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09 May 01 - 02:16 AM (#458490) Subject: billy mcghee From: GUEST,pdubu I am looking for the lyrics for the song "Billy McGhee. This was released in 1974 on Vanguard label(VSD-79349) by The Country Gentlemen. The album is no longer in print. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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09 May 01 - 10:17 AM (#458646) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: billy mcghee From: Abby Sale Is that the same as the trad travesty "Billy MacGee Magaw?" If so, do a song title search on "Child #26" This is nearly identical to the version I have from Ed McCurdy. |
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09 May 01 - 06:39 PM (#459054) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: billy mcghee From: Sorcha ah, Abby, thank you. I found that one on a kid site--Kididdles, or something like that, but was not sure if it was the right one. Also went through the Gentlemen's discography track titles and didn't find it. There were several albums that didn't have track titles, tho. |
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10 May 01 - 12:55 AM (#459292) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: billy mcghee From: GUEST Billy McGee, the drummer boy will be sixteen today . . . That's all I remember. It's an American Civil War theme and might be a Pete Goble song. Maybe someone else can take the ball and run with it. |
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10 May 01 - 10:31 PM (#460122) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: billy mcghee From: GUEST,Pdubu To the guest that replied 10 may 01, Thats the one I'm looking for. If anyone else can help, I would appreciate it. |
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22 Nov 04 - 07:32 PM (#1335901) Subject: ADD: Billy McGhee (Leroy Drumm & Pete Gobel) From: Joe Offer Well, I have most of it figured out. Can anybody fill in the blanks? -Joe Offer- Billy McGhee (Leroy Drumm & Pete Gobel) Billy McGhee the drummer boy, [would] be sixteen today But he left his ma on a [run down south ??] to join the men in grey Blossoms on the apple trees, smell of the new-cut hay Won't be the same to me; Billy's gone to stay There was seventy-two brave young me Billy could call by name And all of them down to a man, died there in the rain The people had a song to sing when Dixie made her stand But all their lips are silent now, the Yankees rule the land CHORUS Billy boy, play your drum Daddy's proud of you, my son But there's one more battle to be won In the good Lord's army Three years have come and gone; I should have ploughed today But today would mark his sixteenth year; the tears are in my way No one laughs in open fields where Billy used to play I've lost my one and only son, and all the plans we made. The battlefield is silent now; the armies both have gone And the grave that marked the battle site of fifteen thousand strong Armies from the North and South killed with sword and gun But the boys who lay there in the ground [fall from .... sun???] CHORUS transcribed from The Country Gentlemen: The Complete Vanguard Recordings |
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12 Sep 08 - 05:17 PM (#2438735) Subject: RE: Req/Add: Billy McGhee (Leroy Drumm & Pete Gobel) From: GUEST But the boys who lie there in their graves are all one nations sons |
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02 Aug 10 - 12:07 AM (#2956484) Subject: Lyr Add: BILLY MCGHEE (Leroy Drumm & Pete Gobel) From: GUEST,R.Drumm ~ The Sound of Drumm's Music BILLY MCGHEE (Leroy Drumm & Pete Gobel)
Billy McGhee the drummer boy, would be sixteen today,
There was seventy-two brave young men Billy could call by name,
CHORUS: Billy boy, play your drum.
Three years have come and gone; I should have plowed today,
The battlefield is silent now; the armies both have gone, |