His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 04:11 AM

I'm sure this didn't come up previously but...

Dave Boulton has created a website with his lyrics.(aug 2019)

Here's 'Mountains and Men'

https://david-boulton.co.uk/songs/mountains-and-men/

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 07:33 PM

^ Guest Al

"the men with the skill in their hands" is from
"Mountains and Men"
on... 'Laugh or Cry Same Price'.

I got a cd from Jeff tonight.
Just got to find a way of getting it to you.

Freddy
usersearch.cfm?who=FreddyHeadey

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:36 PM

First Tuesdays ...Very occasionally Jeff turns up at a singaround
Yew Tree, Caulon, Staffs

https://maps.app.goo.gl/AiDhqtZLXjWmRpsXA

The contact info on the cd I've got is out of date.

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: GUEST,Al
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 12:54 PM

Hi guys, anyone know where I can get a cd of these guys. Im particulalry looking for a track, dont know what its called but it includes the line "the men with the skill in their hands

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: GUEST,SteveT
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 09:15 AM

Definitely from the potteries Dave(Acorn4): I used to go to their folk club in the Kings Arms, Stoke when they were running it with others from Muggins Fancy.   I seem to remember Jeff said that, although they were always asked which one was His Worship, their name actually came from some story about a mayor of Stoke and a pig (not the same as the one about a prime minister and a pig!) - but then you never knew what to believe from him and Dave.

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: Acorn4
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 04:32 AM

Great to know they are still performing as I seem to remember hearing they had retired.


I think they hail from Tamworth rather that Stoke hence the "Pig" bit.

"If you had a Brain you'd be Dangerous" was always a favourite of mine.

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 03:40 PM

Rough Justice
z2 G|GDB,|GDB,|GD2
w:chorus:~I’d flog ‘em and flay ‘em and hang ‘em

I've got this as abcnotation.
mail my gmail.com account freddyheadey136
I'd rather not put them up publicly.

I can probably get you a cd for a fiver &p+p.
Bringing Home The Bacon


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
abcnotation :
you paste it into a the box on a page such as
http://www.mandolintab.net/abcconverter.php 
> submit
and it gives you a midi & pdf

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: GUEST,Renrab
Date: 23 Sep 18 - 11:26 AM

I'm trying to find the words for the song where, in the chorus, is the section"I'd hang 'em an' flay 'em and flog 'em". Can you help please

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 03:16 AM

This could make someone's fortune if mass-produced.

By the way, might the reason the girl gives the bloke the raspberry in the song 'The Gardener' be that, when he offers to clothe her entirely in flowers, he says,

'Your gloves shall be the marigold
All glittering to your hand?'

Valmai

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: SussexCarole
Date: 05 Aug 08 - 06:56 PM

The five finger (oops)..string rubber marigold

Subject: RE: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 05 Aug 08 - 06:48 AM

And banjos, of course ... how could I forget the banjos? I must have been concentrating too deeply on the rubber glove.

Valmai

Subject: His Worship & the Pig, Lewes Arms, 9 Aug
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 05 Aug 08 - 03:16 AM

The excellent Dave Boulton and Jeff Parton, otherwise known as His Worship & the Pig, are at the Lewes Arms
on Saturday 9th. August on a rare trip from Stoke-on-Trent. Admission is £5,floor singers are welcome, and we start with a few join-in tunes. We stay open during August with singarounds on the other Saturdays, but this weekend we're giving ourselves and our friends a holiday treat.

Dave and Jeff write and perform thoughtful, incisive and often very funny songs (such as 'Hang 'em and flay 'em and flog 'em'. They play guitar, mandolin, octave mandola, English concertina, Indian harmonium, whistle, shakey egg and rubber glove.

Fidjit, if you're there, it was good to see you last week and to discover that Morris dancing is flourishing in Sweden!

Tootle pip,

Valmai