Lyr Req: Never Tire of the Road (Andy Irvine)

Subject: Never tired of the road?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 01:52 PM

There is a song (in New Orleans???) has this in the chorus... Anybody know what I'm getting at??

;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM

Andy Irvine wrote a tribute to Woody Guthrie by that name, with that chorus. I've got the CD but can't remember the title; I'll check it when I get home.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 03:03 PM

thanks!

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Subject: Lyr Add: NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD (Andy Irvine)
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 06:20 PM

I was just a small town country boy
When I left that country town
Route 66 to the Westward
And hopped an old freight down
California here I come
By the side door Pullman and the sunburnt thumb
And they called us Okies, lowdown bums
And the police on us frowned

Chorus:
Never tire of the road
Never tire of the rolling wheel
Never tire of the ways of the world
Way out yonder is a-calling me
And the dark road leads me onwards
And the highway, that's my code
And the lonesome voice that I heard said
Never tire of the road

California to the New York Island
Me and my guitar
And we played in many a hobo jungle
Many a skid row bar
Standing out in the wind and the rain
That lonesome whistle is a sweet refrain
When you are waiting for some old freight train
That carries an empty car.

Don't let them ever fool you
Or take you by surprise
That dirty smell of a politician
And the man with the greed in his eyes
One big union, that's our plan
And the IWW"s your only man
The flames of discontent we'll fan
For the cause that never dies

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 01:06 PM

That's the very one Matter!!! Cool beans... got any other info, like composter, recorder and such...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:38 PM

Ker-bump...

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 06:39 PM

YEA MATT!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Melani
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM

That's the one by Andy Irvine. I know I have the CD, but I can't find it and can't remember what it's called. My son has just trashed my entire collection.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Mar 01 - 10:51 AM

Found it on Napster... it's the very one I was looking for... Ta' eh!

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 24 Mar 01 - 06:04 PM

The CD is called 'Rain on the Roof' (1996) and is, as far as I know, available only from the man himself. He may have relaxed since I got it two years ago, of course.
In the notes, he says:
[1996:] Mostly this song was written to the memory of Woody Guthrie. I first heard an album of Woody's back in about 1957 and from the very first bar of "Columbus Stockade" I was hooked. I had no idea of how famous the man might be in America and chanced a letter addressed to Woody Guthrie, USA. I waited with baited [sic!] breath for six weeks, but the letter came back "insufficiently addressed". A year or two later, I found out that Woody was in hospital in New Jersey with an incurable wasting disease and started writing to him there. He was physically unable to write back but Bob and Sidsel Gleason, who would take them to their home for weekends at that time, wrote and told me how he was and passed on answers from Woody to my questions. When (Ramblin') Jack Elliott came to London, I was too shy to approach him after his gig at the Ballads and Blues Club, but followed him and his wife home on the Underground till I saw them go into 11 Kensington Park Road. I wrote to him and he rang me and said come on over. I didn't just go over, I more or less moved in! What a plague I must have been, but they didn't seem to mind. Jack showed me how to play the 'Mouth Harp' upside down and the 'Cross Harp' style, same as Woody had shown him, told me stories about him and Woody, and changed my life. Somewhere, to this day, I have an issue of the "Woody Guthrie Newsletter" which starts - "Woody would like to thank ...". There follows an inventory of the American folk heroes of the day, Pete Seeger, etc. Most of the page is taken up with these names and I suppose, when I first read it, I was hoping against hope that I might be there too ... But, of course, no ... But wait? Right at the bottom I read: "And to Andy from Woody personally". I never tired of the road since. (Notes Andy Irvine, 'Rain on the Roof')