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Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed

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I DREAMED THERE WERE UNICORNS
LAST UNICORN
THE UNICORN SONG (SEEING IS BELIVING)
UNICORNS (GREEN ALLIGATORS)


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Subject: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: GUEST,Bekki --- healing@frognet.net
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 09:55 AM

I'm looking for Unicorns as sung by June Tabor (I actually first heard this at Irish Week at Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop in 1984 (?) sung by Mick Maloney, so it's been out there for a while.) Not sure who wrote it. Such a good song I'm not sure why it's not in this collection yet...


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: AndyG
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:08 AM

I'm pretty sure the song you're looking for must be Unicorns, written by Bill Caddick.

Sorry, I can't provide the lyric but the song has been covered by quite a few people so you should have no trouble running down a copy if no-one else on the forum can help.

AndyG


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: Llanfair
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:25 AM

Is it the one that starts
We were travelling north to sing and play
For friends that we had never met"
If it is, I'll post the words, I have been singing this lovely song for years. Bron.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: GUEST,PeterB
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:35 AM

Unicorns as sung by June Tabor was written by Bill Caddick and was sung on hif first album "Rough Music". It was also recorded by Chris Foster. The words and music were printed as a broad-sheet by John Craven in late 70's?


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: AndyG
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:43 AM

Yep, that's the one Bron.

Please post the lyric, it's one I've never written down 'cos its well outside my ability.

AndyG


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Subject: Lyr Add: (I DREAMED THERE WERE) UNICORNS^^^
From: Llanfair
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:51 AM

Oh, what the hell, I'll do it anyway.

UNICORNS
We were travelling north to sing and play for friends that we had never met
Been working hard and didn't speak, the sky was grey and threatened wet.
I dreamed that I saw Unicorns, I dreamed I saw them wild and white.
Their restless beauty filled the world, like a star would light a winter's night.

Pure as gold with manes of milk
They pranced and danced and cried out loud
Bright as rainbows round the stars,
Their eyes were soft and sad, and proud.

And I wept for the wild and dirty world, for whom this beauty now was lost,
And I cursed the hungry mind of man, who feeds the future at such cost
My head was bowed,my eyes were closed, but in my ears their voices rang,
These few words locked deep inside, and in my very soul they sang.

We never went away, you always knew that we were near
Remember how to look for us, you'll find that we were always here.

I raised my head to seek them out, but the world was empty all around
The rain came tumbling from the sky, and washed my dreams into the ground.
And when they asked me why I wept, like one who for a dead love mourns,
The only answer I could give, "I dreamed that I saw Unicorns".

We never went away,you always knew that we were near,
Remember how to look for us, you'll find that we were always here.

Pure as gold, with manes of milk, they pranced and danced, and cried out loud.
Bright as rainbows round the stars, there eyes were soft and sad,
And proud.


I love that song, Hwyl, Bron. ^^^


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 02:55 PM

Will you sing it in Hearme sometime please, Bron? It is a beautiful song.

--Noreen


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: Llanfair
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 03:11 PM

Yes, Noreen, I'd love to.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: IvanB
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 03:23 PM

Actually, it IS in the DT, under the title 'I Dreamed there were Unicorns.'

Dunno why, but a search on the term 'unicorn' doesn't bring it up.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: Susan of DT
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 09:04 PM

If you searched for unicorn* it would come up. remember to use wildcards if you are not sure about --s --d, etc.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: GUEST,Judy
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 10:50 PM

Anyone know the name of the album Chris Foster did that has "I Dreamed There Were Unicorns"?
Thanks,Judy


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unicorns-- not the one listed
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 06:50 AM

His site says Bill Caddick's 'Unicorns' is on 'All Things in Common'


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