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22 Nov 21 - 04:44 PM (#4127008) Subject: Lyr Req: Winter Turns to Spring (Robb Johnson) From: Joe Offer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXGrZtsaKFE Steve Belsey sings this. Can somebody post lyrics? |
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23 Nov 21 - 10:55 AM (#4127080) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter Turns to Spring (Robb Johnson) From: GUEST RJ has a Facebook page. You might have some luck there. I found zip after 20 minutes with Google. If the lyrics are printed anywhere, I can't find them. |
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28 Nov 21 - 12:32 AM (#4127410) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter Turns to Spring (Robb Johnson) From: Joe Offer refresh for somebody who says he has the lyrics. |
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28 Nov 21 - 04:21 AM (#4127418) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter Turns to Spring (Robb Johnson) From: MoorleyMan Yeah Joe, that "somebody" is me! I've been singing it for awhile meself. Here's the lyrics as published in 1994 in Robb's first songbook, “Words & Chords (Part 1), which I believe is still available from his website www.robbjohnson.co.uk. Chords info is also included in there. Robb's own recording is on his CD “Overnight” (IRR027, 1996), and also on the stonking big 4-disc compilation “A Reasonable History Of Impossible Demands” (also on Irregular Records). Roy Bailey has also recorded it, on his CD “Business As Usual” (Fuse, 1996) - a truly magnificent performance. I've indicated some minor changes Roy made, below. Winter Turns To Spring (Robb Johnson) I knew a man who nothing could dismay Nor take away his dignity, A man who knew what two and two make and how Many flowers make the spring. He saw spring crushed in 1939 Beneath the wheels of Germany, And walked through all the falling cities somehow, Like a seed towards the spring. Returning home in 1945, Prague was full of Russian tanks, And it was law, two twos are four, only now It’s Joseph Stalin makes the spring. You have to know the difference Between the roundabouts and swings, No matter what the distance, winter turns to spring. >> Sentenced to death in 1954 for being Too much of a socialist, Surprise, surprise, old Stalin dies and somehow It’s still the flowers make the spring. So through the cold war, he studied Kafka, And learned like Galileo To tell as much truth as the times allow, Planting seeds towards the spring. (Repeat of >> section) So when spring (*Roy Bailey sings “it”) came in 1968, Wenceslas was glorious, But with the summer, the Russian armour returned (** - Roy Bailey sings “came”) To save the people from their spring. I asked him then, in his last exile, “How come you’re still a socialist?” He said, “Ask me instead, what two and two make, and how many.. flowers make the spring.” (Repeat of >> section) (The following words are sung to tune of >> section: ) (You see) From Prague to Santiago, Belfast to Beijing, Underground but undefeated, Winter turns … winter turns … winter turns … winter turns to spring. |
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28 Nov 21 - 05:05 AM (#4127420) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winter Turns to Spring (Robb Johnson) From: DaveRo I have the CD 'Overnight' (IRR027). The insert says it's actually a 're-recording of the original Overnight album* with some extra tracks from the Tourists and Casualties cassette'. He doesn't say, but I assume that original album was an LP - I've never seen it. (*1991 according to his catalogue.) Robb also writes: WINTER is apparantly Tony Benn's favourite song. It is another personal history that I know to be true: and the coda is that Professor Goldstucker has finally returned to Prague. Yes, both volumes of Words and Chords are available from his website - 52 and 70 songs. Different ones? |