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17 May 07 - 10:56 AM (#2054653) Subject: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home From: Jimmy C Need the lyrics for this song. I believe it was written by Elvis Costello. ? |
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17 May 07 - 11:27 AM (#2054679) Subject: ADD: Long Journey Home (Costello/Moloney) From: Ernest Here you are: LONG JOURNEY HOME (Costello/Moloney) If on every ocean the ship is a throne and for each mast cut down a sapling is grown then I could believe that I´m bound ro find a better life than I left behind (CH)But as you ascend the ladder look out below where you tread for the colors bled as they overflowed red, white and blue green, white and gold So I had to leave from my cpuntry of birth as for each child grown tall another lies in the earth and for every rail we laid in the loam there`s a thousand miles on the long journey home Chorus repeated CD booklet names Elvis Costello and Paddy Moloney as compoers, liner-notes indicate that E.C. wrote the lyrics. Great Song! Best Ernest |
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17 May 07 - 11:32 AM (#2054686) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home From: GUEST There's also another song variously called your lone journey home or your long journey home written by Doc Watson and his wife. |
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17 May 07 - 01:20 PM (#2054771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Journey Home From: 12-stringer And another "My Long Journey Home" that was recorded by the Monroe Bros in the 1930s and is still a trad bluegrass standard; part of the group of interchangeable songs that includes "High Sheriff," "Deadheads and Suckers," "Cold Icy Floor," and "Gotta Travel On." |
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18 May 07 - 07:58 PM (#2056004) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Long Journey Home (Costello/Moloney) From: Jimmy C Thanks Ernest, that's the one. I hear he wrote it in 20 minutes sitting at a table drinking coffee. Guest and 12 Stringer, I will check out these others as well, Doc Watson is a favourite of mine and I met Bill Monroe in Toronto in late 1968. I was doing an afternoon workshop on Irish songs in Ireland compared to the same songs in Canada and how they had changed etc, It was at the Mariposa Folk Festival on Centre Island and he and his Boys were headlining on the big stage at night. A real nice gentleman. Thanks again |