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30 Nov 00 - 03:35 PM (#349123) Subject: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Clinton Hammond2 Just a little clarification on a few things...
First Verse
Third Verse
Fourth Verse
And the man she married? His name was Romantic Brown?? Thanks folks! ;-) |
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30 Nov 00 - 03:46 PM (#349126) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Noreen In the steamie ... I assume a laundry? Sounds like Cawdron Street... Fire burning in the hearth Camping down the Gower one time (south Wales) Romany Brown!!! with a gypsy caravan...! Noreen |
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30 Nov 00 - 03:47 PM (#349127) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: mousethief I was thinking Cauldron Street, but maybe that's visions of Harry Potter swimming in my head. Alex |
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30 Nov 00 - 03:53 PM (#349131) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Noreen ...but they might have been frying on the fire in the hearth... Sorry, Clinton, but it made me giggle! The way he sings ..'and babies on the rug' makes me go all goosepimply... Noreen |
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30 Nov 00 - 03:55 PM (#349133) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Clinton Hammond2 Wicked awsome cool! Get Noreen a round on me eh bartender?? ;-) |
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30 Nov 00 - 04:09 PM (#349138) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: The Shambles Beeswing |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:00 PM (#349169) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Noreen Thanks, Shambles- I think there's been another thread too, in the time I've been here. BTW I thought it was a rambling hitch- a sort of slip knot? Or have I made that up? Noreen |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:36 PM (#349199) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Clinton Hammond2 O.k... so I know that White Horse is a reference to Heroin... what's the wolfhound??? As in "she's still running like one's at her heels"? |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:49 PM (#349208) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: mousethief Really? I thought White Horse was a brand-name of some booze I've never seen. I think it's the "hip pocket" which reminds me of "hip pocket flask." I was wondering about the wolfhound myself |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:51 PM (#349210) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: mousethief A quick web search shows White Horse to be the brand name of a Scotch whiskey. I'm going to stick with my first hunch. |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:53 PM (#349211) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: lamarca White Horse is actually a brand of whiskey, I think, see here and Anne Briggs actually DOES keep wolfhounds (large, shaggy Irish dogs the size of small ponies...) |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:56 PM (#349212) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Noreen And I took it literally... the rope attached to the white horse was what would be in her pocket... running together on the beach... |
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30 Nov 00 - 06:55 PM (#349259) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Snuffy White Horse whisky used to advertise with the slogan "You can take a White Horse anywhere", but people used to keep scrawling "But it's still illegal in seven southern US states" over the billboards |
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30 Nov 00 - 08:33 PM (#349301) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Clinton Hammond2 Well.. I was hoping for something more metaphorical.. but I guess I'll grant the White Horse....
Too bad... ;-) |
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30 Nov 00 - 09:01 PM (#349318) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Stewie For those who may be interested, Topic has issued an excellent collection of selections from Anne Briggs' recordings from 1963 to 1971: Anne Briggs 'A Collection' Topic TSCD504. The booklet insert contains an extensive essay on Anne Briggs by Colin Harper. There are 22 tracks - 20 traditional and 2 written by Briggs. --Stewie. |
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30 Nov 00 - 09:11 PM (#349323) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Malcolm Douglas White Horse was my favourite blended Scotch, since it had more Islay malt in it than other cheap blends. Wolfhounds are excellent dogs; enormous but, as a rule, very even-tempered. One used to live next door to me, and would let my cat pinch his dog-food, probably because he found the whole thing too confusing to deal with. He would also try to sit on my lap, which was a bit of a problem as he weighed more than I did. There are, I think, no metaphors involved here. Malcolm |
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30 Nov 00 - 09:46 PM (#349337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: The Shambles A friend of our took a wolfhound with her when she came to visit. She left it outside and the next thing we saw, with horror as we looked through the window, was the sight of a full grown goat of ours, being thrown up in the air.
No harm done, Hamilton was only playing. Anyone else suffered from "the rambling itch"? |
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30 Nov 00 - 10:06 PM (#349351) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Clinton Hammond2 I have yet to ever encounter a good blended scotch... |
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01 Dec 00 - 12:31 PM (#349671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Peter T. I knew a second-generation Trinidadian-Scots lady when I was an actor in Edinburgh. She was a pretty good blended scotch. yours, Peter T. |
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01 Dec 00 - 01:24 PM (#349709) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: GeorgeH As sung by Roy Bailey (who knew Anne pretty well at one time); he insists the song was only based on Anne, rather than being in any real sense biographical. And also sung by Martin Simpson . . G. |
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02 Dec 00 - 03:43 AM (#350065) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: SueH And sung by Tom McConville SueH |
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30 Aug 03 - 12:03 AM (#1010615) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull helo, -thgis is one of my favouriute songs, i just plistened to it now, and i never get fed up off hearing it.john ps, its definetlely one of the best songs ever written.john |
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02 Sep 03 - 09:04 AM (#1011151) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: InOBU AND! I hope folks so fall in love with the songs they run out and get the newly released Anne Briggs recordings... BRILLIANT. Cheers Larry |
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02 Sep 03 - 10:03 AM (#1011193) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: GUEST,KB Roy Bailey, whenever I've heard him sing the song, says that the song reminds him of Anne Briggs - he doesn't say it is about her, nor does he say that Richard Thompson links Anne Briggs and the song. Mind you - it irritates the tights off me that he makes such a big thing about it every time. I know its irrational, but I always feel its a real cheek to pass on such a strong personal association when that was not the intention of the songwriter. Grrr The Wolfhound bit I assumed to be related to her being on the road with Romany Brown. Its the sort of dog you can imagine alongside of gypsies - and "lurcher" wouldn't trip off the tongue so easy.... |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:23 AM (#1011257) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: Leo Condie there are new anne briggs recordings?! |
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02 Sep 03 - 03:16 PM (#1011439) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: BeesWing by Richard Thompson From: InOBU No release of ones not released before, released last year about, I think, on Topic's lable. Cheers Larry |