Lyr req: The Boy and The Dream (Alan Bell??)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Boy and The Dream (Alan Bell)
From: GUEST,Eileen Finch
Date: 26 May 20 - 08:58 AM

Does anyone have the words of The Boy and The Dream. It's in the Alan Bell Songbook which I can't buy at present

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Song (Alan Bell)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 May 20 - 11:21 AM

I have Alan Bell's songbook "In My Homeland" - published May 1999 - and it's not in there. Did he do another songbook?
Can't find it on YouTube either, though there are lots of his songs there.
It was on an LP he brought out in 1982: title (I think) "The Band in the Park". (Poulton-le-Fylde recordings.)

Subject: RE: Lyr req: The Boy and The Dream (Alan Bell??)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Apr 26 - 08:20 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr req: The Boy and The Dream (Alan Bell??)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 07:53 AM

http://www.poultonband.org.uk/RECORD.html The Band In The Park L.P.Record (1982)
Featuring the Poulton-le-Fylde Band and The Alan Bell Folk Band

On Side One the Alan Bell Folk Band presents some of Alan`s new songs, appearing on record for the first time.
1) Calling-on Song
2) Spring Song
3) The Christian Man
4) Fair Stood the Wind
5) The Boy & the Dream
To a young man trapped by circumstance and time in a boring job, day-dreaming has always been an escape from reality.
The Boy and the Dream is the result of a long conversation I had with an old man in a bar in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and,
like every good story, begins with the classic line, "Once upon a time..."
6) The Concertina Man
7) So Here`s to You

On Side Two, the Poulton-le-Fylde Band under the baton of guest conductor Ged Higson are joined by Stuart Robinson to provide the backing for Alan`s THE BAND IN THE PARK SUITE - The Life & Times of a Lancashire Family (1914-1981). Adapted, arranged and scored for Brass by Chris Pollington.

The Boy and the Dream is also on Alan Bell Band – With Bread And Fishes Dragon Records DRGNCD942 CD, Album, 1994

But no sign of the lyrics yet, I'm afraid.