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15 Nov 09 - 03:14 PM (#2766574) Subject: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: GUEST,Kevin I am looking for the lyrics to a song possibly by the spinners the only lines I can recall are From Glarston to Gladstone there were three mile of docks quays and cranes and gates and locks are you in the union (I)? I cried |
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15 Nov 09 - 03:16 PM (#2766575) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: Jim Carroll Don't know the song but the place is Garston - not Glarston Jim Carroll |
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16 Nov 09 - 05:44 AM (#2766835) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: banjoman I always reckoned that I knew most songs about liverpool but this one has me stumped. The words would seem to fit as an extra verse into "In my Liverpool Home" apart from the Are you in the Union bit. It may be worth having a look at some of the Spinners old recordings to see it its there. Good Hunting Pete |
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16 Nov 09 - 03:36 PM (#2767232) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: Les in Chorlton When me and me mates we left our school Their wasn't much work in Liverpool We went to the docks again and again They don't want lads they only want men ???????????? L in C |
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16 Nov 09 - 04:03 PM (#2767272) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Ask Jacqueline MacDonald. She was a Spinner in her youth, and lives now in the Lake Country. |
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02 Mar 11 - 11:43 AM (#3105656) Subject: Lyr Add: Dockers' Way From: GUEST,Richard I This is Dockers' Way, isn't it? Which I think is one of the Spinners' own songs, although I don't know for sure myself. When me and me mates we left our school There wasn't much work in Liverpool We went to the docks again and again But they don't staff lads, they only want men So I joined me dad and me grandad too Working on Gladstone gate number two The overtime's dear and I've got a good pen And I get along fine with the rest of the men From Garston to Gladstone there were ten miles of docks Quays and cranes and gates and locks 13,000 side by side Jones, O'Riley, Hughes, and McBride We'd talk of politics and the bomb The union and the things they'd done Religion and the scales of pay Conditions as they are today My grandad had to work and sweat All the hours that he could get But now machines are here to stay There's more time off and better pay Or so they say... |
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02 Mar 11 - 04:56 PM (#3105817) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners From: GUEST,Guest J Its on The Family of Man LP |
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14 Sep 22 - 11:12 AM (#4152466) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners-Garston to Gladstone From: GUEST,Bradders1038 I know this is many years after your first post but I was looking up the song myself and came across it. There is a YouTube clip which gives the tune and chords https://youtu.be/mpe9NKZeAPE |
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14 Sep 22 - 02:17 PM (#4152475) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinners-Garston to Gladstone From: GUEST,henryp And Jacqui McDonald appeared at the Lake District Folk Weekend in Staveley this summer! |