A man you don't meet every day

Subject: A man you don't meet every day
From:
Date: 26 Apr 97 - 07:35 AM

I'm looking for a record (CD, LP or Tape) of the Irish singer John McGrath. A friend of mine had an old tape named "A man you don't meet every day". Does anyone know an address of John or a place where I can get it? I will be pleased for a bootleg (only for privacy), too.

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From:
Date: 26 Apr 97 - 07:37 AM

Sorry, I forget to put my address to the header. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From: Susan of DT
Date: 27 Apr 97 - 06:56 PM

The song name is often "Jock Stewart" and lots of people have recorded it

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From: Barry Finn
Date: 02 May 97 - 09:52 PM

A couple of other verses not in the DT are; Ti's of't I have sat With both bottle and friend Is there any man could ask for more

Scotland my home I will leave in the morn So let's drink till the dawning of day

The casptan shanty "the First Of The Emigrants" or "Bound For Australia" uses 'So fll up your glasses and drink what you please no matter the damage I'll pay, so be easy and free whilst you're drinking with me I'm a man you don't meet every day', as it's chorus, with the last part (be easy &...) having the same melody.

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From: Ricky Rackin
Date: 05 May 97 - 08:20 PM

Now, now Barry, you KNOW that we [R&R Ashore] sing "Bound for Australia" to the tune that's "Believe Me if all those Endearing Young Charms" Ricky

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 May 97 - 09:49 PM

Yes you do Ricy, & I might add that the two of you do a great job of it, and we're I'm singing all over the northeast thaks to you, what a hell've song thanks. Buddy Barry

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 May 97 - 09:58 PM

I didn't mean that the whole shanty was sung to the same melody only the chorus, it's to nice of a gem for me to have messed with it like that. Barry

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From:
Date: 02 Jun 97 - 06:27 PM

The version of this I know and love appears on Scottish filksinger Archie Fisher's "Man with a Rhyme" album under the name Jock Stewart. It begins, "Well my name is Jock Stewart/I'm a canny gaun man/and a roving young fellow I've been/So be easy and free/when you're drinking wi' me/I'm a man you don't meet every day."

Fisher mentions in the liner notes that one of the verses begins, "Well I took out my gun/and my dog I did shoot/all down by the river today . . ." Fisher changed the lyric to "WITH my dog I did shoot," which he did, as the notes say, "to prevent the senseless killing of an animal."

Subject: RE: A man you don't meet every day
From:
Date: 02 Jun 97 - 06:43 PM

But you guys, as delightful a topic as "Jock Stewart" is, the original post is about how to find an album by John McGrath called "A Man You Don't Meet Every Day." Harald, I've had very good luck finding albums through Tayberry Music, which has a Web site. Perhaps other people can tell you of other sites. Good luck.