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25 May 08 - 07:43 AM (#2348699) Subject: Lyr Add: Road to Aberdeen From: RobbieWilson just watched an old Transatlantic Sessions (2) where Nancy Griffith sang this song. I really liked it. Does anyone know who wrote the song? Also, I looked and did not find it in the DT. Do ordinary catters like me add stuff to the DT or do we post in threads and some gnome extract to DT? |
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25 May 08 - 09:09 AM (#2348753) Subject: Lyr Add: ROAD TO ABERDEEN (Nanci Griffith) From: GUEST,Shanty Kees Robbie, I found these lyrics on the web stating that the song is written by Nanci Griffith herself. Kees ROAD TO ABERDEEN (Nanci Griffith) As recorded by Nanci Griffith on "Transatlantic Sessions, Series 2, Vol. 3" (2013) Oh, I thought I saw my mother's eyes On a road to Aberdeen And they did shine above a stranger's smile The color of the sea And one day I'll take my mother there To see what I have seen The eyes of her great grandfather On the road to Aberdeen Now I thought I heard my father's voice Along the coast of Wales Singing sweet of tenor in a Cardiff pub With the wind a gust of gales And one day I'll take my father there To sing the harmony He'll sing high across the water In his grandfather's voice he'll sing (chorus) Old land you are holy To the children 'cross the sea Old land may the sea understand We are all one family In a flower shop in Amsterdam I saw grandmother's hands They were the fragile grace of porcelain With a small gold wedding band And the tulip that I purchased there Is pressed upon a page In a book of psalms grandmother saved From her grandmother's Holland days Now my sister has grandmother's hands And the skin of ivory And my brother has my mother's eyes They're the color of the sea And me, I got my father's voice (and his legs) To the coast of Wales I sing And I do cherish these remembrances On a road to Aberdeen (chorus) It's old land and it's holy To the children 'cross the sea It's old land; may the sea understand We are all one family |
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25 May 08 - 09:35 AM (#2348763) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Road to Aberdeen From: RobbieWilson Hi, yes thanks I did the same but it was not clear whether NG is liisted as the performer rather than the writer |
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25 May 08 - 09:56 AM (#2348772) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Road to Aberdeen From: RobbieWilson OK I've searched and found this where Nanci herself talks about writing the song, which is incidentaly called "Old Land", not Road to Aberdeen. Old Land, Nanci Griffith |
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25 May 08 - 10:13 AM (#2348782) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Road to Aberdeen From: RobbieWilson Following on from this, one of the contributors on the you tube discussion describes Nanci as a celt, scots mother and welsh father. Is this just made up from the lyric? I looked at quite a few biography pages but they all seemed cut and pasted from each other and while they all said she had musical parents it did not mention them being from somewhere other than Texas. Anyone know? |
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26 May 08 - 02:06 PM (#2349460) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Road to Aberdeen From: GUEST refresh |