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23 May 01 - 08:43 AM (#468567) Subject: Dave Burland Song From: GUEST,Denis Song sung by Dave Burland: There was a girl in the North country; she dressed all in green ... How does it go? |
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23 May 01 - 09:44 AM (#468601) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Malcolm Douglas A little more information would be helpful, as there are a good few songs which start out like this. Do you remember any more of it, or the name of the record you heard it on? If it was a live performance, that probably reduces the chance of identifying it properly. At a pinch, you could always get in touch with Dave himself; contact details are at Guestlist Malcolm |
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17 Jul 01 - 09:47 PM (#509196) Subject: ADD: Girl of the North Country (Dylan) From: Joe Offer I suppose it's not this one. -Joe Offer- GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY (Words and Music by Bob Dylan) 1963 Warner Bros. Inc Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm, When the rivers freeze and summer ends, Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm, To keep her from the howlin' winds. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, If it rolls and flows all down her breast. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, That's the way I remember her best. I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all. Many times I've often prayed In the darkness of my night, In the brightness of my day. So if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. |
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17 Jul 01 - 11:17 PM (#509236) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Phil Cooper Is it from Dave's second Trailer album? If you think so, I have a copy and would be glad to check, it's been awhile since I've played it and would welcome the excuse. |
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18 Jul 01 - 08:03 AM (#509410) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: GeorgeH I certainly think we have Dave singing it on vinyl . . don't know how soon I can find it, though - so I'll try to keep an eye on this and come back to it. No, Joe, it's not the Dylan/Scarborough Fair one . . G. |
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20 Jul 01 - 01:05 PM (#511237) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: GeorgeH Well I ploughed through the vinyl collection last night without finding it (yet I can hear a snatch of Dave singing it in my head). I'll have another look over the weekend . . I'm intrigued, now. Not that Guest, Denis appears to be interested in an answer to his enquiry . . Cheers! George |
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30 Jul 01 - 12:22 PM (#517720) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Brían I have this from a glossary of Songs of Miramachi on symbolic meanings of the color green: This is a color which has many meanings...To the Irish, it is a patriotic color, to the Scots, an unlucky one.(I might add that traditionally it was considored unlucky by the Irish, being associated with faeries, it was used by the Young Irelanders as a nationalist color) The color is disparaged in the proverb, "Married in green, ashamed to be seen" which makes green symbolic of lost innocence. In the 14th century, Chaucer uses it as a symbol of inconstancy.Bill Bonyan, the American folksinger(a man I am proud to say I have met) says it is a symbol of greif. I was wondering if this might jog someone's memory as well as bring this thread to the top again. Brían. |
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31 Jul 01 - 04:55 AM (#518224) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: GeorgeH My memory doesn't need jogging . . I just need to locate what damn slice of vinyl I have the song on . . . To add a folk-song reference to your "colour spectrum":
"either their mantles of green" G.
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31 Jul 01 - 04:59 AM (#518226) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: IanC George Tam Lin. |
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31 Jul 01 - 03:29 PM (#518540) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Phil Cooper Is it, perhaps, the song about the lover killed in a shipwreck that's the second cut on side two? You've piqued my curiosity as well, I'll have to dig through the vaults.... |
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31 Jul 01 - 03:36 PM (#518547) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Dita I've checked, the Trailer self titled, the two Rubber and Hedgehog Pie, it ain't there. Have you got "Dalesman's", George? Mine seams to have gone walkabout. love, john |
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31 Jul 01 - 10:38 PM (#518789) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Phil Cooper I have Dalesman's Litany, now I'm really curious, will check it out. |
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01 Aug 01 - 09:48 AM (#519013) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: GeorgeH No, I haven't got "Dalesmans" and have been reduced to the conclusion that it's either on a sampler or possibly a tape of a radio broadcast . . It's SO frustrating . . The quote given at the top has lodged that snatch of the song in my brain - in Burland's dulcet tones - but I can't recall any more of it! G. |
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01 Aug 01 - 09:54 AM (#519019) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: IanC George There's a text version here (probably the original if the version used by various singers including DB) in F. W. Moorman's Songs of the Ridings. It's also in DT, so you can compare the two.
Cheers! |
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30 Oct 01 - 03:47 PM (#582761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: Amos Songs of the Ridings
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15 Nov 10 - 06:17 AM (#3032507) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: GUEST,Dave Burland It's a version of Willie Of Winsbury called Thomas of Winsbury. I think it was collected in the Appalachian Mountains by Maud Karpeles. )Only just spotted this thread |
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15 Nov 10 - 09:13 AM (#3032634) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dave Burland Song From: The Doctor Further to Dave's post, it's on 'You can't fool the fat man', under the title 'Willie o' Winsbury, where it states that it's from Maud Karpeles' Songs of Newfoundland. |