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05 Jun 13 - 06:39 PM (#3523209) Subject: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: GUEST,aging folky I have just heard Pete Coe singing "Penny for the Plowboy" at the recent Chester Folk festival. Does anyone have the Lyrics and know who wrote the song. I think it has some lovely words in it, and Pete's rendition is particularly good. |
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05 Jun 13 - 06:57 PM (#3523214) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: Leadfingers IF you want to find lyrics , try entering something in the 'search' box ! There have been several requests for this Colin Cater song over the last twelve years or so . And yes - Pete Coe does a damn fine job . |
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05 Jun 13 - 07:09 PM (#3523216) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Only one thread: Lyr Req: A Penny for the Ploughboys (Colin Cater) You can here Pete Coe do it on youtube: Pete Coe: Penny for the Ploughboys Mick |
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05 Jun 13 - 07:24 PM (#3523222) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: Tattie Bogle You can get the lyrics on one of the lovely cards that Karen Cater designs too! http://www.hedinghamfair.co.uk/index.htm |
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05 Jun 13 - 07:31 PM (#3523224) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: GUEST,alex s no cookie Andy Clayton does a good job of this. Check out Moorcock Acoustic on Facebook for his folk nights. |
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06 Jun 13 - 04:11 AM (#3523339) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: GUEST,Howard Jones You can buy Colin Cater's book, which includes this and other songs by him together with a CD, from Hedingham Fair: Hedingham Fair Books |
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06 Jun 13 - 04:28 AM (#3523343) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: Speedwell You could even go to the folk club Colin runs with Karen and others and maybe hear it live! http://www.dutonhillfolkclub.org.uk/ |
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06 Jun 13 - 04:09 PM (#3523576) Subject: Lyr Add: PENNY FOR THE PLOUGHBOYS (Colin Cater) From: GUEST Fron Mick's link, af: Subject: Lyr Add: PENNY FOR THE PLOUGHBOYS (Colin Cater) From: My guru always said Date: 06 Sep 02 - 01:10 PM The words to this were passed to me from Colin Cater (who wrote it) after a search on a thread which has now disappeared. PENNY FOR THE PLOUGHBOYS (Colin Cater) At the end of the year all the fields were brown in the days when I was young With corn in the barns, frost in the ground and never a green shoot sprung Then the ploughmen came with hobnailed boots and the Molly dance rich and slow And with magical plays and songs of the land they bade the corn to grow CHORUS Only once a year, Penny for the Ploughboys To keep us in good cheer and multiply the grain Only once a year, Penny for the Ploughboys Speed the plough until the year turns round again Then they ploughed and sowed and harrowed him in and the rain from heaven did fall The wind did blow and the sun did shine and he soon grew amazing tall When the corn was ripened the harvesters came and the barns and the breweries rang And when all was safely gathered in they raised their voice and sang. But now the seasons are all changed round, a slave to the great machines. The fields are ploughed in the high summer time, by the turn of the year they're green Gone are the trades, the horses, the families that followed the seasons along And the old pubs close because they can't resound to the fiddle or a country song But there's strength in the plays, the dances and songs that have lasted a thousand years There's strength in barley malt and hops brewed into a country beer It puts a spring in the step of an old straw bear, makes the dancer leap for the skies And when the Molly gangs come to speed the plough they'll raise their glass and cry. © Colin Cater, 2000 |
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06 Jun 13 - 04:12 PM (#3523579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: GUEST Might be a good idea to change the thread title to Penny for the Ploughboys |
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24 Jun 13 - 06:29 PM (#3529949) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy From: GUEST,aging folky Thanks everyone for you postings. I have been to all your suggestion and found what I required. You tube Pete Coe Great. And the lyrics from guest. I also found that it had been posted before in about 2002 It's great that people like Colin Cater and Pete Coe keep writing and singing songs of bygone customs and trades. Long may it continue. |
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26 Jun 13 - 03:55 AM (#3530465) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Penny for the plowboy? / ...Ploughboys From: GUEST,Wheatman It is the only song I know of which mentions Straw Bears. Brian |