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{{Unreferenced stub|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} {{About|the American Civil War song|information about the hockey team|Toronto Aura Lee}} {{Infobox Standard |title=Aura Lea |comment= |image=AuraLea1861.png |image_size= |caption=Cover, sheet music, 1861 |writer= |composer=George R. Poulton |lyricist=W. W. Fosdick |published= [[1861 in music|1861]] |written= |language=English |form= |original_artist= |recorded_by= |performed_by= }} "'''Aura Lee'''" (also known as "'''Aura Lea'''") is an [[American Civil War]] song about a maiden. It was written by [[W. W. Fosdick]] (words) and [[George R. Poulton]] (music). The [[Elvis Presley]] song "[[Love Me Tender (song)|Love Me Tender]]" (lyric by [[Ken Darby]]) is a derivative adaptation of this song. 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". There is also a version of "Aura Lee" called "Army Blue" associated with the [[U.S. Military Academy]]. The tune is sung to lyrics specific to the academy; the original lyrics to that version were by [[George T. Olmstead]], an 1865 graduate of the academy. It is the running theme music in the background of the 1954 [[John Ford]] film ''[[The Long Gray Line]]''. ''Aura Lee'' was memorably sung by [[Frances Farmer]] and a male chorus in the 1936 film ''[[Come and Get It (film)|Come and Get It]]'', based on [[Edna Ferber]]'s novel. The television 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". [[File:Aura Lea excerpt.png|450px]] ==Lyrics== [[Image:AuraLea1864.png|thumb|right|200px|Cover of Confederate version (1864)]] The lyrics as written by Fosdick: :''When the blackbird in the Spring,'' :'''Neath the willow tree,'' :''Sat and rock'd, I heard him sing,'' :''Singing Aura Lea.'' :''Aura Lea, Aura Lea,'' :''Maid with golden hair;'' :''Sunshine came along with thee,'' :''And swallows in the air.'' :''Chorus:'' ::''Aura Lea, Aura Lea,'' ::''Maid with 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)'' [[Allan Sherman]] topicalized the song with this [[polio]]-based version: :''Every time you take [[vaccine]], take it [[Albert Sabin|Aura Lee]] (pun on "orally")'' :''As you know [[Jonas Salk|the other way]] is more [[buttocks|painfully]]!" [[Category:American folk songs]] [[Category:Songs of the American Civil War]] {{Folk-song-stub}} [[ja:オーラ・リー]]
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