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15 Jan 26 - 11:06 AM (#4234393) Subject: Lyr Req: A Dram for the Singer From: GUEST,Darlodave Can anyone provide the lyrics for song, A Dram for the Singer, sung by Debra Cowan. Thanks |
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15 Jan 26 - 11:32 AM (#4234397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Dram for the Singer From: Stilly River Sage Ask Debra Cowan (that's her Facebook account) or via Mudcat, but she hasn't posted here since 2022. Here is her web site and you may find a CD with it or be able to contact someone about it. Searching a little more brings up Debra Cowan on Bandcamp with lyrics that she posted in 2010. Maybe that will help. |
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15 Jan 26 - 01:11 PM (#4234405) Subject: ADD: A Dram for the Singer (Bob Pegg) From: Reinhard A DRAM FOR THE SINGER (Bob Pegg) The creels are all set, nets out for drying; Curtains are closed at the close of the day. Out on the waters a tempest is gathering; Here in the hall the lights are ablaze. Up on the stage we play our first chord The fiddle, melodeon, drummer and me And the dancers rise up like a wave of the ocean, Take to the floor like boats to the sea. (Chorus) Here’s joy to the couple who danced the night long, A kiss for the girl with the blue dress on, Strength for the fiddler to play us all through, And a dram for the singer who’s singing for you The singer who sings just for you. There’s many a young girl who’s dancing this evening Who’ll marry a young man who’s dancing here too. After the children, the tears and the partings, Sometimes they’ll wonder where their love went to; Sometimes at night, when storms are abroad, Through flashes of lightning and thunderous roar They’ll come to the hall where the lights are ablazin’ Dance like the waves rolling into the shore. (Chorus) Now I’m just a singer who’s singing for you And I play the guitar with the band on the stage For the dancers who dance like a wave of the sea In the hall where the lights are always ablaze, And I sing of the thunder, I sing of the lightning, I sing of the storms that rage in the night. When the song’s finished, the dancers crowd round me, Buy me a dram for the sake of old times. (Chorus) Sung by Bob Pegg on his 1996 album "The Last Wolf" and by Debra Cowan on her and Dave Cowan’s 1997 album "A Dram for the Singer" |