Lyr Req: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat / Knobby's

Subject: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 06 Oct 97 - 06:27 AM

I'm looking for the lyrics to this song.
Thanks Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE NOBBY'S STEAMBOAT
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 06 Oct 97 - 01:29 PM

Come for a trip on Uncle Nobby's steamboat
Where you can hide your worries on a high float
And we'll take a trip to Leprechauns & shamrocks
And hide our minds and troubles for a while

CHORUS: And we're going where the grass is growing green
To a mystic land that no one else has seen
Where oblivion takes the mind's reality
And reality fades into a memory

Captain Bluebeard gives a smile at the gangway plank to meet you
The first mate by his side with a work card if he needs you
They take you down below your cabin is cool & cozy
Full steam ahead we're ready for to go

CHORUS:

Bring on the dancing girls the show is now in motion
The choo-choo train is gone it's halfway through the mountains
The fairies and the witch the banshee's drinking brandy
Uncle Nobby at last is in command

Bob S

where

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Oct 97 - 03:18 AM

Thanks a lot, Bob, for these lyrics. I had looked for them at many places in the web without success.
Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 07 Oct 97 - 05:17 PM

The song is on the record "Heart of Oak" by the X Seaman's Institute.

Folkways FTS 32419 It may still be available from the Library of Congress which ended up with the old Folkways material.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,magnificent 7
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 08:32 PM

and were goin where the grass is growin green,to a mystic land that no one else has seen,

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 09:36 AM

I have been searching for this song FOREVER. Several years ago, a child brought the record to my school, I taped the song, and with passing of time wondered where it came from......Then when Titanic Movie was released, just before the ship goes down, do you recall the mom puytting her two little ones to bed? She tells them a story, ending "and they lived happily ever after in the land of Tir Na Nog". I knew I had to find the song.I searched every child album....finally good old Google helped me. Thanks to everyone who sent in bits and pieces. I have now sent for the CD Rifles of the I R A.    Many thanks    Mariah

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,shano
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 12:55 PM

The song is by ''The Wolfe Tones'' and written by Brian Warfield
It's an anti drugs song from the 60s [Take a trip,,and all that kind of stuff]

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Greg B
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 02:09 PM

ANTI drugs? You mean like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds? :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,shano
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 02:44 PM

Yep just like that , except the Irish way,,we tend to go to a make believe place ''Tir Na Nóg'' the land of the young where ye never grow old,and everything is rosy,,,yep I just went there for a Minuit