Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?

Subject: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 03:37 AM

I'm trying to remember a song about a girl, waiting by the sea shore for her young lover to return.
Anyone?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:35 AM

Well it might as well be anyone who turns up 'cause she won't recognise him, he'll pretend to be someone else, then he'll produce some dodgy token which he stole from a dead soldier and have his wicked way.

Probably!

;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:36 AM

Ranters Wharf?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:39 AM

Johny Tod?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: GUEST,Terry McDonald
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:56 AM

Long Years Ago?

Long years ago,when I was young
The lambs did play and the birds they sung
A sailor and his lovely bride
Lay sleeping by the ocean side.

It's scarce six months since we were wed
And oh how quick the time has sped
And I must go, at the break of day
On the big ship waiting out in the bay.

The time goes by and he comes no more
While she sits waiting by the ocean shore
His ship went down in the howling of the storm
And the waves conceal his lifeless form.

I wish that I were with him too,
Beneath the waves of the ocean blue
I'd lie asleep at the bottom of the sea
And let the great green waves beat over me.

I learned this from a compilation LP entitled 'A Pinch of Salt - British Sea Songs Old and New' in 1960/61. It was sung by Shirley Collins and the sleeve notes say she'd learned it from John Hasted who collected it from a soldier during the second word war.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 01:19 PM

A number of these songs. More details please.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: harpmolly
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 11:22 PM

Kevin...ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!! :D You just made my day. ;)

Yes, there really are a whole bunch of these "broken token" songs. I've even heard songs that didn't start out that way turned INTO a broken token song ("Plains of Waterloo?!?! What the hell?!?!)

Anyway, some examples: Banks of Claudy, There Was A Lady, Willie and Mary...the list goes on and on. Then there's my version. :)

Cheers,

Molly

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 12:51 AM

I think it was English or Irish and it had a lilting chorus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waiting by the shore?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 12:52 AM

LOLOL