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28 Mar 11 - 01:14 PM (#3123434) Subject: F223 lyrics - the author? From: GUEST,Pete Watkinson - Portsmouth Shantyman We have the words and our recollection of the tune what we don't have is who wrote it. It was collected from Loraine who we used to see at many song festivals but now not for some time. We know that the writer saw a photograph showing a man standing alone on a dockside gazing at a solitary fishing boat. There was no more detail, only the number on the side of the boat– F223 - can anyone help? |
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28 Mar 11 - 01:45 PM (#3123457) Subject: RE: F223 lyrics From: GUEST,999 Roy Jones maybe? |
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28 Mar 11 - 02:25 PM (#3123506) Subject: RE: F223 lyrics From: Jeri "We have the words ..." It would be a lot more helpful if you could post what you have. The likelihood of us recognizing a song is better that recognizing a photo someone else saw once upon a time, once upon a place. |
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29 Mar 11 - 08:13 AM (#3124014) Subject: RE: F223 lyrics From: Snuffy It was indeed written by Roy Jones. I have heard both Roy and Sue sing it. |
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29 Mar 11 - 09:07 AM (#3124051) Subject: RE: F223 lyrics From: Les from Hull F is the fishing registration letter for Faversham. |
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30 Mar 11 - 07:35 PM (#3125195) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: Jim Dixon Colin and Karen Thompson perform F223 by Roy Jones on their album "Time and Tide" (2001). There is a 1:10 sample on their web site. (Click to play.) I listened, but I find it very hard to understand. |
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10 Apr 11 - 08:43 PM (#3132728) Subject: Lyr Add: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST,Sue Jones Roy and I do indeed sing it. Roy wrote it after seeing a picture in a book "Photograms of the Year" in the public library and it was chosen by the Guardian photo editor. Roy wrote the song, c1992, while walking home from the library in about 45 minutes. It was one of those songs, the Muse descended. After writing the song he needed a title and returned to the library to see if the boat had a name, hoping for "Queen of the Minches" or something similarly romantic, but the only identification on the photograph was F223, hence the title of the song. Karen and Colin Thompson recorded it on their album "Time and Tide" and it was also donated to a couple of charities in Lincolnshire and Hull for their fund raising CDs. Roy wrote it as an unaccompanied song but Colin Thompson added his excellent guitar to it. Do NOT attempt this guitar part without the aid of a safety net as Colin is very very good. Roy says please feel free to sing it to your heart's content but with feeling, as it is a love song. F223 (Roy Jones) Take down the lights lads now they're just keepsakes The wheel's pinned to the bar room wall The wheel house bound now for the skip mates Let go the grab and watch it fall. Chorus And the daylight fades along the sea wall The waves break on my stupid heart As this day ends it leaves a gap now Never drawn upon my charts. She's all alone now at the quay side There's not one other smack in sight We'll stand and watch the last tide turning We'll stand together one last night. Chorus In the morning she'll be gone then And with her how I used to be She's more than food and warmth and shelter She's my sweet mistress of the sea. Chorus I'd rather take her by her moorings And swimming tow her far from shore And when we reach the shining home grounds, We'll follow the nets and rise no more. Chorus Take down the lights lads now they're just keepsakes The wheel's pinned to the bar room wall The wheel house bound now for the skip mates Let go the grab and watch it fall. And the daylight fades along the sea wall The waves break on my stupid heart As this day ends it leaves a gap now Never drawn upon my charts As this day ends it leaves a gap now. |
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15 Apr 11 - 05:05 PM (#3135959) Subject: RE: F223 lyrics From: GUEST,Pete Watkinson - Portsmouth Shantyman Thanks 999. we now know that to be spot on. |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:30 AM (#3136145) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST,Pete Watkinson - Portsmouth Shantyman Strange. When I opened the thread last night it showed no progress since 28th March. Now I see 'tis all there. Thank you to you all. |
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30 Apr 11 - 08:12 PM (#3145508) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST,sue Jones I sang it at Banbury Song and Ale weekend and afterwards was alerted to this thread by a Mudcatter there. |
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01 May 11 - 07:27 PM (#3146084) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: AmandaLynne Music A very beautiful sing indeed Sue..I look forward to hearing you sing it again some day soon |
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03 Nov 11 - 08:21 AM (#3249608) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST Thanks Lynne. Roy will probably be singing it at Banbury on Saturday and thanks to Portsmouth Shantymen for the copy of the CD. |
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23 Dec 11 - 08:56 AM (#3278869) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST Many thanks for the copy of the Portsmouth Shanty Men's CD with their rendition of F223. |
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07 Dec 15 - 06:24 PM (#3756558) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST A friend who recorded it has posted it on You Tube now sung by Karen Thompson and guitar by Colin Thompson. :-)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhIGbFnVNg&feature=share |
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07 Dec 15 - 06:55 PM (#3756562) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: F223 (Roy Jones) From: GUEST,# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhIGbFnVNg&feature=share What a beautiful song. So well sung and played. Wow. |