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11 Jun 13 - 11:30 AM (#3525226) Subject: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST,Jayme Stone hey, everyone. there's a recording of alan lomax singing a snippet of a song about the rocky road. i can't find any other recording of the song or even references to it. does anyone know it? there's the link to listen: http://research.culturalequity.org/rc-b2/get-audio-detailed-recording.do?recordingId=12961 kindly, J |
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11 Jun 13 - 11:37 AM (#3525229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST green green rocky road and see if that is what you're looking for. |
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11 Jun 13 - 11:45 AM (#3525231) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: Acorn4 Steve Tilston wrote one called "Rocky Road" - covered by Fairport. Flatt and Scruggs did "Rough and Rocky". I would imagine the first would be your best bet. |
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11 Jun 13 - 11:54 AM (#3525236) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: Acorn4 or this perhaps:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4xHOznTgQU |
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12 Jun 13 - 11:22 AM (#3525622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST,Philippa sorry, I don't have headset to listen to your link with the Alan Lomax recording, but is it the song discussed in green rocky road discussion thread There are a couple of sets of lyrics in the mudcat DT (digital tradition) |
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12 Jun 13 - 11:25 AM (#3525623) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST,Philippa youTube, Dave Van Ronk teaching Green Rocky Road http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJRI_neSlU |
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15 Jun 13 - 11:38 PM (#3526914) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: Jim Dixon For the record, these are the words Lomax is singing in the recording: Oh, the rocky road, Oh, then I wouldn't— Oh, the rocky road, Oh, then I wouldn't go. I don't recognize it, but it seems to have the flavor of a work song. |
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25 Sep 13 - 04:48 AM (#3561088) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST,Rob O'Dell Not sure about this one but strangely enough I too am looking for the lyrics to the Steve Tilston song "Rocky Road" which was also recorded by Fairport Convention. I've done a fairly extensive search of the net and can't find them. They are on his album 'Soluboratu' and on Fairport's 'The Wood and the Wire', neither of which I have so I cant check whether there are lyrics books with them. Anyone out there help?? |
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25 Sep 13 - 11:15 PM (#3561349) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: Joe Offer Gee, that's a difficult song to transcribe, Rob. It borrows from a good number of traditional songs. Wish I had time to work on it, but all I have now is the chorus:
If I ever get off this rocky road, I'll ne'er get on it any more" -Joe- |
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27 Sep 13 - 02:50 AM (#3561742) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST,Rob O'Dell Yep, got that much Joe, and can work out quite a bit more from bothe Steve's and Fairport's versions, but I'd love to have the correct lyrics rather than guesswork. |
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27 Sep 13 - 10:02 AM (#3561869) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: Joe Offer Can you give us what you have, Rob, and we can work out a group transcription? -Joe- |
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27 Sep 13 - 10:09 AM (#3561872) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocky Road From: GUEST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCh2RGQY6r0 [Steve Tilston - Rocky Road] |
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27 Sep 13 - 01:22 PM (#3561928) Subject: Work in Progress: Rocky Road (Tilston) From: Joe Offer Thanks for that YouTube link, Guest. I listened to the song on the original, earlier recording, and it wasn't as easy to understand. The YouTube recording is Tilston's live performance of his revision of the song. On Spotify, I found studio recordings on Tilston's Solorubato and Happenstance albums. The most significant difference in the revision is Tilston's addition of [so-called]. I still have trouble with parts, but this is what I hear. Let's use this as our "working copy." Post corrections below, and I'll incorporate them into this copy if I agree. ROCKY ROAD (Steve Tilston) All you fine young bloods must think yourselves immune From the traps that time will set in the sweetest tune, You must whistle up your winds, and you rosin up your bow, But no one [none] can foretell which path the restless Muse will go. CHORUS (twice each time) Oh this rocky road, it makes my poor heart sore, If I ever get off this rocky road, I'll ne'er get on it any more. Now, I used to take delight in my 'baccy and strong beer, I'd blow the smoke rings way up high, and then watch them disappear; And I'd drain the tumblers dry just to loosen up my tongue, And I'd sing the weary miles behind with a rambling song. CHORUS I've roamed around this world, I've rode the clouds and waves, I've met with poor men who were kings and rich men who were slaves; And I've knelt beneath the spires and I've heard some [so-called] holy men, Bend my words to fit the world as it seems to them. CHORUS |