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22 Mar 97 - 11:57 PM (#3392) Subject: Lyrics/Men or Bells Of North Lue, Ring From: Barry Finn About 12 yrs. ago a Friend & I heard someone sing a song about bell ringing, I don't remember how the verses went only that the chours started off with either Men , though I think it was Bells Of North Lue rang ***** and true. and that's all that either of us can remember of it, except I think it mentionsit being in the Brittish country side . Thanks for any help. |
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12 Jun 11 - 11:34 AM (#3169332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Jim Dixon THE BELL RINGING, in the DT, contains the line "But the men of North Lew rang so steady and true" but in other versions that have been posted here, the town is "North Looe" or "North Lewe" or "Northlew." For other versions, see these threads: Lyr Add: Bellringing Lyr Req: The men of North Looe rang so steady... Lyr Req: Bellringing Chord Req: Bellringing Song - One Day in Oct |
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12 Jun 11 - 02:35 PM (#3169408) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady.. From: GUEST,Paul Burke Take a look at the placenames in that bit of the country- the Devon/ Cornwall border. Glorious. Sticklepath Tongue End Virginstowe Honeychurch Doublewaters The "Lew" form would seem to be right for the area: Looe is quite a way down into Cornwall. |
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12 Jun 11 - 03:48 PM (#3169460) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Keith A of Hertford Northlew, it is a real place as are all the others in the song. |
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12 Jun 11 - 04:19 PM (#3169476) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: BillE Lewtrenchard?? |
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12 Jun 11 - 07:31 PM (#3169580) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Steve Shaw Northlew. I have it from a bellringer. 'Tis near Okehampton in Devon. |
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12 Jun 11 - 09:31 PM (#3169626) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Little Robyn Lewtrenchard is where Sabine Baring-Gould was the Vicar. I've just looked in his 'Songs of the West' and he has: No 82 page 168 'But the men of North Lew....' In the notes it says 'Words and air from William George Kerswell, Two Bridges, Dartmoor; sung also by James Down, blacksmith, Broadwood Widger. Robyn |
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12 Jun 11 - 11:03 PM (#3169654) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: GUEST,mg If anyone needs bellringing songs I have one about women who rang bells to bring their husbands into the Columbia River from the ocean before there were lighthouses. mg |
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13 Jun 11 - 03:45 PM (#3170058) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: GUEST,Guest Betsy I can still remember Tony Rose singing ' Twas in Ashwater town.... Fine fella |
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13 Jun 11 - 03:49 PM (#3170060) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: michaelr mq - why not post the song as a Lr. Add? |
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14 Jun 11 - 03:34 PM (#3170604) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: GUEST,mg OK..it will be Seaview Bells. I think I have it typed up. True story. Itw as in CHinook observer. mg |
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15 Jun 11 - 09:11 AM (#3170923) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Mr Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northlew |
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15 Jun 11 - 09:33 AM (#3170934) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Jack Campin Doesn't commemorate the most epic of events, does it? I've heard it sung once. That was enough. |
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15 Jun 11 - 11:38 AM (#3170988) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Keith A of Hertford Your name isn't short for campinology then. |
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15 Jun 11 - 11:42 AM (#3170989) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Marje You obviously have no idea, Jack, how seriously they take bellringing here in Devon. I've heard it said that the North Lew ringers were in fact rubbish, and the song is a kind of in-joke among bellringers. But I must add, in case any Men of North Lew or their lawyers are reading this, that I have absolutely no idea if this is fact or fiction. I like the song for its distinctive bell-like melody, even if the story doesn't exactly hold the attention for long. Marje |
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15 Jun 11 - 03:40 PM (#3171079) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Herga Kitty Jack C - I guess you didn't hear it sung by Tony Rose... Kitty |
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15 Jun 11 - 04:20 PM (#3171098) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Effsee Or Cyril Tawney HK! |
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15 Jun 11 - 09:33 PM (#3171224) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Gurney Well, Jack, a good many songs are about going on train journeys. To me they are also very much a non-event. Must be even more tedious in larger landmasses. The sound of church bells in the distance, the sound waxing and waning with the breeze, is very English to me, evocative of times gone by, and because it often sounds best over water-meadows, good fishing trips. That is what you will see concertinists trying to reproduce by swinging their instruments around at arms length when they play this song. That last sentence is not a joke. They do, and it does evoke the sound, but you have to know what the sound is. |
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16 Jun 11 - 07:48 AM (#3171381) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: Jim Martin Yes Gurney, I was going to make the same comment myself about the bell sound from concertinas. Fascinates me everytime I hear it. |
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16 Jun 11 - 04:47 PM (#3171650) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The men of North Lue rang so steady... From: GUEST,Dave G Whenever I hear this song (particularly sung by Devon's Tony Rose) it reminds me of the fact that Northlew (The Men of Northlew) lost more men in the First World War, per head of population, than any other parish in Britain. |