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22 Mar 01 - 01:52 PM (#423346) Subject: Never tired of the road? From: Clinton Hammond There is a song (in New Orleans???) has this in the chorus... Anybody know what I'm getting at?? ;-) |
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22 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM (#423402) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: GUEST,Melani Andy Irvine wrote a tribute to Woody Guthrie by that name, with that chorus. I've got the CD but can't remember the title; I'll check it when I get home. |
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22 Mar 01 - 03:03 PM (#423425) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Clinton Hammond thanks! ;-) |
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22 Mar 01 - 06:20 PM (#423569) Subject: Lyr Add: NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD (Andy Irvine) From: Matt_R I was just a small town country boy When I left that country town Route 66 to the Westward And hopped an old freight down California here I come By the side door Pullman and the sunburnt thumb And they called us Okies, lowdown bums And the police on us frowned Chorus: Never tire of the road Never tire of the rolling wheel Never tire of the ways of the world Way out yonder is a-calling me And the dark road leads me onwards And the highway, that's my code And the lonesome voice that I heard said Never tire of the road California to the New York Island Me and my guitar And we played in many a hobo jungle Many a skid row bar Standing out in the wind and the rain That lonesome whistle is a sweet refrain When you are waiting for some old freight train That carries an empty car. Don't let them ever fool you Or take you by surprise That dirty smell of a politician And the man with the greed in his eyes One big union, that's our plan And the IWW"s your only man The flames of discontent we'll fan For the cause that never dies
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23 Mar 01 - 01:06 PM (#424262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Clinton Hammond That's the very one Matter!!! Cool beans... got any other info, like composter, recorder and such... |
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23 Mar 01 - 06:38 PM (#424567) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Clinton Hammond Ker-bump... ;-) |
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23 Mar 01 - 06:39 PM (#424568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Sorcha YEA MATT!! |
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23 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM (#424690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Melani That's the one by Andy Irvine. I know I have the CD, but I can't find it and can't remember what it's called. My son has just trashed my entire collection. |
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24 Mar 01 - 10:51 AM (#424847) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Clinton Hammond Found it on Napster... it's the very one I was looking for... Ta' eh! ;-) |
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24 Mar 01 - 06:04 PM (#425099) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Never tired of the road? From: Susanne (skw) The CD is called 'Rain on the Roof' (1996) and is, as far as I know, available only from the man himself. He may have relaxed since I got it two years ago, of course. In the notes, he says: [1996:] Mostly this song was written to the memory of Woody Guthrie. I first heard an album of Woody's back in about 1957 and from the very first bar of "Columbus Stockade" I was hooked. I had no idea of how famous the man might be in America and chanced a letter addressed to Woody Guthrie, USA. I waited with baited [sic!] breath for six weeks, but the letter came back "insufficiently addressed". A year or two later, I found out that Woody was in hospital in New Jersey with an incurable wasting disease and started writing to him there. He was physically unable to write back but Bob and Sidsel Gleason, who would take them to their home for weekends at that time, wrote and told me how he was and passed on answers from Woody to my questions. When (Ramblin') Jack Elliott came to London, I was too shy to approach him after his gig at the Ballads and Blues Club, but followed him and his wife home on the Underground till I saw them go into 11 Kensington Park Road. I wrote to him and he rang me and said come on over. I didn't just go over, I more or less moved in! What a plague I must have been, but they didn't seem to mind. Jack showed me how to play the 'Mouth Harp' upside down and the 'Cross Harp' style, same as Woody had shown him, told me stories about him and Woody, and changed my life. Somewhere, to this day, I have an issue of the "Woody Guthrie Newsletter" which starts - "Woody would like to thank ...". There follows an inventory of the American folk heroes of the day, Pete Seeger, etc. Most of the page is taken up with these names and I suppose, when I first read it, I was hoping against hope that I might be there too ... But, of course, no ... But wait? Right at the bottom I read: "And to Andy from Woody personally". I never tired of the road since. (Notes Andy Irvine, 'Rain on the Roof') |