Lyr Add: Come With Me Love (Patrick Sky)

Subject: Lyr Add: COME WITH ME LOVE (Patrick Sky)
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 04:16 PM

Did a database and forum search and didn't see lyrics to this Patrick Sky song having been submitted before, so here it is:

Come With Me Love
Patrick Sky

Come with me love, and we will wander
Across the blue mountain and the meadow so fair
For you know in the morn I'm gonna be leavin'
But I will return, so wait for me there

Well, these are the words I said to my darlin'
These are the words that sealed my sad fate
I started to ramblin' and I started to gamblin'
Lost all that I had and now it's too late

Instrumental Break

And now I am old and my body is broken
And I sit and I watch as the years pass my door
And the joys that I have are the memories token
Of the girl that I loved and the words that I swore

Repeat first verse

This was on his first album from way back in '65.

SC

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 10:40 PM

Gosh, I haven't seen these lyrics since the late 1960's. I think somewhere in my old notebooks I did some folk-processing of this song. Oh, the notebook is right here on the shelf. Evidently I thought the last verse needed some rewording:

Now I am old and my body is broken
The years have all passed and leave me no rest
All that I love, I've long since forsakened -
All of my dreams and the girl I loved best.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 10:45 PM

One of my favorite guys..... Pat Sky. We probably ought to devote a thread to his stuff. We've posted quite a few here already.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 11:07 PM

I agree Spaw and thanks SP for the post.
I hope Bruce M. takes a look as he sure could offer up a bit. I still laugh like hell when I recall a the story you told us in the car Bruce. But that remains between us. But Bruce! Please come on board and share a story about Patrick for us.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 11:29 PM

I agree......Tell a tale Brucie!

There are a few Patrick Sky tunes on YouTube when he did Pete's Rainbow Quest program.........Click here for "Separation Blues." You'll love Seeger's comment at the end.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 12:23 AM

I think Catspaw and I have discussed this before.   We think Pat Sky is under appreciated today and has been for some time.

I first heard Pat Sky the same time I first heard Bruce. On the singer songwriter LP with Richard Farina and David Cohen. Bruce and Pat's song have stuck with me all these years. I remember one of the David Cohen songs and none of Richard Farina's. I am not saying their songs weren't good, they just didn't affect me like Bruce and Pat did.

Somewhere I have the Pat Sky song book. If I ever find it again I'll post some songs.

Don

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 09:46 AM

Pat Sky is one of the few artists that is just a regular person in dealing with the public. I e-mailed him a couple of years ago to the address he gives on his web site (which is primarily for the furtherance of his Uillean Pipes business) and asked about some of his 60s music. He got right back to me with answers w/o any overtones of having been bothered by idle questions from an old folkie like me.

SC

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 11:07 AM

Does anyone know if his first two records are available on CD yet? I remember looking in the past and not finding them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 11:17 AM

Patrick Sky is a gem as a writer, singer, performer and person. I have known Pat for about 40 years. Way back in NYC, he was very kind and encouraging to a kid who was starting to learn the ropes in music. There are few performers I study when they are on stage, but Pat is one I watch, listen to and heed. He is the guy who taught me about set pacing, change-ups and 'reading' an audience. I am indebted to him for showing me how to be 'professional' on stage and how to communicate with an audience.

Patrick is also an inventor. He invented the guitoilet.

He is the funniest man I ever met. The only guy who ever made me spew beer all over a table and fall to the floor laughing.

I should tell you about flashburn gunpowder. I have no idea where we were. I recall there were about six of us and we'd gone to the country for a weekend to someone's cabin. Patrick was gonna show me how to shoot a muzzle loader. There was some flashburn powder about which I knew nothing. My experiences with weapons had been pretty much restricted to the British .303, .22, FN C-1 and FN C-2 rifles, so I knew about gun safety and shooting. Little did I know . . . .

Pat was kind enough to try to explain about flashburn powder. However, at the best of times I ain't too bright, so Pat decided to show me instead.

With us that weekend was a fellow who will remain unnamed, but for whom Pat held a dislike. Adjectives to describe the dislike escape me. It bordered on--well, it was LOTS of dislike. Pat had noticed that the guy smoked, so he put an ounce or two of the powder in the bottom of an ashtray and when the guy asked for it, Pat passed it to him lickety split. The fellow then put his smoke into the ashtry to extingiush it. WHOOOOOSH. I will leave the rest to your imagination. It didn't end there. The fellow wanted to fire the muzzle loader. Pat laboriously explained how to hold the rifle, how to aim and that he should keep it firmly tucked into his shoulder. Pat also put the powder load in. I had never until that day seen anyone knocked flat on his ass from firing a rifle.

His social conscience is second to no one's, and his ability with song lyrics is remarkable. I love the guy. Always have and always will. He and I have been back in touch lately, and I have great hopes that we'll be able to touch base in real life in the next year or two.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Beer
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 11:58 AM

Thanks Bruce for sharing that. I sure do hope you two can meet up again. I'd love to be there to listen to your stories.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: bobad
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 12:09 PM

"I'd love to be there to listen to your stories."

Me too, maybe you can get Pat to your festival Ad, that would be something.

Wes, his first album was released on CD, but his second (A Harvest Of Gentle Clang?) as far as I know, was not.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 01:00 PM

Patrick Sky was an especially close friend and confident of Mississippi John Hurt, and served as producer on most if not all of the studio recordings John made in the '60s after his "rediscovery." As we determined recently in another thread, Pat played a bit of second guitar, quietly and dscreetly, on some of those MJH cuts.

I read somewhere that John considered Pat somewhat of a kindred soul, one of the few folks in that urban folk-revival world who seemed to share his rural/southern background.

Another thing that no one has mentioned: I'm pretty sure I remember references to Pat being of Native American heritage. Maybe only partially, I don't know.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: bobad
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 01:00 PM

Another Pat Sky hunting anecdote from the liner notes of his album "A Harvest Of Gentle Clang" written by Dave Van Ronk's then wife Terri:

"Patrick Sky's ambition in life is to have a wall solidly lined with Kentucky rifles. He has a few already and is constantly searching out new old rifles. He uses some of them, too. Like the time he and my husband went hunting. David had never gone shooting and he has an astigmatism. Patrick, however, insisted that he was a good shot. When he came to pick up Dave, he brought some strange kind of old musket that you stuff black powder into.

I called Patrick's manager and told him about the trip and the musket. We were still trying to figure out how to split the funeral expenses when two bedraggled men and two bedraggled squirrels marched in the door - and I'm still not sure which pair had had the worst of it."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 01:08 PM

Pat told me that ya didn't aim at the squirrel. Ya aimed at the branch it was perched on and killed it with secondary projectiles.

His ancestry is part Irish, part Creek.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 03:27 PM

Wesley S asked: "Does anyone know if his first two records are available on CD yet? I remember looking in the past and not finding them." Yes, the first album, just titled simply "Patrick Sky" is available or at least it was about a year ago when I finally got a CD copy to replace my old vinyl. The second "Harvest of Gentle Clang" wasn't commercially available last time I looked although a full internet search located some homemade copies on CD dubbed from the vinyl. I even e-mailed Pat about those since he hasn't ok'd anyone to commercially reproduce the entire album and to his knowledge, neither had Vanguard. You could tell these bootleggers were just that because the CD copies cost upwards of $75 to $100...too rich for me!
SC

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Beer
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 03:39 PM

I just went to E/bay for fun and you maybe be interested to know that there are three records listed for sale. One item finishes in 50 minutes.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 11:25 AM

I still have the Patrick Sky and Harvest of Gentle Clang records. In my younger days (before I became singer of mainly English traditional and trad-inspired songs and popular songs of the 20s-40s to mostly the neglect of the songs of the American singer-songwriters of my youth) many of the songs on those two LPs were part of my regular repertoire. I always enjoyed the sheer silliness of Separation Blues and I can still remember most of Many A Mile now - I sometimes sing bits of it to myself when I'm driving (we English don't have good road-songs!).

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Come With Me Love', Patrick Sky
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 07:36 PM

"Harvest of Gentle Clang" is my favorite of the two. It's an even more varied mix of songs than the first album. I think my favorite part though is not a song but a studio aside between two tracks when Pat announces, "And now...Mississippi John Hurt sings Gilbert and Sullivan." Then Hurt did...he sang "Gibert and Sullivannnnnnn!" It's a sophomoric joke but then I like that sort of thing.

SC