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Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates
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Subject: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 17 Jul 01 - 11:15 AM Some years ago, I heard someone sing a song called Nottingham Gates, which I believe is a modern song about the town of Nottingham. (Gates, in this context are streets, not doorways). Anyone ever heard of it? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: MMario Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:00 AM Didn't find anything on a goodle search. Any lyric snippets that might help? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 18 Jul 01 - 11:56 AM None at all, I am afraid. After thinking about it, it may have been written by the couple who sang it, and if so, is unpublished. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Ringer Date: 18 Jul 01 - 12:16 PM Are there any "gates" in Nottingham? Chesterfield, Sheffield & York are full of 'em, but I don't remember, from a childhood near Nottingham, any gates. But I'm probably mistaken. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NOTTINGHAM GATES From: GUEST,Ian Clegg Date: 27 Jan 09 - 01:45 PM Here it is ... NOTTINGHAM GATES 1. In Wheeler Gate a hand I lent With a blunt spoke shave to the bench was sent, E'er one day had passed I could plainly see This was no place for me. 2. In Barker Gate there leather was tanned And I hammered sheepskin with me own right hand, But the burning gorse made such a foul reek I were out that place in a week. CHORUS: Unto Wheeler, Barker, Carter, Lister, Fletcher, Fisher Gates I've strayed, Been an arrowman, a leatherman, lace I've made For I am a Nottingham jack of all trades. 3. In Carter Gate made bottles of glass But there's hardly room for a man to pass, For carts full of coal roll by all day, So from there I made me way. 4. To Lister Gate I went after that Carried yards of cloth to the boiling vat, With scar and dye me hands turned blue So I left wi'out more ado. CHORUS 5. In Fletcher Gate, there arrows were made And the grey goose feathers all around were laid, They went up me nose and they made me sneeze, I were out that place with speed. 6. Our pike and trout from the Trent it came To Fisher Gate, which had no drain! I pegged up me nose till I made it sore, I'll never go there no more. Chorus
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Sooz Date: 27 Jan 09 - 03:16 PM I remember this song from about 1970 - I had an LP with it on (made with contibutions from all of the folk clubs in the area) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 28 Jan 09 - 10:00 AM Took a long time, but here it is! Thanks for that. Still no composer though? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 28 Jan 09 - 10:00 AM |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 28 Jan 09 - 10:02 AM Oops - pressed send too soon, sorry for blank posting The couple who sang it in Dubai c1979 were Richard and Diane Ball. (As far as I know, they are still there) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: GUEST,Edthefolkie Date: 28 Jan 09 - 10:05 AM Well done Ian, somebody else remembers that song. It's rather good - as Sooz says it was on an album called Folk Nottingham Style which I have just found in a dusty corner! The album may have been part funded by The Nottingham Festival which was a doomed attempt by Nottingham to do an Edinburgh. The song itself is credited to "Hemlock Stone" (a sandstone outcrop in Bramcote). Apparently Hemlock Stone were Richard and Diane Ball, Val Wheeler, and Michael Pidcot. No doubt they are still around - heads up anybody? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: GUEST,Edthefolkie Date: 28 Jan 09 - 10:08 AM Sorry I missed the bit about two of 'em being in Dubai, must fire up my anti ageing program. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: pavane Date: 28 Jan 09 - 11:37 AM Richard and Diane Ball were founder members of Dubai-Sharjah Morris in 1977, and were active there in the folk clubs at the time. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Sooz Date: 28 Jan 09 - 12:42 PM Thanks for that - I'll stop looking for the album! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Dave Sutherland Date: 28 Jan 09 - 04:08 PM The names that you mention are not, as far as I am aware, active on the current Nottingham folk scene; however it might be an idea to PM Roy Harris (burl) in case he has missed this thread as he certainly was around Nottingham at that time and might have had some input into the festival. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: GUEST,Helena Date: 13 Apr 20 - 02:21 AM It's also on a recording called G'day me duck, by the band, Bedlam. Not sure who it s members were. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 15 Apr 20 - 06:12 AM Use of "gate", meaning street, is common in northern English and Scottish towns. It originates from old Danish, so probably dates from the time of the Vikings. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: GUEST,Val Matthews (nee Wheeler) Date: 19 Mar 21 - 03:32 PM Hi Yes I can confirm that Nottingham Gates, both lyrics and music, was a joint effort by the four of us - those were fun days. There were so many brilliant folk clubs in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to go to and such great talent around. Since Richard and Diane went to Dubai we have sadly lost contact. I wonder where Mike Pidcot is now? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: My guru always said Date: 02 Apr 21 - 05:19 PM Back to the top for a friend searching for this! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nottingham Gates From: Steve Gardham Date: 02 Apr 21 - 05:40 PM All of the 'gates' I know of in Northern cities and towns actually were gates and the street led up to the gate and so was named after the gate. These all had defensive walls with gates at all the main routes into the fortified cities/towns. They were also called 'bars'. |
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