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Subject: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Sandy Creek Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:04 AM I keep hearing bits of a song by Johnny Cash on TV commercials. "Come take a ride in my air ship." How beautiful it is. Anyone have all the words? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:22 AM I haven't heard Johnny Cash singing it, but there was a song of that title recorded by Charlie Poole, that I sing. It was a popular song in the early 1900's. I've seen the sheet music somewhere along the line, and the version that Charlie Poole does is substantially different. This is it as I remember it, which may not be exactly the way Charlie did it. My memory being what it is. Come take a trip in my airship Come take a spin round the stars Come take a trip out to Venus Come let us sail 'round to Mars No one to see when we're kissing No one to care while we spoon Come take a trip in my airship And we'll visit the man in the moon I once loved a sailor, once a sailor loved me He was not the sailor, that sails the wide stormy sea He owns an airship, free as a bird on the wing Every evening one song you'd hear, he'd fly to my window and sing Come... It's been awhile. Masato probably had the whole discography of the song... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Sorcha Date: 20 Feb 03 - 10:24 AM Found lots of references to the album Johnny did it on, but no lyrics. Album is: 1972 America KC 31645 / CBS 65163. Full title is "Come Take a Trip in My Airship",as a tribute to Apollo 14. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 20 Feb 03 - 10:43 AM If you go to Google and type in Come Take A Trip In My Airship, it will bring up the sheet music to the original song... the one that Charlie Poole re-arranged and recorded... probably no resemblance to the one that Johnny Cash does.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 20 Feb 03 - 05:30 PM Charlie Poole's version of Come Take A Trip In My Airship is included on The Legend Of Charlie Poole, Volume 3 on the County Label. It's listed as Once I Loved A Sailor.. Anything by Charlie is allright by me.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: GUEST, Dale Date: 20 Feb 03 - 05:41 PM The Johnny Cash version is the same, though a bit short. It's on his America: A 200 Year Salute in Story and Song album. He says it was one of his mother's favorite songs. It's pretty well known in OT music in Arkansas. I've heard it by several groups. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: GUEST,Julia Date: 20 Feb 03 - 05:53 PM It's a favorite of mine I'd always heard on Sally Rogers' and Claudia Schmidt's album "Closing the Distance." COME, TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIR-SHIP
Once, I loved a sailor. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: GUEST, Dale Date: 20 Feb 03 - 06:52 PM I was just going to say that Natalie Merchant has a version. Didn't know about that one. Can't say as I ever heard her before. |
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Subject: Lyr Add:Come Take A Trip in My Airship From: Sorcha Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:46 PM Lyr Add: for Guest, Julia's post of 20 Feb 03 - 05:53 PM this thread. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:54 PM Searching for "air ship" in Mudcat Forum turns up at least two related threads, one which I posted as "Roll & Go-C" several years ago. Happily, our search engine is working again! Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Cash 'Air Ship' From: Sandy Creek Date: 20 Feb 03 - 09:05 PM Thanks to all. Now I'll NEVER get this song out of my head. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COME TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIR SHIP From: Jim Dixon Date: 03 Mar 03 - 11:14 PM Lyrics transcribed from the sheet music images at The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. COME, TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIR-SHIP (Words by Ren Shields. Music by George "Honey Boy" Evans. Copyright 1904) I love a sailor; the sailor loves me, And sails ev'ry night to my home. He's not a sailor that sails o'er the sea, Or over the wild briny foam; For he owns and air-ship and sails up on high. He's just like a bird on the wing, And when the shadows of evening draw nigh, He'll sail to my window and sing: CHORUS: Come, take a trip in my airship. Come, take a sail 'mong the stars. Come, have a ride around Venus. Come, have a spin around Mars. No one to watch while we're kissing, no one to see while we spoon, Come take a trip in my airship and we'll visit the man in the moon. One night, while sailing away from the crowds, We passed through the milky white way, Just idly sailing and watching the clouds. He asked me if I'd name the day. And right near the dipper, I gave him my heart. The sun shines on our honeymoon. We swore from each other we never would part And teach all the babies this tune: CHORUS [Note: Shields and Evans also wrote "In the Good Old Summertime."] |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: GUEST,David Date: 05 Jan 10 - 04:40 PM The lyrics posted (dated) March 3, 2003 at 11:14PM, are the correct (original) lyrics as published in 1904. The lyrics posted (dated) February 20, 2003 at 05:53 PM, are the lyrics from the Natalie Merchant recording. Either way, it's an absolutely fantastic song and one of my personal favorites. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: John Minear Date: 06 Jan 10 - 08:42 AM Check out this very nice version from "The Whistlin' Wolves" on their MySpace, featuring Emily Eagen, whistling and playing her ukelele: http://www.myspace.com/thewhistlinwolves Emily is a world champion whistler, and her ukelele is made out of metal!. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: Mr Happy Date: 06 Jan 10 - 09:02 AM Heard Robin ex- Incredible String Band sing this at a local sesh about 20 years ago. Here's the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybdQH5PHcYY |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: doc.tom Date: 06 Jan 10 - 09:06 AM Also recorded by Jeff Warner and by Grace Notes (who had it from Jeff). TomB |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: GUEST,Gary Kenneth Bass (almost famous folksinger) Date: 25 Jan 13 - 11:26 AM Jeff Warner added his own lyrics. Here's his verse: We sang with the birds in the morning, Danced with the clouds in the eve, He was lord of the mountains, And I felt I was queen of the sea. I love my sailor, How I long for the day When he flies through my window, And these are the words he will say. Can be found on the Jeff Warner recording The Jolly Tinker. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: Charley Noble Date: 21 Nov 24 - 01:50 PM Nice to see Jeff Warner's lyrics above. I do wonder about the impact of the airship as it 'flies through my window..." But maybe it's a very large window and a very small airship. Charlie Ipcar |
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Subject: RE: ADD: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Nov 24 - 04:55 PM In 1903, Alberto Santos-Dumont was flying around Paris in a small one-man dirigible. Henri Rousseau - Le Douanier Rousseau - showed three of his aircraft in flight in his painting Vue du Pont de Sèvres 1908. Santos-Dumont wrote; I determined to build a small air-ship runabout for my pleasure and convenience only. In it I would pass the time while waiting for the future to bring forth competitions worthy of my race craft. So I built my "No. 9," the smallest of possible dirigibles, yet very practical indeed. When in the spring of 1903 I found my air-ship station completed I had three new air-ships ready to house in it. This handy little runabout takes me over the Bois at between 20 and 25 kilometres (12 and 15 miles) per hour. On Monday, 29th June 1903, I landed with it on the grounds of the Aéro Club at St Cloud in the midst of six inflated spherical balloons. After a short call I started off again. After leaving my fellow-clubmen at St Cloud that afternoon I made a typically practical trip. To go from Neuilly St James to the Aéro Club's grounds I had already passed the Seine. Now, crossing it again, I made the café-restaurant of "The Cascade," where I stopped for refreshments. It was by this time 5 P.M. Not wishing to return yet to my station I crossed the Seine for a third time and went in a straight course as close to the great fort of Mount Valerien as delicacy permitted. Then, returning, I traversed the river once again and came to earth in my own grounds at Neuilly. |
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Subject: RE: ADD: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Nov 24 - 01:35 AM The Conquest of the Air In 1903, Alberto Santos-Dumont was the toast of Paris, flying his dirigible to his favourite restaurant. When Santos-Dumont made a brief flight in Paris in 1906 in his 14-bis aeroplane, there was no acknowledged antecedent and he was acclaimed in France and elsewhere as the first to fly a powered heavier-than-air craft. Also in 1906, the U.S. Army rejected a proposal from the Wright brothers on the basis that their machine's ability to fly had not been demonstrated. Many in Brazil regard Santos-Dumont as the first successful aviator because his craft did not use an external launch system. It is generally accepted today that the Wright brothers were the first to make sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flights with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1904 the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer II, which made longer-duration flights including the first circle, followed in 1905 by the first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft, the Wright Flyer III. Worried that rivals would steal their yet-to-be patented designs, the Wright brothers stopped flying publicly for nearly three years in late 1905. People began to doubt that the Wrights had ever flown. Sceptics were silenced in August 1908 when Wilbur Wright made a series of spectacular demonstration flights at Le Mans, France, achieving more distance and control than anyone else. The aeroplane in Rousseau's painting of the bridge at Sevres - and his painting of The Anglers - is the biplane of Wilbur Wright, whose image was circulated in Le Petit Journal illustré de la jeunesse on 27 December 1908. The balloon in the painting appears to be a hot air balloon. On 21 November 1783, the first free flight by humans was made by Pilâtre de Rozier, together with an army officer, the marquis d'Arlandes, in a Montgolfier balloon. The flight began from the grounds of the Château de la Muette close to the Bois de Boulogne park in the western outskirts of Paris. The early flights caused a sensation. During those first few years, souvenirs such as fans, furniture, handkerchiefs, pencil boxes and umbrella tops could be found with ballooning images engraved on them. |
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Subject: RE: ADD: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Nov 24 - 11:06 AM There was an airship rage in the 1890s, evidenced by a musical farce titled The Airship that toured for about ten years. One can find a couple of lovely posters at the Library of Congress but there are no song titled or lyrics that I've been able to discover. Here's a general description of the musical: "Much like modern cinematic blockbusters, the theatrical stage of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras saw the same competition for bigger, grander, and more effects-laden productions to draw audiences. J.M. Gaites rose to the challenge, penning The Air Ship in 1899. Dubbed "a musical farce comedy," it tapped into both the public fascination with powered flight and the Klondike Gold Rush, which were the current affairs of the year. Samuel Langley had just made two successful flights with steam-powered model aircraft in 1896, which flew almost a mile after being launched from a catapult. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, became interested in possible military applications and began funding Langely's experiments. Meanwhile, a pair of civilians, Orville and Wilbur Wright, were only a few years off from their historic flight in Kitty Hawk. As the quest for the air was going on, hundreds of thousands of treasure-seekers clawed their way to the Klondike River in the Canadian Yukon Territory in the quest for gold. Unfortunately, by the time stampeding prospectors finally made their way across the treacherous Chilkoot Trail in 1897, most of the good sites had already been claimed. The North West Mounted Police - precursors to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - acted quickly to ensure a peaceful and orderly gold rush, but hardship and hunger still plagued the Stampeders. Those who could eke out gold from the river bed and the hills became fabulously wealthy. Dawson City came to be called the "Paris of the North" and, practically overnight, the largest city west of Winnipeg. Gaites' musical opened with an inventor flying his airship to Alaska and discovering a lake whose shores were literally coated in gold. Sadly his heavy-laden craft went down on the way back, along with all knowledge of the lake's whereabouts. Undaunted, the inventor's nephew decided to try his hand at aeronautical adventure. Reaching Dawson City with a farcical crew of comic characters and buxom beauties, they eventually manage to find the gold and return home in a harrowing thunderstorm. Critics decried what they perceived as a lack of plot, the show being carried by the music, dialogue, and effects. That is a familiar critique even today. Audiences, on the other hand, loved it. After its initial run in New York, The Air Ship went on tour and continued drawing full houses well into the 1910's. Of particular note were the air ship itself flying through the thunderstorm and the wintry scenes in Dawson, many celebrating these as masterful and as realistic as one supposes that a stage play can get. With the advent of The Great War and the widespread use of military aircraft, attitudes towards fanciful flights from before the Wright Brothers changed. Like with Jules Verne and Georges Méliès, the public was no longer interested in Scientific Romanticism. The hard reality of industrialized warfare dashed those aspirations. J.M. Gaites' greatest fame still lay in his future though, writing Vaudeville routines for the Marx Brothers." |
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Subject: RE: ADD: Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Nov 24 - 11:12 AM There is a lovely video online of Natalie Merchant leading this song on a Rosie O'Donnell show in the 1990s. Dropping out a few original lines from the verses and using the same melody as the chorus, as Merchants and Sally Rogers have done, in my opinion has greatly improved this song. |
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