Subject: Lyr Add: GLASGOW DAN (Gordon Menzies)
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Leadbelly
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:29 PM
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GLASGOW DAN
(Gordon Menzies)
His name was Glasgow Dan he was the old melodeon man
He sang his songs of peace and justice all across the land
He sang both rich and bold with a voice of liquid gold
Bringing happiness and teardrops to the eyes of young and old
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
He was born in Glasgow town with the shipyards all around
He gained his education from the gutter and the ground
But he listened and he cried with the music of the Clyde
Of the cockers and the platers and the turning of the tide
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
He was seventeen years old when he first took to the road
With a battered old melodeon and the sunlight for his load
For forty years or more he tramped from shore to shore
Singing songs and making music of the country and its lore
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
He wandered up and down singing songs from town to town
At markets and at fairgrounds in places of renown
And all he'd ever seek was a bed and a bite to eat
The crack beside the ingo and the dram before he'd sleep
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
He missed the mighty Boer and the Kaiser's bloody war
Then in thirty-nine they drafted him far from his native shore
When next he saw the Clyde there was shrapnel in his side
And his song were filled with sadness for the countless men who died
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
His name was Glasgow Dan he was the old melodeon man
But his heart was surely broken by the cruelties of man
So with winters cloak around he just lay down on the ground
Since he died his old melodeon hasn't made another sound
Glasgow Dan the music man
Singing songs and making music of his country
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