Lyr Req:The lancashire Lads Have Gon

Subject: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: jimlad
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:11 PM

Lyrics required for old military song that starts:-

Twas early in the morning as I have heard men say Our orders came from Manchester we were to march away

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:24 PM

In Susanne's SongBook Here .

Nic Jones did a nice version of this, but my favorite rendition is by Dave Burland.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: MMario
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:25 PM

click me

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:48 PM

See also these previous discussions:

Lancashire Lads
Lancashire lads

The "Digitrad and Forum Search", to be found on the main Forum page, returns these and other references when asked nicely to search for lancashire lads.

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: MMario
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:52 PM

Sorry malcolm - I did look - and probably mispelled something in my search...

Previous threads say this *can* be sung to "Star of the county down" - Anyone have a different tune associated with it?

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:53 PM

Old Blind Dogs version is the best I've heard...

Been meaning to learn this song for a while now...

Ta fer the reminder eh!

;-)

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:57 PM

I actually did search the lyrics database, Malcolm, and followed up with the Supersearch which is supposed to search the Forum but got bugger all ....

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:15 PM

There are times when strange things happen with it, that's for sure.

The song hasn't been found in tradition, I think, and it's been sung in the Revival to a number of tunes set to broadside texts.  Mike Harding set it to a variant of Dives and Lazarus, another form of which was used for the early-20th century song Star of the County Down; Nic Jones set it to a modified form of an (unnamed) "traditional tune", and Roy Palmer set it to a tune taken from Baring Gould's Songs of the West, but I don't have that particular Palmer book and can't tell you which tune it was.

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: jimlad
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:26 PM

Thanks folks esp MMario and Malcolm Douglas,this mudcat thing is superb.

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: nutty
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:37 PM

There is a Bodleian Broadside here ... dated at 1817 from which the present song has obviously evolved

LANCASHIRE LADS

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: folkmonster
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 05:56 PM

The original (version revival) version was by the Halliard.

"In the years immediately after the Napoleonic Wars there were riots and general unrest in many industrial areas. Troops from Lancashire were brought down to Midlands on several occasions, notably to Dudley, prompting a Midlands printer to print this song. The tune is the Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn, and was fitted by Nic Jones"

Sleeve notes from "The Halliard" 1968. Reissued on CD from Michael Raven, Yew Tree Cottage, Jug Bank, Ashley, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4NJ United Kingdom, Tel: [phone]

FM

Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The lancashire Lads Have Gon
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 09:38 PM

Ah, thanks for that reference.  Mine was from Songs of a Changing World, where the tune is not named; I was getting quite annoyed with myself trying to place it, particularly as it sounded so familiar.  The tune can be found at JC's Tunefinder:  Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn