"Annie Lisle" is the name of an 1857 ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

 by Boston, Massachusetts songwriter

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 H. S. Thompson

H. S. Thompson

Henry S. Thompson was an American songwriter of the mid-nineteenth century.Little is known of Thompson other than his works, mainly syrupy ballads used in blackface minstrel shows; 48 works were published under the name H. S. Thompson between 1849 and 1885....

 first published by Moulton & Clark of Newburyport, Massachusetts

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, and later by Oliver Ditson & Co. It is about the death of a young maiden, by what some have speculated to be tuberculosis

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, although the lyric does not explicitly mention tuberculosis, or "consumption" as it was called then. The song might have slipped into obscurity had the tune not been adopted by countless colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide as their respective alma mater

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 songs.

Alma Maters

The first college to have used the tune in a spirit song seems to have been Cornell University

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. In 1870, students Archibald Weeks and Wilmot Smith wrote "Far Above Cayuga's Waters

Far Above Cayuga's Waters

"Far Above Cayuga's Waters" is Cornell University's alma mater. The lyrics were composed circa 1870 by roommates Archibald Croswell Weeks, 1872, and Wilmot Moses Smith, 1874, and set to the tune of "Annie Lisle", a popular 1857 ballad by H. S. Thompson about a heroine dying of...

" and used an adaptation of Thompson's melody. Many other colleges and high schools, almost certainly influenced by Cornell's version, have since created their own renditions. Some include:

• Acadia University
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• Alliance High School, Alliance, Ohio
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• American University of Beirut
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• Anderson High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
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• Annapolis High School, Annapolis, Maryland
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• Astoria High School, Astoria, Oregon
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• Bay City Central High School, Bay City, Michigan
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• Bay High School (Panama City, Florida)
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• Baldwin Boys High School
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  , Bangalore, India
• Brent International School, Baguio City
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  , Philippines
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• Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maryland
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• Calhoun Falls Charter School
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  , Calhoun Falls, South Carolina
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• Carson-Newman College
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  , Jefferson City, Tennessee
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• CCC Yenching College
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• Central Catholic High School
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  , Lawrence, Massachusetts
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• Charles E. Gorton High School
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  , Yonkers, New York
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• Chung Chi College
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  , The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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• Chung Ling High School
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• Coldwater High School, Coldwater, Ohio
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• College of William & Mary, James Southall Wilson
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• Colorado State University
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  , Fort Collins, Colorado
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• Cornell University
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  , Ithaca, New York
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• Davis College
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• Deep Creek High School
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  , Chesapeake, Virginia
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• Delbarton School
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  , Morristown, New Jersey
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• Eastern Nazarene College
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  , Quincy, Massachusetts
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• Eastwick College and the HoHoKus Schools
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  , Ramsey, New Jersey
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• Edcouch-Elsa High School
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  , Edcouch, Texas
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• Emory University
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• Erskine College
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• Escambia County (AL) High School, Atmore, Alabama
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• Farmington Senior High School, Farmington, Missouri
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• Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana
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• Gainesville High School (Florida), Gainesville, Florida
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• Giles County High School
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  , Pulaski, Tennessee
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• Grove City High School, Grove City, Ohio
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• Horseheads High School
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  , Horseheads, New York
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• Howard Payne University
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  , Brownwood, Texas
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• Hwa Chong Institution
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  , Singapore (in Chinese)
• Ider High School (Alabama)
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  , Ider, Alabama
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• Ilion High School, Ilion, New York
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  , Down Among the Peaceful Valleys
• Indiana State University
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  , Terre Haute, Indiana
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  , 1912
• Indiana University
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  , J. T. Giles, 1893
• Kodaikanal International School
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  , Tamil Nadu, India
• La Jolla High School
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• Lake Oswego High School
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  , Lake Oswego, Oregon
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• Lehigh University
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• Lewis & Clark College
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• Lyman Hall High School
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   (Wallingford, CT)
• Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, VA)
• McDaniel College
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  , Westminster, Maryland
• Mercer University
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• Milan High School, Milan, Tennessee
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• Millsaps College
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  , Jackson, MS, circa 1914
• Montgomery Blair High School
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  , Silver Spring, Maryland
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• Moravian College
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  , J. Kenneth Pfohl, 1900
• Murray State University
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  , A.B. Austin, 1935
• North Greenville University
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• Northern Lehigh High School
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  , Slatington, Pennsylvania
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• Oglethorpe County High School, Lexington, Georgia
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• Orange High School
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  , Orange, California
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  Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950...
  
  
• Paulsboro High School
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  , Paulsboro, New Jersey
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• Peninsula Catholic High School
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  , Newport News, Virginia
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• John H. Reagan High School, Houston, Texas
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• Redlands High School
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  , Redlands, California
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• Reinhardt University, Waleska, Georgia
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• Ripon College
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  , Ripon, Wisconsin
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• Roanoke Bible College
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  Mid-Atlantic Christian University or MACU is a private Christian college located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States. It is supported by Christian churches and churches of Christ, which is part of the Restoration Movement...
  
  , Sarah P. Bondurant, 1948
• Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Chicago, IL
• Saint Lukes School, New Canaan, Connecticut
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  , 1927
• Soochow University
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Lyrics

Down where the waving willows

’Neath the sunbeams smile,

Shadow’d o’er the murm’ring waters

Dwelt sweet Annie Lisle;

Pure as the forest lily,

Never tho’t of guile

Had its home within the bosom

Of sweet Annie Lisle.

CHORUS

Wave willows, murmur waters,

Golden sunbeams, smile!

Earthly music cannot waken

Lovely Annie Lisle.

Sweet came the hallow’d chiming

Of the Sabbath bell,

Borne on the morning breezes

Down the woody dell.

On a bed of pain and anguish

Lay dear Annie Lisle,

Chang’d were the lovely features,

Gone the happy smile.

[CHORUS]

"Raise me in your arms, O Mother;

Let me once more look

On the green and waving willows

And the flowing brook.

Hark! the sound of angel music

From the choirs above!

Dearest mother, I am going;

Surely God is love."

[CHORUS]

In popular culture

The tune is also used in the parting song for the Kellerman Resort in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing

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, as well as the tune sung by the Purdue University

Purdue University

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 Students in the 1953 Film Titanic

Titanic (1953 film)

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.

The tune was featured in Hey Arnold!

Hey Arnold!

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as the school song of PS-118