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17 Sep 00 - 01:35 PM (#299316) Subject: lyr req 'Vimy' From: GUEST,Les B Lyric required for 'Vimy' by that wonderfull canadian group Tanglefoot |
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17 Sep 00 - 02:20 PM (#299338) Subject: RE: lyr req 'Vimy' From: Alice Raise your flask, Aim your rifles high I've had a dream I've seen we three Should have no fear at all You'll die in Kanora (sp?), Billy, You, Jim, in Winnepeg, And I will end my days in Montreal.
These people come to see me in my bedroom
Raise your flask
Old Jim Rankin
(That's as much as I could hear from a clip.) |
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17 Sep 00 - 02:26 PM (#299346) Subject: RE: lyr req 'Vimy' From: Alice Love that group, they have well matched strong voices. By the way, here's where I heard the clip; it also links to their website.click here |
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17 Sep 00 - 02:39 PM (#299353) Subject: RE: lyr req 'Vimy' From: Alice ooops, that should be spelled Winnipeg. I should know better. Winnipeg came up on my long distance bill this month and I don't remember calling anyone there... maybe in my sleep? |
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17 Sep 00 - 11:37 PM (#299618) Subject: Lyr Add: VIMY (from Tanglefoot ) From: Joan from Wigan Alice's clicky takes you to the Coma website, where you can order Tanglefoot's CDs, it also contains a link to their own website www.kawartha.com/tanglefoot (sorry, I've not yet mastered blue clickies). If you visit their Discography section, it contains all the lyrics to all the songs on their CDs. VIMY (Music & Lyrics by Steve Ritchie & Rob Ritchie) Chorus: Raise your flask, aim your rifles high I've had a dream, I've seen we three should have no fear at all You'll die in Kenore, Billy; you, Jim, in Winnipeg And I will end my days in Montreal These people come to see me in my bedroom With faces dim and names I can't recall Some woman with a golden ring she comes to comb my hair Then she dresses me and walks me down the hall Well I can still put one foot before the other If someone points the way for me to go Today the sun is shining and a crowd has gathered round They put circles of red flowers on the stone chorus Old Jim Rankin stood behind me in the tunnel Spat on his bayonet and he wiped it with his hand And he rocked from heel to heel, blew out his cheeks and whistled While we waited for the signal to advance Jimmy Rankin he was twenty and we thought him an old man He said he'd fathered children by the score By girls back in Winnipeg and girls in Calais And he bragged, by God, there'd be a hundred more chorus And Billy Whitefish from Kenora: jet black hair and eyes like coal We all called him 'Chief' behind his back He never smiled or laughed or joked or spoke that much at all Just sat and smoked while we waited to attack Well they poured shells over our heads into the hillside In thirty yards our kit and boots were full of mud But as we made the ridge, Jimmy went down on both knees And he coughed into his sleeve and there was blood chorus The last sound I ever heard was an explosion And bodies flew like apples thrown by boys play When I could see again I was alone, Jimmy wasn;t there And a crater marked the hillside where he'd lain And Billy Whitefish from Kenora wound up in a German trench Where he captured their machine gun all alone And held them off until his ammunition was all spent And they swarmed around and they hacked him to the bone chorus Now every day I still remember what I told them My two friends who that day from this earth were torn And the craters and the trenches where they died now bear the names Of the cities and the towns where they were born chorus A wonderful song from a fantastic band. Joan |
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18 Sep 00 - 01:36 AM (#299691) Subject: RE: lyr req 'Vimy' From: Alice Well, I was there on Tanglefoot's site, but didn't find the lyrics - all that listening and typing when I could have copied and pasted! |
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06 Apr 01 - 06:42 PM (#434881) Subject: Vimy From: Mrs.Duck A few days ago I said I'd been looking for a song about world war one trenches and Canadians. Well I found it- its by a group called Tangle foot and here are the words Vimy Lyrics and Music: Steve and Rob Ritchie Chorus Raise your flask, aim your rifles high I've had a dream, I've seen we three should have no fear at all You'll die in Kenora, Billy; you, Jim, in Winnipeg And I will end my days in Montreal These people come to see me in my bedroom With faces dim and names I can't recall Some woman with a golden ring she comes to comb my hair Then she dresses me and walks me down the hall Well I can still put one foot before the other, If someone points the way for me to go Today the sun is shining and a crowd has gathered 'round They put circles of red flowers on the stone Chorus Old Jim Rankin stood behind me in the tunnel Spat on his bayonet and he wiped it with his hand And he rocked from heel to heel, blew out his cheeks and whistled While we waited for the signal to advance Jimmy Rankin he was twenty and we thought him an old man He said he'd fathered children by the score By girls back in Winnipeg and girls in Calais And he bragged, by God, there'd be a hundred more Chorus And Billy Whitefish from Kenora: jet black hair and eyes like coal We all called him 'Chief' behind his back He never smiled or laughed or joked or spoke that much at all Just sat and smoked while we waited to attack Well they poured shells over our heads into the hillside In thirty yards our kit and boots were full of mud But as we made the ridge, Jimmy went down on both knees And he coughed into his sleeve and there was blood Chorus The last sound I ever heard was an explosion And bodies flew like apples thrown by boys play When I could see again, I was alone Jimmy wasn't there And a crater marked the hillside where he'd lain And Billy Whitefish from Kenora wound up in a German trench Where he captured their machine gun all alone And held them off until his ammunition was all spent And they swarmed around and they hacked him to the bone Chorus Now every day I still remember what I told them My two friends who that day from this earth were torn And the craters and the trenches where they died now bear the names Of the cities and the towns where they were born Chorus
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06 Apr 01 - 06:42 PM (#434882) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Vimy From: Mrs.Duck Sorry forgot about line breaks |
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06 Apr 01 - 07:07 PM (#434897) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Vimy From: gnu Did not Jimmy win a cross for this ? He had taken more than one nest that day and they found him and the last German in the last nest with each other's bayonets embedded. My history fails me. And that is sad, given as how the Battle of Vimy Ridge was one of the turning points in WWI in which the Canucks distinguished themselves. |
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20 Aug 01 - 09:10 AM (#531702) Subject: lyric required for 'Vimy' by Tanglefoot From: GUEST,white horse Has anyone out there got the lyrics for "Vimy" by Tanglefoot, please. |
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20 Aug 01 - 09:18 AM (#531707) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: lyric required for 'Vimy' by Tanglef From: Wolfgang Tanglefoot lyrics including the target Wolfgang |
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27 Jan 02 - 11:49 PM (#636964) Subject: Lyr Add: VIMY From: Jim Dixon VIMY (Steve and Rob Ritchie)
CHORUS
These people come to see me in my bedroom Chorus
Old Jim Rankin stood behind me in the tunnel Chorus
And Billy Whitefish from Kenora: jet black hair and eyes like coal Chorus
The last sound I ever heard was an explosion Chorus
Now every day I still remember what I told them Chorus |
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28 Jan 02 - 07:18 AM (#637076) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: lyric required for 'Vimy' by Tanglef From: GUEST,Keith A Good song! If only I knew the tune. |
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28 Jan 02 - 03:54 PM (#637310) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: lyric required for 'Vimy' by Tanglef From: Mrs.Duck Tanglefoot are doing another tour of the UK this year and I certainly want to see them at least once. The website linked above has all the dates. They are a great bunch of blokes with some incredibly moving lyrics so well worth seeking out. |