- published: 15 Sep 2012
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Allendale may refer to:
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"The Rose of Allendale" is an English song, with words by Charles Jefferys and music by Sidney Nelson, composed in the 1830s and appearing in Blake's Young Flutist's Magazine in 1833. Because the song has been recorded by Paddy Reilly and Mary Black, many people mistakenly believe the song to be a (traditional) Irish song. Sometimes it is also believed to be a Scottish song.
The English song lyrics are about a maiden from the town of Allendale, Northumberland (in love songs, a rose, regarded as a beautiful and romantic flower, is often the fairest maiden of a region or village).
Even though similarities are striking that the song is a translated version of a much older German folk song that melodywise rooted in an old "altwürttembergische Melodie" from the Rems valley. It is a soldier's farewell song to his beloved and reflects the unstable times of war.
The song was also popularized by the Scottish folk band The Corries, and The Dubliners (e.g. on their 1987 album 25 Years Celebration) as well as in bagpipe versions, e.g. Grampian Police Pipe Band on their album Pipes and Drums of Scotland, song no. 13.
Lil Heem - "This Allendale" Directed By Mavrik Oakland, CA 2012
mary black singing rose of allendale
Video of a new Years Eve tradition in Allendale Town , Northumberland, England. The Tar Barrel Ceremony, Burning out the old year 2015 and bringing in the new 2016!
A short video tour of Allendale Caravan Park. Please give us a ring or email if you would like to visit the park to have a further look at what we have to offer.
Scott: (from creed)
It's been a long day at the bottom of the hill,
she died of a broken heart.
She told me I was living in the past,
drinking from a broken glass.
Chorus: ( Maynard and Scott)
I'm alone [I never wanna be alone],
now I [now I] try to face the cold.
I'm alone [I never wanna be alone],
now I [now I] try to travel home.
Scott:
I walked down to the other end of the day,
just to catch those last few rays.
I held out my hand and slowly waved goodbye,
I turned now my eyes up to the sky.
Chorus
(Both)
She'll come back to me. [She'll come back to me.]
She'll come back to me. [She'll come back to me.]
All alone in this mysery.
She'll come back to me.
Maynard:
I held out my hands into the light and I watched it die,
I know that I was part to play.
My god, my time to die.
Never want to spend my life alone.
Chorus