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08 Jul 01 - 05:32 AM (#500995) Subject: October Song From: Dunc I have the lyrics to Robin Williamsons 'October Song' but so far have been unable to track down the chords. Can anyone help? Thanks, Dunc |
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08 Jul 01 - 06:14 AM (#501010) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Frug Dunc, I have chords and Tab for this from the Incredible String Band Song Book. If you PM me with your address I'll send you photocopies. Frank |
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26 Aug 01 - 10:59 AM (#535505) Subject: October Song From: Dunc Can anyone help me with the chords to the Incredible String Band's October Song? |
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26 Aug 01 - 11:02 AM (#535506) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Jon Freeman try this. Jon Link fixed. --JC |
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26 Aug 01 - 11:07 AM (#535511) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Dunc Great for the words - any idea about the chords? |
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26 Aug 01 - 11:20 AM (#535517) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Dunc All requests for the chords to date have drawn a blank!! |
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26 Aug 01 - 11:48 AM (#535529) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Jon Freeman Well I know I've got it somewhere on a corries LP... Anyway, I've managed to find a short clip of the tune on the internet and these chords seem fit along with it:
(E)I'll sing (A)you this (E)October song, E??? - Play an open E but instead of the G# on the 3rd string, move up a fret to the A. Atlleast that sounds right to me. I'm not very good at picking those sort of things out. Jon |
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26 Aug 01 - 12:16 PM (#535537) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Dunc Thanks for that Jon, I've handed those chords over to my singing partner, Stan, and he is the one who plays the instrument. All I have to do is learn the words. |
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26 Aug 01 - 12:55 PM (#535547) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: kendall Have you heard the Corries version of this? or Cindy Kallett? she sang it on a tape called Neighbors with Gordon Bok. |
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26 Aug 01 - 01:04 PM (#535551) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: October Song From: Jeri Jon, maybe try the E??? chord as a B? Other choice: Dm. |
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18 Sep 08 - 09:23 AM (#2443973) Subject: October Song From: Jack Blandiver Anonymous Benefactor posted this on another thread where it's basically been ignored. Perhaps here it might get the recognition it deserves: To you all of good heart & good cheer, here is a free mp3 of October Song being performed by the Incredible String Band live at the Filmore some forty years ago in June 1968 - Robin Williamson : guitar & singing / Mike Heron - sitar. A thing of rare beauty, and joy forever... Click the link below & savour! October Song - ISB : Filmore June 1968 It's a near pristine archive recording from 1968 of the ISB reconstructing October Song according to the extended eastern flavoured acid-folk they were famous for on Hangman's Beautiful Daughter and bringing it in at around 10 minutes! This is fucking historic! And it's up there for free! Although in my experience of YOUSENDIT it'll be there for a max of 100 downloads or 7 days maximum. Get it whilst you can. Anonymous Benefactor, we are in you debt, sir! |
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18 Sep 08 - 10:05 AM (#2444002) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST thank you for that - I usually play this once a year (guess when)and perhaps I'll try altering the arrangement to reflect this one. R |
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18 Sep 08 - 10:40 AM (#2444018) Subject: RE: October Song From: Big Tim Brilliant song. |
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19 Sep 08 - 09:01 AM (#2444945) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,abdul the bul bul on his laptop It's on Wee Tam or was it Big Huge? I bought the double album. Corries did a splendid version and maybe Dick Gaughan too but not too sure bout that. Al |
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19 Sep 08 - 09:11 AM (#2444952) Subject: RE: October Song From: The Borchester Echo It's not on my Big Tam or Big Huge. Which is not to say the song might not have been included on some later compilation with the same title. It's on The Incredible String Band, their debut release when they were 3, Robin Williamson, Mike Heron and Clive Palmer. |
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19 Sep 08 - 10:41 AM (#2445030) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,A the BB on laptop. Yep, You are right Diane, is Greatest Friend I got from WT & T BH. Getting old....It's on their Incredible String Band album. Has made me go thro the old lp's again tho. Must get another player. Al |
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19 Sep 08 - 10:46 AM (#2445035) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,A the BB etc As the wife says...."you never listen"...or in this case 'read' . You did say which album it's on. Still keep discovering bits and bobs that they stuck in their lyrics. How could they have been so widely read at their tender ages? All that Douglas Traherne stuff!! Al |
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19 Sep 08 - 11:38 AM (#2445096) Subject: RE: October Song From: Paul Burke How could they have been so widely read at their tender ages? They probably read the reviews in the Sunday heavies. |
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19 Sep 08 - 11:58 AM (#2445120) Subject: RE: October Song From: goatfell I have the Corries and Finbar and Eddie Furey do this song and I think it's great. |
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25 Sep 08 - 02:15 PM (#2450065) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,awandererplays I somehow missed this one when it first came out in the 60's. I heard Dylan commented it was a great song. First heard it on Bert Jansch's album "Crimson Moon." Anyway, here's my version of this amazing tune! click here! |
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25 Sep 08 - 03:35 PM (#2450146) Subject: RE: October Song From: The Borchester Echo The extraordinary deviation from accepted standards of intonation and metre bear a remarkable resemblance to the outpourings of Walkaboutsverse. Many would be interested to know what influence "awanderplays" attributes to this source. (Funny, could have sworn I mentioned this before . . . ) |
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26 Sep 08 - 12:33 PM (#2450948) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,ifor Robin Williamson's brother was one of the Corries...I think he wrote Flower Of Scotland. ifor |
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26 Sep 08 - 06:56 PM (#2451252) Subject: RE: October Song From: Snuffy And how did awandererplays manage to sign up Nick Drake and Sandy Denny as friends? |
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26 Sep 08 - 07:11 PM (#2451257) Subject: RE: October Song From: GUEST,awandererplays Snuffy: It was easy mate, I just asked em! Ms.Easby: Sorry to offend your "accepted standards" and thank you for your interest. My influences can be found by clicking on the "influences" section on the myspace page. |
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27 Sep 08 - 03:47 AM (#2451404) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Will Fly The Filmore performance is indeed a historic event. I saw the ISB at the Albert Hall in, I think it was, 1968, complete with sitar and many, many other instruments, and the Filmore sound reflects much of their style at the time. Call me a mouldy old fig if you will, but I personally prefer the simplicity and power of the original version on their first album - just my taste. |
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27 Sep 08 - 04:43 AM (#2451419) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: alanabit I also first heard this song on Jansch's "Crimson Moon". I liked it very much. I thought the Fillimore version by ISB was a bit of a curiosity, but I would prefer to hear a simpler, punchier version. By the way, was Mike Heron the same guy, who sang in Heron? I am talking about a three piece harmony group, whom I saw in Reading in the mid seventies? They featured the brilliant Gerald "GT" Moore on guitar. It was quite an enjoyable evening. |
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27 Sep 08 - 04:58 AM (#2451422) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: The Borchester Echo After the ISB disintegrated in about 1974, Mike Heron formed a band with three other former members Malcolm Le Maistre, Graham Forbes and John Gilston, and called Mike Heron's Reputation which was soon abbreviated to Heron. They toured for two or three years. The ISB reformed in the late 90s and eventually got the elusive Clive Palmer back in. Robin Williamson, however, retired from the band (which had included his wife Bina) a few years ago. |
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27 Sep 08 - 05:33 AM (#2451427) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: GUEST,JohnMc Many people assumed the two Williamsons were related, but they were not. |
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27 Sep 08 - 02:52 PM (#2451709) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: The Borchester Echo Robin Williamson and Bina Williamson are married. To each other. I suppose that counts as "related". |
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27 Sep 08 - 03:19 PM (#2451724) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: GUEST,JohnMc I was, of course, responding to GUEST'S mention of Roy of THE CORRIES. |
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27 Sep 08 - 03:24 PM (#2451728) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: The Borchester Echo Of course you were. I couldn't be arsed to mention it. If there are those who want to go around thinking that Robin Williamson's brother wrote the bleedin' Flower Of Scotland, let them. |
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28 Sep 08 - 01:58 PM (#2452238) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Geoff Wallis The band Heron, which alanabit asked about, did indeed feature Gerald 'GT' Moore and recorded two albums for the Dawn label which were released in the early 1970s - a self-titled debut and the double-LP Twice As Nice & Half the Price. A double-CD retrospective, Upon Reflection: The Dawn Anthology was issued a couple of years back. The band actually continued into this decade - see http://bit.ly/2XLye3 and singer Roy Apps's page on Myspace. Did Mike Heron's Reputation actually reduce its name to just Heron? I was booking bands at that time and I certainly don't recall this (and isn't it unlikely since the original Heron was still in existence?). I'm more than happy to be proved wrong. |
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28 Sep 08 - 02:12 PM (#2452251) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: The Borchester Echo They released Mike Heron's Reputation in the mid-70s and then Diamond Of Dreams as Heron. I haven't got either and know no more about them, including when (if ever) Gerald T Moore joined the band. What I do know about them I got from an edition of Be Glad magazine. |
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28 Sep 08 - 02:45 PM (#2452269) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Jack Blandiver The guest-heavy Mike Heron's Reputation album finds the remnants of the recently collapsed ISB (even a guesting Williamson) coming up with a classic slab of country rock, featuring a song about a dead dog and moving farewell to the ISB which contains the lines: We weren't ready for the country, me and you, just a couple of city boys, we couldn't even sing the blues. And we couldn't even light a fire, or find the pole star... Features Singing the Dolphin, later covered by Manfred Mann on the execrable Roaring Silence album. For more, images especially, see Here. |
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28 Sep 08 - 02:53 PM (#2452272) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: The Borchester Echo Hahaha, interesting that Melanie guests on the recording. At Woodstock during the thunderstorm the ISB's management refused to allow them onstage because it wasn't safe. Melanie took the spot instead and thus won her international reputation singing Candles In The Rain. |
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01 Oct 08 - 06:49 PM (#2455224) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Spleen Cringe This is fantastic. Much as I love the ISB's recorded output, think of how much better we would have thought of them as capable of being, had we been exposed to more of this expansion of what they could offer. Mr Beard, salutations for sharing. Wish I could hear the rest of the concert... On a sadder note, who is doing this to this music we call folk now? |
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01 Oct 08 - 07:22 PM (#2455243) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Tattie Bogle Thanks for the download link: still working now. I also quite like the Fureys version even if they have changed the original 4/4 into 3/4. |
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02 Oct 08 - 10:15 AM (#2455498) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: pavane I have a recording of a live performance by Tom Gilfellon around 1973. Very good, though a long way from his usual stuff. But he also played ragtime guitar that night. |
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02 Oct 08 - 12:00 PM (#2455623) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Brian Peters Thanks, Insane Beard. Raymond G played me that Fillmore clip a few years ago, and it's great to hear it again. A truly radical reworking - and perhaps it was that snippet of 'Half Remarkable Question' in the middle that got Abdul thinking about 'Wee Tam'? |
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18 Aug 09 - 06:21 AM (#2702952) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Mandolinal been searching for what seems years. ok for chords & lyrics but anyone please got melody? In any format! |
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18 Aug 09 - 06:40 AM (#2702963) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Mr Happy ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnJdQ9izto |
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18 Aug 09 - 07:58 AM (#2703002) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: rich-joy Thank you! One of my all-time favourite songs : my sister and I have sung it together (unaccompanied) for many years (having originally learnt it from a Corries record!!) Cheers, R-J (Down Under) |
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18 Aug 09 - 08:07 AM (#2703007) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Mr Happy Aye, nice version from Corries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLpPLqW3Nos |
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18 Aug 09 - 06:31 PM (#2703322) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Suegorgeous Yes, Dick Gaughan did it too. |
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18 Aug 09 - 06:57 PM (#2703349) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: bobad Mr. Happy's link at 6:40 AM doesn't work because he missed the h in http, try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnJdQ9izto |
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18 Aug 09 - 07:12 PM (#2703363) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: MoorleyMan The list of cover versions of this fabulous and inspirational song is longer than you might think. Those by Maggie Boyle, Brian Peters and Dick Gaughan are specially treasurable, the Bert Jansch and House Band ones are pretty fine, and I can recall hearing another two, by singers in the "non-professional" category, that have much to commend them. I may be mistaken, but I don't think it's in Raymond G's repertoire. And yes, it can work well unaccompanied too. |
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18 Aug 09 - 07:15 PM (#2703364) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Scorpio Wonderful version from the Corries! My personal fave, apart from the original, is the Furies'. I heard the ISB for the first time when I was on holiday - with my parents - in a caravan on the Yorkshire coast in 1967. The transistor radio began to play Hedgehog Song. As soon as I came home I bought the album. Of course, the fortune I had amassed from my paper round allowed me such luxuries. Then I wanted to delve deeper. Their first album was only available as a stereo USA import. Who the hell had stereo? I bought it. And have sung October song ever since. No prizes for guessing when I was born. |
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24 Aug 09 - 08:51 AM (#2707232) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Mandolinal Thanks Mr Happy & bobat. First time I've heard that version. I've only heard Corries version. As I don't hear so well can't pick out melody line.Anyone help please. |
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24 Aug 09 - 09:18 AM (#2707249) Subject: RE: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Jack Blandiver Another chance from our Anonymous Benefector I see! ISB : October Song - Live at the Filmore-6-68 This is the definitive version; so - download, play loud & rejoice that not only once upon a time such music was played, but that someone had the good sense to record it. |
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04 Oct 21 - 07:26 PM (#4121857) Subject: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: Joe Offer Do we have lyrics? Here we go - I checked the lyrics and they seem good. I suppose we could quibble about a word here or there, but I'd call this a good transcription. OCTOBER SONG (Robin Williamson) I'll sing you this October song, Oh, there is no song before it. The words and tune are none of my own, for my joys and sorrows bore it. Beside the sea The brambly briars, in the still of evening, Birds fly out behind the sun, and with them I'll be leaving. The fallen leaves that jewel the ground, They know the art of dying, And leave with joy their glad gold hearts, In the scarlet shadows lying. When hunger calls my footsteps home, The morning follows after, I swim the seas within my mind, And the pine-trees laugh green laughter. I used to search for happiness, And I used to follow pleasure, But I found a door behind my mind, And that's the greatest treasure. For rulers like to lay down laws, And rebels like to break them, And the poor priests like to walk in chains, And God likes to forsake them. I met a man whose name was Time, And he said, "I must be going," But just how long ago that was, I have no way of knowing. Sometimes I want to murder time, Sometimes when my heart's aching, But mostly I just stroll along, The path that he is taking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN84ld5xM9M |
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05 Oct 21 - 05:59 AM (#4121884) Subject: RE: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: GUEST,Nac MacFeegle May or may not be mentioned above, I'm not wasting time looking, but Irish singer/musician Pat Kilbride, at one time with "The Battlefield Band", does a very fine version on his CD "Rock And Roses". Lyrics above look fine to me. |
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19 Oct 21 - 04:43 PM (#4123540) Subject: RE: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: GUEST "October Song" is my favourite song bar none (coincidentally I was born in October but I think I first bought the album with the song in February 1973), but having heard several cover versions, to my mind nothing beats the original song on the Incredible String Band's 1st album in 1966 (when Williamson and Heron teamed up with the now deceased Clive Palmer, though this was the only ISB album Palmer played on until they re-formed briefly around the turn of the 20th and 21st century). I haven't heard of Robin Williamson having any siblings, but seem to remember reading (probably in the USB Fanzine "Be Glad") that (a) His father came from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, the county I live in (b) His mother's maiden name was MacGillivray). I remember after I performed the sing (unaccompanied as I do not play the guitar, etc) at a local Open Mic, someone claimed it was written by an Irish musician (it may have been the Pat Kilbride mentioned above) though he later conceded that it was by Robin Williamson. |
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20 Oct 21 - 10:20 AM (#4123609) Subject: RE: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: voyager a song for the season. thanks |
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20 Oct 21 - 10:50 AM (#4123610) Subject: RE: ADD: October Song (Incredible String Band) From: voyager October Song - Live ISB Performance (1968) |