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Tune Req: Weaver's Reverie by Bob Coltman

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Barbara 19 Jan 25 - 07:17 PM
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Subject: Tune Req: Weaver's Reverie by Bob Coltman
From: Barbara
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 07:17 PM

Just came across the words for this, which are in DT but couldn't find anyone singing it. There is a link to a Folk Legacy album (All the Good People) which does NOT have it on it.
Anyone know where I can find the tune?
Also this is different from Web of Birdsong, which I already know
Thank you
Blessings
Barbara


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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Weaver's Reverie by Bob Coltman
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 07:34 PM

Weaver's Reverie is track 10 on Golden Ring's album For All the Good People: A Golden Ring Reunion (Folk-Legacy CD-121, 1992)


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Subject: From DT: Weaver's Reverie (Bob Coltman)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 08:00 PM

Dave Para's notes from the Folk-Legacy All the Good People album are reproduced in the DT with the lyrics. I checked the DT lyrics, and they are 100% correct:

10. WEAVER'S REVERIE (Bob Coltman, BMI)
Ed: guitar, lead vocal; Chorus vocals: Cathy, Dave, Caroline, Sandy, Harry


WEAVER'S REVERIE
(Bob Coltman)

Where the weaver stands to work, she can scarcely see the sky
The songs of the sparrow can't be heard.
The golden sunlight out the dirty window shines;
She turns to her weaving without a word.
    CHORUS:
    Slap go the belts against the pulleys;
    Shuttles fly across the loom.
    There are hours to go, and they never go so slow
    As they go in the weaving room.

I think on nature as the hungry think on food;
Without it, I've solitary grown.
But in this restless place, every loom, every face,
Tell me, how can I ever be alone?

It could be worse; I suppose I might be
A dresser sizing the yarn.
So hot and so wet and the lint in the air
I'm sure that my lungs would come to harm.

Oh, yes, as jobs go, it is a very good job;
Few finer for a woman can be found.
But this cannot be the end for which womankind was made
'Twixt the cradle and the green, grassy mound.

I tire of the noise; there are too few joys.
I am drawn to the window and the sky.
But "Your looms are going without filling," says a voice,
And I run to change my shuttles on the fly.


Ed (Trickett) learned this song while visiting Bob Coltman a few years ago at his home in South Chelmsford, MA. While researching the history of nearby Lowell, Bob found a bit of prose written by Harriet Farley which appeared in the Lowell Offering, a mill newsletter printed in 1841. Much of the song comes from that prose, and Bob says that the first verse is almost verbatim. He wrote the song in 1989, "in a matter of minutes." (DP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_Ehxi_zvU


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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Weaver's Reverie by Bob Coltman
From: Barbara
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 09:27 PM

That's it! Thanks, guest. I found Dave Para's notes and the link to All the Good People, but it took me to an earlier All the Good People, not the one you linked to. And I did try searching for other recordings, but didn't find that one.
Thanks again
Blessings
Barbara


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