Lyr Req: Sludger Tom (Mo Ogg)

Subject: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:13 AM

Does anyone know the lyrics to this. Chorus is Sluddger Tom is dead and gone resting in a drain.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: cnd
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:07 PM

You know any more of it Peter? Or how old it is, origins, etc? I can't find anything based on this

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,#
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:29 PM

Ditto what cnd said.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 01:03 PM

A friend of mine sings it regularly, but he’s not a member here. If I can get in touch with him, I’ll ask him for the lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,#
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 04:21 PM

Backwoodsman, do you recall the song title by any chance??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,#
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 09:42 PM

Let me rephrase that. Is the title "Sludger Tom"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 03:15 AM

We call it Sludger Tom, but I’ve no idea if that’s the correct, official title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,CD
Date: 21 Apr 21 - 05:37 PM

Hi It was written by Maurice Ogg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST,CD
Date: 21 Apr 21 - 06:30 PM

The first verse is:

If tha'll beer wi me a minute or two, a story I'll relate....
concerning one called Sludger Tom, and how he met his fate,
Now, Sludger Tom, he was the son of one called Welly-Bob Green,
and a finer pair of Dyke men as ever could be seen.

Chorus: Indeed it's true, it is no lie,
he never be seen again, for Sludger Tom,
he dead and gone,....resting in a drain

It's credited to Mo Ogg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 04:37 PM

Thought it was by Mo Ogg. John Baker, another ex-Scunthorpe Folk Club member, sings it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 02:59 PM

Keith Brown the song about Sludger Tom can be heard regularly on the annual Coleby Plough Jag. Usually sung by John Baker or Geoff Miller.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom (Mo Ogg)
From: GUEST,Julia Pollock
Date: 11 Aug 24 - 12:21 PM

We have just recorded Sludger Tom on an album of songs and tunes collected by Mo Ogg. You can get it from SmallCogMusic. We are staging a presentation about Mo’s work at Whitby Folk Week and John Baker will sing the song he learnt from his friend Mo in the 70’s.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom (Mo Ogg)
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Aug 24 - 01:21 PM

John Baker sang ‘Sludger Tom’ a couple of weeks ago at the Epworth Folk & Acoustic Club. Great song (of course), very well sung (as one would expect), and it brought the house down (as ever)! <3

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sludger Tom (Mo Ogg)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Aug 24 - 03:42 PM

Whitby Folk Week 2024; Tuesday;

Mo Ogg - The Bard Of Coleby

Julia Pollock, Alistair Anderson and singers from Folk ‘Round ‘Ere present a unique event celebrating the life of singer, writer and folklore collector Maurice Ogg, who died in 1980.