,
Zeteticz




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P.S. How 'bout Cooder's brilliant re-arrangement of the "I'm A Good 'Ol Rebel!" melody slowed down to maybe less than half tempo when the Northfield robbery has failed and they're all escaping shot up and defeated and half-dead in slow-motion!

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another thing,
one melodie is missing in the soundtrack from the weddingscene.
the melodie when the guy and the girl are showing off, dancing.

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If your one lyric is correct see if these go to the rest of the song.
My musicological and 19th C culture fellow-freaks are searching for a recording of the song. I haven't heard the music in this movie since I saw it the week of its release (or soon thereafter, out at sea whilst, truly, on duty in the USN).
Should this in fact be your song let me know and I'll press for a clean copy of the song.

"To The Land"

'Jesus my all to heaven is gone, Where there's no more stormy clouds arising,
He whom I fix my hopes upon, Where there's no more stormy clouds arising,
His track I see and I'll pursue, Where there's no more stormy clouds arising,
The narrow way till him I view, Where there's no more stormy clouds arising,
To the land, to the land, to the land I am bound,
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising.'

Anyway, this song comes from an old (1855) collection of "set pieces", tunes, and whatnot called "The Social Harp". Quite popular in the SE (like Georgia) during the late 19th Century.
Good huntin'!

[EDIT] - I just found soundclips from "The Social Harp". Go to this site,

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,938828,00.html

scroll down to "To the Land", click on the speaker symbol (it might take a minute or so for the sound to pop on) and see if this is your song.
The album by Hugh McGraw is available therefrom.
Once again, good huntin'!

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That is DEFINITELY the same song!

That Hugh McGraw version in the link is sung by a full choir and therefore lacks the focus and intimacy of the solo vocal featured in the film, but yes, THAT's the song. Great work!

BTW, I was hired as a gopher on the Georgia location sequences of this movie, and there was constant talk during production that the film's soundtrack LP was going to be TWO-disc album. I was very sad that those plans fell through. There's obviously way more music in the movie than one disc could accomodate.

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I would love a full soundtrack to this also...It was going to be a 2 disc originally. My father was the spoon player that's seen playing the spoons in the wedding scene, etc. We kid that he has the most famous crotch in the family because there's a fantastic closeup of him playing the spoons on his leg.

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Excellent find!!! Except that I never could get a sound to work at that site.

Amazon has it, but only a few seconds of a preview. Still, it was enough to be recognizable.

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Harp-Shape-Note-Performed-Traditional/dp/ B0010VCZ10

You can download the track for only 99 cents. Although, it's not even close to being as beautiful as it was in the film.

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This isn't a reply to you really, just a correction of what is written in IMDb:
"I'm a Good Old Rebel"
(uncredited)
Music traditional ("Lily of the West")
Lyrics by Major Innes Randolph
Played and Sung by a guitarist

Actually, the tune sounds very little like "Lily of the West". It sounds an awful lot like "Joe Bowers" instead. My maternal grandfather sang this "Piker" song throughout my childhood, so I'm certain of the melody. I also am familiar with recordings of "Lily of the West", including the one by Joan Baez. I can't say I heard much resemblance there. Just for the heck of it, here are the lyrics:
Joe Bowers

My name it is Joe Bowers;
I have a brother Ike.
I came from old Missoura,
All the way from Pike.

I used to know a girl there;
Her name was Sally Black.
I asked her if she'd marry me;
She said it was a whack.

She said to me, "Joe Bowers.
Before we hitch for life,
You'd better get a little home
To take your little wife.' '

"Oh Sally, dearest Sally,
Oh Sally, for your sake.
I'll go to California
And try and raise a stake."

When I got in that country
I didn't have a red;
I had such wolfish feelings
I wished myself most dead.

But the thughts of my dear Sally
Soon made those feelings git,
And whispered hope to Bowers,
I wish I had them yet.

At last a letter,
Enough to make me swear,
That Sally married a butcher,
And the butcher had red hair.

Before I got through reading,
At length the letter said:
Sally had a baby,
And the baby's head was red.

Second: I see someone found the hymn. I found this variation:
Travelling Pilgrim
Southern Harmony no. 313

Farewell! vain world, I'm going home,
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising;
My Savior smiles, and bids me come
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising.

Sweet angels beckon me away,
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising;
To sing God's praise in endless day,
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising.
Refrain:
To the land, to the land, to the land I am bound,
Where there's no more stormy clouds arising.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/walker/harmony/files/hymn/Travelling_Pilgrim.html

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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to the earlier post..aye the slowed down version of good ol rebel is f@cking great,a very haunting short sequence always stuck in my brain,the music is class and so is the photograpy

GET UP..GET UP AND DANCE,YOU WILL DANCE AT MY PARTY

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