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Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the " sandbar " between the river of life, with its outgoing "flood", and the ocean that lies beyond death , the "boundless deep", to which we return.
Salamander Crossing was a bluegrass band based in New England that disbanded in 1999. The band was composed of lead singer and fiddler Rani Arbo, Jeff Kelliher on guitar , mandolin , and vocals , and Andrew Kinsey on bass and vocals .
In the mid-19th-century, the phrase "the harbor bar be moaning" in the poem and lyric "Three Fishers" connected working-class suffering to the noises. Later in that century, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote " Crossing the Bar ", coupling "May there be no moaning of the bar" with images of life's end, and then designated it as essentially his own requiem.
He was best known in his lifetime for the 1885 song Daddy (lyrics by Mary Mark-Lemon), [a] which made a fortune for him, despite disposing of his copyright while it was still popular. [5] A long-standing member of the Savage Club , [ 6 ] he died in London.
In the early 1980s, volunteers assisted the salamander crossing with a bucket brigade. [2] [b] Volunteers waited along Henry Street and put migrating salamanders in buckets to carry them across the street. In 1987 a German drainage company (ACO Polymer) heard the story about volunteers assisting the salamander crossing and paid for a tunnel ...
Is it worth mentioning the version by Salamander Crossing from their album Bottleneck Dreams or the version by Wrong Side of Dawn?I'm sure there are other versions I am not aware of that are not listed in the current list of composers who have written music to the words of Crossing the Bar.
Night Mail, also known as Concerto or Britain's Railway, was a 1988 British advert produced by Ridley Scott Associates and British Transport Films for British Rail.It was based on the 1936 documentary of the same name, and used the first stanza of a poem by W. H. Auden that was written for the film.
Bernie Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer. In his long-term collaboration with Elton John, he has written the lyrics for most of John's songs.Over the years, he has written songs for a variety of other artists, including Alice Cooper, Heart, Melissa Manchester, Starship, Rod Stewart and Richie Sambora.