Lyr Req: I'm walking inland / Marching Inland

Subject: I'm walking inland
From: vectis
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:45 PM

Please, will some kind person post me the words to
I'm walking inland from the shore
And over my shoulder I'm carrying an oar
And when someone asks me what
Is that funny thing you've got
Then I know I'll never go to sea no more, no more (X2)
As you can see I've got the chorus but no verses. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:50 PM

Took me a bit of finding but it is in the dt.

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:52 PM

a search of the database for "carrying an oar" , lyrics which are hard to mistake and not too common, gives you

this, by Tom Lewis

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:53 PM

beat me by 2 minutes, Jon!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:54 PM

Vectis, it's in the DT as Marching Inland (click)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: SeanM
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:54 PM

Fun song... With numbers like this, I can see why he won the Hugill Shanty award.

M

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 06:55 PM

Yeesh! Five responses and three clickies in less than 10 miniutes!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:01 PM

Is this a record for clickies (when no-one is aware someone else has replied)?

As for the search, I started with "sea no more" which didn't work. I was convinced it had to be there though.

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:04 PM

probably not a record, but still fun...(and BOY did I get tired of that song for awhile...when it was new, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who'd just discovered it and had to do it 4 times a week!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:13 PM

I never knew that one getting to that sort of "popularity" Bill. First time I heard it was in the Llandudno Folk Club, sung by Derek Gifford.

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:31 PM

Jon, I think it hit Americans harder...we didn't have the pubs and 'atmosphere' a few years ago....it was just taken as 'cute' and was thoroughly overdone!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 07:34 PM

I did a SuperSearch for "marching inland" and got it right away, then clicked on and read parts of 2 threads before I clicked on the DT links. (If you think I'm bragging, it took me that long to realise there were DT links. Duh.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 08:47 PM

In case anybody doesn't already know, I'll just mention that the oar business comes from the Odyssey.  Having returned to Ithaca after ten years' wandering in the aftermath of the Trojan War, there was one last thing for Odysseus to do; he must appease the god Poseidon, who had been his implacable enemy.  Instructed by the prophet Teiresias, he set out "across the mountains of Epirus, carrying an oar across his shoulder.  When he reached Thesprotis, the countryfolk cried, 'Stranger, why a whinnowing-bat in Springtime?'  He accordingly sacrificed a ram, bull, and boar to Poseidon, and was forgiven."

Partially quoted from Robert Graves, The Greek Myths (Cassell, 1958).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 08:55 PM

LOL! I knew a guy in Wyoming that said he was going to load a snow blower in his pick up and when somebody asked him what it was, he was far enough south!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 08:58 PM

Great work!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 09:29 PM

Jon's mention of a possible record put me in mind of a favourite thread of mine, with "three people in agreement and three links in seven minutes", a lot of hilarity and new lyrics posted too! Red is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Still makes me giggle, reading it over.

Noreen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 09:39 PM

Nice one Noreen. and Malcolm, thanks for that - I didn't know.

Jon (the ignorant one)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: GUEST,Vectis at work
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 05:14 AM

Whoopee! Thanks everyone. I tried everywhere looking for "I'm walking Inland from the shore" but couldn't find it. I knew it OUGHT to be in the DT but nothing I tried, even using keywords, worked.
I knew the brilliant minds of Mudcatters wouldn't let me down.
Keep up the good work everyone.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From:
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 05:40 AM

It's a song which when you have several people singing it in harmony gives it a real kick. I first heard it from a fellow named Vince Morash, a local singer/songwriter. He had learned it from Tom Lewis himself, and sang it the evening he announced Tom Lewis was coming to Nova Scotia.

A few weeks later, I heard it again, and it was quite a treat to hear Tom Lewis do the song, with Vince singing harmony on it.

Since then when Vince does it or someone else does it, it's hard not to hear others adding harmony to it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 09:36 AM

I love this song. The only place I've ever heard it is from the Pyrates Royale at MD ren-faire.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 05:59 PM

We've(Roll & GO) been trying to sing it swapping verses back and forth between two leads, and swapping harmonies. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't work...too bad.
George Seto – regards to Vince and the gang from Charley and Judy in Maine. Hoipe the music sessions are going well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm walking inland
From:
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 06:07 PM

Will do, Charley!

Say, Vince just celebrated his 50th Birthday. (LAst Tuesday)

Did you need his e-mail?