Lyr Req: The Corries

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 06:15 PM

AmScotsLass, try My Songbook. There should be a few there - my database says 35, but they may not all be Corries versions. Many more are still sitting in my database, awaiting completion. If you need help with a particular song, eMail me (skw at worldmusic.de). If I have it I'll try to get the lyrics finished quickly.

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 06:26 PM

The tune to 'the sunday driver' is a Scottish Song called 'THE SOUR MULK CAIRT.

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: GUEST,nickr
Date: 03 May 02 - 07:53 PM

Does anyone know the tune for "The Tortoise" by the corries

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: GUEST,brigitte
Date: 08 May 02 - 07:30 AM

the Corries Bricklayers Song is in fact The Sick Note written in 1969 by Pat Cooksey, who lives in Germany. There are numerous versions of this song on c.d. worldwide the most well known in Europe by the Dubliners. Pat Cooksey's homepage details others www.patcooksey.com

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: GUEST,macca
Date: 09 May 02 - 03:07 AM

Always have been a great fan of the Corries. I think the first record I ever bought was an EP (remember them?) of the Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell doing, among other things and thanks to a misprinted label, "The Queen's MariNes." After that I started buying the LPs and finally had to put them on casettes so my wife and I could listen to them in the car. I remember being dumbstruck when I heard Roy Williamson had died, but their work is certainly not forgotten. Our local session still appreciates the stuff from their repertoire which I trot out from time to time, even although I'm singing in scots and they're listening in Orstrilian. So isn't education a wonderful thing.

However, wasn't the Bricklayer's Song - Sick Note - whatever first recorded by Gerard Hoffnung as an after dinner speech at the Oxford Union? I'm sure I have that in among all my other tapes and stuff. To judge by the reception he go, it was very little known at the time and his preformance is just magnificent.

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 09 May 02 - 05:27 PM

Macca, searching the Digital and Forum Search for 'Gerard Hoffnung' will bring up a few threads, at least one of which contains the story you're after. Can't remember which one, though.

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: GUEST,sam l jackson
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:38 PM

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Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From:
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 05:39 PM

hello, i am wondering if there is no site in which i can retrieve corries'lyrics?

thanks, j.whyte

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: DonMeixner
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:59 PM

Type in Corries in Google and link up to their web site.

Don

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 04:28 AM

Their website doesn't have any lyrics to speak of, although you can buy their songbooks and albums there (very quick service, I can recommend it). If GUESTliterature wants lyrics to specific songs without buying, best bet is to first of all do a DT and forum search (box at top left of forum), and if the song isn't there, create a new thread asking for it.

Joan

Subject: RE: Lyrics re The Corries
From:
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:34 PM

Iam looking for the words of "the wedding of lachie Mcgraw" can you help. thank you

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 07:50 AM

Wedding of Lottie McGrath perhaps?

Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: CELTIC SYMPHONY (from the Corries)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:00 PM

CELTIC SYMPHONY

CHORUS
Na na naa na na na na na naa na na na na
Na na na na na na naa na na na na na na na
Na na naa na na na na na naa na na na na
Na na na na na na naa na na na na na na na
???????????????????????
We're on the road again
We're on the road, we're on our way to paradise.
We love each jungle deep that's where the lions
sleep
???????????????????????????
????????????????????????
Graffiti on the wall it says we're magic, we're magic.
Graffiti on the wall
Graffiti on the wall
And it says ooh ah up the RA, ooh ah up the RA
ooh ah up the RA, ooh ah up the RA

It was far across the sea when the devil got a hold of me.
He wouldn't set me free so he kept my soul for ransom

I'm a sailor man from Glasgow town
I've roamed this world around and round.
He's the meanest thing that I have found
In all me days of wandering.

And I could see his evil eyes.
'Twas then he took me by surprise.
"Take me to your paradise
I want to see the jungle".

CHORUS

We went to each jungle deep
For the paradise that we did seek
Was no trip for the weak
There waltzing with the natives.

From the Amazon to Borneo
From Africa to Tokyo
To the darkest jungles of the world
But nowhere could I lose him.

I ran in circles every way
He turned to me and he did say
"I think you're leading me astray
I want your soul me boyo".

CHORUS

I'm pretty certain of the verses but as you can see, not 100% when it comes to the chorus. Maybe someone else has got all the words.

Linebreaks added on new Mudcat.
Vectis again....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: vectis
Date: 12 Oct 02 - 09:45 PM

Refresh for Angus who asked for the words

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: vectis
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 07:41 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,pamela
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 08:05 PM

hi there, does anyone have lyrics for the corries' version of 'Scotland the Brave' ? (as racist/un PC as it is, it was still funny . . .

thanks

pamela

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 08:22 PM

racist, Pamela? Surely not. Self-deprecating, perhaps. And certainly funny.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 01:40 PM

HALLO FROM GREECE. MY NAME IS MINAS AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF ANYONE KNOWS THE LYRICS FROM THE SONG: "BANNOCKBURN".

SCOTTLAND RULES!
THE CORRIES MAKE GREAT MUSIC THAT SPEAKS TO MY HEART!!
ALL SCOTTISH MUSIC IS GREAT!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 02:46 PM

Don't mind the shouting folks - Greece is a long way away!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:19 AM

I think the corries are great as well

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,Zaba
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 07:30 AM

Hi all,
please, could someone put here lyrics for Chevaliers Muster Roll sung by Corries? I'm not able to catch it from hearing, and neither I can find it on the Net.

Thank you very much

Zaba

Subject: Lyr Add: CHEVALIERS' MUSTER ROLL (fromThe Corries)
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 06:33 PM

CHEVALIERS' MUSTER ROLL
(Trad)

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Jock and Tam and all is comin'
Dunkeld's comin', Donald's comin'
Conald's comin', Ronald's comin',
Dougal's comin', Lachan's comin'
Alastair and a's comin'

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Jock and Tam and a's comin'
Borland and his men are comin'
Cameron and MacLean are comin'
Gordon and MacGregor's comin'
Every duniewassal's comin'                        

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
MacGilvray and a's comin'
Wigtown's comin', Nithsdale's comin'
Cornwrath's comin', Kenmure's comin'
Derwentwater and Foster's comin'
Withrington and Nairn comin'

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Blythe, Cornhill and a's comin'
The Laird o' MacIntosh is comin'
MacRabie and MacDonald's comin'
MacKenzie and MacPherson's comin'
And the wild McCraws are comin'

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Donald Gun and a's comin'

Repeat 1

Repeat 2

Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
Little wat ye wha's comin'
MacGilvray and a's comin'

(duine uasail - Highlander, lit. gentleman)

As sung by The Corries on 'Live from Scotland, vol 3'

[1980:] Anyone who reads the letter which 'Bobbing John', the Earl of Mar (who raised King James VIII's standard in 1715), sent from Invercauld to the bailie of Kildrummy in September of that year will catch a depressing glimpse of the drab reality behind the tuppence-coloured pageantry of the Chevalier's Muster-roll:
"[...] let my own tenants in Kildrummy know, that if they come not forth with their best arms, I will send a party immediately to burn what they shall miss taking from them; and they may believe this not only a threat, but, by all that's sacred, I'll put it in execution, let my loss be what it will, that it may be an example to others [...]." A letter from Rob Roy MacGregor to General Alexander Gordon (the Marquis of Huntly), written a month later, tells much the same story [...]. (Hamish Henderson in Cowan 4f)

[1990:] For years Ewan opened concerts with this song, which he would use partly to test the acoustics, partly to check what condition his voice was in, but mostly because it is such a glorious song. It is a rallying call summoning the clans to battle and it was made and sung around the time the Earl of Mar raised the standard for King James in the North [in 1715]. Ewan identified strongly with the struggle of the Scots people to maintain their national identity. He learned this song from his father. (Notes Ewan MacColl, 'Black and White')

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,Zaba
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:15 AM

Oh, thank you, Susanne, it's no wonder I couln't catch this :-)! I've understood some Scottish clans are enumerated there, but it wasn't enough to sing it.

Zaba

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,Zaba
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:20 AM

One more little question: What does "Little wat ye wha's comin'" mean? I'm sorry, but I'm not a native English speaker and they didn't teach us such frazes in school ;-).

Thanks

Zaba

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,Scabby Douglas
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 07:30 AM

"Little wat ye wha's comin'"

means approximately: You have no idea/understanding of who is coming/approaching.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: GUEST,Zaba
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 12:48 PM

Oh, thanks :-). Mudcat is great and the Mudcatters too ;-).

Zaba

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 01:38 PM

Here ya go.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Zaba
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 02:44 PM

Hi all,
another plea for The Corries lyrics - would anybody be so kind to put here lyrics for La Di Dum?

Thanks

Žaba

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 02:34 PM

Sorry, but I've got it listed under 'lyrics not required'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 10:50 PM

Zaba: is this what you want?

LA-DI-DUM, posted in another thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Corries
From: Zaba
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:55 AM

Yes, that's it! Thank you very much and sorry I didn't find it myself, it's so easy...

Žaba

Subject: hallo aus Deutschland
From: GUEST,StacySmith
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 09:02 AM

Hallo zusammen, das ist mein erster Post hier. Bin echt froh, dass ich das Forum gefunden habe. Ich heiße Manuel, bin 26 und komme aus Berlin. Bin natürlich für Erfahrungsaustausch zu haben!