Track name: GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY
Trackcode: SCDV105539
Composer: Will D. Cobb, Paul Wellington Barnes, Timothy Murton Laight (Arr.), James Camillus Rattigan (Arr.), John Gregory Knowles (Arr.)
アーティスト: Timothy Murton Laight, The English Folk Band, John Gregory Knowles, James Rattigan
EAN/GTIN: 4020771217557
ISRC: DE-B63-21-75539
Album name: PATRIOTIC BRITAIN
Catalogue number: SCDV1055
Label: Sonoton Vanguard - SCDV
LC number: 07573
Published in 1897, this song was popular during the Spanish/American War 1898 but successfully adopted by the British army in the Boer War of 1899. It is a wistful reflection on the personal cost of war. 110 bpm (Gmaj)
Arranged by John Gregory Knowles, Guy Protheroe, Timothy Murton Laight & James Rattigan. Produced by John Gregory Knowles. Recorded at EMPIRE STUDIO, Bethnal Green, London, UK; SKINNY FARM STUDIO, New Malden Surrey, UK and CODA STUDIO, Surbiton Surrey, UK. Sound engineer: Paul Golding.
Performed by Ian Humphries (violin), Rita Manning (violin), Adrian Varela (violin), Alison Kelly (violin), Ann Lovatt (violin), Judith Busbridge (viola), Frank Schaefer (cello), Deidre Cooper (cello), Chris Lawrence (double bass), Paul Morgan (double bass), John Anderson (oboe), Anna Noakes (flute), Nick Bucknall (clarinet), Crispian Steele Perkins (trumpet), James Rattigan (French horn, accordion), Tristan Fry (timpani), Sally Heath (piano, harpsichord), Helen Tunstall (harp), Chris Knowles (guitar), John Gregory Knowles (dulcimer, drums, percussion), Timothy Murton Laight (banjo).
Special thanks to Augusta Lees, Mark Glentworth and David Jones at Skinny Farm and Jacob Palmer at Coda.
Orchestral and choral management: Ann Manly, The English Chamber Choir Https://www.englishchamberchoir.co.uk/, conductor: Guy Protheroe. Orchestral leader and soloist: Ian Humphries. Copyist: Sara Loewenthal.
Mastered by Gerhart Frei at INTERSOUND Studios, Munich, Germany.
Cover art: Joe Miletzki
I have come to say good-bye, Dolly Gray
It's no use to ask me why, Dolly Gray
There's a murmur in the air, you can hear it everywhere
It is time to do and dare, Dolly Gray
Don't you hear the tramp of feet, Dolly Gray
Sounding thro' the village street, Dolly Gray
‘Tis the tramp of soldiers true, in their uniforms of blue
I must say good-bye to you, Dolly Gray!
Good-bye Dolly, I must leave you, tho' it breaks my heart to go
Something tells me I am needed, at the front to fight the foe
See the boys in blue are marching, and I can no longer stay
Hark! I hear the bugle calling, Good-bye Dolly Gray!