Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here (Johnson/Wenrich

Subject: Lyrics needed
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:31 AM

Who has the words to "where do we go from here"

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:47 AM

Can you tell us more about it?

Subject: RE: Lyrics needed
From: Willie-O
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 09:29 AM

The song by The Band? On the album "Cahoots". I have a good book about The Band (Across the Great Divide, by Barney Hoskyns), which devotes a whole paragraph to bad-mouthing this song:

"...easily the worst offender in the didactic stakes, a desperately forced eco-lament for the American eagle, the railroads, and the buffalo. "It's a shit-headed version", admitted Robbie....There's a very moving thing in there wanting to come out, and it ain't there in this version.

So good luck, find the lyrics, and you might do better than the original...of course you don't have to agree with everything in a book, the writer hated "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" too, a song I love and I'm an atheist.

Incidentally Hoskyns lists what he considers their 20 best songs and his top pick I agree with: "Acadian Driftwood"--a truly magnificent ballad and arrangement which they don't pummel to death with attempted passion, the story of the Acadian expulsion from Nova Scotia has enough pathos and drama that it needs a lighter touch. And exile from Canada is something those guys (the Band) knew about...

My number's north, I got winter in my blood...

Willie-O

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (Johnson/Wenrich
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 03:58 AM

Where Do We Go From Here?

Paddy Mack drove a hack up and down Broadway
Pat had one expression and he used it every day.
Any time he'd grab a fare to take them for a ride,
Paddy jumped upon his seat, cracked his whip and cried

Where do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here?
Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey City pier.
When Pat would spy a pretty girl he'd whisper in her ear,
Oh, joy, oh, boy, where do we go from here?

One fine day, on Broadway, Pat was driving fast,
When the street was blown to pieces by a subway blast.
Down the hole poor Paddy went, thinking of his past,
Then he says, says he, I think these words will be my last.

Where do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here?
Paddy's neck was in the wreck but still he had no fear.
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
Oh joy, oh boy, where do we go from here?

Strange to tell, Pat got well, then the war began.
He enlisted in the army as a fighting man.
When the drills began they'd walk a hundred miles a day,
Though the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say

Where do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here?
Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear,
And when we see the enemy we'll shoot them in the rear.
Oh joy, oh boy, where do we go from here?

Far away, every day, on the fighting line,
Paddy's doing all he can, of course he's doing fine.
When the soldiers hear him sing it fills them full of glee,
You can make them happy if you sing the words with me.

Where do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here?
Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear.
And when we see the enemy we'll shoot them in the rear,
Oh joy, oh boy, where do we go from here?

One fine night, Pat got tight, had an awful time,
Took a bunch of ladies to a swell cafe to dine.
When the waiter came around the ladies ordered wine,
Paddy scratched his head a bit and hollered, Not for mine!

Where do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here?
After that, I'll take my hat and quickly disappear.
My mouth keeps saying "Champagne" but my pocket book says "Beer."
Oh joy, oh boy, where do we go from here?

From the 78 by Arthur Fields, c1918. The verses seem to be slightly out of order. The last verse and chorus should probably be in second place, which is where they occur in the Billy Murray version.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: 12-stringer
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 04:01 AM

Most recent Guest is the cheerful old 12-stringer, with an expired cookie he didn't notice before hitting "Post."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: Bru
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 06:22 AM

Funny thing about theses lyrics.

Sometime in the mid 1970's there was a song with excactly the same title, by group called Arkwright. Got plenty of Radio play at the time, but never appeared in the charts. Despite extensive googling in the last few years, and the resources of a radio station prior, I've never been able to track down either the song or the group, or any information.

Anybody ever heard this one?

Opening lines were:
Arthur Edward Pickersgill, working down at mill
Sorting out the . . . ..   the ones to empty and to fill.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: GUEST,CelticWarrior
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 05:15 PM

Is is the one Where Do We Go From Here by Ray J - album "This Ain'ta Game" (2001)? If you you can get it online at www.metrolyrics.com

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE (Sammy King)
From: Peace
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:37 PM

(From the other thread.)

WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE
(Sammy King)

Houghton Weavers - 1975



Arthur Edward Pickersgill
Workin' 'ard at mill
Sorting out the bales
The ones to empty and to fill
It's Sat'day night, he's rushing home
To check his football pools
While Chelsea won and let him down
And so did Hartlepools

So off at dawn on Monday morn
Working for his rent
Money's hard to come by
And half's already spent
'Cause Billy wants a pair of shoes
And Tilly wants a dress
And Freda wants some curling pins
She says her hair's a mess

And so, where do you go from here
Where in life do you belong
You've work so hard throughout your life
To make your country great
And now it runs away from you
Leaving you behind and out of date

Every week your Sunday joint's
No bigger than your thumb
With eight of us to share it
And that's not including Mum
But first you've got to find it
And the kids are lookin' out
It's there, Dad, in the processed peas
Behind that Brussels sprout

And Freda's getting married soon
You'll 'ave to pay for do
Invitin' all the folks we know
Will cost a bob or two
And after all the toastin'
And the speeches and the gags
It's back to working overtime
And rolling your own fags

And so, where do you go from here
Where in life do you belong
You fought for King and Country
And your comrades in the war
And is it any different now
You're fighting to exist just like before

And so, where do you go from here
Life's inclined to hurry by
Your clogs went out with ration books
But still you carry on, forever if you can
'Cause you're the kind of man who can't
Afford to die


(Transcribed by Monique Adriaansen & Mel Priddle - August 2006)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 07:02 PM

Is it down to the lake I fear?

(top marks to any folkie who gets this reference WITHOUT resorting to Google)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 07:39 PM

I have it in my collection - fun little piece.

The Levy collection has a copy on line.

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/levy-cgi/display.cgi?id=097.194.000;pages=3;range=0-2

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do We Go from Here?
From: GUEST,countrylife
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:52 AM

The band version (Robbie Robertson composition) can be found here

http://theband.hiof.no/albums/cahoots.html