'Lucy Gray' / Lucy's Ballad - Musical Arrangement of Wordsworth poem

Hi! This is the song that Maude Ivory sings about Lucy Gray - it is actually an old poem from the 1700's and it was a lot of fun making this arrangement and video! Sending you all love and hugs!

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[MaiahWynne]

Hi! This is the song that Maude Ivory sings about Lucy Gray - it is actually an old poem from the 1700's and it was a lot of fun making this arrangement and video! I was trying to channel Katniss with my outfit and we thought my harp guitar kind of looked like a bow! Thanks for all of your love and support ♥

[MochiArt]

"A ghost story. Ugh. Boo. So ridiculous."
How can you not love this!! Thank you so much

[coppelia]

Oft I'd heard of Lucy Gray,
And when I crossed the wild,
I chanced to see at break of day,
The solitary child.

No mate, no comrade Lucy knew,
She dwelt where none abide,
The sweetest thing to ever roam,
Upon the mountainside.

As carefree as a mountain doe,
A brand new path she broke,
Her feet dispersed the powdery snow,
That rose up like the smoke.

The storm came on before its time,
She wandered up and down,
And many a hill did Lucy climb,
But never reached the town.

Her mournful parents all that night,
Went shouting far and wide,
But there was neither sound nor sight,
To serve them as a guide.

They wept and turning homeward cried,
"In heaven we shall meet, "
When in the snow the mother spied,
The print of Lucy's feet.

And then an open field they crossed,
The marks were still the same,
They tracked them on not ever lost,
Until the bridge they came.

They followed from that snowy bank,
Those foot marks one by one,
Into the middle of the plank,
And further, there were none.

Yet some maintain that to this day,
She is a living child,
That you may see sweet Lucy Gray,
Upon the lonesome wild.

[Jaenalana]

Coming back to this and the ending kinda feels like katniss meeting Lucy’s ghost. It made me think of a mini theory lol. Imagine if Lucy’s spirit still somehow lived within the many songbirds and flew around the forest (kinda like in the book when they were theorizing what happened to poem Lucy) and since it’s the same forest and lake that katniss would go to, it’s like she was always there with katniss, flying and singing her heart out in the sky. and then in this video it’s like when they meet. Idk it kinda makes sense lol. Anyway, beautiful video🤍

[mialarsson]

While there were a lot of really great performances in the TBOSAS movie, the Lucy Gray ballad was such a disappointment I nearly cried in the cinema. If I’d been the director I definitely would have bought the rights to your musical performance of the Wordsworth poem, made a folk song version of it for Lucy Gray to sing and then also played your original version with you singing it during the roll credits because your take on this song is absolutely incredible! Ten out of ten!

[irisamelia]

Also, I believe that "Keep On The Sunny Side" is public domain as well, and that was in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes too.

[swayam]

THIS IS MIND-BLOWING. I got literal goosebumps. And also i made a little theory. So just like the hanging tree, Katniss is singing this song in a propo roaming around the forests of district 12. Reminding people of the Victor forgotten by history, the solitary Lucy Gray Baird. Katniss sees the mockingjays and sees the spirit of Lucy Gray kept alive by them. So different yet so similar, Katniss and Lucy Gray were both those songbirds the Capitol never intended to exist. A nightmare for the Snow, which vanished Lucy Gray but was melted away by Katniss. These two sides of history, combined together. Snow thought he ended Lucy Gray, but nothing can kill the power the music, and so the songs of that mockingjay come back to haunt him.
Thank you Maiah for making this arrangement. Its going on my on repeat playlist instantly 😂

[jessicah]

Thank you for taking the time to create all these wonderful renditions- you've really brought the lyrics in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to life :) Without them, I would be singing the songs with a random nursery rhyme-like tune badly and off key 😂❤

[janegermone]

Oh gosh, I'm am finishing the book and I wanted to hear an audio cover of Lucy's songs and I discovered your channel and this song and it hits me sooo hard, I have tears. Thank you so much for sharing your talent here

[ulysseah]

I'm not sure if you'll ever see this comment, maybe you will. From the novel Where The Crawdads Sing, there's a poem within its pages.
The Lake of the Dismal Swamp - Thomas Moore. It has eight verses and it's beautifully written much like the novel itself. Anyhow when I first read the poem I immediately remembered how beautifully you sang the Lucy Gray ballad. And I just thought that this poem could be made into a beautiful song too. Your voice is angelic and I think it'd fit together beautifully.

“They made her a grave, too cold and damp
For a soul so warm and true;
And she’s gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,
Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.



“And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see,
And her paddle I soon shall hear;
Long and loving our life shall be,
And I’ll hide the maid in a cypress tree,
When the footstep of death is near.”


Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds—
His path was rugged and sore,
Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds,
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds,
And man never trod before.



And when on the earth he sunk to sleep,
If slumber his eyelids knew,
He lay where the deadly vine doth weep
Its venomous tear and nightly steep
The flesh with blistering dew!



And near him the she-wolf stirr’d the brake,
And the copper-snake breath’d in his ear,
Till he starting cried, from his dream awake,
“Oh! when shall I see the dusky Lake,
And the white canoe of my dear?”



He saw the Lake, and a meteor bright
Quick over its surface play’d—
“Welcome, ” he said, “my dear one’s light!”
And the dim shore echoed for many a night
The name of the death-cold maid.



Till he hollow’d a boat of the birchen bark,
Which carried him off from shore;
Far, far he follow’d the meteor spark,
The wind was high and the clouds were dark,
And the boat return’d no more.



But oft, from the Indian hunter’s camp,
This lover and maid so true
Are seen at the hour of midnight damp
To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp,
And paddle their white canoe!

[katerinaabramovich]

I can’t begin to explain the effect your Lucy Gray covers have on me. You bring her alive

[hildaelson]

You would have made Wordsworth proud. Ethereal and beautiful. Lots of love from a poet.

[MrOmarabdulhadi]

im currently reading songbirds and snakes, and when maude ivory mentioned that it was an "old song" I just had to check. im so glad I found your channel!

[huntcd]

Head canon that this is Lucy living and singing in the woods after escaping Snow at the end of the book.

[fearfulpixel]

Still hoping you get cast as Lucy Gray if a film adaptation of songbirds and snakes comes out, your singing is gorgeous 🥰

Also, the white dress is similar to the music video of safe and sound
with Taylor swift, which was in the first hunger games film (many people said she looked like an older primrose/her ghost. It would be cool to see a cover of that song too 😊)

[Coffeecum]

PLEASE KEEP THIS ONE. LG can't do anything about Wordsworth. So upset. Much love Maiah/one of the Lucy Gray's

[youtubeviolatedme]

Record label scouts! Where are you? Dig on this!

[vinsterious]

I just finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and I'M GLAD I STUMBLED INTO YOUR CHANNEL! I LOVE YOUR COVERS! 😭

[mimi_chan]

I was a kid when I first read the poem, I am 29 now and I still tear up when I remember Lucy Gray.

[acruxgray]

one and only lucy gray baird
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