Lyr Req: Rolling Home (John Tams)

Subject: RE: Lyric request Rolling Home?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 14 Nov 96 - 06:01 PM

Hi John- I stand corrected(in a corner). But now that you found it, why not post a copy here and share it with everybody? That's the way the Digital Tradition grows!

Subject: RE: Lyric request Rolling Home?
From: John Pomeroy
Date: 14 Nov 96 - 02:18 PM

Thanks Tony, I found it on a roy Bailey Album "What you do with what you've got" Fuse Records And thanks also Dick, But I knew it could,nt be "Ive got sixpence". My father used to sing that when I were a lad growing up in Somerset. It did,nt have quite the political edge of the song I heard at Kirklington!.

Subject: RE: Lyric request Rolling Home?
From: Tony Fry
Date: 06 Nov 96 - 11:20 AM

I think John is talking about "Rolling Home" by John Tams (often sung by Roy Bailey). I'll try to post the lyrics later (ie from home and not work) as its quite lengthy. If I don't manage to do it, look for it on albums by either of the above two performers.

Subject: RE: Lyric request Rolling Home?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Oct 96 - 06:54 PM

It's usually called I've Got Sixpence. It's in The Digital Tradition.

Subject: Lyric request Rolling Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 96 - 10:20 AM

I have heard this song sung once only at the Kirklington Lamb & Ale feast in Oxfordshire.. It appears to be about farm labourers forming a union. I think each verse ends with -- when we go rolling home and the chorus is -- Rolling home, when we go rolling home, rolling, rolling, when we go rolling home. Can anybody help?

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