Lyr Req: The Routers? / Rout of the Blues

Subject: lyric req the routers
From: GUEST,martin
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 03:31 PM

I'm going nuts trying to find the English trad song that contains the line the routers have come for the blues any help would be great

Subject: RE: lyric req the routers
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 03:35 PM

I didn't realize that routers could get the blues.

Maybe if you used a blunt cutter ....

Murray

Subject: RE: lyric req the routers
From: GUEST,Martin
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 03:42 PM

I did think I may have misheard this one ,Murray . Meant to say that

Subject: RE: lyric req the routers
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 04:01 PM

Blunt tools notwithstanding, what you probably want is available in the thread The Rout Of The Blues

If you use that lovely box marked "Digitrad and Forum Search" and type in Rout of the Blues (or even Rout would probably do) and Go/return you'll find quite a few references to it in other discussion threads.

Mick

Subject: RE: lyric req the routers
From: Martin Boland
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 04:07 PM

Thanks so much Mick .I've been looking for this for days . Heard it from Martin Simpsons singing.Now I see the lyric I understand why I couldn't find it.Cheers

Subject: RE: lyric req the routers
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 07:33 AM

Yes, it's amusing the way that lyrics are often mis-heard. Obviously it should have been "The rout has now come for the blues".

I can remember that one old irishman at a folk club was forever asking me to sing a song about sailing round the coast of Ireland. He insisted that he'd heard me sing it and I couldn't think of any song of that description in my repertoire. One day I sang a well known McColl song and afterwards he said "That's the one - The Shores of Erin". Didn't say much for my diction though !