Gentle Annie (song)

"Gentle Annie"
Song by Bok, Muir and Trickett from the album Turning Toward the Morning
Released 1999
Genre Folk
Length 4:02
Label Folk Legacy
Writer(s) Lame Jack Cousens
Composer(s) Stephen Foster
Producer(s) Sandy Paton
Turning Toward the Morning track listing

Slow Dance from Machu Picchu
(9)		 "Gentle Annie"
(10)		 Sunday Morning
(11)

"Gentle Annie" is a popular American song composed by Stephen Foster in 1856. The song has original lyrics but is said to be based on a traditional Irish melody. According to his niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, there is a tradition that it was written in honor of Annie Jenkins, the daughter of a grocer in Federal Street, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, named Morgan Jenkins. She disputes this, and states that it is probably written in honor of his cousin, Annie Evans, who died shortly before it was composed.[1] Some sources say it is Foster's farewell to his maternal grandmother, Annie Pratt McGinnis Hart.[2] His paternal grandmother was Ann Barclay.

Australian version

An alternative version from Australia is also known as Gentle Annie. This was published in Australian Tradition, Vol. 1, no. e, in 1964. It was recorded by Martyn Wyndham-Read.[3] The tune is the same as the Stephen Foster version, but the lyrics are different. The Australian lyrics were written by Lame Jack Cousens of Springhurst, Victoria. Sources state that its subject is Annie Waits. The song "Gentle Annie" sung by Tommy Makem is a different song from both the Foster and the Australian version.

Adaptations

Alaska songwriter Britt Arnesen adapted the melody of "Gentle Annie" as a eulogy for the former captain of the F/V Cornelia Marie, Phil Harris, who died from complications of a stroke on February 9, 2010.[4]

Vocalist Heather Berry attributes an adaptation titled "Little Annie" to the Carter Family. The words and the melody are adapted from the original.

References

  1. ↑ University of Pittsburgh Digital Library
  2. ↑ Broadside ballad entitled 'Gentle Annie'
  3. ↑ Martyn Wyndham-Read
  4. ↑ "Capt. Phil Song from Amazing Alaska Singer, Britt Arnesen | CorneliaMarie". Corneliamarie.com. Retrieved 2012-02-17.


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