Subject: RE: Road songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Jul 19 - 03:08 PM From "The Galway Shawl" - I took the road to Donegal. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Genie Date: 12 Jul 19 - 02:10 PM The Coming Of The Roads Sometimes Let A Back Road Take You Home (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Dec 18 - 01:59 AM The Road To Ronderlin; Matthews' Southern Comfort – Later That Same Year, released 1970 Oh the night it is so very wild And I fear the mist is closing in Should we hesitate once more Then our natural life is o'er And we'll never find the road to Ronderlin |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Wendy M. Grossman Date: 19 Dec 18 - 02:40 PM Bill Steele - "Gasoline Gypsies". wg |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Terray Date: 18 Dec 18 - 09:36 AM Pad the Road Wi Me- by Malinky |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Jack Campin Date: 18 Dec 18 - 09:30 AM An instrumental tune with a story behind it - Donald Shaw's fiddle march "Calum's Road". There's a book about it. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST Date: 18 Dec 18 - 09:28 AM This is one of my father's stereotype heather and haggis 'road' songs, which (usually end verse edited out, sometimes beginning with the chorus) has been on recordings and DVD's. Much use of bonnie this and that, also artistic license. Inverness is no longer a town, but classed formally as a City, somewhat wrecking the premise and consigning it to being anachronistic. HOME TO INVERNESS (C) 1969 words and music Stewart Ross/EMI Music Publishing I have wandered all around, and much beauty I have found, and I've seen the finest cities of this earth, but where ever I have been, there's no place that I have seen, like the bonnie, bonnie town of Inverness. Chorus: O'er the Highland hills and bens, through the valleys and the glens... I will take once more the road that I love best. O'er the lonely heather moor, I will wander as before, On the road that leads me home to Inverness. I would like to sit and rest, by the bonnie River Ness, just to sit and watch its waters calm and still, where the islands lie serene, mid the fields of bonnie green, and the castle stands so high upon the hill Chorus Chorus: O'er the Highland hills and bens, through the valleys and the glens... I will take once more the road that I love best. O'er the lonely heather moor, I will wander as before, On the road that leads me home to Inverness. I would roam the 'sandy braes', as I did in bygone days, and I'd watch the boats go sailing down the Firth. Those these days may ne'er return, in my heart I'll always yearn.. for the bonnie, bonnie town that gave me birth. Chorus: O'er the Highland hills and bens, through the valleys and the glens... I will take once more the road that I love best. O'er the lonely heather moor, I will wander as before, On the road that leads me home to Inverness. On the road that leads me home to Inverness. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,GUEST, Larry Poole Date: 17 Dec 18 - 11:12 PM Havent seen this song mentioned or ever heard anyone else sing it. Jeff (JD Hawk) would go out on Royal street, New Orleans (Circa Mardi Gras/spring 1975) thrown down his cowboy hat and sing this song and soon get a good sized crowd. Been wondering what happened to Jeff since then (43 yrs ago!): Lonesome Strangers Blues Jeff (JD Hawk) Won't you help me down the highway I can’t make it anymore My aching head is tired and my feet are sore I slept out by the highway, last night in the pouring rain And this western wind has left me a stranger on the road CHORUS And I guess Ill always be a stranger And I’ll just be some old lonesome fool, thumbing through. But I could fill your ears with a song to fill the tears Of every other lonesome strangers blues Way up on a mountain, I met a Carolina girl And the way we loved, we rocked the whole damn world But our love to soon grew cold and those mountain towns get old And that western wind has left me a stranger on the road The folks I used to play with, they’ve all gone here and there, But it sure was good to have those songs to play. Then our stories all got told and those country songs get old And that western wind has left me a stranger on the road. Lare (Jeff also wrote alot of other songs, "Orgy in Missoula" comes to mind.) |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: theleveller Date: 15 Dec 18 - 10:54 AM Blimey, I have no recollection of starting this thread 10 years ago. Probably my favourite British road song is Justin Sullivan's Tales of the Road from his album Navigating by the Stars. It's the only song I know that mentions Ferrybridge Power Station cooling towers - an iconic landmark for Yorkshire folk returning up the A1 from darn sarf. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: RTim Date: 14 Dec 18 - 10:36 PM Down the Long Road - Bob Davenport on his recording named for the song. Topic Records 12TS274 (LP, UK, 1975) Down the long road a soldier came a walking Back from the long wars no more for to roam. When he spied a young woman Come walking towards him Singing to herself as she made her way home. His hand touched his cap as he stepped up to her Are you going as far as the mill there ahead? She said that she was, he asked to walk with her, So sweetly she smiled, indeed you may she said. For several long years that smile he remembered What is you name please tell me my dear? Mary Johnsons my name, my man is the miller, And father he’ll be by the end of the year. The soldiers face was burn brown From the hot sun of Indie, But it saddened & paled when he heard what she said. For this lass when he left had been his own true love, And now here she was to his young brother wed. Your husband it seems is the man I am seeking, For it’s news of his brother that I’ve come to tell. He was my close comrade through manys the battle And together we were on the day that he fell. His last dying words he said go seek my brother Give him this watch, this gold ring also, Tell him to look after my own darling Mary The girl I’d have married when the long war was o’er. When she took the gold watch, How deep she was sobbing She leaned on the dyke, so pale & so wan. So much he could tell her of her own died true lover, When she looked up to ask him The soldier was gone. Tim Radford |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 Dec 18 - 10:14 PM Here are some songs with “Road” in the title that have already been posted at Mudcat. If you want to find them, I recommend you plug the title into the “Search Forum By Subject” field on this page. A Road to Anywhere – Linville Ridge Band Along the Road – Dan Fogelberg Along the Road to Gundagai – Jack O’Hagan Along the Rocky Road to Dublin – Joe Young, Bert Grant, 1915. Back on the Road Again – Sands Family Ballad of Thunder Road – Robert Mitchum Bayswater Road – Marty Feldman Been on the Road So Long – Alex Campbell Big Rock in the Road – Doug Gates Bless the Road – Steve Cooney Blowin’ Down This Road – Woody Guthrie Blue Tar Road – Liam Weldon Brookland Road – Rudyard Kipling Child on the Road – Archie Fisher Coaltown Road – Allister MacGillivray Corduroy Road – Carolyn Leigh Cumberland Road – Original Irish Boys Dirt Road Shoes – Ken Whitfield Down the Road – Bill Staines Down the Road – Gus Elen Down the Road – McCaslin Down the Road a Piece – Don Raye False Knight Upon the Road – Steeleye Span Follow That Road – Anne Hills Freedom Road – Josh White Friendly Road – Trad. New Zealand Get Out on the Road and Beg Goin’ Down (On the Road to L.A.) Going Down the Road – Bruce Cockburn Going Down This Road Feeling Bad Good Road – Heidi Muller Hessle Road – Keith Marsden Hit the Road, Jack – Ray Charles Horseferry Road I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map – Reno & Smiley I’ve Been on the Road – Bodie Wagner Irish Blessing / May the Road Rise to Meet You It’s a Lonesome Road – Hal Reeves It’s a Long Long Road to Travel Alone – Carter Family It’s a Long Road to Freedom – Miriam Therese Winter Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel – Uncle Dave Macon Just a Country Road from You – Ronnie Parker Knight of the Road – Men of Worth Letter from Down the Road – Hedy West Little Road and a Stone to Roll – John Stewart Little Road to Bethlehem – Shawn Colvin Lonesome Road – Carl Sandburg Long Dusty Road – Terry Morrison Long Lonesome Road – Ian & Sylvia Long Road Home – C Fox Smith Military Road – Jez Lowe My Friend Upon the Road – Richard Digance Never Tire of the Road – Andy Irvine New Cut Road – Guy Clark On the Jericho Road – Don McCrossan On the One Road – Frank O’Donovan On the Road – Carl Franzen On the Road Again – Memphis Jug Band On the Road Amanda Lay – parody of Kipling On the Road from Aldermaston – Matt McGinn On the Road from Killorglin to Cahercivee – McCarthy & Diggin On the Road from Srebrenica – Tom Paxton On the Road to Anywhere – Scott Sanders On the Road to California On the Road to Dongolay – parody of Kipling On the Road to Freedom – John Kirkpatrick On the Road to Mandalay – Kipling and Speaks On the Road to Passchendaele – Brydon & Stoddart On the Road to Santiago – Oysterband Orphan of the Road – Johnny Cash Over the Road I’m Bound to Go – Uncle Dave Macon Paddy on the Road – Dominic Behan Portobello Road – Stevens and Fowley Raglan Road – Patrick Kavanagh Rail Road Trabbeler – Christy’s Minstrels Redemption Road – Tom Paxton Rhythm of the Road – Dan McCoy Rhythm of the Road – Larry Goddard Rhythm of the Road – Murphey/Quarto Richmond Is a Hard Road to Travel – Thompson Ridge Road Gravel – Norman Blake River Road – Sylvia Tyson Road Agent – Kenny Rogers Road Kill Cafe – John Flynn Road Not Taken – Kevin Evans Road to Aberdeen – Nanci Griffith Road to Anywhere – Smoky Dawson Road to Berlin – Russ Road to Drumleman – Tony Cuffe Road to Dundee a.k.a. The Road and the Miles to Dundee Road to Dunmore – Robbie O’Connell Road to Gundagai Road to Sligo Road to the Isles Road to Youghal Rocky Road – from The Sacred Harp Rocky Road Cindy Rocky Road to Dublin Seven Bridges Road – Steve Young/Eagles Somewhere Along the Road – Rick Kemp/Steeleye Span Song of the Iron Road – Ewan MacColl Sunny Road – Bill Staines That Lonesome Road – James Taylor That Wrong Road Again – Charles Kratz The Aughagallon Road – J Creaney The End of the Road – Harry Lauder The Girls Along the Road – J B Geohegan The Girls Up the Road The Highland Road – Ian McCalman The Highland Road – Stewart Ross The Kilburn High Road – Flogging Molly The Long Road – Nick Keir The Long Road Is Taking Us Home – Tom Paxton The Long Road West – Don Edwards The Longest Road – Stephen Fearing The Mother Road – Kevin Welch & Alan Rhody The Mountain Road – The Outside Track The Old Bog Road – Teresa Brayton The Old Cross Road – Bill Monroe The Open Road – Steve Parkes The Pacific Rail Road – George F Root The Road – Danny O’Keefe The Road by the River – Frank O’Donovan The Road Goes Ever On – J. R. R. Tolkien The Road Goes On Forever – David Mallett The Road Goes On Forever – Robert Earl Keen The Road I Took to You – Barbara Keith The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes The Road of Good Intentions – John Gorka The Road Through the Woods – Kipling The Road to Anywhere – Reg Stoneham The Road to Clady The Road to Dorchester – G Moore/M Ryan The Road to Malinmore – Dermot O’Brien The Rocky Road to Dublin The Sky Road – Frances Black The Turn of the Road – Barker Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen To Pad the Road wi’ Me – Ord’s Bothy Songs and Ballads Tobacco Road – John D Loudermilk Walk the Road – Kate Rusby Waterloo Road – Jason Crest Way Down the Old Plank Road – Uncle Dave Macon Way Down the Road – Craig Johnson Will You Travel Down This Road with Me Wreck on the Mountain Road – Red Fox Chasers |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 13 Dec 18 - 08:04 PM Ian McCalman wrote "The 8-3-0", all about the trials of driving this road which was then largely single track with passing places. Most of this road is now double track. Then there's the A83, by Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre, a bit further south in Scotland. And John Eaglesham's "Inveroran" spells out the route to get there in the chorus. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Warwick Slade Date: 13 Dec 18 - 12:02 PM Tom Paxton wrote a few as in ‘ I can’t help but wonder where I bound’ etc |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Roger Date: 13 Dec 18 - 04:11 AM As an ex driver I love Bill Caddicks 'One Hand on the Radio'. Bill captured the atmosphere of those late night on the road exactly. Roger. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Stewie Date: 12 Dec 18 - 06:19 PM Here is one of my favourites: The Texas Kid's Retirement Run --Stewie |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Dec 18 - 04:15 PM Shouldn't there be a song about the A38? Mr Red, it's your patch isn't it? The road runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. It is 292 miles (470 km) long, making it the longest 2-digit A road in England. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A38_road |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: irishenglish Date: 07 May 08 - 03:45 PM Ninety Miles An Hour Down A Dead End Street, as performed by Mr. Hutchings and Clive Gregson a few times. Thread drift alert*** If this was for American songs my ultimate road song is Falling In And Out Of Love/Amie by Pure Prairie League. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice Date: 07 May 08 - 03:42 PM He Ran Out Of Road - from Street Cries - Ashley Hutchings and Friends. As sung by Judy Dunlop and John Tams Charlotte R |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Effsee Date: 07 May 08 - 03:33 PM Fause Knight upon the road. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 07 May 08 - 02:11 PM seven bridges road |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 07 May 08 - 02:10 PM Have we said Raglan Road? Loch Lomand |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,HughM Date: 07 May 08 - 10:34 AM When on the road to Killeshandra weary I sat down. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Santa Date: 07 May 08 - 08:59 AM I'm not sure I can add any songs but there was a group called "Hatfield and the North". For our US members, this was on the first major roadsign on the A1 heading out of London. It rather sums up the Southern English approach to those outside the Great Wen. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: oldhippie Date: 06 May 08 - 09:36 PM How about: "The Road Goes On Forever And The Party Never Ends" - Robert Earl Keen |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie Date: 06 May 08 - 07:05 PM I've just looked at the original question, and we've been way off on a transatlantic tangent. Howabout "The Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer", and "The Pontyprydd Collier in Search of his Wife" and I suppose, although it's not about a road, and the locations come in random order, "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" (which I once heard described as the A-Z set to music). Has anybody mentioned "Edinburgh Bus Strike Blues"? |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie Date: 06 May 08 - 06:57 PM |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Andy, Port Erin, I-O-M Date: 04 May 08 - 03:30 AM Six Days On The Road (Dave Dudley) |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Padre Date: 03 May 08 - 09:42 PM Jonathan Eberhart used to sing a song called "Chicken Road" - The chorus was (I think) Honey, that's Missouri, Land where the sky overflowed; One little town there, Chicken Road |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: mg Date: 03 May 08 - 09:37 AM going down the road feeling bad |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: quokka Date: 03 May 08 - 05:12 AM What about Hank Williams 'Lost Highway'? |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 May 08 - 04:46 AM Alex Campbell's 'So Long' was the first song that sprang to mind when I saw the thread title. Surprised it hasn't been mentioned. Don't tell me I'm the only one still doing it? G |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie Date: 02 May 08 - 06:09 PM Has anyone mentioned "Western Highway"? Try playing it on the A55 from Bangor at 3am. Then again there's "On the Road Again" (Willie Nelson), "On the Road Again" (Mark Spoelstra), "On the Road Again" (Canned Heat) and "On the Road Again" (Bob Dylan) and I'm sure there are a few more. And I haven't mentioned Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues", Charlie Patton's "Down the Dirt Road", on to "Route 66", Guthrie wrote quite a few. And I've just remembered Runrig's "Summer Walkers"! |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 02 May 08 - 03:20 PM for songs, add "One for My Baby (and One More For the Road" There was an old New Yorker cartoon depicting the extremely inebriated man leaning on a bar and hoisting a glass. Caption was "And here's one for the road between Seattle and Vancouver!" |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 02 May 08 - 02:54 PM all the Bing Crosby road songs???movies??? Road to Mandalay etc. mg |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 02 May 08 - 02:41 PM Thunder road Road to Dundee so many miles to Louisville or wherever We're on the one road carrying the one load Road to the Isles When on the road to ____Cavan?? weary I sat down Famine road |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Bert Date: 02 May 08 - 12:43 PM FWIW, Ive. got some Here There's Kiss for the Road, Headed for Nashville and Road to Nowhere. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST Date: 01 May 08 - 08:02 PM "Coshieville" was by Stuart MacGregor and the earliest printed version I remember was in Chapbook, sometime in the 60s. And what about Roy Acuff's "Wreck on the Highway": Who did you say it was brother, Who was it fell by the way, When whiskey and blood ran together Did you hear anyone pray? I didn't hear nobody pray dear brother, I didn't hear nobody pray, I heard the crash on the highway, But I didn't hear nobody pray. When I heard the crash on the highway I knew what it was from the start, I went to the scene of destruction And the picture was stamped on my heart. There was whiskey and blood all together Mixed with glass where they lay, Death laid her hand in destruction But I didn't hear nobody pray. I wish I could change this sad story That I am now telling you But there is no way I can change it For somebody's life is now through. Their soul has been called by the master - They died in a crash on the way, I heard the groans of the dying But I didn't hear nobody pray. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: theleveller Date: 01 May 08 - 04:15 AM I love that, nutty. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: nutty Date: 01 May 08 - 04:05 AM Another offering from me ...... WALKING THE LONG ROAD HOME I was young when I left the dear land of my childhood To seek for my fortune far over the sea But the longer i travel the highways and byways The dearer that homeland is seeming to be Chorus For I've walked the long road, lived the life of a rover Walked the long road till I'm too old to roam Too long on the road, now my journeying's over I'm walking the long road home Though I've searched for a lifetime, no fortune came my way Just enough for my needs but I'd little to spare Though the country was hard and the road it was harder There's no way back home cos' I can't pay the fare In my mind I see fields full of sweet meadow flowers I smell the green grass and I feel the warm sun Once again take the hands of my family and dear friends And laugh, drink and sing till the long day is done I've walked the long road, now I'm too old for walking My shoes are worn down and my step is too slow But I welcome the peace, for I know peace is coming When my spirit goes walking the long road home |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: theleveller Date: 01 May 08 - 03:32 AM Arran, I think I've a recording of that on vinyl by the New Lost City Ramblers - on Songs of Moonshine and Prohibition - must be from around 1965. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 30 Apr 08 - 08:34 AM I have wandered down Broadway, I've walked down the Strand, I have travelled the highways of many's the land, But in all your great cities, no street have I seen, Like the road by the river that runs through Raheen. I can see myself now as a gossoon of four, How I climbed to look over the creaking half-door, And watched the sun shine on the valley so green, And the road by the river that runs through Raheen. I remember myself whenever it rained With my little snub nose flattened up on the pane Sadly watching the rain as it made little streams On the road by the river that runs through Raheen. So I grew older and so it went on: I remember them well now - those days that are gone, How I'd walk hand in hand with some pretty colleen On the road by the river that runs through Raheen. And when I grew older and started to roam, It's little I thought that I'd miss my old home, Miss the old folks, the chapel, the pub on the green, And the road by the river that runs through Raheen. And so I returned there expecting to find The well beloved scenes that still ran in my mind Forgetting the years that had passed since I'd been On the road by the river that runs through Raheen. For rows of new houses now stand on the green And a factory's there where my cottage had been. The river's still there, but no trace can be seen, Of a road by the river that runs through Raheen. Everything changes, and we change as well And I'm sure that you too if the truth you would tell, Wander back to some well beloved spot in your dreams, Like the road by the river that runs through Raheen. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: goatfell Date: 30 Apr 08 - 08:32 AM a great Amreican song recoreded by Ferlon Husky called the Drunken Driver, typical American country song, Friends, my name is Ferlin Husky. I'd like to tell you 'bout a man that let alcohol destroy everything that God gave him I saw an accident one day that would chill the heart of any man It would teach them not to drink a drop While the steering wheel's in their hand This awfull accident occurred on the 20th day of May And caused two little children to be sleepin' beneath the clay These two little kids walked side by side along the state highway Their poor old mother, she had died And their daddy had ran away As these two little children walked arm in arm How sad their hearts did feel When around the curb came a speeding car With a drunk man at the wheel The drunk man saw the little kids And he hollered a drunked sound "Get out of the road you little fools" And the car, it brought them down The bumper struck the little girl, takin' her life away While the little boy, in a puddle of blood In the ditch, lyin' there did lay The drunk man staggered from his car To see the damage that he had done And then he let out a yell you could hear for miles When he recognized his dyin' son Such mournin' from a drunken man, I've never heard before While kneeling down by his car he prayed to heavens door Sayin', "Oh God, please forgive me for this awful crime I've done" And his attention then was called away By the words of his dyin' son He said, "Daddy, why did you do this to us How come you run us to the ground? It was you and Mummy we were talkin' about, When the car, it brought us down And I was just tellin' little sister That I knew we'd see you again someday But, Daddy, why did it have to be like this Why did it have to be this way why daddy why? great song isn't it? |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,HughM Date: 30 Apr 08 - 08:05 AM I remembered wrongly! It's "Folksongs FROM The Highlands", subtitled "Orain Thormaid" (Songs of Norman), compiled by Norman Stewart and published by Taigh na Teud (Harpstring House). I should also have suggested The Road to Drumlemon, though I have heard it said that Drumlemon is fictitious. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: theleveller Date: 30 Apr 08 - 04:29 AM Love the song, Richard. Bit along the lines of McAlpine's Fusilliers. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Richard Bridge Date: 30 Apr 08 - 03:37 AM PPS - not the song in the digitrad |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Richard Bridge Date: 30 Apr 08 - 03:36 AM PS, I haven't heard it sung since about 1975 and it's mildly interesting in that although it is plainly about the experience of the largely Irish road builders, it must be an English song because that is where the roads were being built - yet in recognition I imagine) of the heritage of the bulders and probably composer(s) it is Irish in style. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Richard Bridge Date: 30 Apr 08 - 03:33 AM The Hot Asphalt? |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Susanne (skw) Date: 30 Apr 08 - 12:42 AM Yellow on the Broom by Adam McNaughtan |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: GUEST,HughM Date: 29 Apr 08 - 07:57 AM Coshieville is in a book called "Folksongs of the Highlands" if I remember rightly, by Norman somebody. There was a thread about this song on the 3rd March, including all the words. |
Subject: RE: Road songs From: Herga Kitty Date: 28 Apr 08 - 04:50 PM When yellow's on the broom, Mick Ryan's Poppies (though that's about building the roads) Kitty |
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