Lyr Req: You Gave Me a Song (Alice Gerrard)

Subject: Lyr Req: You Gave Me a Song by Alice Gerrard
From: Janie
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:45 PM

This song returned to my mind in response to another thread and now I find I can remember the chorus and not much else. I couldn't find the lyrics with Google, the DT or 10,000 folksongs, but I am not very adept with using the web.

The chorus is

You gave me a song
About a place that I call home.
A song of then. A song of now.
A song of yet to come.

Thanks,

Janie

Subject: Lyr Add: YOU GAVE ME A SONG (Alice Gerrard)
From: Night Owl
Date: 07 May 03 - 06:58 PM

Hope this helps you relearn the song Janie.


We used to be a family
In our little cabin home
Whose windows they are broken
And whose chimney's dark and cold
But jobs were hard to find back then
It wasn't easy to survive
So one by one we all left home
To change our way of life.


I got a job in a factory
On that old assembly line
Gonna climb on up the hill
And leave my past behind
But the only climbing that I did
Was five flights up the stairs
And the past I thought I'd left behind
Went with me everywhere.
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   Chorus:

Cause you gave me a song
Of a place that I call home
A song of then
A song of now
A song of yet to come
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So here we are my past and me
A-working in this bar
Sing a song of broken hills
And streams that once ran clear
Sing a song of you my friend
Lonely like me
The city's taken all we had
But sweet sad memories.

But someday I'll go home again
Lord, it's been a long hard road
I'm not sayin' that I'll stay
But I know now if I go
I'm gonna take you on with me
And what you gave when I was young
Others held me for a while
But you held me all along

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repeat Chorus
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Gave Me a Song by Alice Gerrard
From: Janie
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:53 PM

Thanks a million Night Owl! Annie, Dani and I are getting together this weekend for our own little mudcat fest and we want to work this one up.

Janie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Gave Me a Song by Alice Gerrard
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:59 PM

Thanks from me as well, Night Owl. I haven't sung that one in a long while.

Charley Noble

Subject: Lyr Add: You Gave Me a Song by Alice Gerrard
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:38 PM

Add for Night Owl's post of 07 May 03 - 06:58 PM this thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You Gave Me a Song by Alice Gerrard
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 May 03 - 01:18 AM

Beautiful, but sad song, Night Owl. I'd love to hear you sing it for me sometime, so I can get the tune.:-)