22 May 02 - 03:39 PM (#715559) Subject: Dancing Days From: Harry Basnett Can anyone help with the lyrics for this song? The version I heard many moons ago was by the McCalmans and the chorus went something like:- The journeyman fiddlers hands are stilled No more he'll play the rover. The piper sleeps beneath the hill The dancing days are over. Thanks...... Harry. |
22 May 02 - 04:37 PM (#715593) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: Sorcha Lots of McCalman's lyrics here, but nothing by that title. Only thing I found with that title is Led Zepplin and it is not about a fiddler et. al..... |
22 May 02 - 05:18 PM (#715627) Subject: Lyr Add: DANCING DAYS (John Conolly / Bill Meek) From: Susanne (skw) I thought I'd posted it, but was thinking of an entirely different song. So here you are: DANCING DAYS (John Conolly / Bill Meek) Chorus: The journeyman fiddler's hand is still No more he'll play the rover The piper sleeps beneath the hill And dancing days are over When we were lads of long ago the dance was all our pleasure The lively breaks and the friendly face, the music and the measure 'Twas in and out and round about and swing her down the middle The rousing ranting rattling drum, the music of the whistle And in the gloomy winter day the sky was like a cinder My boots along the alleyway, they ran like flint and tinder I danced to drive the dark away, to break the ties that bound me And through the mirk and through the rain the sparks they danced around me The dancing days are dying now, the music loud and crazy The lads and lassies don't know how to move their bodies easy There ain't the men to make the tunes, there ain't the boys to play them A bunch of boys to make a noise and fifty fools to pay them Five and forty years are gone since we were lads and leaping The dancing feet are weary now, the smiling eyes are weeping Where are the dancing Englishmen who sang for celebration When England learns to dance again she'll prove a wiser nation |
23 May 02 - 04:23 PM (#716347) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: Harry Basnett Thank you very, very much. All the best...........Harry. |
23 May 02 - 04:34 PM (#716359) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: Desert Dancer Tune?? ~ Becky in Tucson |
04 Sep 23 - 01:56 PM (#4180614) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GUEST,Harry Basnett 21 years later I’ve actually got around to learning it .. ?? |
04 Sep 23 - 01:56 PM (#4187247) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GUEST,Harry Basnett 21 years later I’ve actually got around to learning it .. ?? |
05 Sep 23 - 06:23 AM (#4187248) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GUEST,watcher when I read the lyrics I immediately fit them to "Brighton Camp" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB14J57gUnc I've usually heard it as a morris tune but also at ceilidhs. |
05 Sep 23 - 06:23 AM (#4180659) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GUEST,watcher when I read the lyrics I immediately fit them to "Brighton Camp" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB14J57gUnc I've usually heard it as a morris tune but also at ceilidhs. |
09 Sep 23 - 12:16 PM (#4181096) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GeoffLawes McCalmans " Dancing Days " on Bandcamp https://mccalmans.bandcamp.com/album/side-by-side-by-side-1977 |
09 Sep 23 - 12:16 PM (#4187249) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing Days From: GeoffLawes McCalmans " Dancing Days " on Bandcamp https://mccalmans.bandcamp.com/album/side-by-side-by-side-1977 |