19 Jul 03 - 02:32 PM (#986646) Subject: Words req. Road thru'the woo From: yrlancslad Hi Just been hit by what a great song/poem Bellamy/Kiplings road through the wood is but am having difficulty picking up some of the words. Can anyone help with a full set? Also the tune is awful close to Poverty Knock and also, in the beginning to Rose of my heart, Anyone got the music? Thanks Malcolm |
19 Jul 03 - 03:19 PM (#986665) Subject: ADD: The Road Through the Woods (Kipling) From: McGrath of Harlow Any collection of Kipling's verse would have it. Or just type the line into Google, of course - The Way through the Woods THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS (Rudyard Kipling) THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. Yet, if you enter the woods
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19 Jul 03 - 06:52 PM (#986724) Subject: RE: Words (and Tune?) req. Road thru'the woo From: McGrath of Harlow This link gives you Peter Bellamy talking about Kipling, and contains links to RealAudio sound files of various songs, including this one. They won't work for me, but you might be luckier. It's a site very well worth visiting anyway. |
20 Jul 03 - 09:10 PM (#987222) Subject: RE: Words (and Tune?) req. Road thru'the woo From: yrlancslad Thanks McGrath, Google came through again! Malcolm |