Lyr/Chords ADD: The Man with the Cap (Colum Sands)

Subject: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sands
From: Walt Racker
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 12:03 PM

Greetings, I am looking for sheet music for Colm Sands "Man with a Cap," recorded on Mick Moloney's "Three Way Street" by Green Linnet. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Walt Racker [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sand
From: Den
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 12:15 PM

They said he was the strangest man
you'd ever want to meet.
He never liked the towns at all
and kept to the quiet streets

Sorry Walt can't remember the rest off the top of me head but I will post when I get home unless someone beats me to it. Den

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN WITH THE CAP (Colum Sands)
From: Den
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 06:13 PM

THE MAN WITH THE CAP
(Colum Sands)

They said he was the strangest man you'd ever want to meet.
He never liked the towns at all and kept to the quiet streets
But mostly he was in the fields he always wore a cap
The same one for a Sunday and for briardin' up a gap
And no one has a photo of this man
No one seemed to know his plan
He was lonely as a baby and as gentle as a child
And it seems he often spoke of Oscar Wilde

I mind we used to see him on the quiet summer nights
Standing by the roadside like a rabbit in the lights
He'd never wave just nod his head, he always wore a tie
Some people said that he was odd, others said just shy
And no one has a photo of this man

It seems he loved a girl one time but she must have gone away
Perhaps he was too quiet or too different in his way
He never bothered after that got careless with his looks
Forgot to shave for seven years and took to reading books
And no one has a photo of this man

I saw him in the cornfield sowing with his hand
He understood the weather and he understood the land
He always wore what once had been a three piece navy suit
The same one for the sowing as for standing up the stooks
And no one has a photo of this man

They say he'd stand for hours gazing at the hills
His bicycle beside him and both of them as still
As statues in the sunset no one knew his mind
But when he died they said that he was kind

We laid him down this morning the rain was falling fast
Those who thought they knew him were with him to the last
The priest was sprinkling prayers and holy water in the rain
And we said we'd hardly ever see the likes of him again
And no one has a photo of this man
And no one has a photo of this man
^^
Well there you go. If you need the chords let me know. Den

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIkmwQyATA

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sand
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 07:00 PM

Didn't we have a thread on this recently? Since I can't find it now, this is what Colum Sands said about the song when he did a gig in Kiel last year:

[1998:] This song is about my uncle (and three or four others). He never married. He thought about it till he was about seventy. By the time he was eighty he'd decided he wouldn't get married after all. He always had a bike with him. He never rode it, but pushed it. It was nice to have something to lean on. When the Russians and the Americans were doing their best to shoot rockets to the moon he once said to me, 'Why do they shoot their rockets up to the moon? You'd think they'd have enough sense to wait till the moon is just rising over the horizon so they only need to shoot them straight at the moon.' That's the kind of man he was. (Colum Sands, intro Kiel)

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sand
From: John of the Hill
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 07:06 PM

Susanne, This song always reminded me of some of the farmers I've known here in Southern Illinois, and the intro you sent adds to my enjoyment of it. John

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sand
From:
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 07:27 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Man with a Cap' by Colm Sand
From: Den
Date: 27 Sep 99 - 01:18 PM

This thread disappeared off the forum pretty quickly and I'm not sure if the person who posted the request for the lyrics ever received them. If you did its always nice to acknowledge the fact. Den not the fastest typer in the west.