Searching for song:Annie+house from boat

Subject: Searching for song
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 10:48 AM

Years ago I heard a song I think by Tommy Makem (but not sure) that was about a sailor who ended up building a house out of the wood from his wrecked boat. Somewhere in it is the line Annie, darlin Annie ...
Any leads?
Thanks!
Eric Wood
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Subject: RE: Searching for song
From: maeve
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 11:17 AM

Guest Eric- Possibly a Gordon Bok song?

maeve

Subject: RE: Searching for song
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:26 AM

Put Darling Annie in the Mudcat SuperSearch box (top left, front page) and see if it is the Peggy Seeger song that Joe Offer added. No wrecked ship in that one tho, just wedding gifts.

Subject: RE: Searching for song
From: Barbara
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:55 AM

The Gordon Bok song is called "Sabin the Woodfitter" and is Sabin here. No Annie in this one, but a good story.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Searching for song
From: maeve
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 04:55 AM

"Sabin the Woodfitter" is the one I had in mind, Barbara, thanks. I wonder, Guest Eric, if you might have 2 different songs intertwined in your head? Gordon Bok also sings a song about Gentle Annie.

Subject: RE: Searching for song
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 06:20 AM

I have searched Tommy Makem's lyrics site, approx. 200 songs. No mention of this one. Sorry

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: GUEST,Guest Eric
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 10:27 AM

Thanks for the help - it may be Gentle Annie that I had in mind and I may be thinking of 2 songs!

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: GUEST,Guest Eric
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 10:30 AM

I have the tune in my head and it still rings as Darlin Annie. The "song" as I remember it had a spoken part as well. Sabin does seem like a similar story though.
Thanks for all the help!
Cheers!
Eric

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 10:26 AM

Try John Warner's "Anderson's Coast" (click), © 1993, which has the chorus:

C----------G------------------C--D
But Ann-ie dear, don't wait for me,
---------C
I fear I shall not return to thee;
---------G-------D-G-------------------D
There's naught to do, but endure my fate,
-----------------C----------------G-D
And watch the moon, the lone-ly moon,
----------C--------------------------G
Light the breakers, on wild Bass Strait.

John's from Australia and recorded this one with Margaret Walters on PITHEAD IN THE FERN.

I believe that Tommy Makem has sung this one as well. I've also heard Gordon Bok sing it.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 04:02 PM

refresh!

Wouldn't it be nice if Eric returned to tend his tread?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: maeve
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 03:32 PM

I wonder if he realized we'd respond here, rather than to the email address he posted in the initial query. Perhaps I'll send him an email reminder...

maeve

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 09:03 PM

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: GUEST,Eric
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 09:05 PM

Thanks to all for trying to find this song. I still have a melody running through my mind that does not match anything submitted so far. Maybe I'm having a senior's moment!
Cheers!
Eric

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 04:12 AM

Eric:
    You do realize, I trust, that almost all of "Sabin, the Woodfitter" is spoken, not sung. Only the last four couplets (in the text Barbara's note above would have led you to read) are sung,
beginning with "East Wind's rain and North Wind's clearing..." The rest is all spoken with guitar accompaniment.
    The melody you recall may scan properly to those couplets.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Searching for song:Annie+house from boat
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:25 PM

Thanks - I'll try to get the recording and give it a listen.
Cheers!
Eric