Lyr Req: Peter Amberley (from Bill Staines)

Subject: Peter Amberley?
From:
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 01:11 PM

I think Bill Staines recorded this song. I'd like to know if he wrote it or if it's a traditional tune. Where could I find the lyrics?

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 01:18 PM

Best place to find a song like that is right here in the Digital Tradition Folk song database, where a search for Peter will find this and this. If you search a little harder in both the database and the Forum, you're likely to find other versions. It's traditional. Bill Staines does a great rendition of it.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 01:31 PM

Darn. I thought I might be able to beat my three minute response record on this one, but it came out at seven. Darn, darn, darn....

Click here for a Bill Staines page that has lots of lyrics - but not his version of "Peter Amberley," which appears on his Philo album called Tracks and Trails.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 01:40 PM

There are some threads in the forum that shouldn't be missed: one and two, which contends the song was recorded by Suntan King George Hamilton IV, who was romantically linked to Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda, if I recall correctly....
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: John Hindsill
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 08:19 PM

Joe, Joe, Joe, you are blending your George Hamiltons! George Hamilton is a bronzed actor cum talk show host who did romance a president's daughter. George Hamilton IV is a country singer who had hits with "A Rose & a Baby Ruth" and "Abeline"; he also was a regular on The Grand Ol' Opry. Coincidentally I would guess they are about the same age, but that's only a guess.

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: John Hindsill
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 08:25 PM

Recently I heard a song using the same tune as Peter Amberly entitled Rose of the San Juaquin. I lost the note I made on it, but if memory is okay, it was sung by Jim Ringer, and was not one of his newer recordings.

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 08:40 PM

Oh, darn, John. I'm just not with it, I guess. I always thought that George Hamilton and George Hamilton were one and the same. Shows how little I know.
But I CAN point you to THE ROSE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN, a great song by Jim Ringer. For those of you who don't live here, that's pronounced wah-KEEN
I think Art Thieme had some words of wisdom a while back about Jim Ringer, but Forum Search isn't working and I can't find it.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: John Hindsill
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 08:47 PM

OK Joe ya got me...

By the way how do you do that blue underlined thing that gets you somewhere else? I can do little more than type, and that not well.

Subject: RE: Peter Amberley?
From: Arkie
Date: 27 Apr 99 - 10:21 PM

Seems like a fellow named Bob, something or other, recorded a song with a tune very similar to Peter Amberly - called it Pity the Poor Immigrants.