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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:26 PM And could I have a copy please for the Songs of the Inland Waterways web-site? My e-mail address can be found on the Introduction page. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST Date: 07 Mar 09 - 06:50 PM Would Skipper Jack let me have a copy of his Swansea Canal song j.a.howes@talk21.com |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 01 Mar 09 - 04:00 AM Brilliant web-site! Thanks Stewie. I acquired a copy of the 'Last Run' album recently but it's not in very good condition so I haven't really listened to it properly nor transcribe any of the songs. So far I have not included Mikron material on the Songs of the Inland Waterways web-site for copyright reasons. 'Keepers Lock' material is not included for this reason as well. They sell song books and I don't want to deprive them of any income. When I have the time I may contact Mikron Theatre Co. and see if they have any objections. Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Stewie Date: 28 Feb 09 - 09:33 PM Mikron Theatre Company Last Run - Songs Of The Canals And Waterways Of Great Britain 1977 Mikron Theatre Company I'd Go Back Tomorrow (Allemande ALP 1001) 1979 The above 2 albums are available for download from the Time Has Told Me blog. The first side of the second item is from a play about the life of a boatwoman. Time Has Told Me. You will need to scroll down for the canal one. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Feb 09 - 05:30 PM Thanks Lizzie for that link. Very interesting! - and I have traced at least one additional canal song through it. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 27 Feb 09 - 06:46 AM Canaly Things :0) |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 27 Feb 09 - 03:39 AM Thanks NB for providing this. I will add the two verses to the waterway song archive site Songs of the Inland Waterways and hope that the other seventeen surface at some time. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Newport Boy Date: 26 Feb 09 - 05:34 AM Browsing the rest of this thread, I see all the tales of crossing the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Very prosaic, all of them! My first trip over Pontcysyllte was in 1959. Anne & I spent our honeymoon on the Llangollen canal, and we crossed both ways during the week. Very romantic. Oh yes - we'd hired a camping punt - a standard Thames punt, 30ft x 3ft, fitted with steel hoops and a canvas cover. Minimum cooking facilities, and two mattresses but, hey, we were on honeymoon!! Phil |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Newport Boy Date: 26 Feb 09 - 05:17 AM Re-reading Charles Hadfield's British Canals last night, I came across a reference to a song written for the opening of the Neath & Swansea Junction Canal (usually called the Tennant Canal - George Tennant was the promoter). Hadfield gives 2 of the 19 verses (possibly the first and last?) and says: The opening of a canal was an occasion for considerable jollification. Sometimes verse contributed, as when Elizabeth Davies, who kept a lollipop shop in Wind Street, Neath, wrote a song of nineteen verses, of which two are given here, to commemorate the opening of the Neath & Swansea Junction (usually called the Tennant) Canal: O! could I make verses with humour and wit, George Tennant, Esquire's great genius to fit; From morn until even, I would sit down and tell, And sing in the praise of Neath Junction Canal. *** I hope when he's dead and laid in his grave, His soul will in heaven be eternally saved; It will then be recorded for ages to tell, Who was the great founder of Neath Junction Canal. It sounds more like a song of praise to George Tennant - maybe he was her landlord? The canal was completed in 1824. The song is quoted from The History of the Vale of Neath by DR Phillips, 1925. The only copies I can find for sale are over £250. I'll try the local library when I'm down there this summer. Phil |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Wincing Devil Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:09 PM Would that be www.TomLewis.net? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:27 AM I just came across this thread and was pleased to find the John Warner song about the Telford Bridge area (posted in 2003-oh well, better late than never) It brought back many happy memories of our canal boat trip with Tom Lewis in the same area. See Tom's website for a narrative and some photos. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Fidjit Date: 23 Jul 08 - 03:55 AM All this and not a mention of the "Calibar" by Cyril Tawney. With memorable lines like The Engineer from the bank replied, "The 'orse is a doing her best". Chas |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Dave Illingworth Date: 22 Jul 08 - 06:49 AM Dear Ian, Thank you. Actually, I had not expected a reply, so no need to apologise. But glad you liked the CD. I will gladly send you the lyrics (probably by snail-mail - I have your address) and will include chords. No dots though, I'm afraid. Best wishes, Dave Illingworth |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Jay777 Date: 22 Jul 08 - 04:30 AM Apologies if I've misunderstood the nature of this thread, but I don't think anyone's mentioned Navigators yet. The Pogues' lyrics are on http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/pogues/navigator/ (I haven't worked out blue clickys yet- sorry!) but they don't appear to be on the DT. I think I first heard the song at Newbury Folk Club in the late 60s. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 22 Jul 08 - 04:13 AM Hi Dave, I must apologise for not putting your songs on the web-site yet. I have been snowed under with work (at the end of term) and transcribing your songs was next to be done when I finished. Your CD is excellent and is permanently in the car's CD player at the moment. If you could send me the words that would save me a lot of work. I will also be happy to indicate from where the CD can be obtained. If you have any chords or music that would be helpful. Failing that, permission to include a short (30 sec) snippet of each song would be welcome. Again, many apologies for delay. Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Dave Illingworth Date: 22 Jul 08 - 03:50 AM Ian (Hendrie), Maybe you were not too impressed by our DPN+1 CD "THE UNKNOWN BOATMAN" (Canal Songs), but if you do want any of the words for your "Songs of the Inland Waterways" web-site, I would be happy to supply them. Our man Dusty Miller is still writing canal songs. Another thread currently going reminds me that he has written an English version of ERIE CANAL, entitled GRAND TRUNK CANAL, which I have sung a few times (but never recorded, you'll be pleased to hear). Cheers, Dave Illingworth |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Steve Gardham Date: 21 Jul 08 - 06:33 PM Ian, Looking at the website, you don't seem to have any of the late Gezz Overington's songs of the Tom Pudding system out of Goole. They have copies of his CD at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum. We're singing at least one of his songs at the museum this Thursday, Friday, Saturday evening as part of a special entertainment by a Leeds based arts group. There will be boat trips around the docks with 3 boats, one of them an original Tom Pudding tug manned by 2 of the original crew. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 06:20 PM As this thread has re-surfaced can I remind folk of the web-site 'Songs of Inland Waterways' http://www.waterwaysongs.co.uk/SongMenu.htm which contains 'The Roving Navvy' and over 100 other canal related songs. It may be worth checking before anyone else spends time transcribing words from recordings. If you have any UK canal songs not on that web-site I would be very grateful for them. Another plug : Benny Graham and Johnny Handle will be performing 'They're Coming Back to the Water' at 7.30pm on Sunday, 7th September 2008, at North Cheshire Cruising Club, High Lane (on the Macclesfield Canal). Contact me if you are interested. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Pathheider Date: 21 Jul 08 - 05:35 PM Here are the words of the song "The Roving Navvy" (sung by The Spinners) as requested so long ago: ^^ The Roving Navvy 1. Me name is Geordie Thompson. I’m a lad of great renown, Known all along the cut and in the nearby town. A gallon of ale, two pounds of beef, I have every day And when me work is finished, half a crown it is me pay. Chorus: So dig, boys. Load, boys. (Clap) them all the way, Digging up the cut, me lads, of Manchester way. 2. I’ve dug the turf for many a mile, shovelled up the dirt. I’ve beat me way too frozen that I’m going to eat my shirt. I’ve laid beneath the burning sun, digging out the clay To trim away the level all along the waterway. Chorus: So dig, boys. Load, boys. (Clap) them all the way, Digging up the cut, me lads, of Manchester way. 3. I’ve had me share of randies. You can tell it by me scars. I’ve done me share of porter drinking in the public bars.. I’ve laboured, mortal drunk, on a cold October day, Staggered till I nearly fell until I walked away. Chorus: So dig, boys. Load, boys. (Clap) them all the way, Digging up the cut, me lads, of Manchester way. 4. I’ve had me share of women in many a shanty town, ’Cause I reckon if I could chat them up, I could always bed ’em down And if I could live my life again, this I always say, A roving navvy I would be, along the waterway. Chorus: So dig, boys. Load, boys. (Clap) them all the way, Digging up the cut, me lads, of Manchester way. Final Chorus: Aye, dig, boys. Load, boys. (Clap) them all the way, Digging up the cut, me lads, of Manchester way. I got them from their CD "The Best of the Spinners" and the song is attributed on the cover to Ian Woods so it would appear that he did indeed write it. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Ian Hedrie Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:01 AM Can anyone help with the chords to 'Telford's Bridge'? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:18 AM John K. I was eating, a steak with a whisky sauce as I remember. I can't remember much else though. I know about the Mikron Theatre Company and enjoyed two of their productions last year. They still tour the waterway system performing at canalside venues and their 2008 dates can be found on their web-site. I have some of their recordings but have not included any of their songs on my 'Songs of the Inland Waterways' web-site as yet. Their songs constitute a large body of material which is often rather specifically related to the productions that they featured in and, in my humble opinion, some of the songs don't past muster when taken out of context (though I can't speak too highly of their productions - they are a 'must-see' as far as I am concerned). As I don't want to exclude any song from the database on the basis of my opinion, I have not tackled this problem yet. I may just link to their web-site. I have done something similar with the songs written by 'Keepers Lock' but this is because they seek to sell song-books containing them and I do not wish to infringe copyright. Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Harmonium Hero Date: 06 Feb 08 - 06:06 PM Ian H. What were you doing at McT's? - eating, singing or...er...washing dishes? I was there over the Easter weekend and from the May bank holiday weekend until early July, I think, and then late September. I was part of the resident duo - Celtic Twilight - with Bill Bracken. The Mathews Brothers did the mid-season residency. I've also just remembered something that might be useful; There used to be a travelling theatre group called Micron (or Mikron), who toured around on the canals, performing at venues close to the canals. They did musical plays about canal life, written, I think, by themselves. I have an idea that they are still around. They made at least one album of their songs, sold at their performances. My mother saw them in the 70s at Melling Tithebarn (near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, near Liverpool). She bought one of their records, which was still around until my father died, but I think my nephew grabbed it. John Kelly. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Leadfingers Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:23 AM Ian Woods is currently residing in Oxford and can be seen in the area on a VERY regular basis |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:17 PM And here also is Robin's Punters song, also copied from previous thread. PUNTERS The starter fired his gun to commence the rollicking fun There was pushing and poking and pulling and punting Great big guys groaning and grunting You've never seen anything quite so banal As the punters punting on the Union canal There were two participant punts Performing and pulling off stunts But the guys in the boaties were little Don Quixotes Standing in a punt, trying to confront The others with a dunt, or a sneaky wee shunt The first punt started so well, shot along like a bat out of hell But the guy at the back felt his grip go slack And the poor old soul slipped down his pole Landed in the drink and did an eskimo roll The second punt bumped to the front And the crew gave a jubilant grunt But the captain to be blunt was a cretinous runt And his boat mis-steered, it was weird how it veered And everybody cheered when the bugger disappeared And the silence of the setting was drowned By the sound for miles around And an unimpressed swan gave a cynical yawn And the drakes and the ducks all agreed that punting sucks And the rats and the voles ran back into their holes for some parecetamols Love the "internal rhymes" that Robin is so good at! There used to be a punt-pole-vaulting competition across the Union Canal at Ratho: not sure if still happens: needless to say, more punters ended up IN the canal than clearing it! |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:12 PM Guest in Feb 2003 mentioned the Union Canal song by Robin Laing: copied here from another thread. THE UNION CANAL by Robin Laing Fountainbridge to Falkirk, over Almondell By Ratho and Linlithgow weaves a magic spell Fountainbridge to Falkirk, over Almondell Follow the windings of the Union Canal Follow the windings of the Union Canal As a child I was enchanted by swans among the reeds Tadpoles in my jamjar, minnows in the weed Gazing from the towpath on my hands and knees Sunlight on the water, the wind in the willow trees Thinking on those early days, I was always there Swinging out on Tarzan ropes, drop in for a dare Summer was the magic time, but Winter had its day Skating on the ice until the daylight slipped away Fountainbridge to Falkirk... The Union is a quiet place, a relic from the past See the old stone bridges, they were made to last It's just a sad backwater, lazy, deep and slow A sleepy road that used to be a moving picture show For once the traffic pulsed along, a beat that had no rest Lifeline for the Lothians, a gateway to the West Passengersby the thousands, scows of coal and grain The Union carried everything before the railways came Fountainbridge to Falkirk... A casualty of progress, stranded high and dry The Union was discarded, left to waste and die Broken and neglected, falling to decay All those weary Winter days, lonely, cold and grey Those winter years are past now,the water feels the sun The fight against the brambles and silting up is won Narrow boats and barges steer the old canal Slipping through the countryside that I have loved so well Fountainbridge to Falkirk... This song was written ? in the late 80's or early 90's. Since then the silted up bit has been re-opened and the Falkirk Wheel has been put in (tremendous piece of engineering) so you can now get all the way from Fountainbridge (Edinburgh) to Maryhill (Glasgow). Several clips on Youtube of the Flakirk Wheel. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Ian Hendrie Date: 03 Feb 08 - 01:40 PM Just to repeat a previous submission a biography of Ian Woods from a European source is on the internet. Further to John's previous submission I would like to repeat my request for any canal related material from the 'Ballads of the Northwest'. Coincidently I was in McTavish's Kitchen in Fort William in 1976 (with Scottish folk entertainment along with the steak). Also I worked in the UMIST Chemistry Department in the early 1970's and I believe that a member of Canny Fettle was working in the lab next door. I don't know who and may be wrong but it would be nice to find out. The Songs of the Inland Waterways web-site now contains 92 songs and in my push to get to 100 I have contacted some of the people kindly suggested by Mudcatters. Replies have been limited and I think my e-mails may be getting Junked. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Ian |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Harmonium Hero Date: 02 Feb 08 - 02:42 PM Just caught up with this thread. Harking back to the comments about Ian Woods: I hear mention of him from time to time, but not from anybody who seems to know of his definite whereabouts. I knew him in his Frodsham Folk Club days - the early seventies. (Incidentally, the club celebrated its 40th anniversary last month). As Les said, Ian had a few songs about canal life - some, at least, being his own compositions. I don't know if this is traceable, but in about 1975/76, BBC Television did a series of programmes called "Ballad of the North West", which covered various historical themes, and were part drama and part folk music. There was one on the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. The musicians involved were: Ian Woods, Gary & Vera Aspey, The Wakes (me and Tom Brown) and the Northumbrian piper from Canny Fettle, whose name eludes me (as most people's names do). There were about six or eight songs, some of which were written - or re-written for the programme - by Ian Woods. The series was produced by Douglas Boyd - known at the Beeb, we were told, as the Tailor and Cutter, owing to his reputation for ruthless editing and re-writing. I can't remember who wrote the original script for this one, but he claimed that when he saw the re-written version, he recognised four words: "and", "and", "the" and "the". Knowing the propensity of the Beeb (and ITV) for recording over tapes, I don't suppose these programmes exist any more, but would be interested to hear otherwise. I didn't see it broadcast, as I was singing at McTavish's Kitchen in Fort William at the time, but that's another tale... John Kelly. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ross Campbell Date: 28 Jan 08 - 11:23 PM Ian As Para Handy himself would say "You have it chust exactly, Ian! If Dougie wass here he would tell you." Neil Munro's Para Handy stories were made into a popular TV series by BBC Scotland in the late '50s/early'60s. Some episodes were remade in colour in 1974. Apparently the BBC "lost" the recordings by re-using the tapes! British Sitcoms website lists the following;- PARA HANDY - MASTER MARINER BBC / 6x30m-e / 1959-60 11 Dec 59 - 22 Jan 60 black and white Writer: Duncan Ross / Producer: Pharic MacLaren / Director: James MacTaggart Sitcom. The exploits of wily Captain Para Handy and his somewhat hapless crew on board their puffer The Vital Spark. Para Handy......................................... DUNCAN MACRAE Dougie................................................ RODDY McMILLAN Dan MacPhail..................................... JOHN GRIEVE Sunny Jim.......................................... ANGUS LENNIE So perhaps not John Grieve - my memory playing tricks? I remember Roddy McMillan as Para Handy, but apparently he was "promoted" to skipper when the "Vital Spark" series was made (a couple of years after the "Master Mariner" series) The cast I remember is the following:- Cast List Roddy McMillan....as Para Handy John Grieve..........as Dan Macphail Walter Carr..........as Dougie Alex McAvoy........as Sunny Jim Robert Urquhart...as Dougie (Pilot) There's more Para Handy material on YouTube, but most relates to the more recent Gregor Fisher remakes (1994). A bit more digging reveals the continuing availability of a CD "Highland Voyage" originally recorded in 1963. The track-list credits John Grieve (as Dan MacPhail the Cook) as the singer of the "Crinan Canal Song". That would explain the potatoes, then? I've passed the Ardrishaig end of the Crinan Canal a few times in the past year, on the way to visit my brother in Islay. I'll have to try to spend a couple of hours there next trip. There used to be a "puffer" set up as a museum in Inveraray, possibly the last of its type afloat. Good link, Ian, it brought back some nice memories. Ross |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:48 PM I now believe it to be John Grieve playing the part of 'Sunny Jim', the cook and deck-hand, on 'The Vital Spark' in the Para Handy Tales by Neil Munro. If you know otherwise please let me know. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 28 Jan 08 - 01:32 PM Has anyone got any idea who this is singing the Crinan Canal Song on YouTube? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0WokmBEFM In some perverse way I rather like it. Anyone who can sing and peel spuds has my admiration. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Mr Happy Date: 28 Jan 08 - 12:04 PM ..........here ye go! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWNpV7wBkQ |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Snuffy Date: 16 Jan 08 - 07:49 PM I've done Pontcysyllte by narrowboat, but the first time I crossed it was with a 2-man canoe. As it was January, the canal was frozen over, so we had to carry it on our shoulders as we teetered along the icy towpath, between a 100ft drop and a trough of icy water. You may think that was scary, but the Sergeant was much scarier, so we just got on with it. And lived to tell the tale. Many, many times. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 16 Jan 08 - 01:40 PM Earlier in this thread, albeit 5 years ago, the words to 'The Navvy Boys' were given as a response to a request for a song the Spinners sung called 'The Roving Navvy'. These two are not the same song but has anyone come across this song 'The Navvy Boys' before. At first sight the line about 'Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore' suggests something to do with the song of the same name but this is quite different. Apart from the lyrics of this song appearing on a German web-site internet searches have revealed nothing. Can anyone throw any light on this? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 16 Jan 08 - 12:36 PM Unfortunately Jeff Dennison passed away a few years ago. An obituary can be found here. Benny Graham continues to present "They're Coming Back to the Water" with fellow north-easterner, the very talented, Bob Fox. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Jan 08 - 11:58 AM ..........the underside.........hmmmn, then you'd've noticed the elaborate overwrought ironwork holding up the structure. It was cast by imported labour from the Scottish Iron Founders, Cunningham, distant relations of my fiend Cindy's ex. I've heard of hang gliding, but in a narrow boat?? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Graham Bradshaw Date: 16 Jan 08 - 11:43 AM The Benny Graham/Jeff Dennison CD - They're coming back to the water - is still available. See here |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,PMB Date: 16 Jan 08 - 09:06 AM Kamerad Froehlich: I didn't chicken out because it was HIGH. It was the lightning that put me off. We moored up and had lunch, then crossed on the underside, just to show off. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Jan 08 - 09:01 AM http://czteryrefy.szanty.pl/ian/eian_woods.html |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ross Campbell Date: 16 Jan 08 - 08:55 AM I couldn't get Ian Hendrie's link above to work. This one seems to:- Ian Hendrie's Canal Song Menu Going back to read through it properly now! Ross |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Jan 08 - 08:01 AM PMB, Shame on you! Last year, me & the fiends were invited by Mudcatter White Dove + fiend to visit them at their overwintering moorings on the Llangollen canal near the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Two of our fiends are blind, but nevertheless, when we were taken for a cruise down the cut & we all took turns steering, our visually deficient chum manoeuvred the vessel along the aqueduct session with minimal guidance from the owner. P'raps if you have to do it again, try it eyes closed! |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Folkiedave Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:07 AM Done the trip across - in a 45 foot springer. Awesome. Looking over the side where the towpath isn't is quite frightening. Dave |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work) Date: 16 Jan 08 - 04:42 AM Tynesider Benny Graham sings lots of canal songs and produced an album with Geoff Dennison of such songs. He gave me the words to "Punters", the Robin Laing song. I sing this. He also sings the one where lots of things get wound round the prop. Try "googling" Benny. He is always extremely helpful. Sue |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: GUEST,PMB Date: 16 Jan 08 - 03:34 AM Pontycyclist will remain just as spectacular whether they call it a World Heritage Site or not. I missed out on my chance of fame by chickening out of steering across it in a raging thunderstorm. I could have been The Man Who Was Struck By Lightning While 120 Feet Up In A Narrowboat! |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Susanne (skw) Date: 15 Jan 08 - 04:05 PM I hope they'll make it! I've been across Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, and to me it's one of the most spectacular experiences I've ever had. To clarify: I'm not a canal person at all, just took this one narrowboat trip over ten years ago, and loved it. Wish I could do it again some day. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:26 PM I have only two of Ian Woods' songs (in a total, so far, of 88) on my web-site. If anyone knows any others or the whereabouts of Ian Woods I would appreciate the info'. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Les in Chorlton Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:20 PM Ian Wood from Frodsham Folk Club had a great collection of canal songs, does he still sing? |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ian Hendrie Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:13 PM Plea to SkipperJack (and any others with canal songs). Your song 'The Swansea Canal' would be a welcome addition both to Mudcat and my web-site of canal songs (http://www.waterwaysongs.co.uk/). |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Ross Campbell Date: 14 Jan 08 - 10:48 AM Here's the Guardian link:- World heritage hope for canal aqueduct Ross |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: LeTenebreux Date: 14 Jan 08 - 09:39 AM If canal songs on your side are anything like the ones over here, they're by real seamen, making fun of the wimpy canal-folk. |
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Subject: RE: Canal songs (UK) From: Skipper Jack Date: 14 Jan 08 - 07:01 AM I wrote a song for the Swansea Canal Preservation Society. It is simply called "The Swansea Canal" The canal runs from the Swansea Valley down to the North Dock. The song relates the history of the canal from the early days before the railways took over. |
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