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Lyr Req: Guard your man weel through the nigh

02 Aug 01 - 12:04 PM (#519746)
Subject: Guard your man weel through the night
From: GUEST,FP

Can anyone tell me where I can find the words of this Geordie song (and who wrote it)? Thanks, FP.


02 Aug 01 - 12:27 PM (#519757)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guard your man weel through the nigh
From: nutty

Can't find the lyrics but have found a recording which I can thoroughly recommend as they are friends of mine.
Great audio clip as well

THE KEELERS


03 Aug 01 - 01:19 PM (#520499)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guard your man weel through the nigh
From: GUEST,FP

Thanks Nutty. I'm going to have to buy the CD now, having seen the tracklist! FP.


10 May 02 - 09:03 PM (#708582)
Subject: Lyr Add: GUARD YER MAN WEEL (Johnny Handle)
From: GUEST,MCP, Lyric Add

The song was written by Johnny Handle.

Mick

GUARD YER MAN WEEL
Johnny Handle

Guard yer man weel through the night
Hold him at dawn's early light
For come the long day now he'll be far away
Deep down in the rock far from sight.

Love him while he's still at hyem (home)
For mining work's always the same
A stone from the slick it can fall out right quick
And in blood there is written his name.

Sit with your bairns and your man
Give him lass all that you can
All through the lang day keep your thoughts far away
How things at the pit might gan wrang.

He'll work out his shift and get bye.
Come oot from the dark to the sky
FOr mining's his trade and of pit stock he's made
And his wife must learn never to cry.

Repeat 1st verse


11 May 02 - 07:10 AM (#708747)
Subject: Tune Add: GUARD YER MAN WEEL (Johnny Handle)
From: GUEST,MCP, Tune Add

And the tune:

Mick


GUARD YER MAN WEEL

Guard yer man|weel through the|night-|-||
Hold him at|dawn's ear-ly|light
For|come the long|day now he'll|be far a-|way
Deep|down in the|rock far from|sight-|-||


X: 1
T:Guard yer Man Weel
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=95
C:Johnny Handle
K:Dm
D> F A|G> F E|D3-|D3|
A> B c|A> F G|A3-|A2
A|A> c d|A2 G/F/|G F G| A2
A|D> F A|G> F E|D3-|D3 ||


12 May 02 - 04:41 AM (#709355)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Guard your man weel through the nigh
From: Abuwood

This song will also be on Bob Fox's new Cd out this summer.