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Lyr Req: 'Row On' & 'Bully Song' DigiTrad: BULLY OF THE TOWN LOOKIN' FOR THE BULLY OF THE TOWN Related threads: Lyr Add: The Bully Song (11) 'Bully of the Town' - mystery word (24) Tune Req: Lookin' for the bully of the town (18) |
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Subject: lyrics wanted From: Date: 23 Aug 98 - 01:59 PM Hello there anybody, John Townley sings "the bully song" and a song named "Row on" on a cassette named Sailor I wonder if anybody can give me the lyrics of this song. Jan |
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted From: Susan of DT Date: 23 Aug 98 - 04:36 PM While I thought of "Bully in the Alley" and "Bully of the Town", a search on bully got 47 hits. Take a look and see if any are what you are thinking of. PS (1)A thread title that relects what you are looking for is more useful and (2) a few more words are helpful, so we know what you have in mind. |
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted From: Barry Finn Date: 23 Aug 98 - 11:10 PM Hi Jan, would the "Row On" have to do with something about a lighthouse on the shore, maybe words by Dibben (sp?). Give a little more, it'll make it somewhat eaiser to help you. As long as John has been singing this type of music, you're asking to cover a very wide area. Barry |
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted From: SHANTYMAN Date: 24 Aug 98 - 01:06 PM Row on a lament found by Gail Huntington in an 1846 journal from the New Bedford Whaler "Three Brothers" Tune by Tim Laycock refrain Row on row on another day may shine with brighter light like......????? the oars and pull away ??????/ under way?? The Bully song a boatman sung this on the Ohio River in 1896 With new lyrics is was a hit sung by May Irwin in the play The Widow Jones. The first popular ragtime song, it made its way down to the sea and turns up in the journal of U.S. Naval Midshipman CW Cole aboard the training ship U.S.S. Monongahela in the summer of that year. The song starts with something like this
He is rounding all the boatmen and he is laying them body's down I am a Tenessee boatman and I don't allow A red eyed river roustabout.......... I am looking for that bully and he must be found See 'The Bully Song' |
Subject: Lyr Add: ROW ON^^ From: Barry Finn Date: 24 Aug 98 - 02:47 PM ROW ON
Row on, row on another day
Clouds are upon the summer sky
Bear where thou goest the word of love
Oh like yon river would I glide
But yet a star shines constant still
Row on, row on God speed the way
Thanks Shantyman, for some reason I had "Lights Along The Shore" & couldn't get past it. Barry |
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted From: Zorro Date: 25 Aug 98 - 08:55 AM Is the "bully" song, "The Bully of the Town?" If so, I have the words around here somewhere.. It's an old banjo tune that someone put words to...I heard Doc Watson do it, but a lot of folks have also recorded "I'm looking for the bully, the bully of the town, looking for the bully, that bully can't be found, I'm looking for the bully of the town........." ?? |
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted From: dick greenhaus Date: 25 Aug 98 - 12:49 PM To coin a phrase, the DT database is a good place to look. It's in there. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Row On' & 'Bully Song' From: GUEST,John Townley Date: 30 Aug 10 - 01:31 PM The whole album, with explanatory notes, is at http://www.astrococktail.com/sailor.html |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Row On' & 'Bully Song' From: GUEST,blowz sans cookie Date: 30 Aug 10 - 03:35 PM Row on, row on another day May shine with brighter light Ply, ply the oars & pull away Thou must not come tonight I think that the last line of this verse is actually: 'There's dawn beyond the night' (or, at least, that is how Tim Laycock sings it) |
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