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Not to be confused with the famous Monty Python "Spam" Song Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's  "Viking Song,"
Eaton Faning's Song of the Vikings is a similar martial tune performed by Billy Murray with the Orpheus Male Chorus and brass band

This is also one of the rare recordings of Pol PLancon student, the American Bass Thomas Foster Why

Rec Numb	80298-R	80298-L
Take
Title	Absent (John W. Metcalf / Catherine Y. Glen)	Song of the Vikings
Artist	Hardy Williamson (T), (O)	Orpheus (mCh) [Harvey Hindermeyer (T), Billy Murray (T), William Redmond (T), John Young (T), Steve C. Porter (Bar), Frederick J. Wheeler (Bar), Donald Chalmers (Bs), Thomas Foster Why (Bs)], (O)
Recorded	1915.08.23/7	1915.11.09/11
Place	NYC	NYC
Comment	acoustic	acoustic

Superb Paper label Pressing Edison Diamond Disc Vertical 10" 78 rpm Record
Condition:EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE, dull spont on L Side ON RIM ONLY,
Plays VERY QUIET few ticks at start

AMAZING SOUND

A SUPERB COPY

Hardy Williamson

English concert and oratorio tenor. In the 1910s, he was active in and around New York City, singing his customary concerts, but also comprimario roles (Tybalt, Remendado) with the Century Opera Company. He must also have studied in New York, since he was a pupil of basso Yeatman Griffith, who taught voice there. His 1920s Vocalion recordings were made in London, so he would seem to have gone back to England by then.

Title: Song of the Vikings
Composer: Joseph Eaton Faning
Lyricist: Somerville Gibney
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1901 Novello and Co.

The wind is blowing from off the shore,
And our sail has felt its force,
For our bark bounds forth o'er the crested waves
As a wild and restive horse.

Our sharp prow cleaves the billows,
And breaks them into spray,
And they brightly gleam in the glad sunlight
As we speed upon our way, as we speed upon our way.

Lords of the waves we are,
Kings of the seething foam!
Warriors bold, from the norseland cold,
Far o'er the sea we roam,
Lords of the waves we are.

We have left our wives and our sweethearts
fair On the rock encircled strand,
To entreat the gods to watch 'o'er their loves,
And to bring them back to land.

Each day they'll pray to heaven,
Nor will they pray in vain,
For the gods will watch o'er our sturdy bark,
And will guide her home again.

Lords of the waves we are,
Kings of the seething foam!
Warriors bold, from the norseland cold,
Far o'er the sea we roam,
Lords of the waves we are.

To our oars we bend with a right good will,
And all sorrow leave behind;
As the white-wing'd gulls which around us skim,
We are racing, racing with the wind.

And when our foes are vanquish'd,
And we return once more,
Oh, the welcome glad they will greet us with,
As we gain the long'd-for shore,
as we gain the long'd-for shore.

Lords of the waves we are,
Kings of the seething foam!
Warriors bold, from the norseland cold,
Far o'er the sea we roam,
Lords of the waves we are.

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• Condition: Used
• Condition: Superb Paper label Pressing Edison Diamond Disc Vertical 10" 78 rpm Record Condition:EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE, dull spont on L Side ON RIM ONLY, Plays VERY QUIET few ticks at start Comes in a vintage "quilted" cardboard Sleeve AMAZING SOUND A SUPERB COPY
• Brand: Edison Phonographs
• Genre: Classical, Comedy, Jazz, Opera, Soundtracks & Musicals
• Style: Acoustic Blues, Bebop, Boogie-Woogie, Canadian Jazz, Chicago Blues, Comedy/Novelty Music, Delta Blues, Dixieland, East Coast Blues, Electric Jazz, Film Score/Soundtrack, Folk Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Honky-Tonk, Jazz Instrument, Jazz Pop, Jive, Latin Jazz, Music Hall, Piano Blues, Ragtime, Schlager, Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Western Swing, Big Band/Swing, Doo Wop, TV Score/Soundtrack, West Coast
• Record Size: 10"
• Speed: 78 RPM
• Record Label: Edison Record
• Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, Orpheus Male Choir, Orpheus Male Chorus, Hardy Williamson, Harvey Hindermeyer, Billy Murray, William Redmond, John Young, Steve C. Porter, Frederick J. Wheeler, Donald Chalmers, Thomas Foster Why
• Format: Record

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