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Thread #112461 Message #2379870
Posted By: GUEST,Colin Bargery
03-Jul-08 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Railway (Andrew Park)
Subject: Lyr Req: The steam was up the wind was high
Does anyone have set of words for a song that includes the words
"The steam was up, the wind was high, A dark wind scoured across the sky, The quarter deck was scarcely dry Of the boat that meets the railway. Yet thick as sheep in market-pen Stood all the Sunday watering men, Like growling lions in a den"
Its about people returning to Glasgow after a weekend excursion to the west of Scotland seaside resorts. and date from the late 1840s.