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21 Aug 23 - 08:33 PM (#4179595) Subject: Lyr Req: The Saboteurs Song From: GUEST,Guest Would anyone know the lyrics of this Jez Lowe song, please? |
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21 Aug 23 - 11:50 PM (#4179601) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Saboteurs Song (Jez Lowe) From: Joe Offer Here's a live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-bMcht_Zg |
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24 Aug 23 - 05:01 AM (#4179785) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Saboteurs Song (Jez Lowe) From: Long Firm Freddie This was originally written for the 2006 Radio Ballads, a series of 6 programmes in the style of the original Radio Ballads. Topics were the Steel Industry, the Troubles, HIV/Aids, Travelling people who run fairgrounds, the shipyards of tyne and Wear and Clyde and Hunting (Horn of the Hunter) for which Jez Lowe wrote the song required amongst others. The BBC site has some of the lyrics to songs, but not the one Guest would like, alas. Radio Ballads 2006 LFF |
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30 Aug 23 - 09:55 AM (#4180311) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Saboteurs Song (Jez Lowe) From: Long Firm Freddie Here are the lyrics from the Radio Ballad version. Verses 2 and 3 are reversed from the live version and none of the verses are repeated. Each verse is preceded by a quote from a saboteur and what they say is summed up in the following verse. Saboteurs Song - Jez Lowe A day needs facing in the dawn’s grey light A life needs saving if we get things right Get ready for a battle, a struggle or a fight If we’re ever gonna save that fox-o, fox-o, fox-o Get ready for a battle, a struggle or a fight If we’re ever gonna save that fox-o Here doggie, good doggie, whatcha gonna do? Come to your nose, boy, catch upon the dew Aniseed and lemon gonna make a fool of you You’ll soon lose that scent-o, scent-o, scent-o Aniseed and lemon gonna make a fool of you You’ll soon lose that scent-o There’ll be killing in the fields in the mists and the moor Them bullies in the saddle want to taste some blood Whoever’s in the way bleeds just as good And all is just as red-o,red-o,red-o Whoever’s in the way bleeds just as good And all is just as red-o Did you ever see cubs pulled squealing from the ground Drawn to be shredded by a screaming pack o’ hounds There’s glasses of blood-dipped bumper passed around Let’s drink to the name of sport-o, sport-o, sport-o There’s glasses of blood-dipped bumper passed around Let’s drink to the name of sport-o My eyes have seen the glory, my limbs have borne the scars Friends have even fallen in the misty morning wars But as long as lasts the hunt, long will live the saboteurs To honour that gift of life-o, life-o, life-o But as long as lasts the hunt, long will live the saboteurs To honour that gift of life-o LFF |
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30 Aug 23 - 09:55 AM (#4189662) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Saboteurs Song (Jez Lowe) From: Long Firm Freddie Here are the lyrics from the Radio Ballad version. Verses 2 and 3 are reversed from the live version and none of the verses are repeated. Each verse is preceded by a quote from a saboteur and what they say is summed up in the following verse. Saboteurs Song - Jez Lowe A day needs facing in the dawn’s grey light A life needs saving if we get things right Get ready for a battle, a struggle or a fight If we’re ever gonna save that fox-o, fox-o, fox-o Get ready for a battle, a struggle or a fight If we’re ever gonna save that fox-o Here doggie, good doggie, whatcha gonna do? Come to your nose, boy, catch upon the dew Aniseed and lemon gonna make a fool of you You’ll soon lose that scent-o, scent-o, scent-o Aniseed and lemon gonna make a fool of you You’ll soon lose that scent-o There’ll be killing in the fields in the mists and the moor Them bullies in the saddle want to taste some blood Whoever’s in the way bleeds just as good And all is just as red-o,red-o,red-o Whoever’s in the way bleeds just as good And all is just as red-o Did you ever see cubs pulled squealing from the ground Drawn to be shredded by a screaming pack o’ hounds There’s glasses of blood-dipped bumper passed around Let’s drink to the name of sport-o, sport-o, sport-o There’s glasses of blood-dipped bumper passed around Let’s drink to the name of sport-o My eyes have seen the glory, my limbs have borne the scars Friends have even fallen in the misty morning wars But as long as lasts the hunt, long will live the saboteurs To honour that gift of life-o, life-o, life-o But as long as lasts the hunt, long will live the saboteurs To honour that gift of life-o LFF |