Subject: Pills of White Mercury, Old Blind Dogs From: DonMeixner Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:19 PM Hello All, Can anyone help with this? I keep getting tied up with the million other versions of Bang The Drum Slowly that I'm lost with this one. Probably really simple too. Don |
Subject: Lyr Add: PILLS OF WHITE MERCURY (Old Blind Dogs) From: Clinton Hammond Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:28 PM I can get ya lyrics mate... that help?
As I was a walking by the banks o' the Ugie,
The mercury was beating. The limestone was reeking.
CHORUS: And had she but told me, oh, when she dishonored me,
My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided:
It's down on the corner two flash girls were talking.
Oh doctor, dear doctor, before your departure,
Now get you six fellows to carry my coffin, ;-) |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: DonMeixner Date: 17 Dec 01 - 11:32 PM Thanks Clinton, thats a start. :-) Don |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 01 - 12:13 AM Hi, Clinton - where'd you get those lyrics? -Joe, trying to document sources for DT- |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: DonMeixner Date: 18 Dec 01 - 12:24 AM Joe, they are directly from the Old Blind Dogs CD. I have them at home too. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Clinton Hammond Date: 18 Dec 01 - 12:26 AM Actually I copied and pasted them from the mb at the OBD web site... but I guess that whoever posted 'em there took 'em from the cd liner... ;-) |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Greg F. Date: 18 Dec 01 - 04:48 PM More HERE |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 01 - 05:04 PM Also see The Unfortunate Rake in the Digital Tradition. Who woulda thunk this song was so old? Is the tune the same as "Streets of Laredo"? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 18 Dec 01 - 05:09 PM The same set is also in the DT, for that matter, though no source is named: PILLS OF WHITE MERCURY
See also Pills of White Mercury
It's come up in a number of past discussions. What nobody has got round to telling us yet is whether or not the liner notes reveal where they got it... |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Susanne (skw) Date: 18 Dec 01 - 06:36 PM I don't think so, Malcolm. I got the loan of 'Tall Tails' once and didn't copy any notes for the song, which I'm sure I would have done had a source been mentioned. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE YOUNG GIRL CUT DOWN IN HER PRIME From: Herga Kitty Date: 18 Dec 01 - 06:44 PM There's a girlie version ("THE YOUNG GIRL CUT DOWN IN HER PRIME") as the last song in the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. I can't remember where I got this particular girlie version from because I've been singing it for so long, but it has pills of white mercury too:
As I was a-walking one midsummer's morning,
Oh mother, oh mother, come sit you down by me.
Oh daughter, oh daughter, why didn't you tell me?
Oh doctor, oh doctor, come wash up your bottles.
Get six jolly fellows to carry my coffin,
Come rattle your drums and play your fifes lowly. Kitty |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 18 Dec 01 - 07:37 PM The Penguin set was posted here a year back, as were all the songs from the Penguin book. I added a list of most of the the relevant references in the DT and Forum at the time, together with some at other sites: Penguin: The Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Snuffy Date: 18 Dec 01 - 08:04 PM If you type LAREDS* into the Digitrad Lyric Search box, you will get at least 20 versions of Streets of Laredo/Young ??? Cut Down In His/Her Prime/etc right here in the DT database . WassaiL! V |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: GUEST,Wayne Bean Date: 09 Jan 02 - 12:44 PM The STD in question that is left blank in the lyric above is the "Glyn": "Bad luck to the girlie that gave him the glyn" As I understand, this is Scots for syphilis. There is a dynamite rendition on "Half Ower, Half Ower tae Aberdour, Traditions Bearers Records, LTCD1006 by Jack Beck. The tune is also the one to "The Road to Dundee" another Scots song. Streets of Laredo is a direct derivitive. Wayne Bean |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury, Old B From: Willa Date: 09 Jan 02 - 07:08 PM herga Kitty; the version you posted is , with minor variations, the one sung by Norma Waterson onTopic CD (TSCD507, A True-Hearted Girl), a re-issue of a 1977 recording |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords: Pills of White Mercury, Old Blind Dogs From: michaelr Date: 23 Apr 05 - 01:06 PM Here's what Ian Benzie wrote in the liner notes ("Tall Tails", Lochshore, 1994): "I learned the song from the singing of Peter Hall of the Gaugers who performed it at the Aberdeen Folk Club several years ago." Cheers, Michael |
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