Lyr ADD: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover

Subject: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,Sam
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 07:32 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,sam
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 07:33 AM

I remeber Andy sung: "I spent all my money on whiskey and beer" like the texts I've found.

But he sung:
In all my wild roven just 1 thing was wrong,
The days were too short and the days were too long,

and
"Last night i was free, these were the last words that she said to me".

Anyone?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 04:51 PM

I've heard Andy M. Stewart sing this, and I don't recall a verse such as this. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Jim Lad
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 10:07 PM

Andy M Stewart or the real Andy Stewart?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 12:38 AM

The REAL Andy Stewart?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 01:09 AM

Och aye!

Troosers

LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Jim Lad
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 02:03 AM

Why do you think the other one had to insert the "M"?
Seriously though; The question is unclear. I thought the guest "Sam" was referring to Andy Stewart.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,Sam
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 03:24 PM

Yes , I was referring to the real Andy Stewart (without M)

Anyone got the lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 03:39 PM

Okay - so the "M" stands for "Makebelieve"? Or, 'Maginary?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 08:48 AM

Allmusic.com calls him Andy B. Stewart, but as far as I know, he always recorded as Andy Stewart.

The only recording of WILD ROVER that Allmusic.com lists for Andy Stewart is this medley:

My Ain Hoose/Westering Home/Wild Mountain Thyme/Horee-Horo/Wild Rover

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:08 AM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lbftJf7KOOg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Kenneth Ingham
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 12:20 PM

I went into an alehouse I used to frequent
Told the landlady I was a tight scotchman
Piss off she said we don't want mean porridge quaffers here
I saw an englishman and cadged a pint of beer

And it's no nay never, never pay for your beer
For I'll get out me wallet no never nay more

I hate catholics and I've got ginger hair
A nasty bigot you cannot compare
I'd go to my parents but the hate me too
So I'll get drunk and curse the pope dressed in blue

And it's no nay never, never pay for your beer
For I'll get out me wallet no never nay more

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: GUEST,Murray on Salt Spring
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:34 PM

Kenneth - a good one!!
But what ARE AS's words to the song??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild rover
From: Jim Lad
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 12:42 AM

Thank you Kenneth and may The Good Lord bless and keep you always. In the name of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, Amen.


That's a wee blessing from a Catholic, straight to you.
You can't wash it off or spit it out.
You are, I'm pleased to say, stuck with it. (At least until you learn how to pass it on.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 01:17 PM

Kenneth I beleeve that was recorded by sis vishus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST,Sam
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 05:49 PM

I've found the Wild Rover song with Andy on the "20 Scottish favourties" cd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/20-Scottish-Favourites-Andy-Stewart/dp/B00005BCHZ).
I would really love if I could get this, thank you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 02:58 PM

No wonder I couldn't find it. He spells it as one word: Wildrover. Who woulda thunk it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: Jim Lad
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 05:06 PM

Wil Drover?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 07 - 03:17 PM

Hello!
I think this is the right place.
What does Wild Rover mean?
I don't reallt understand it.

Subject: More than one Andy
From: OtherDave
Date: 24 Aug 07 - 04:01 PM

People who only know Andy M. Stewart, formerly of Silly Wizard, may never have heard (or heard of) another Scottish singer with the easily confused name of Andy Stewart. Andy No-M, as I'll call him here, was an entertainer who worked the same vein as Sir Harry Lauder before him -- a heavy bundle of tartan enthusiasm and not a little Scottoonery.

(Look for "Andy Stewart" on Wikipedia, and you'll get a page that makes the distinction between Andy M of Silly Wizard and Andy No-M, as well as several other, non-singing Stewarts.)

Andy No-M, who died at 59 in 1993, is perhaps most famous for the comic song, "Donald, Whar's Yer Troosers?" along with other "traditional favo(u)rites" like "A Scottish Soldier."

(By way of analogy, had he been Irish, Andy No-M might have been much likelier to sing "Danny Boy" than "Four Green Fields.")

Silly Wizard Andy's middle name is MacGregor; he may have adopted the "M" as a way of making clear, at least to Scottish audiences, that he was not their father's Andy Stewart.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 25 Aug 07 - 10:39 PM

Quite simply, the older Andy Stewart was much better known; and still is. Andy 'M' needed to establish a separate identity for himself.

This tends to confuse newcomers, who typically have no idea at all about it, imagining that their limited experience (they have generally only heard of Andy 'M') is all that there is.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: OtherDave
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 02:10 AM

Too true, Malcolm.

Did you know that Paul McCartney used to be in a band called Wings?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 07:38 AM

I also liked AS version of "The Wild Rover".
I get the feeling that it's about a wanderer who has tried to stop drink all his life, but never succeeded. It was long ago since I heard it, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST,Sam
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 12:57 PM

Hello again!
Thank you for all answers.
I think one verse is like this:

I've travelled all over through city and town,
Ah, the prices goes up and the whisky goes down.
In all my wild rovin' just one thing was wrong,
Oh, the nights were too short and the days were too long.

Any help would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST,Lyrics
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 12:25 PM

I've been singing this version of Wild Rover for over 40 years - I must've learned it off Andy Stewart's record because I can't find these same verses anywhere else. I may be missing a verse? That's how I found this thread, I was looking for the lyrics. Here is what I remember:

I've been a wild rover for many's a year
And I spent all me money on whiskey and beer
There's girls that I've kissed now, a dozen or more
Och, there may have been others, but who's keepin score

And it's no, nay, never...

I've traveled all over through city and town
Ah, the prices go up and the whisky goes down
In all my wild rovin' just one thing was wrong
Oh, the nights were too short and the days were too long

And it's no, nay, never...

For now I can hear them, the wedding bells chime
Aye and one bonnie lassie is gonna be mine
Last night I was with her, last night I was free
Ah, but these are the last words that she said to me

She said NO, NAY, NEVER, no nay never no more
And YOU'LL play the wild rover no never, no more

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 01:45 PM

I went to a toilet I used to frequent
and I told thw attendant my penny was bent
I asked him for credit, he just shook his mitt
saying 'If you've no money, you'll get no cred-it'

(as I recall it)

                              Matt McGinn- 1960s?

nb this last word can be altered depending on venue

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy Stewart's version of Wild Rover
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 03:11 AM

In the Sixties I 'used to frequent' a folk club in Edinburgh. I loved this song, and in the chorus (when you clap four times) we used to shout "Right up yer KILT!" Being half-Irish, I loved the Dubliners singing this too.