08 Nov 99 - 07:13 PM (#133409) Subject: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: KD Hi can you help me I have the Lyrics for this song got them from the Digitrad but can anyone give me the Chords please. many thanks KD |
08 Nov 99 - 10:07 PM (#133508) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: Malcolm Douglas If you can't work out an accompaniment for yourself, your best bet would be to get hold of a recording of the song by the man who wrote it. So far as I know, it was last issued by Cyril Tawney on cassette in 1990: "Sally Free And Easy", Neptune Tapes NEP002. It should still be available from Rosemary Tawney in the U.K. Telephone 0532 751489, last I heard. Malcolm |
08 Nov 99 - 10:29 PM (#133516) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: Mark Cohen It's best a capella, to my taste, but worth doing any way you can. There was a beautiful recording on the "Silly Sisters" LP in the 70's by Cilla Fisher and whatshername (ah, memory!), with fantastic two-part harmony and a kind of drone accompaniment. Haunting. The "Grey Funnel Line" refers to the Royal Navy, with a play on the names of steamship lines of an earlier day. |
08 Nov 99 - 10:42 PM (#133518) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: Barry Finn That fantastic what'shername Silly Sister was June Tabor & the other what'shername sister was Maddy Prior. It doesn't get much better than that. Barry |
09 Nov 99 - 01:10 AM (#133560) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: Stewie The most recent version I have seen on CD is Barry Dransfield 'Be Your Own Man' Rhiannon RHYD5003. It's great. Dransfield has the gift of making familiar songs sound new. |
09 Nov 99 - 08:04 AM (#133626) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: John Wood Another great version is the one with Delores Keane,Mary Black and Emmy Lou Harris! I heard it featured on a Delores Keane documentary. John. |
09 Nov 99 - 08:14 AM (#133630) Subject: Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE (Cyril Tawney) From: alison You usually hear this done unaccompanied but here's my guess at the chords, pick any key, and use ( I, IV, and V... in this case G, D & C)... chords in front of the words they fall on.....
(G)Don't mind the wind nor the rolling sea slainte alison
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09 Nov 99 - 12:50 PM (#133719) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: paddymac Our own beloved harpgirl does an absolutely beautiful rendition of this tune. Send her a personal and I'm sure she'd be happy to share chords with you. |
09 Nov 99 - 03:13 PM (#133768) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: KD Many thanks to you all Alison thanks for the starter for ten but paddymac I am a new boy how do I send a Personal and is Harpgirl her on line name???? KD |
10 Nov 99 - 12:22 AM (#133989) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE From: alison KD.... go to the top of this page to "quick links" and scroll down to "send a personal message" and yes harpgirl is her name. I think the reason you hear this unaccompanied so often is because it is such a great song to harmonise along with... slainte alison |
30 Mar 17 - 04:03 AM (#3847500) Subject: Lyr Add: GREY FUNNEL LINE (Cyril Tawney) From: Joe Offer For the record, these are the lyrics we have for this song. Any corrections? GREY FUNNEL LINE (Cyril Tawney) Don't mind the wind nor the rolling sea The weary night never worries me But the hardest time in a sailor's day Is to watch the sun as it fades away It's one more day on the grey funnel line The finest ship that sails the sea Is still a prison for the likes of me But give me wings like Noah's dove I'll fly up harbor to the one I love There was a time my heart was free Like a floating spar on the open sea But now that spar is washed ashore It comes to rest at my real love's door. Every time I gaze behind the screws Makes me long for St Peter's shoes I'd walk on down that silver lane And take my love in my arms again Oh Lord, if dreams were only real I'd have my hands on that wooden wheel And with all my heart I would turn her 'round And tell the boys that we're homeward bound I'll pass the time like some machine Until blue water turns to green Then I'll dance down that walk on shore And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more. And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more. Note: The Grey Funnel Line---the British Navy---went out to sea and stayed out for a long, long time. DE Copyright Dick James Music, Ltd. @sailor @home @love by Cyril Tawney recorded by Sara Grey, Lou Killen filename[ GREYFUNL TUNE FILE: GREYFUNL CLICK TO PLAY SOF, IP, JB
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30 Mar 17 - 12:07 PM (#3847608) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: Reinhard These are the verses printed in Cyril's own book "Grey Tunnel Line" and sung on his CD "Navy Cuts": Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea, The weary night never worries me. But the hardest time in sailor's day Is to watch the sun as it dies away. It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line. The finest ship that sailed the sea Is still a prison for the likes of me. But give me wings like Noah's dove, I'd fly up harbour to the girl I love. It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line. There was a time my heart was free Like a floating spar on the open sea. But now the spar is washed ashore, It comes to rest at my real love's door. It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line. Every time I gaze behind the screws Makes me long for old Peter's shoes. I'd walk right down that silver lane And take my love in my arms again. It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line. Oh Lord, if dreams were only real I'd have my hands on that wooden wheel. And with all my heart I'd turn her round And tell the boys that we're homeward bound. It's one more day on the Grey Funnel Line. I'll pass the time like some machine Until blue water turns to green. Then I'll dance on down that walk ashore And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more. And sail the Grey Funnel Line no more. |
30 Mar 17 - 04:22 PM (#3847653) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: Gurney I've always heard Cyril sing it 'as it DIVES away' and the gangplank as the walk-ashore. Cyril wasn't a bigot about his words in that he didn't sing his songs word-for-word every time, though. He sometimes 'danced on down that silver lane.' In ST peter's shoes. I suppose every-one knows about the 'spar' verse, how a club-member took it to America, and Cyril forgot it until someone brought it back many years later? |
30 Mar 17 - 05:16 PM (#3847664) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: Cool Beans I never heard, or heard of, the song until two nights ago when a couple sang it at an open mic. Now I read this. Freud said there are no coincidences but I'm hard-pressed to explain this one. |
30 Mar 17 - 05:53 PM (#3847675) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: RTim When he first recorded the song it didn't include the "Spar" Verse. It was Lou Killen that knew it and sang it to Tawney, who had forgotten he had written it!!! Tim Radford |
31 Mar 17 - 01:43 PM (#3847864) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: Tattie Bogle That would explain why someone in whose presence I sang asked "where the F did you get that crap?" Not crap, good verse IMHO! I agree that it's great unaccompanied but if I do sing it with guitar, I use dropped D which gives it a nice sonorous bass. |
02 Apr 24 - 04:32 AM (#4200274) Subject: RE: Origins: Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) From: GUEST I was just Googling to get the words, then remembered Mudcat. Fascinating the differences between how I hear it, how others hear it, how it's written here. Some parts make more sense now. So now I know it is "up harbour" instead of "on over". "spar" not "spark". Other versions I found just now, "Summer's sheen" (some machine), Walker shore (walk ashore), "Never would read" (never worried), --Longest Johns; Mary Black. What June Tabor has is pretty much the same as what is here. |