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28 Mar 03 - 02:13 PM (#920635) Subject: Lyr Req: Stonecutter- James Keelaghan From: Jim Colbert Does anyone have the lyrics to this handy? I wanted to share it with someone and don't have the cd booklet with me. I do have the disc, so no need to go out of your way, but if anyone has it readily available... wonderful song... jim |
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28 Mar 03 - 02:18 PM (#920640) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stonecutter- James Keelaghan From: Clinton Hammond gimme 5 minutes Jim... |
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28 Mar 03 - 02:37 PM (#920657) Subject: Lyr Add: STONECUTTER (James Keelaghan) From: Clinton Hammond STONECUTTER James Keelaghan 2001 Tranquilla Music If you're down by Queen and Britain streets You'll find stonecutter's lane And the house that my Grandfather built Where I was born and raised My Granddad was a mason And my father in his time When my time came I signed As an apprentice lad The early 1900's were a rich fat afternoon We were cutting stone like demons No work was done too soon We were hired out on 7 jobs and so to take the slack We put out advertisments for Apprentice lads You'd never find a better crew Yes they knew what work was Cornices and Lintels They laid stone like they were gods To hear the hammers ring out You'd think it was a song In August 1914 In the sultry summer heat They took a vote in Ottawa The drums began to beat Honour, glory, us or them The story doesn't change To a man they all enlisted, My Apprentice lads I couldn't say that I agreed Yeah I knew what war was It was worker killing worker for Some politician's cause Off to battle they all marched They gasses them at Cambrai The dogs of war had done For my apprentice lads In 1916 fire broke out Parliament was razed The call went out for masons To rebuild and to re-lay The contract of a lifetime The house upon the hill They came out from Vancoubver They came down from Montreal Master masons everyone They were answering the call There was no mand under 30 No man whose work I didn't know The fields of France had swallowed The apprentice lads It's 1921 now I'm standing on the peak About to cap the Peace Tower off There's no one here can speak The morter for that stone we mixed With clay from Flander's Fields And laid it in it's place For those apprentice lads |
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31 Mar 03 - 12:00 PM (#922629) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stonecutter (James Keelaghan) From: Jim Colbert Thank you, sir... (what a great song!) jim |