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Lyr Req: A Gentle Easy-Flowing River (A Clayre)
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Subject: Lyr Add: A GENTLY EASY FLOWING RIVER (A Clayre) From: GUEST,James Phillips Date: 16 Oct 21 - 07:09 PM Thought I'd add the lyrics for this charming song by the late Alasdair Clayre. I think I have most of it down for the first 4 verses (maybe some uncertainty in a couple of insignificant words) but as you can see, I have some uncertainty in the final verse. Any takers? You can hear the song here. Thanks! A Gentle Easy-Flowing River by Alasdair Clayre When you come afloat in the morning light And you're towing through the summer weather You use no clock but the ebb and flood tide It's a gentle easy-flowing river But when you're out on deck in the big spring gales And you hunch aboard your barge and shiver You go creeping slow against the weight of water With the ebb tide pushing down the river And it's cold on board in the winter dark And you think the night'll last forever And you crouch and wait below in your cabin Till the dawn tide takes you down the river And you're stood out there in the lightning storms When the big waves thump the boats together And the thunder shakes the steel below you And you're working on the open river Well it ebbs and floods with its rain (and oil?) When London's gone it'll flow on forever With the sea and the grime in its black salt water? It's a gentle easy-flowing river |
Subject: Chords Add: A GENTLY EASY FLOWING RIVER (A Clayre) From: GUEST,Don Meixner Date: 16 Oct 21 - 10:12 PM Alasdair Clayre's song as he did and as done by Gordon Bok have a few variations. What follows is the way I play it, The chords are based on Clayre's melody and not Boks bass heavy notation. I think how ever you choose to sing it really OK. The little lyric variables are folk process and just fine. A Gentle Easy Flowing River capo at 4 sounds in “B”
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Gentle Easy-Flowing River From: GUEST,Don Meixner Date: 16 Oct 21 - 10:14 PM Well that is certainly weird. Could a proctor please fix this for me? I have no clue what happened. Don
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Gentle Easy-Flowing River From: GUEST,James Phillips Date: 19 Oct 21 - 09:12 PM Those chords work. I play a loose sort of fingerpicking thing in DADEAE tuning which follows the melody. |
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