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Tune Req: Ghosts (Colin Bargery)
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Subject: Tune to Ghosts by Colin Bargery From: GUEST,GUEST - Laurel Swift Date: 14 May 09 - 09:57 AM Hi there, I'm trying to locate the tune for a song called Ghosts that was written by Colin Bargery around 1980. (I'm hoping that the Colin from this thread might be the same chap, if so, hello!) I found the lyrics on the Inland Waterways website and wondered if it's possible to get hold of a recording, or even notation. Cheers v much! Laurel Swift |
Subject: RE: tune req: Ghosts by Colin Bargery From: Joe Offer Date: 14 May 09 - 09:33 PM Hi, Laurel - I e-mailed Colin and asked him to stop by this thread. -Joe Offer, Forum Moderator- joe@mudcat.org I found the lyrics at "Songs of the Inland Waterways, http://www.waterwaysongs.co.uk/ghosts.htm. GHOSTS Our names are not in history books We are in the space between the pages What lay within our muddied skin No-one cared and no-one wondered Our chroniclers were the inky clerks Who kept the record of our wages And the checking men who counted us Yet counted we remain un-numbered Our deeds are in between the rows Of numbers in the calculations Of rates of pay and yards per day And in jottings made by engineers Our lives are measured in the length, The depth and breadth of navigation The locks and bridges that we made To damn our sweat and span our years Our deaths are buried in reports Of soft earth that the rain made softer Of falling rock, collapsing locks And disease among the workmen's huts Our headstones are the registers Of costs against the parish coffers So much to pay the parson's fee So much to dig the six-foot cut Our memorial is in the bricks The banks, the puddle and the mortar Our cenotaph is the towing path Where now you take your recreation And our requiem is in the breeze That whispers on the silent water We leave no fame We leave no name But we have left the navigation |
Subject: RE: tune req: Ghosts by Colin Bargery From: GUEST,Laurel Swift Date: 15 May 09 - 10:03 AM Thanks Joe, very much appreciated! Laurel |
Subject: RE: tune req: Ghosts by Colin Bargery From: Joe Offer Date: 15 May 09 - 03:33 PM Colin e-mailed and said he didn't write the tune. He asked the composer, Graham Goffee, to stop by and submit the tune. I hope he does. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: tune req: Ghosts by Colin Bargery From: GUEST,Laurel Swift Date: 18 May 09 - 06:05 AM That's great Joe and Ian, thanks very much! Laurel |
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