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Subject: Lyr. Req. Still Waters From: GUEST,Kees Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:43 PM Is there anyone who can help me to the lyrics of "Still Waters" by Ian Hartland. It is on a CD "Songs of the Waterways" by Jeff Dennison & Benny Graham. Thanks, Kees. |
Subject: RE: Lyr. Req. Still Waters From: Pene Azul Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:00 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Still Waters (Ian Hartland) From: Jim Dixon Date: 02 Jan 07 - 07:28 PM Refreshing a very old thread-- Sue Hartland and Ian Hartland now perform as a duo called The Harvesters. Their web site says STILL WATERS, by Ian Hartland, is on their album called "Pearls before Wine," 1995. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Still Waters (Ian Hartland) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 03 Dec 07 - 04:50 AM |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Still Waters (Ian Hartland) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 03 Dec 07 - 04:53 AM Rather a late response but the lyrics, along with 80+ other Brirish waterway songs can be found on the web-site moonlightshadow.demon.co.uk Sorry, can't get the clicky thing to work. |
Subject: Lyr Add: STILL WATERS (Ian Hartland) From: Jim Dixon Date: 04 Dec 07 - 07:06 AM Copied from Songs of the Inland Waterways: STILL WATERS Ian Hartland In a world that moves too quickly there's a refuge for the sane When the load becomes too heavy or your day is filled with pain You can measure out the silence in cup of any size Or travel any distance where the speed is not the prize You can watch the sun come rising over flights of wooden gates Or set in gold behind the waterway CHORUS: In the shining of still waters Not a ripple can be seen To mark the passing of another day In the heart of dirty cities and the peaceful countryside Behind the smoky factories or through the meadows wide The boatmen and their horses brought the coal and other freight And travelled through the country at a slow but steady rate But the coming of the railways meant more profits quickly made And obsolescence stalked the waterway. CHORUS From the Kennet and the Avon to the Thames and Severn too The grass is growing over where the narrowboats came through And the tunnels long abandoned are now empty dark and cold And echo to the wild winds of the songs they heard of old The boots no longer ring out as they tramp the tunnel walls No horse's hooves are heard along the way. CHORUS Farewell the horse and harness, the windlass and the lark The castles and the roses, the aqueduct and the dark The boats that ply the waters are for pleasure not for gain And the families on the waterways will not be seen again In every town and village there's an emptiness within As the echoes of the boatmen fade away. CHORUS [Ian Hartland is half of the folk group 'The Harvesters'. Recorded on "They're Coming Back to the Water," by Jeff Dennison and Benny Graham, Folk Sound Records FSCD 47 (1997).] |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Still Waters (Ian Hartland) From: GUEST,Graham Bradshaw Date: 05 Dec 07 - 04:40 AM It's also on The Harvesters own CD, "Pearls before wine", Folksound Records - FSCD41 |
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