Lyr Req: The Black Lady (Dave Gibb)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Black Lady (Dave Gibb)
From: padred
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:31 AM

Thanks Barbara

I bought the CD from his website ($10 - what a steal) and it should be ariving any day now. Also delighted to see it has Privateer on it - another song of his doing the rounds over here.

Thanks again for all your help.

P.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Black Lady (Dave Gibb)
From: BB
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 02:57 PM

Padred, it is on that CD, as Jim says, and yes, the lyrics are in the booklet enclosed with the CD.

For anyone's interest, here are the notes to the song: 'A Larkhall ghost story. In the middle of the nineteenth century a member of the local aristocracy went out to Southern Africa to do his bit for the Empire. One of the pieces of plunder he brought back with hime was his very own dusky maiden who, according to local legend, was murdered by him soon after she arrived. Her soul is said to haunt the nearby Avon Gorge.'

To get the CD, go to his website here

Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Black Lady (Dave Gibb)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:31 PM

THE BLACK LADY is on Dave Gibb's album "Looking Good, Feeling Better," 2001.

Here's what I transcribed from a sound sample found at Woven Wheat Whispers:

I lived my life as we'd always lived since time began to flow.
As a child, my mother taught me all a woman needs to know
To help me find our way though life, raise daughters if she can,
So the knowledge passed on to me can be passed along again.
If I'd looked into my future, I never would have believed
What it held in store for me,
'Cause here I am where I'm always cold, so cold and so alone,
And I'm doomed to walk this darkness. My soul goes sailing home.

When this white man came to us with his sparkling blue-eyed smile,
A grandee of the empire with aristocratic style,
He told us tales of foreign lands and his home across the sea,
And I remember how he stole my heart when he turned to smile at me,
And he promised all the earth to me if I....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Lady Lyrics (Dave Gibb)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:22 PM

refresh with amplified thread title.

Subject: Lyr Req: Black Lady Lyrics
From: padred
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:51 AM

Hi

Does anyone have the lyrics to The Black Lady By Dave Gibb (he's Scottish I believe)?

Do his CD's have the lyrics printed?

Cheers

Pat