Subject: RE: Peter Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: GUEST,sortaottery Date: 26 Apr 24 - 12:13 PM My latest earworm is Bellamy's setting of Gethsemane. I'm working in a strongly and stupidly hierarchical organisation, and a couple of lines make me smile: The officer sat on the chair, The men lay on the grass, And all the time we halted there I prayed my cup might pass. I can always comfort myself that whatever blödsinn does happen (which will be bureaucratic, office political, and of a nature involving no bloodsports at all), it will count as nothing in comparison to Picardy 1915. |
Subject: ADD: Pilgrim's Way (Rudyard Kipling) From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Apr 24 - 05:24 PM Thread #16140 Message #148840 Posted By: Jeri 13-Dec-99 - 02:02 PM Thread Name: Apologies . . Subject: ADD: A Pilgrim's Way (Kipling)
There is a song Cockersdale sing. (Magnificently) The words are by Rudyard Kipling, tune by Peter Bellamy. I got the words from Poet's Corner |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Charley Noble Date: 10 Feb 11 - 08:41 AM Doc Tom- Quite correct on that verse, correlated with what I have in my literary reference. I'm not sure where I found that other version on the internet. "Roll really down to Rio!" is a line almost impossible to sing. We generally substitute "Roll down—roll down to Rio!" from the above verse. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:00 AM Sir Richard's Song indeed. Look out for a cracking version from Trembling Bells on the new Oak Ash & Thorn CD (reviewed in current fRoots I believe). Crow Sister sings this beautifully too. * Out of another age, Rolling Down to Rio as sung by Peter Dawson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp4g-qt0TgU * For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble, The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve Legend has it that PB routinely rendered this as joints that you roll... |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: InOBU Date: 10 Feb 11 - 03:40 AM If I remember correctly, isn't ... oh what's the proper name, Sir Richard's Ballad?... Kipling? ( and all you wags out there saying, "Dunno, I've never kippled..." - beat ya to it... " Lovely song anyway... I followed my Duke, ere I was a lover to take from England, both feif and fee... All the best Lor |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Feb 11 - 02:32 AM In Kipling's book, the poem is untitled—it just closes the story "The Beginning of the Armadilloes" (and isn't the only poetry therein). Bellamy titled the song "Roll Down to Rio" on Keep on Kipling; I'm not sure why Boden added the -ing. |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: doc.tom Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:54 AM I think you'll find the verse goes: I've never seen a Jaguar, Nor yet an Armadill— O dilloing in his armour, And I s'pose I never will, Otherwise it loses it's point! |
Subject: ADD: The Beginning of the Armadilloes (Kipling) From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Feb 11 - 12:03 AM Jon Boden calls this song "Rolling Down to Rio," and has it as the song for February 10 in his A Folk Song a Day project. Are these the complete and correct lyrics?
Thread #103971 Message #2125940 Posted By: Charley Noble 15-Aug-07 - 08:58 AM Thread Name: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. Tom- Reinhard's transcription is here (click) |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Jack Blandiver Date: 16 Nov 07 - 09:00 AM Methinks a petition to DT to correct the title is in order; and maybe advise caution on the 'chorus' directions... |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 16 Nov 07 - 04:32 AM That page was copied directly (though without attribution) from an earlier iteration of the DT; as is a great deal of the material at that site. The DT file: A Present from the Gentlemen now includes better credits, though the title is still wrong. |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Jack Blandiver Date: 16 Nov 07 - 04:03 AM Here's a clicky for that link: Present from the Gentlemen Yes indeed, this is Kipling, though bafflingly uncredited, and mistitled! This is, of course, A Smuggler's Song , from Puck of Pooks Hill and set by Peter Bellamy on his 1972 album Merlin's Isle of Gramarye (availability Status : Hen's Teeth). |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: topical tom Date: 15 Nov 07 - 09:27 PM I think this song belongs in this category. I find it a particularly delightful one.http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Present_From_the_Gentlemen.htm Sorry! I haven't mastered the blue clicky yet! |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Desert Dancer Date: 15 Nov 07 - 04:04 PM In the U.S., many were recorded by English ex-pats John Roberts & Tony Barrand on "Naulakha Redux". See Golden Hind Music. ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: Lyr Add: BIG STEAMERS (Rudyard Kipling) From: the button Date: 15 Nov 07 - 09:59 AM The version of "Big Steamers" on that live CD is one of his best performances, I reckon. Must be one of my most-played discs in recent months. Lyrics added by Joe Offer:
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Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: folk_radio_uk Date: 15 Nov 07 - 09:24 AM Thanks for those links Sedayne |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Jack Blandiver Date: 15 Nov 07 - 08:25 AM Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling and the Tradition ...which is only the one available on CD (!!) - this is a double set on Fellside which includes Peter Bellamy's 'Keep on Kipling' and 'Songs and Rummy Conjurin' Tricks' albums, plus lots of extras. The first disk is a studio album, exclusively Kipling (including My Boy Jack, The Land, A Pilgrims Way & reworkings of some of the earlier songs from Oak Ash & Thorn etc), and the second disk is a superlative live set with a mix of Kipling (Cholera Camp) and traditional Songs. For the record Bellamy released (I think) six Kipling albums: Oak, Ash and Thorn Merlin's Isle of Gramarye Barrack Room Ballads Keep on Kipling Soldiers Three Mr Kipling Made Exceedingy Good Songs For further details see: Peter Bellamy - A Celebration |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: folk_radio_uk Date: 15 Nov 07 - 06:51 AM That's the one Les, thanks so much. She'll be chuffed with this. Alex |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: r.padgett Date: 15 Nov 07 - 06:14 AM "Widow's Uniform" CD from memory had Peter's arrangements Ray |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Les in Chorlton Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:57 AM http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&q=Bellamy+sings+Kipling&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&um=1&ie=UTF-8 http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&q=Bellamy+sings+Kipling&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&um=1&ie=UTF-8 |
Subject: RE: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: Les in Chorlton Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:45 AM Yes lots. Off the top of my head Oak, Ash and Thorn and Barrack Room Ballads were excellent |
Subject: Pete Bellamy and Rudyard Kipling From: folk_radio_uk Date: 15 Nov 07 - 05:34 AM Hi there Something you may be able to help with, a member of my forum on Folk Radio UK asked about Pete Bellamy's campaign to record and publish lots of Kipling's poetry in song form. This is going back a bit. I don't know anything about it, do any of yu know whether it actually happened? Thanks Alex |
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