Lyr Req: Ginnie (will dance the jig tonight)

Subject: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: Slaw
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 07:57 PM

Does anyone have to hand the full lyrics to the song "Geordie will dance the jig"? I played guitar for this song about 10 years ago, but I've can't recall the lyrics. (I used to think it was "Jodie" rather than "Geordie", but an internet search has out me right on that point.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 09:10 PM

Didn't find any lyrics, but maybe this will help. Seems they sing it.....Contact info available there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: nickp
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 04:22 AM

Sneaking feeling that Fairport used to do it. Can't remember if it got recorded - too out of touch with that scene now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: nickp
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 04:34 AM

But I may be wrong... I'm thinking of 'Ginny will dance the/a jig tonight'... although they may have just changed the sex for Simon Nicol to sing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: HuwG
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 05:55 AM

No, nickp, you are quite right, Fairport did indeed record it. It is track 9 of the CD, "The Five Seasons", as "Ginnie".

The info. gives the writing credits to "Huw Williams".

Subject: Lyr Add: GINNIE (H Williams / Fairport Convention)
From: HuwG
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 06:11 AM

GINNIE.

Author: Huw Williams
Artist: Fairport Convention

everyone can hear the music, you can
taste the mood of the wine
getting high on the beer and the
atmosphere of a good time
you can here everyone laughing like
they've got something to share
cigarette some and bad jokes hang in
the air
    But Ginnie doesn't hear it - I
    wonder does she realise
    she's sitting there with that faraway
    look in her eyes ?
    where she goes she doesn't say, but
    she'll leave you way behind
    somewhere else in her mind
But if the music is right, and the
rhythm is light
ginnie will dance the jig tonight

Soon we'll all bt singing the chorus
from some old song
guitars, fiddles, everything playing along
we'll all be hitting the high notes when
the piano begins to play
all those songs we hate but we sing
them anyway
    But ginnies doesn't hear it, it's that
    moment when she goes
    some place in her mind nobody
    knows
    her laughter's gone, her smile is
    faded, she loese it all and then
    that something forgotten comes back
    now and again

But if the music is right, and the
rhythm is light
ginnie will dance the jig tonight

    There are people talking everywhere
    but ginnie's all alone
    she's locked up in that little
    world of her own
    you can look into her eyes but
    there's something you won't see
    a forgotten moment of some old
    memory

But if the music is right, and the
rhythm is light
ginnie will dance the jig tonight


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Spelling, spacing, punctuation, capitals or lack thereof, all [sic], as per the information booklet for the CD, "The Five Seasons".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 07:47 AM

The song is indeed by Huw Williams and also features on Huw and Tonys album Junction 26. Huw wrote several songs for fairport including Summer before the War. Huws original lyrics are definitely about Geordie who appears to be female! maybe the names were changed to protect the innocent.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: Slaw
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 08:11 PM

Champion! Many thanks.

I think I'll stick with "Jodie" - it's pretty much how "Geordie" sounds in that accent, and it's clearly a female name. And it's more elegant than "Ginnie". Plus, the Jodie I knew at school was a gorgeous buxom stunner - top of my list of people I'd like to see doing a jig ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig
From: GUEST,James
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM

I will have to look for this album. I know the song Summer before the war from Connie Dover who does a very beautiful version on one of her 4 or 5 CDs, she also does the one about Rosemary's sister on another cd, it is also good, but has more pathos.