Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman

Subject: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: GUEST,skippy
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 05:13 PM

hi all,
the song starts with lines
"I don't want to be a ploughboy"
follow the furrow is not for me.
I've done that classic thing of buying a new stereo without a turntable & I have brian's folk rock opera (as he once called it)on a piece of circular plastic! Help.
Anyone got the words typed out?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: nutty
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 06:08 PM

I have the vinyl as well, although its years since I've seen it ...... It may take me some time to find.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: GUEST,skippy
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 06:31 PM

nutty thanks for that, can't place you from your mudcatt name but we must know each other, with 18 visits to the place you are not going this weekend but I am. (not missed a year from 84 to now!)
not to give too much away I have taken over from Andy as task force supremo, can you place me?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: nutty
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 07:11 PM

not sure that I can Skippy ..... I'm only an occassional visitor although I have had the honour of appearing on one of the yearly productions. PM me more info please ..... I'm curious now

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: GUEST,skippy
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 01:06 PM

maybe we are not talking about the same place.
it's on a farm in northamptonshire if we are.
Regards skippy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: nutty
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 02:32 PM

That's the place ....hope the rain holds off ....have fun.

Subject: Lyr Add: I DON'T WANT TO BE A PLOUGHBOY (B Cookman
From: nutty
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 07:29 AM

Skippy ...hope you are still visiting and that you are still looking for these words ....i knew they would turn up eventually.



I don't want to be a ploughboy

I don't want to be a ploughboy
Follow the furrow is not for me
Living with sheep and cows, boy
Well, that's no life for me
And to spend and end all my days
The same through ages past
I don't want to be a ploughboy
Is that too much to ask?

I don't want to be a ploughboy
I know I could be something more
I f someone would show me how, boy
I could be a star I'm sure
But you say I should know my place
And be thankful for my task
But I don't want to be a ploughboy
Is it too much to ask?

So I'm not going to be a ploughboy
And follow the furrow just like my Dad
I think the time is now, boy
There's good times to be had
And I'll say goodbye to the plough and harrow
Bid farewell to the soil at last
Cos, I'm not going to be a ploughboy
And it's not too much to ask

I have the author/singer as Brian Cookman and I know the song came from a production but can't remember what, where or when.

Has anyone else got any info?????

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ploughboy song by brian cookman
From: skipy
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:31 PM

O/K it's taken a little while for me to find out thet where posted here! 8 years in fact! Nutty, I have still not missed a year! How about you, still going? There is a site on facebook with pickies.
Skipy (1p!)