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02 Aug 00 - 05:13 AM (#270141) Subject: Clogs From: Gervase Can anyone help with the words to a song that's been doing me 'ead in these past few days? I think it's by Keith Marsden, and the chorus goes something like: "I dare say he's young now, and handsome, And his eyes are a bright smiling blue; But he's clogs, and he'll always be clogs lass - Yon Willie the lad's not for you." |
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02 Aug 00 - 06:55 AM (#270172) Subject: Lyr Add: WILLY-'OLE LAD (Keith Marsden) From: bill\sables WILLY-'OLE LAD (Keith Marsden)
Oh, Mary, lass, what's this you're doing, and what's this you're getting into?
CHORUS: And I dare say he's young now and handsome,
He'll never have seat to his trousers; he'll never have jam for your bread.
When he's forty and fat with the boozing and the women he's had turn away,
So if you want my consent to wed him, lass, I fear you'll be wanting a while. |
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02 Aug 00 - 07:01 AM (#270173) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs From: bill\sables Gervase, this song along with all his others are on a CD by Cockersdale called "Picking Sooty Blackberries" It is a double album and sells for £15 and I would recomend it to evryone who likes real folk music and stories. You can get it from Graham Pirt, just send him a personal message. There is a book of Keith's songs as well with the same title also available from Graham Chers Bill |
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02 Aug 00 - 09:39 AM (#270234) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs From: Gervase Bill, You're an absolute star - and I will get the recording. Many thanks. GW |
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03 Aug 00 - 04:42 AM (#270870) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs From: bill\sables The song is about Morley, West Yorkshire, and it tells of a father warning his daughter of the dire consequences she can expect if she goes ahead with her plan of marying a young man who works in the Willey 'Ole. The Willey 'Ole was the worst place to work in a mill. It was where the reconstituted rags were blended with oil into a soggy mass which would later be used to make warp threads for shoddy. You could start there at fourteen, but if you were still there two years later the chances were you would work there for the rest of your days. So the lad this girl wants to marry is in this category. He has worked in the Willey 'Ole for some time and there's no chance of him ever beconing a spinner, overlooker, tuner or some such more skilled job. Indeed he is doubly damned in that not only does he work in the Willey 'Ole but he lives in the "City" area of Morley. This was the singularly inappropriate name given to the very worst slum area. ( This was the introduction by Keith Marsden from the book "Picking Sooty Blackberries" available from Graham Pirt.) |
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03 Aug 00 - 06:28 AM (#270888) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs From: Catrin A freind of mine sings this one - I's good to find out all that about the background of it. I might just print the thread out to show him. Cheers, Catrin |
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22 May 09 - 01:48 AM (#2638233) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: GUEST,Sapper on TRU at Whitehaven Just done a Search on "Picking Sooty Blackberries," about time it got reprinted me thinks. Can find only one copy for sale on Amazon, at £138! |
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22 May 09 - 01:58 AM (#2638234) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: Peace Buy two, they're small. |
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22 May 09 - 02:07 AM (#2638237) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: GUEST,Sapper Now waiting at St.Bees Does anyone have a list of Keith Marsden's songs? |
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22 May 09 - 03:21 AM (#2638267) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: GUEST Well I've got a copy of 'Picking Sooty Blackberries' and, much as I love it, if I thought that it was worth £138.00 then I'd sell it. But I suspect that the price on Amazon is a typo! It does provide a lot of information though about the background to Keith Marsden's songs, as well as words and music. |
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22 May 09 - 05:04 AM (#2638320) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: Leadfingers Contents of 'Picking Sooty Blackberries' :- Bring Us A Barrell Billy Armitage Crack Your Whip When All The World Ellesmere Port City Lament I Remember Morley Greasy Mac Vampire (Kipling) Hessle Road Old Peculiar Prospect Providence Mr Midland Ten Pints of Tetley Willy 'Ole Lad Th Drovers The Funeral Song Jack Ashton St Auban Sur Mer Idlers and Skivers Normandy Orchards Morley Main Doing The Manch Left Left Right Steady Man Tortoises Always Come Last and Lucinda . |
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22 May 09 - 08:17 AM (#2638423) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: Kampervan Sorry, that guest posting was coolieless me. Regards K/van |
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23 Jul 10 - 04:03 AM (#2950444) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: ossonflags As anyone the chords please? |
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23 Jul 10 - 11:18 AM (#2950682) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: squeezeboxhp most of cockerdale's music is on Spotify |
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23 Jul 10 - 12:07 PM (#2950713) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: dick greenhaus |
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23 Jul 10 - 06:47 PM (#2951015) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: gnomad "Your mother was always a mender" Just in case anyone wonders about this, it is a reference to the highly-skilled job still known as "burling and mending" in which newly-woven cloth is inspected for faults by feel and eye, then invisibly corrected. The job is found in the woolen-textiles industry, I don't know of an equivalent in cotton textiles. Rather a nice picture here to give you an idea. |
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24 Jul 10 - 04:10 AM (#2951202) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Clogs (Willy 'Ole Lad)-Keith Marsden From: GUEST,count to ten Canny get chords of of spotify |
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07 Sep 17 - 04:47 PM (#3875728) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy 'Ole Lad (Keith Marsden) From: FreddyHeadey "...It was the willey-'oil lad's job to trample down the pieces of pulled up rag into these sheets which were full of blend. The rags in the shoddy trade were first torn up by the rag machine where large pieces, still recognisable pieces of cloth or knitwear, were produced. These were then put into the willeyer, a machine which broke the bits down into much smaller pieces which were very fluffy. These were blown through tubes in the 'willey'oil' and sections from different qualities of rags could be mixed in the blowing process. Hence, the name of blend which was applied to the product going into the hessian sheets. Obviously the blown product had a large amount of air in it and the trampling was simply to try and eliminate some of this, and get more blend into each sack (sheet)." Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. 1965 http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006118_160365 |
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04 Feb 20 - 08:08 PM (#4032282) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy 'Ole Lad (Keith Marsden) From: GUEST A little Knowledge.....The Willey oil was the space below the willey where all the crap fell through. hence the willey oil lads job was shovelling out the crap.... and any other job of similar ilk. |
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05 Feb 20 - 06:20 PM (#4032450) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willy 'Ole Lad (Keith Marsden) From: GeoffLawes A fair few of Keith Marsden's songs are performed up on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%28Keith+Marsden%29 |