The Ghost Road
Music: Granville Bantock (1868–1946) · Words: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872–1945) · lyricist: Tu Fu (712–770)
The winds and the pines are whispering,
The river girds in its flight,
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The words
The winds and the pines are whispering,
The river girds in its flight,
My footfalls sound through ancient tiles Where
grey rats flit from sight.
What monarch raised those palace walls?
Who knows today his name Who left be- neath
yon precipice The stone wrack of his fame?
Like jets of dusky blue I see Ghosts from the
gloom arise,
Down the forgotten road return Strange
rumours
and faint sighs.
The thousand voices of the void Blend to a
chant bizarre, And the purple leaves are
carpeted
For Autumn’s avatar.
The deathdoomed legions thunder past In the
wake of fleeting years;
I fain would drown their tramp with song,
But all my songs are tears, but all my songs are
tears.
About this song
- Music
- Granville Bantock (1868–1946) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872–1945) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- lyricist
- Tu Fu (712–770) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1918, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 4:01
- Its source files it as
- 5 Songs from the Chinese Poets, 1st Series
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). “K-pop” and “anime songs” are said only where a source says so. Where songs from scores are offered.