Aura Lee (Jazz version)

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Aura Lee

“Aura Lea” (sometimes spelled “Aura Lee”) is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (lyrics) and George R. Poulton (music). The melody was used in Elvis Presley’s 1956 hit song “Love Me Tender”.

Aura Lee was published by Poulton, an Englishman who had come to the USA with his family as a boy in 1838, and Fosdick in 1861. It was a sentimental ballad at a time when upbeat and cheerful songs were more popular in the music halls.

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It became popular as a minstrel song, and the tune was also taken up by the U.S. Military Academy as a graduating class song, called “Army Blue”; new lyrics by L. W. Becklaw were sung to the original melody.

The Civil War began shortly after the song’s release; “Aura Lee” was adopted by soldiers on both sides, and was often sung around campfires.

The tune is familiar to modern audiences from the 1956 Elvis Presley #1 hit “Love Me Tender” with new lyrics by Ken Darby, a derivative adaptation of the original. A later Presley recording for the film The Trouble with Girls entitled “Violet (Flower of N.Y.U.)” also used the melody of “Aura Lee”.

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“Aura Lee” was sung by Frances Farmer and a male chorus in the 1936 film Come and Get It, based on Edna Ferber’s novel.

Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album Join Bing and Sing Along (1959)

Diana Muldaur sings the song to David Carradine in the episode “The Elixir” of Kung Fu.

Jerry Lanning performed the song in “Big Star”, a 1962 episode of The Donna Reed Show.

The television cavalry comedy F Troop used a variation of the song to welcome saloon singer Laura Lee in the episode “She’s Only a Build in a Girdled Cage” (cf. “She’s only a bird in a gilded cage”).

The television western The Young Riders used the song in its series finale, which took place in 1861 and showed how the American Civil War was affecting its characters’ lives.

It is the running theme music in the background of the 1954 John Ford film The Long Gray Line.

Allan Sherman topicalized the song in his “Shticks of One and a Half Dozen of the Other” (on the album My Son, The Celebrity, 1963 Warner Records Inc) with this polio-based version:

Every time you take vaccine, take it orally [a pun on "Aura Lea"]
As you know the other way is more painfully!

An episode of The Rockford Files is called “Aura Lee Farewell”. However, the few lyrics that are recited are actually from the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe.

On the show Beverly Hills 90210 on the episode The Real McCoy (05/10/95), Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) was led into a past life in the wild wild west through hypnotic regression with his hypnotherapist. During his hypnosis session, he imagined that he walked into a saloon, where a hurdy-gurdy girl was singing “Aura Lee.”

The tune is used by the Cartoon Planet Band in the song “I Love Almost Everybody”, which was also found on the associated album, Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que.

Caitlín R. Kiernan’s 2007 novel Daughter of Hounds has a character singing the winter verse of “Aura Lee” during a snowstorm.

Oona Laurence sings the song in the Sofia Coppola film The Beguiled (2017).

The melody is also used in the Welsh hymn “Os Wyt Eisiau Bod yn Llon”

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Lyrics

The lyrics as written by Fosdick:

When the blackbird in the Spring,
Neath the willow tree,
Sat and rock’d, I heard him sing,
Sing of Aura Lea.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid of golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.
Chorus:
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid of golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.

In thy blush the rose was born,
Music, when you spake,
Through thine azure eye the morn,
Sparkling seemed to break.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Birds of crimson wing,
Never song have sung to me,
As in that sweet spring.
(Chorus)

Aura Lea! the bird may flee,
The willow’s golden hair
Swing through winter fitfully,
On the stormy air.
Yet if thy blue eyes I see,
Gloom will soon depart;
For to me, sweet Aura Lea
Is sunshine through the heart.
(Chorus)

When the mistletoe was green,
Midst the winter’s snows,
Sunshine in thy face was seen,
Kissing lips of rose.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Take my golden ring;
Love and light return with thee,
And swallows with the spring.
(Chorus)

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