Lyr ADD: English Ale (Harvey Andrews)

Subject: English Ale
From: Abuwood
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 01:07 PM

When the summer sun is shining

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English Ale oh English Ale, How we love our English Ale Fill your glass and toast their glory With a taste of English Ale

Any one got the words to this one?

It was on my Johnny Collins CD which was stolen from my car

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 07:40 PM

I saw this earlier, but had to go out, and thought it would have been answered by now. If noone posts the words before then, I'll post them tomorrow (Too late for me to do it now!)

Mick

Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: ENGLISH ALE (Harvey Andrews)
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 07:50 AM

Here's the version as sung by Johnny Collins on Pedlar of Songs (I do love the guitar on the title track of that album ;-)). I haven't noticed Harvey around on Mudcat lately, but if he is I hope he doesn't mind me posting this - he may even have some corrections!

Mick

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ENGLISH ALE
Harvey Andrews

  When the Summer sun is shining England's finest hour is seen,
  When the ripening barley's waving, yellow in its frame of green,
  When the bird-song welcomes evening, when the sky is turning pale
  Fill your glass and toast their glory with a taste of English ale.
    Chorus:
    English ale, O English ale, How we love our English ale.
    Fill your glass and toast their glory with a taste of English ale.
  
  When the Autumn leaves are golden, when the evening air is chill,
  When the swallows leave us for a place where there is Summer still
  Just remember their returning, like the tides they never fail.
  Fill your glass and toast their glory with a taste of English ale.
  
  When the Winter brings us snowstorms, when the wind blows ill for all,
  When Jack Frost hangs at your window and the nights too quickly fall
  There's a log fire warmly burning in the fens and in the dale.
  Fill your glass and toast their glory with a taste of English ale.
  
  When the Spring begins to quicken, when new scents are on the air,
  When the sleepers stir and waken, when the land again is fair
  Then the old men talk of childhood, old men tell such wondrous tales
  Fill their glass and toast their glory with a taste of English ale.
  

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  When the/ Sum-mer/ sun is/ shin-ing/ Eng-land's/ fin-est/ hour is/ seen,
  When the/ ri-pen-ing/ bar-ley's/ wav-ing,/ yel-low/ in its/ frame of/ green,
  When the/ bird-song/ wel-comes/ eve-ning,/ when the/ sky is/ turn-ing/ pale
  Fill your/ glass and/ toast their/ glo-ry/ with a/ taste of/ Eng-lish/ ale.//
    Eng-lish ale, O/ Eng-lish ale,/ How we love our/ Eng-lish ale./
    Fill your/ glass and/ toast their/ glo-ry/ with a/ taste of/ Eng-lish/ ale.//
  
  
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:26 AM

Mick - you are 'da man!"

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 08:43 AM

NWC file and midi sent to Joe Offer.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 11:23 AM

Harvey's too busy celebrating Birmingham City's latest signing -the Senegalese wonder boy Cisse (sp?)- I imagine... *grin*

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 03:26 PM

MCP

Well of course you loved the guitar on the title track of "Pedlar of Songs". You were playing it, and doing all that sparkly stuff without a capo..... except that was the Seagull, and you got to play the Lowden on "Now and Then".

It's always distressing when people steal things that are of value to you but probably not to them. I bet that whoever broke into Abuwood's car didn't appreciate the value of what they stole. (A bit like the people who stole a vanload of Fred Jordan's vinyl "The Frost is on the Pumpkin".)

Kitty

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 07:36 PM

MMario - you are, as usual, too kind.

HergaKitty - Since I've gone into the Witness Protection Program I am allowed no more than the most oblique reference to my previous life.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: Abuwood
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:15 PM

Thanks Mick, thats the one, !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: harvey andrews
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 03:45 PM

So, they steal Johnny Collins cds do they? Someone recently told me their car was stolen and when they got it back all their tapes had gone except two of mine!!!

It's interesting to see the folk process at work on this lyric already.The verse quoted is;

When the Winter brings us snowstorms,
when the wind blows ill for all,
When Jack Frost hangs at your window
and the nights too quickly fall
There's a log fire warmly burning
in the fens and in the dale.

My original verse is;

when the winter brings the snowstorm
when Jack Frost is lord of all
when the winds howl at your window
and the nights too quickly fall
there's a log fire warmly burning
on the hill or in the dale

I think the original verse is the better of the two simply because I don't so much like the image of Jack Frost hanging at the window.. but I think it's great the way hill has become fens, so appropriating the song for a partcular area of England.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 06:26 PM

I think fens is Johnny steering it gently to his Norfolk roots.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English Ale
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 May 21 - 05:46 PM

Here's the Harvey Andrews recording of this song:

https://music.harveyandrews.com/track/english-ale