Subject: Legal, illegal - Frances Black From: GUEST,Barry Lynch Date: 14 Sep 00 - 08:42 PM Hi, I'm looking for lyrics for this song which I first came across at the Community Workers Co-op, Monthly Songs for Struggle session in Dublin. I later came across a version that Frances Black had recorded. The only verse I can remember goes as follows:
It's illegal if you are a traveller, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal, illegal - Frances Black From: GUEST,Barry Finn Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:11 PM Try a search for the Author, Ewan MaColl.
"Every time you pick up the paper I'll see if I can't somehow dig up the rest but it's been an awful long time. Barry
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Subject: Lyr Add: LEGAL ILLEGAL (Ewan MacColl/Peggy Seeger) From: GUEST,Barry Finn Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:55 PM Can't believe I dug this out. There may be some minor glitches but here you go.
LEGAL ILLEGAL Barry
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Subject: RE: Chords of "Joy of Living"/ Ewan McColl From: GUEST,v.j.mehlin@btinternet.com Date: 17 Jan 04 - 04:51 PM Hi All, Does any one have ther Chords of Joy of living, please. Vince |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal, illegal - Frances Black From: Joe_F Date: 17 Jan 04 - 06:09 PM It's in _The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook_, under the title "Legal Illegal". MacColl gets credit for both words and music. For "hubble" read "hovel". The following line should be inserted between "But don't be..." and "Remember...": "And for Christ's sake don't upset the old apple-cart". |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal, illegal - Frances Black From: Susanne (skw) Date: 17 Jan 04 - 06:15 PM Vince, try searching for the threads on Joy of Living (there was one within the last month, I'm sure). People will miss your request at the bottom of a thread concerned with an entirely different song. Happy hunting! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal, illegal - (MacColl) From: Charley Noble Date: 18 Jan 04 - 11:16 AM This fine song was the basis for a housing song I co-wrote some years ago dealing with mobile home park issues: By Charles Ipcar with help from Tim Vogel and Dahlov Ipcar, April, 1982 Tune: Ewan McCall "Legal-Illegal" Key: F (5/C) Lord of the Mobile Home Manor C---------------G----------C I used to work hard for a living,, F-----------C----------G7 Up with the sun in the morn, F------------C------------F--------C Down at the office from eight to five, F-C---------------G---C-----G--------F A slave to a boss who would flay me alive, ------C--------F---C-----F-----C--------G--C Then fighting the traffic back home to the wife, ----F-C---F-C—F---C---G7--C Just a cog in the big busi-ness whirl. Then one day I saw in the paper, An ad for some green pasture land, A vision came to me: by buying that space, I'd get myself out of that office rat race; With a loan from the bank and a deed to the place, I'd be Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. So I surveyed the land on the weekend, Laid out the drains and the lines, Pads for the trailers, parking for cars, A management office and junkfood snack bar, A tot lot for children would be going too far, I'd be Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. Now when I was ready for tenants, I thought who I'd want to live there: No children, no pets, no motorcyclists, No unmarried couples or creeping socialists, Would find themselves on my "preferred guest list" For a place at the Mobile Home Manor. And as for those who would move in, They'd have to abide by some rules: No jogging, no gardens, no repairing cars, No loud stereo music or electric guitars, No patio parties or watching the stars, Or be evicted from Mobile Home Manor. No longer a slave to ambition, I live off the rents of the land; Sheltered by interest, insurance, and tax, And clever accountants to cover my tracks, I need never fear that IRS ax, I'm the Lord of the Mobile Home Manor. Most of this song was composed while I and a friend were driving from Michigan to Maine, after he had reviewed his recent experience as a legal aid attorney working with a tenants group in the Mobile Home Manor in the "outback area" of East Lansing. Warm regards, Landlady's Daughter |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal Illegal (Ewan MacColl) From: Owen Woodson Date: 09 Apr 12 - 06:01 AM I see that Mudcat's very own troll is at it again. Hopefully the mudelves will eat it within the hour. However, Mr Anal has given me the opportunity to point out that verse 4 line 1 should read "If your job turns you into a zombie". |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Legal Illegal (Ewan MacColl) From: Owen Woodson Date: 09 Apr 12 - 06:18 AM Just noticed another error. There's a line missing from verse 4 which should read "And for Christ's sake don't upset the old apple cart" |
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