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24 Sep 97 - 03:33 PM (#13067) Subject: one more day From: bsmith@atex.com ONE MORE DAY Oh, have you heard the news, My Johnny? One more day! We're homeward bound tomorrow, One more day! cho: Only one more day, my Johnny One more day! Oh, rock and row (or roll) me over, One more day! ================= Know this song? I heard a version of it with some electric guitar. It sounded a bit like, say, what Steeleye Span or similar group might do with it....but WHO? Anyone know who recorded this song like that? Bruce Smith bsmith@atex.com |
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24 Sep 97 - 06:52 PM (#13081) Subject: ADD Version: One More Day From: bigj From your fragment and description it sounds as though the version you heard might be the one recorded by HOME SERVICE on their recording of the same name (Jigsaw Records SAW3) in 1984, Here are the words as printed on the sleeve notes :- ONE MORE DAY Now's the time to leave her Johnny, one more day And did you swear you'd not deceive her Johnny, one more day For we're homeward bound tomorrow Johnny, one more day And will you leave her without sorrow Johnny, one more day
Chorus:
Don't you hear the old man calling Johnny, one more day
Come and row me to my lover Johnny, one more day Trad: arr, Graeme Taylor. Lead vocals - John Tams |
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25 Sep 97 - 12:45 AM (#13110) Subject: RE: one more day From: Barry It was sung row or roll, Hugill states that the row shows it's river orgins & would be the older. It could be sung with or without the repeating refrain after each line & with or without a grand chours. I got the river version from a San Francisco singer, Susan Friend, & have never heard it done the same until Holstock & MacLeod recorded it on their Deepwater Shanties tape. Barry |
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01 Feb 00 - 04:47 PM (#171833) Subject: ADD Version: One More Day From: Metchosin After a thorough search of the DT and previous threads, I cannot find this version of the song, although some variants were noted in the threads. I particularly love this version for its tenderness.
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01 Feb 00 - 05:06 PM (#171850) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One More Day From: GUEST,Barry Finn (as he leaves work) It is in Hugill's, I'll see about more when I get home. It's also in, I'm fairly sure, an English collection of folk songs, pub. by Penquin. I first learned this version in the late 70's while in San Frascisco from Sussan Friend who also gave it to Holstock & MacLeod which you can find on their recording, I think, called "Deep Water Shanties". IMHO with the long slow full chorus & the room for harmonies, this is the sweetest version of this song that I've ever heard. Barry |
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01 Feb 00 - 10:15 PM (#171988) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One More Day From: Barry Finn Hi again Metchosin, Whall has a short version & says it's a paying off shanty & also says it's not a halyard but a windless shanty. Hugill also says it's a paying off shanty & points to collections of Terry & Sharp who have it at the capstan, Bullen & Whall at halyards & Colcord at the windless or capstan. Hugill also has a version from a 'Bluenose shipmate', Ezra Cobb with "rock & row me over" as does Captain Robinson in his "The Bellman" . Hugill says the "Row" points to it's river origin & that probably being the older version & thinks it came from the southern US states. Barry |
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01 Feb 00 - 11:22 PM (#172037) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One More Day From: Metchosin Thanks Barry, Which publication of Whall do you have? The one I have here is published in 1910 and just has a short version sung while homeward bound. Your right, most of the references regarding its use are conflicting, Frank Shay's Iron Men and Wooden Ships refers to it as a pumping shanty. |
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01 Feb 00 - 11:29 PM (#172043) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One More Day From: Mbo Darn, thought there for a minute it said "One Day More." --Mbo |
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02 Feb 00 - 04:29 PM (#172470) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One More Day From: TerriM thank you for this, I've been looking for ages |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:06 PM (#2983180) Subject: RE: one more day From: GUEST version has been done by fishermans friends. very steeleye span like |
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09 Sep 10 - 06:57 PM (#2983502) Subject: Lyr Add: One More Day From: Joe Offer From Barry Finn's Fathom This! CD: 10. One More Day I got this great capstan shanty from Susanne Friend formely of San Francisco. Her version would be much more suited to the capstan than some other versions I've heard as this makes use of the full chorus & it's tempo matching the required work. I'm still grateful for her gift of this song and her patience in teaching it to me. My gift of a bottle of wine I'm sure, didn't get as much mileage as I've received singing this song. ONE MORE DAY Oh row me 'cross the river I heard a maiden say Oh row me to me lover One more day Chorus: Only one more day, my Johnnys One more day Oh rock and roll me over, one more day I'm nearly broken hearted I can no longer stay Once more must we be parted One more day I see the sea birds flyin' Ashore from o'er the bay I felt they were all cryin' One more day The sea birds take the warnin' Which one and all obey The tempest now is stormin' One more day Oh do not fear my beauty I can no longer stay For love makes way for duty One more day It's many seas I've roamed love Er'e I return to say To say with you my beauty One more day |
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09 Sep 10 - 07:35 PM (#2983526) Subject: RE: Origins: One More Day (rock and roll me over) From: GUEST,mg I know that many years ago I heard a record of African American men signing some songs and I think this one was on it. It was quite beautiful, and the record was probably quite old..in Seattle Public LIbrary. mg |