Subject: Second Class wait here From: Kathryn Date: 19 Mar 01 - 06:23 PM This is a great song from Australia, but I don't understand all the words on the CD. Does anyone know the words?? Thanks |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Second Class wait here From: Bugsy Date: 19 Mar 01 - 07:57 PM Do you mean you don't understand what the words are or what the words mean? CHeers Bugsy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Second Class wait here From: Bob Bolton Date: 19 Mar 01 - 09:17 PM G'day Kathryn, This is a setting of a poem by Henry Lawson ... pretty autobiographical, since it is based on his memories of working as a very much exploited "apprentice" painter at a coachbuilding works (usually dismissed when they grew too big to fit under the carriages they were painting). This is his reaction to being banished to the far (and cold) end of the station because of his 2nd-class ticket. Whose CD do you have it from? I have it on a local CD by Margaret Walters but that would be rare outside Australia. I can give you the words from my home machine, when i get home - if no one else gets in first. I don't know what tune you have, as i don't know who sings your version ... but you only need the words. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Second Class wait here From: Kathryn Date: 20 Mar 01 - 06:47 AM Thanks Bob, I didn't realize it was a Lawson poem. I heard it on "Trains of Treasure", an Aussie CD from the Rail,Tram and Bus Union Cultural Committee in Redfern. The CD had the first 2 verses printed but the rest werent and I have difficulty understanding several of the lines. Thanks also for the historical background. It helps clear up some of the concepts... Love the song!! Thanks for the info.
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Subject: Lyr Add: SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE (Henry Lawson) From: Bob Bolton Date: 20 Mar 01 - 07:16 AM G'day Kathryn, Here are the words, scanned in from Chris Kempster's beaut book The Songs of Henry Lawson, Viking O'Neill, Ringwood, Victoria, 1989:
SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE Lawson's words are public domain, as he died in 1922, but the tune Margaret sings on Trains of Treasure (and also her own CD for the Future and the Past) is by Tony Miles, 1981. I notice that Brian Dunnett, who put the Trains of Treasure CD together, also wrote his own tune in 1985. (Both are in Chris's book.) Regards, Bob Bolton
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Second Class wait here From: Bob Bolton Date: 21 Mar 01 - 03:31 AM G'day again Kathryn, I just telephoned Margaret Walters, and she said she will email her particular edit of Lawson's words to me. I will post these when they arrive. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: Lyr Add: SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE (Henry Lawson) From: Bob Bolton Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:44 PM G'day yet again,
Here is the version as sung by Margaret Walters (with the tune by Tony Miles 1981)on her album For the Future and the Past Margaret tells me that she put down six tracks for her new solo album with musicians Kim Poole, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan - 3 songs by John Warner (her partner as Walters & Warner) and 3 traditional, so far. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Second Class wait here From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 22 Mar 01 - 01:00 PM Way back in the early seventies I was taking the Dublin/Holyhead ferry one night. There was still a "first class" and "second class" division on the boat at that time. It was the early days of the IRA campaign and there had been a rash of hoax bomb scares. I arrived on the quay to find a large crowd being shepherded off the boat and back to the waiting rooms. On enquiring, I was told "There's a bomb scare!" The crowd were the second class passengers only - the first class had been left, presumably, in the bar. "We didn't want to disturb them." said one of the staff! Always struck me as an example of what we call "an Irish solution to an Irish problem". Regards |
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