ADD: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)
From: GUEST,.gargoye
Date: 02 Jun 24 - 02:35 PM

The version I have known and played for 50 years came from a piano bench in a state park. The ranger said, "Take them all, someone will just use them for firestarters.

Where Do We Go From Here?
published 1918
Written by Percy Wenrich and Howard Johnson 
Performed: Arthur Fields
SCORE/SHEET MUSIC https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1729

Pad-dy Mack drove a hack up and down Broad-way,
Pat had one ex-pres-sion and he'd use it ev-'ry day,
An-y time he'd grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Pad-dy jumped up-on the seat, - cracked his whip and cried:

First Chorus:
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
An-y-where from Har-lem to a Jer-sey Cit-y pier,
When Pat would spy a pret-ty girl, he'd whis-per in her ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Second Verse
One fine day, on Broad-way, Pat was driv-ing fast,
When the street was blown to pie-ces by a sub-way blast,
Down the hole poor Pad-dy went, a-think-ing of his past,
Then he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:

Second Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Pad-dy's neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whis-pered in his ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Third Verse
First of all, at the call, when the war be-gan,
Pat en-list-ed in the ar-my as a fight-ing man,
When the drills be-gan they'd walk a hun-dred miles a day,
Tho' the rest got tir-ed, Pad-dy al-ways used to say:

Third Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Slip a pill to Kai-ser Bill and make him shed a tear,
And when we see the en-e-my we'll shoot them in the rear,
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Light hearted fun stage type piece

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 24 - 10:18 AM

Wonderful thankyou!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 07 - 02:59 AM

send me your email i will post song to you, one of my favs too ,have you any other info about arkwright [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Oct 07 - 08:39 AM

Arkwright did record WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE. Copies of the 7-inch vinyl record are on sale by several vendors.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22where+do+you+go+from+here%22+Arkwright

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Peace
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:48 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Bru
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:39 PM

Cheers, folks. A thirty odd year mystery solved in minutes.

I can understand getting the title slightly wrong - but where on earth did I get the name Arkwright from, I wonder?

Thanks once again.

Now - where's me twelve stringer . . . . . . .?

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Peace
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:28 PM

Harvesters, please note the difference in the title.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE (Sammy King)
From: Peace
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:27 PM

BINGO, thanks to "Sorting out the bales - the ones to empty and to fill"

from

lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/w/wheredoyougofromhere.shtml


WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE
(Sammy King)

Houghton Weavers - 1975



Arthur Edward Pickersgill
Workin' 'ard at mill
Sorting out the bales
The ones to empty and to fill
It's Sat'day night, he's rushing home
To check his football pools
While Chelsea won and let him down
And so did Hartlepools

So off at dawn on Monday morn
Working for his rent
Money's hard to come by
And half's already spent
'Cause Billy wants a pair of shoes
And Tilly wants a dress
And Freda wants some curling pins
She says her hair's a mess

And so, where do you go from here
Where in life do you belong
You've work so hard throughout your life
To make your country great
And now it runs away from you
Leaving you behind and out of date

Every week your Sunday joint's
No bigger than your thumb
With eight of us to share it
And that's not including Mum
But first you've got to find it
And the kids are lookin' out
It's there, Dad, in the processed peas
Behind that Brussels sprout

And Freda's getting married soon
You'll 'ave to pay for do
Invitin' all the folks we know
Will cost a bob or two
And after all the toastin'
And the speeches and the gags
It's back to working overtime
And rolling your own fags

And so, where do you go from here
Where in life do you belong
You fought for King and Country
And your comrades in the war
And is it any different now
You're fighting to exist just like before

And so, where do you go from here
Life's inclined to hurry by
Your clogs went out with ration books
But still you carry on, forever if you can
'Cause you're the kind of man who can't
Afford to die


(Transcribed by Monique Adriaansen & Mel Priddle - August 2006)

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Bru
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:24 PM

I don't know what happened to my posting above. Most of it's missing.
Started:

Arthurd Edward Pickersgill, working down at mill
Sorting out the bales - the ones to empty and to fill.

Subject: RE: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Peace
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:19 PM

Do you have any of the lyrics at all?

Subject: Arkwright - Where Do We Go From here
From: Bru
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 02:17 PM

I mentioned this in somebody else's thread a while ago.

Does anybody remember this song? It was called Where Do We Go From Here, by a group called Arkwright (I think the spelling's right - never saw it in Print). It was played quite a lot on the rado in the mid 1970's. The mai singer had a northern