Lyr Add: Copper Ore (Cecily Fox Smith)

Subject: Lyr Add: COPPER ORE (Cecily Fox Smith)
From: Emma B
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 01:44 PM

I first heard this moving poem by Cecily Fox Smith sung by Baggywrinkles at Lancaster and again by Danny and Joyce McLeod at Four Fools Festival last weekend.
It can be heard on "Seaboot Duff and Handspike Gruel" performed by Pinch O' Salt

The "Jane Price" of Swansea thirty days out,
With copper ore from Carrizal
And sinking...

Drifting, with her cargo shifting
And her steering gear gone: and the pumps clanking on
The whole day through
And the whole night too, and the water gaining
Spite of all we can do,
And no use complaining and no use thinking...

In the "Jane Price" of Swansea thirty days out
With copper ore from Carrizal
And sinking...

Drifting, like a log, and lifting
To the big green seas that crash aboard like thunder,
With her lee rail under
And the water to our knees and all the while mounting,
And we've got past caring, and we've got past counting,
And the mate's quit swearing,
And the Old Man's drinking...

In the "Jane Price" of Swansea thirty days out
with copper ore from Carrizal
And sinking...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Copper Ore
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 08:48 AM

This is one of Alan Fitzsimmons most successful musical arrangements of a C. Fox Smith poem, and one of the most difficult given its untraditional structure. Danny and Joyce do a great job of singing it.

I understand that Danny and Joyce will be featured at the San Francisco Maritime Festival later this summer.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Copper Ore
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 04:31 PM

Reading this thread, I can just hear Joyce and Danny singing in my head.

Kitty