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Lyr Req: Uncle Nobby's Steamboat / Knobby's

06 Oct 97 - 06:27 AM (#14036)
Subject: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Wolfgang Hell

I'm looking for the lyrics to this song.
Thanks Wolfgang


06 Oct 97 - 01:29 PM (#14062)
Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE NOBBY'S STEAMBOAT
From: Bob Schwarer

Come for a trip on Uncle Nobby's steamboat
Where you can hide your worries on a high float
And we'll take a trip to Leprechauns & shamrocks
And hide our minds and troubles for a while

CHORUS: And we're going where the grass is growing green
To a mystic land that no one else has seen
Where oblivion takes the mind's reality
And reality fades into a memory

Captain Bluebeard gives a smile at the gangway plank to meet you
The first mate by his side with a work card if he needs you
They take you down below your cabin is cool & cozy
Full steam ahead we're ready for to go

CHORUS:

Bring on the dancing girls the show is now in motion
The choo-choo train is gone it's halfway through the mountains
The fairies and the witch the banshee's drinking brandy
Uncle Nobby at last is in command

Bob S

where


07 Oct 97 - 03:18 AM (#14138)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Wolfgang

Thanks a lot, Bob, for these lyrics. I had looked for them at many places in the web without success.
Wolfgang


07 Oct 97 - 05:17 PM (#14177)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Bob Schwarer

The song is on the record "Heart of Oak" by the X Seaman's Institute.

Folkways FTS 32419 It may still be available from the Library of Congress which ended up with the old Folkways material.

Bob S.


31 Jan 04 - 08:32 PM (#1106271)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,magnificent 7

and were goin where the grass is growin green,to a mystic land that no one else has seen,


17 Oct 06 - 09:36 AM (#1861247)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST

I have been searching for this song FOREVER. Several years ago, a child brought the record to my school, I taped the song, and with passing of time wondered where it came from......Then when Titanic Movie was released, just before the ship goes down, do you recall the mom puytting her two little ones to bed? She tells them a story, ending "and they lived happily ever after in the land of Tir Na Nog". I knew I had to find the song.I searched every child album....finally good old Google helped me. Thanks to everyone who sent in bits and pieces. I have now sent for the CD Rifles of the I R A.    Many thanks    Mariah


17 Oct 06 - 12:55 PM (#1861353)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,shano

The song is by ''The Wolfe Tones'' and written by Brian Warfield
It's an anti drugs song from the 60s [Take a trip,,and all that kind of stuff]


17 Oct 06 - 02:09 PM (#1861396)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: Greg B

ANTI drugs? You mean like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds? :-)


17 Oct 06 - 02:44 PM (#1861441)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Uncle Nobby's steamboat
From: GUEST,shano

Yep just like that , except the Irish way,,we tend to go to a make believe place ''Tir Na Nóg'' the land of the young where ye never grow old,and everything is rosy,,,yep I just went there for a Minuit