Info: The Terror Times

Subject: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods?
From: Deni
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 10:12 AM

I've done a digitrad search for this. All I know is the chorus goes...

where will ye gang and where will ye bide?

It's gorgeous. anyone have any info on it please?

Thanks

deni

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 10:20 AM

A song by Ewan MacColl:  THE TERROR TIME  DT file, with tune; also in the Forum under its other -original, I think- title,   WINTER SONG  with tune in miditext and abc, plus a link to a midi.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods
From: IanC
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 10:22 AM

Any more words? Sounds a bit like "Sir James the Rose" or the Finnish ballad "The Bloody Son" from Swinburne's Poems and Ballads.

:-)
Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods
From: Zorro
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 08:43 PM

The one I'm thinking of is "Will you gang love and leave me now? Will you gang love and leave me now? Will you forsake your ane love true, for a bonnie lass that you never knew?" If this is it, let me know. It's an Andy M. Stewart song. (I think) I have the words around here somewhere. Z

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 17 Sep 01 - 09:14 PM

WILL YE GANG, LOVE is also in the Digitrad. Good song, but not the one required. Malcolm got it right.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where will ye gang? anyone know wods
From: Deni
Date: 19 Sep 01 - 01:39 AM

Yep Malcolm, that's the one. Terrific. Thanks.

Zorro. I used to sing this song. it was one of my favourites, very emotional. thanks for reminding me of it.

IanC. Will have a look at this source. You can never be too thin, too rich or know too many songs (Old folk saying.)

Thanks all

deni

Subject: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: GUEST,Jimmy
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:17 PM

Can someone give me the words of this sad but lovely song about travelling people in Scotland, thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:28 PM

It is in the forum under "The Terror Time"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:32 PM

Jimmy, see Lyr Add: The Terror Time (MacColl)
If you put the words Terror Time in the search box in the top right hand corner of this page there's lots more for you to browse through. Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: GUEST,jimmy
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 05:57 PM

thanks for your help - regards

Subject: RE: Chords Req: The Terror Times
From: GUEST,64coupe
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 09:01 PM

Can anyone email me the chords to Ewan MacColl's " The Terror Time. I have only heard Old Blind Dogs rendition of it and it appears to be only 3 chords D,C, & G.   Can anyone confirm this?   Thanks

64coupe
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 03:52 AM

Can't imagine it being sung to an accompaniment - it's chilling just with the unaccompanied voice. 'Winds of Change' on the other hand.....!!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: GRex
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 05:40 AM

Didn't MacColl write this as "Winter Song"? Jean Redpath was the first singer I heard sing it as Terror Time.

            GRex

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Terror Times
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 05:53 AM

It was never called Winter Song. MacColl called it The Terror Time and it is from the Radio Ballad, The Travelling People. In fact it's from the section where they talk about Travellers braving the winter, naturally. Just before it starts, one of the Scots Travellers says "ahh that's the Terror Time."

Subject: Lyr Req: The Hunger time
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 10:24 PM

I half-remember a great song about surviving the winter that I thought was called "The Hunger Time" and sung by a Scot.

The heather is gone
And the bracken has died
Streams they run cold and clear
And the small birds will be goin'
And its then that you'll be knowin'
That the hunger time is here

Anyone know who wrote it and where I can find the rest of it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Hunger time
From: Effsee
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 10:44 PM

The song I think you're looking for is Ewan MacColl's "The Terror Time"...it's in the DT, just put terror time in the search box.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Hunger time
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 10:59 PM

Twenty minutes for a hard question - I'm duly impressed, Effsee.

I can't find an Ewan MacColl recording right off, but I found a very powerful recording by Jean Redpath.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Hunger time/The Terror Time (MacColl)
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 11:05 PM

Ah, Terror, not Hunger. That explains why I couldn't find it. Thanks so much guys.