"Аура Ли" - Американдық азамат соғысының әні және оның вариациялары

the American Civil War song

"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 Lea was published by Poulton, an Englishman who had come to America 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. 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 Lea" 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 Lea".

The 1983 film Trading Places includes Ivy League stockbrokers at their racquet club singing a sexualized parody of this song about their college days and their fraternity's conquest of various women on locations at campus, with the refrain changed to "Constance Frye." The television show How I Met Your Mother 2009 episode (season 5 episode 22) "Robots Versus Wrestlers" features Ted Mosby at an upper class party singing the Trading Places "Constance Frye" version along with film director Peter Bogdanovich and The New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz. In Revenge of the Nerds, Betty Childs and the other girls from her sorority sing a parody (though not the exact tune) to the Tri Lambs. In Thomas Pynchon's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49, employees of Yoyodyne sing a parodic version of "Aura Lee", entitled "Glee", with lyrics about the company's position in the defense industry. Appears in the song “The Work Song” written by Kate McGarrigle on the 1982 album “Love Over and Over” by Kate & Anna McGarrigle. First recorded by Maria Muldaur on her 1973 album “Maria Muldaur”. Also covered by Margaret RoadKnight and Justin Vivian Bond.