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02 Apr 13 - 03:42 AM (#3497702) Subject: any songs about rag sorters From: mg story in apartment therapy seems to lend itself to a song..they have the names of women who were rag sorters in SF I think. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/rag-sorters-textile-recycling-187082 |
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02 Apr 13 - 04:26 AM (#3497709) Subject: Lyr Add: RAMBLING CANDYMAN ('Rich' Johnny Connors) From: Jim Carroll A song we recorded from a Co. Waterford Traveller stopping in Swindon in the 1970s. He can be heard singing it on the double CD 'From Puck to Appleby' Jim Carroll 10 - Rambling Candyman (Roud 2163) Made and sung by 'Rich' Johnny Connors But the day that I left Ireland, Sure things were very slack; I rambled over to Glasgow And I'm wishing to get back. I was gathering old pot metal And more times bones and rags; Sure, all the little different things I put into different bags, To see all the little kiddies With their bones stuck in their hands And enquiring for Johnny Connors, He is a rambling candy man. An old man come to me one day, Thought I was rather green, Down in the comer of his sack There were bricks you could plainly see. Sure I said, 'Old man, take up your sack, Sure I'm not in the game, You can't handle bricks or mortar To any rambling candy man'. Spoken: Oh, I could keep going and going with that, you know what I mean. It's all... Ah, sure, 'tis only bits of that, that's not an old... well, it did happen really, yeah. That's when we come over first, we pulled in; things were going bad like. We pulled in this bit of waste ground and this old man, he come up to us and he thought we were real, you know, like, that we would buy anything. But I suppose this man wanted a drink or summat like, you know, probably he had his own problems as well as us; yeah. Note. It is still quite common to hear Travelers singing snatches of songs, usually just one or two verses, that deal with other Travellers, often in a mocking manner. They have either been made by the singer or by somebody within living memory and are usually remakes of other songs. 'Rich' Johnny Connors made this one up about himself, describing an event that took place some twenty-odd years earlier when he first crossed over from Ireland to Scotland. He appears to have adapted it from an existing song, 'Travelling Candyman', a version of which was recorded by Seamus Ennis for the BBC in 1954 from Co. Antrim woman Jennie Davison. |
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02 Apr 13 - 04:33 AM (#3497712) Subject: RE: any songs about rag sorters From: Leadfingers mg's link |
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02 Apr 13 - 10:26 AM (#3497817) Subject: RE: any songs about rag sorters From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Here`s one about "totters" called "Old-Rag-A-Bone" https://soundcloud.com/john-hills/old-rag-a-bone |
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02 Apr 13 - 05:30 PM (#3497983) Subject: RE: any songs about rag sorters From: GUEST,hg My friend Veronika Jackson has a song called The Ragman who was well known in Tampa/St Pete in the fifties . |
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02 Apr 13 - 06:31 PM (#3498016) Subject: RE: any songs about rag sorters From: GUEST,mg I am also thinking of Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton about her mother making her a coat out of rags.. Also chairs to mend..any old rags |
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02 Apr 13 - 08:16 PM (#3498054) Subject: RE: any songs about rag sorters From: GUEST,mg Jolly Beggerman sounds like he sells old clothes |
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02 Apr 13 - 10:44 PM (#3498090) Subject: Lyr Add: RAGS AN BONES (The Band) From: michaelr Rags and Bones (Robbie Robertson) Catch a taxi to the fountainhead Blinking neon penny arcade A young Caruso on the fire escape Painted face ladies on parade A newsboy on the corner Singing out headlines And a fiddler selling pencils The sign reads, 'Help the blind' Comin' up the lane callin' Workin' while the rain's fallin' Ragman, your song of the street Keeps haunting my memory Music in the air I hear it ev'rywhere Rags, bones with old city songs Hear them, how they talk to me Trolley car rings out the morning The whistle blows at noon A cat fight breaks open the night While watch dogs bay at the moon A preacher on an orange crate With a salvation army band And clicking along the cobbled stones Well that's the sound of the ice cream man Comin' up the lane callin' Workin' while the rain's fallin' Ragman, your song of the street It keeps haunting my memory Music in the air I hear it ev'rywhere Rags, bones and old city songs Hear them, how they talk to me The organ grinder and his monkey Still walkin' the same old beat The shoe-shine boy slappin' leather He puts the rhythm in your feet Strollin' by the churchyard List'nin' to the Sunday choir With voices rising to the heavens Like sirens screaming to a fire Comin' up the lane callin' Workin' while the rain's fallin' Ragman, your song of the street It keeps haunting my memory Music in the air I hear it ev'rywhere Rags, bones and old city songs Play them one more time for me From the album Northern Lights, Southern Cross (1975) |