Country Girl
Robert Farnon
| PROFILE | |
| Composer and Lyricist | Robert Farnon |
| Year Written | 1966 |
| About Country Girl | |
| “Country Girl” was written by the Canadian-born composer, conductor, arranger and trumpet player Robert Farnon. Farnon composed both light classical and popular music, as well as film and television scores. Robert Farnon worked with Tony Bennett on several albums, including the wonderful 1968 Snowfall. | |
Lyrics
Country girl, country girl
I beheld her in meadowland
Bowing and reaping and singing a refrain
Oh, what a melancholy strain
The valley echoed with a ring
No nightingale could ever sing
So plaintively as the country girl
I was spellbound and curious
Why such a sad song?
Perhaps love passed her by
No hopeful rainbow in the sky
Maybe she held a memory dear
A happiness of yesteryear
In solitude cried the country girl
Came the hour to travel on
Sadness befell me
A sorrow filled my heart
A longing never to depart
The music in my soul I bore
Long after it was heard no more
And memories of a country girl
Whose love I’ll never know
Session / Album Information
1966
“Country Girl” was recorded on November 26, 1966 and released the following year on the album Tony Makes It Happen!. It was arranged by Marion Evans.
This recording released on:
- 1966: CBS 45: 2970
- 1967: Columbia 45: 4-43954
- 1967: Columbia LP 12″: CL 2653 — Tony Makes It Happen!
- 1967: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9453 — Tony Makes It Happen!
- 1967: CBS LP 12″: SPBG 63055 — Tony Makes It Happen! [UK]
- 1971: Columbia LP 12″: C 30558 — Love Story
- 1991: Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years – The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
- 1993: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6641 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
- 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
- 2008: Columbia/RPM/Legacy CD: 731397 — The Essential Tony Bennett [Limited Edition 3.0]
- 2011: Disc #34 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK33) Tony Makes It Happen!
- 2011: Disc #41 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK40) Love Story
1971
“Country Girl” was recorded on January 31, 1971 and released that year on the album Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra. It was arranged by Marion Evans.
This recording released on:
- 1971: Columbia LP 12″: C 30953 — Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra
- 2011: Disc #42 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK41) Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra