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14 Feb 09 - 11:01 AM (#2566751) Subject: Can anyone help me find this song? From: Faye Roche I heard a floor singer sing a song the other day. I meant to ask him what it was called but he left before I had the chance. I didn't catch his name and he was not known to the club, which was out of my usual area so I won't have the chance to go back there for a while. The song began: "The street is lit from end to end" and the chorus contained the line "We are safe". Sorry, that's not much to go on, but my memory is not that great. It was a powerful song and I'd like to know who wrote it and if it's been recorded by anyone. Thanks for reading. |
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14 Feb 09 - 12:28 PM (#2566812) Subject: RE: Can anyone help me find this song? From: Abdul The Bul Bul Where did you hear it Faye? It may be that the singer was singing one of his own songs, not widely known. These queries usually get sorted straight away on mudcat but I see no one is helping yet. Al |
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14 Feb 09 - 04:14 PM (#2566971) Subject: RE: Can anyone help me find this song? From: breezy ring the club organiser ? |
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14 Feb 09 - 04:21 PM (#2566975) Subject: RE: Can anyone help me find this song? From: artbrooks Could a mod adjust the thread title? |
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14 Feb 09 - 04:54 PM (#2567004) Subject: RE: help me find this song?- street is lit/we are safe From: Joe Offer Yeah, I was trying to think of a more specific title, Art. Maybe this will do. -Joe- |
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14 Feb 09 - 05:08 PM (#2567014) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: mg Does it refer to WWII bombings perhaps? mg |
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19 Feb 09 - 08:24 AM (#2570796) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Faye Roche Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. The club (whose name I won't mention) was a fairly dire place where I stopped off on my way through London. I left before the end as the audience were making more noise than the performers (why do people pay to go to a music venue just so they can chat to their mates? They can do that for nothing in any pub and without the live music to distract them!) Back to the point. The singer was not known to the organiser as he was at the club for the first (and probably, like me, last time.) I think it must have been a self-written song. So, whoever you are, if you read this, I don't want to steal your material, I'd just like a recording of the song, if it exists. It was about the spread of the surveillance society and the growth of the underclass and was very moving, if harrowing. I'm sorry that it was also wasted on your "audience". |
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14 May 09 - 11:33 AM (#2631710) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Brian Peters This would be 'We Are Safe' by Jim Woodland, which appeared on a 1980s LP called 'Ghosts'. Jim has written some excellent and hard-hitting songs, some of which are in the repertoire of partner Janet Russell. He used to be a Salami Brother but isn't seen too often on the folk scene these days, which is a pity for all of us. I thought the song was about nuclear waste - or weapons. |
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14 May 09 - 08:48 PM (#2632127) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: oldhippie Can you post the lyrics? |
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15 May 09 - 05:27 AM (#2632329) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Brian Peters I'll try to get a message to Jim. |
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15 May 09 - 08:35 AM (#2632462) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Leadfingers I dont know a lot about Jim Woodland , except that he is one of the few people (In my not so humble opinion) who have fitted words to a 'Good' tune and made it work ! The words Jim fitted to 'South Wind' make it a good song , not just agood tune . |
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15 May 09 - 09:18 AM (#2632510) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Brian Peters One of my favourite musical memories is the Sunday afternoon concert at Holmfirth Festival about twenty years ago, when Jim Woodland and Peadar Long (who is also on the 'Ghosts' album) played the Sunday afternoon concert. The previous acts had been of the laid-back variety, a soporific atmosphere prevailed, and the audience was quietly dropping off. The duo hit the stage, Jim in suit and tie, toting a Rickenbacker, and Peader with leather jacket (collar turned up) dark glasses and tenor sax. They ripped into (I think) 'Don't Jump' at high volume, and the audience jumped off its collective chair. One of the most 'in yer face' performances I've ever seen. Brilliant. |
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25 May 09 - 09:01 AM (#2640389) Subject: Lyr Add: WE ARE SAFE (Jim Woodland) From: GUEST,Janet Russell and Jim Woodland Glad you're interested in the song. It was written in the "Protect and Survive days" of the cold war. We were being asked to accept the build up of nuclear arms. Jim used to perform it with the Fabulous Salami Brothers, with Richie Taylor juggling carboard nuclear warheads, and dropping one occasionally, at which point the song would stop whilst he gingerly picked it up and started juggling them again. Then the song picked up where it left off. Here are the lyrics: The street is lit from end to end Twenty four hours a day. There's soldiers standing at both ends Just in case. Atomic sunshine atomic rain They say there is no waste at all. But late at night I've heard the trains Sneak by behind a wall. And they say 'We are safe we are defended.' How does it feel to be so secure? 'We are safe we are defended.' These days you can never be too sure. From time to time the searchlights shine Right into the room. And barbed-wire shadows hang like lines Of music across the room. And they say 'We are safe we are defended.' How does it feel to be so secure? 'We are safe we are defended.' These days you can never be too sure. The street is lit from end to end Twenty four hours a day. But now the darkness never ends It just looks like the day And they say 'We are safe we are defended.' How does it feel to be so secure? 'We are safe we are defended.' These days you can never be too sure. 'We are safe we are defended.' How does it feel to be so secure? 'We are safe we are defended.' But these days... I don't really feel so sure. |
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25 May 09 - 09:10 PM (#2640884) Subject: RE: find song-street is lit end to end/we are safe From: Peace LYRIC ADD in the post Above. |