Road songs

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 04:44 PM

Look up Rambles of Spring. It's in the DT, I think, and I know for a fact there are a couple threads about it.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: topical tom
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 04:38 PM

"Night Drive" by Garnet rogers in memory of his brother Stan.

    Night Drive
Yellowhead highway

How bright the stars
How dark the night
How long have I been sleeping?
Sleep overtook me on my westward flight
Held me in its keeping
I had a dream; it seemed so real
Its passing left me shaking
I saw you're here behind the wheel
On this very road I'm taking

Hurtling westward through the prairie night
Under the spell of motion
Your eyes were clear and bright in the dashboard light
Dreaming of the western ocean
The dusty towns left far behind
Mountains drawing ever nearer
Your face was then as it was tonight
Ever young
Ever clearer

I know this road
And its every curve
Where the hills commence their climbing
We rested here
If my memory serves
The northern lights were shining
You lit a smoke
We shared some wine
We watched the sky in wonder
Your laughter echoes after all this time
In that high and wild blue yonder

I don't know why I write these lines
It's not like I could send you the letter
It's that I love your more after all this time
It's that I wish I'd shown you better
Years have slipped
Beneath my wheels
Dwindling in my rear view mirror
As time has passed
Your life has seemed less real
But these night drives bring you nearer



So tonight I'll wish upon these stars
As they rise upward to guide me
That I'll see you here just as you are
Now, as then, beside me
Scares me how the years have flown
Like the leaves drift in September
They've lost sight of you as your legacy's grown
But this road and I
We remember

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: quokka
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:27 AM

Tramps and Hawkers is a lovely road song. There is a wealth of info on this forum about this song.
Quokka

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: Mark Ross
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 09:16 AM

CHAMPION AT KEEPIN' THEM ROLLING
TRAVELLING PEOPLE(?) Ewan MacColl
NEVER TIRED OF THE ROAD Andy Irvine

Those are the only songs from that side of the pond I can think of.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 09:01 AM

The Leveller
"T.I.R., T.I.R., T.I.T.I.R." This is my song of the international long distance lorry driver (TIR = Transport International Routier)
It is sung to the tune of "Hopping Down in Kent".
Give me an e-mail and I`ll send it by mp3.

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:52 AM

For me , Maggie Holland does the definitive recording of Coshieville

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: theleveller
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:18 AM

Hugh, haven't come across Coshieville before - love it!

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:02 AM

The Road to the Isles
Sullivan's John
Champion at Keeping 'em Rolling
The Rocky Road to Dublin
Coshieville:
...the money moved from Ericht's loch
The Great Glen beckoned "On!"
At 'Moriston the hills grew pale
And we fought and drank through old Kintail
But the money soon was gone
Then I cursed Loch Awe side's autumn rain
And the winter whisky in Dunblane
'Til the west wind rose in the spring again
And my heart leapt at its song....

(About the construction of Scotland's hydro-electric plants in the 1950s.)

Subject: RE: Road songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 07:27 AM

Most of MacColl's songs from The Travelling People , and Gurthrie's
Hard Travelling ?

Subject: Road songs
From: theleveller
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 07:01 AM

I love 'road' movies, and also 'road' books, like those by Kerouac, Orwell, Priestley or H V Morton. Can you recommend any British/Irish 'road' songs. My favourite at the moment is Gypsy by Mr Fox because I know most of the places mentioned. I suppose Spencer the Rover and The Tinkerman's Daughter would be other obvious ones. Any others?