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13 Oct 00 - 08:49 AM (#317983) Subject: Ashes on the sea^^^ From: kendall ASHES ON THE SEA by Utah Phillips
What is this tune I hear repeating
I stepped outside for just a moment repeat refrain
It's one thing to look upon a picture re. ref.
Your dust cloud still drifts across the foot prints rep. ref.
What is this tune you hear repeating repeat refrain ^^^ |
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13 Oct 00 - 12:43 PM (#318122) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall did you get this Dick? It's slip sliding away... |
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13 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM (#318155) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: GUEST kendall - I'm sure Joe will see it sooner or later.... |
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13 Oct 00 - 01:38 PM (#318164) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall I posted it for Dick Greenhaus, anyway, I hope he gets it before it slides off the edge of the world. |
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13 Oct 00 - 01:48 PM (#318168) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: GUEST,MMario Kendall - since it has "lyr Add" Joe offer should spot it in his routine searches and send it on to Dick. |
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14 Oct 00 - 05:04 AM (#318625) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: Joe Offer Already posted and harvested in this thread (click), Kendall. I sure like your recording of the song. I had a good singing buddy who died in December, 1997; and I helped spread his ashes in the sea the following Easter. Your recording made me think of him. Gee, he was a good guy. Rest in peace, Bob Kirkpatrick. -Joe- |
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14 Oct 00 - 08:14 AM (#318656) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall It was shortly after we lost Marshall Dodge that I heard this song for the first time. I always sing it for him. Thank you for your kind words. I wish more people had your good taste in songs! |
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25 Jun 05 - 01:20 PM (#1509562) Subject: "i get the blues when it rains"-lyrics From: GUEST |
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18 Aug 06 - 11:54 AM (#1813023) Subject: Lyr Req: 'strewed' his ashes on the sea From: open mike and chords request.. i think this is about Woody Guthrie..or Joe Hill i have heard Utah Phillips sing it. |
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18 Aug 06 - 12:02 PM (#1813029) Subject: Lyr Add: ASHES ON THE SEA (Utah Phillips) From: Stewart Here it is...a beautiful song and one of my favorites. ASHES ON THE SEA ? Bruce Phillips A song in remembrance of Woody Guthrie. He was cremated and his ashes scattered on the sea off Coney Island. Tune similar to Lorena (recorded by Rosalie Sorrels "Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1") What is this song I hear repeating Sprung from the careless seeds you've sown Our songs will come and go like seasons To bloom and fade all on their own. And now I know I cannot find you You're gone from all but memories And I am told that one who loves you Has strewed your ashes on the sea I stepped outside for just a moment To turn and look on my own face What is that shadow just behind me Why it's the old one I reach out to embrace It's one thing to look upon a picture It's another thing to read the pages through Or perhaps to linger by the wayside Hoping I might find a trace of you Your dust clouds still blow across your footprints Your best friend still stands there all alone Your box cars still keep the lovers parted Your little boys still run away from home Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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18 Aug 06 - 12:30 PM (#1813042) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'strewed' his ashes on the sea From: Stewart Laurel, come to Sunny Camp again and I'll sing it for you. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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18 Aug 06 - 12:36 PM (#1813047) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: Joe Offer There's a great recording of this song on Starlight on the Rails, the 4-CD Utah Phillips songbook. The singer on the CD is none other than [drum roll] Kendall Morse! Good recording, too. -Joe Offer- Can anybody help with open mike's request for chords? |
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18 Aug 06 - 12:52 PM (#1813072) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: Amos It is a straight forward triad song--C, F, and G with a second-seventh (D7) on the "gone from all but memory", I believe. A |
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18 Aug 06 - 02:27 PM (#1813168) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: open mike thanks y'all the search engine did not bring it up for me.. when is sunny camp? october? i may take you up on that... |
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18 Aug 06 - 02:34 PM (#1813175) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: open mike i have a friend whose brother is in hospice now and the family is making plans for his ashes when the time comes...thank you.. |
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18 Aug 06 - 02:42 PM (#1813178) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: Stewart Sunny Camp - Sept. 29-Oct.1 Long Beach, Washington |
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18 Aug 06 - 08:05 PM (#1813397) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: GUEST,Art Thieme I am reminded of Steve Goodman who wrote "The Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" -- a song that many of us from Chicago love. A portion of Steve's ashes are now well worked into the soil at the base of the center-left field wall at Wrigley Field. A songwriter from town knew a fellow to talk to on the grounds crew, and he was "allowed" entrance one day/night to put some of Stevie into the field there where the ivy that covers the walls is rooted. The Cubs don't take much notice of that good old song, but it, like the dismal record of the team through the many years, combined with the Chicago White Sox winning the World Series in '05, remains as an excruciating thorn in the various sides of the Chicago Cubs. Is this thread creep? No, not really I don't think! Art |
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19 Aug 06 - 03:31 AM (#1813619) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: jacqui.c Utah tells the story of this song on 'Starlight On The Rails'. He and Kate Wolfe were touring and, during one concert, she sang a song about the burial of Woody Guthrie. Someone came up to her afterwards and told her the song was wrong, Guthrie was cremated and 'his ashes were strewn on the sea'. Kate and Utah both agreed that there was a song waiting to be written and the next day, as they were setting off for another gig, Kate handed Utah a pad of paper and a pencil, sat him in the back of the car, and gave him instructions that he was to write the song and perform it that night at their next gig. He did as he was told and the song was born. |
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19 Aug 06 - 10:36 AM (#1813761) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: Mark Ross Jacqui, it was Logan English who told the story to Bruce and Kate. Mark Ross |
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06 Sep 09 - 10:19 PM (#2717768) Subject: Kendall - Ashes on the Sea From: olddude For me probably one of the best songs of the sea ever done ashes on the sea |
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06 Sep 09 - 10:38 PM (#2717774) Subject: RE: Kendall - Ashes on the Sea From: Deckman Damned fine! Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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07 Sep 09 - 04:07 AM (#2717868) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: open mike who was that on dobro or pedal steel guitar on that recording, kendall? i hope to include this in my woody guthrie radio special on saturday! |
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07 Sep 09 - 07:47 PM (#2718463) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall That was my friend, Evens Fitch who passed away a few years ago. It was a Dobro. |
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07 Sep 09 - 07:52 PM (#2718466) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall Dan, thanks for the review. One cant go wrong with a Utah song. |
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08 Sep 09 - 12:17 PM (#2718988) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall |
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08 Sep 09 - 01:08 PM (#2719026) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: olddude Well Kendall my friend, Utah has to be smiling from ear to ear because no one ever did this song better. It is one of your masterpieces for sure. |
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08 Sep 09 - 03:01 PM (#2719135) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the sea From: kendall You have excellent taste in music my friend. LOL |
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30 Jul 16 - 06:14 PM (#3802793) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: GUEST,iancarterb Had virtual keyboard troubles with first try at thanks for the maintenance of the archive in many years. Thanks. :) Carter |
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30 Jul 16 - 07:27 PM (#3802797) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: Tiger What a wonderful song, with a brilliant rendition by Kendall. Check YouTube - search on Kendall, Utah and Ashes for the whole story and the song. I first heard this song five years ago, and said at the time that I'd never be able to play it through without breaking down. Time has proven me correct. |
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31 Jul 16 - 06:46 AM (#3802833) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ashes on the Sea (Utah Phillips) From: GUEST,Hootenanny A great song beautifully performed and a nice story plus Bruce chose to use a beautiful old melody making just a slight change. One that is destined to last. |