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06 Sep 00 - 04:49 PM (#292353) Subject: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,tigerjim@dmv.com I am looking for a spiritual with the chorus: My sails are blown and torn and layed down wet. They need all the mending that they can get. |
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09 Sep 00 - 04:04 AM (#293950) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: Joe Offer Well, I think the name of the song is Blowed and Torn (click for info, not lyrics) It was recorded by Tom Wisner on Folkways in 1979 on an LP called Chesapeake Born. Seems to me we had a request for this song recently, but now I can't find it. -Joe Offer- |
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16 Sep 01 - 09:09 PM (#551950) Subject: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,Darrius I have tried and tried to find the lyrics to the song 'Blown and Torn' all year ever since i heard it at the Maryland Renfest last year. I have heard it again today, and it is a beautiful as i remember. Does ANYONE know the lyrics? Thanks |
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16 Sep 01 - 09:43 PM (#551973) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: Sorcha I'll see if MMario, our Renn Xspurt can look in here. |
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17 Sep 01 - 07:23 AM (#552114) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: GUEST Tom Wisner recorded an LP the name of which may be "Chesapeake Born" including a song he titled "My Sails Are Blown" Could this be what you are looking for? If you can't find it anywhere else I can transcribe the lyrics for you. Other titles on the album are Winter Morning, Wild Rover, Lazy Floating Feather, Susquehanna Down, Spring Lightning and Thunder, Southern Maryland, Dredgin's My Drudgery, and Chesapeake Born |
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17 Sep 01 - 07:44 AM (#552119) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,cetmst Forgot to put my name as guest above. Make that Wild River, add Clear Water Remembered, Made of Water and Native Land as other titles. The album is Folkways FTS 32410, dated 1979. Information from Johns Hopkins University Folk Music Index http:/folkindex.mse.jhu.edu |
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17 Sep 01 - 08:35 AM (#552140) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: MMario I'm not familiar with it. But I'll ask around. Do you remember WHO sang it? |
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17 Sep 01 - 08:40 AM (#552144) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,LynnC We sing this one at MD faire for closing many evenings for Pub Sing. I don't sing lead, so I can't recite you the whole of it. The chorus is "My sails are blowed and torn, been laid down wet. They need all the mendin' that they can get..." etc. If you can wait, I will get the rest for you sometime this week. L |
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17 Sep 01 - 09:27 AM (#552177) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,Darrius Lynn, yes that is the one, and i'd very much aprriciate:) Thanks! |
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17 Sep 01 - 09:53 AM (#552197) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: MMario Thanks Lynn - since you were the one I was going to ask - that cuts out the middleman! |
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17 Sep 01 - 10:03 PM (#552840) Subject: Lyr Add: MY SAILS ARE BLOWED AND TORN From: GUEST,cetmst MY SAILS ARE BLOWED AND TORN When I was just a little boy a-searching for my way, I remember how I filled with pride to hear my father say, Dreams are like a mainsail set high upon the mast, And you run before the free winds as long as dreams can last. Cho: My sails are blowed and torn, been laid down wet, Need all the mending that they can get. No time to be a-tending; the wind's alive today. These sails are worn and weathered and I'm bound to go my way. Then I growed and went to school to learn that dreams ain't real. They taught me how to calculate and hide the things you feel. Well I know that in me no harm, but this their learning said, A man's a man in this here world, and if you dream you're dead. Well forty year's I've been livin' in my dreams, Reality confuses me with its many schemes. I'll take the weathered tapestry that's folded in my soul And run before the moonlit winds with the love I know.
---Jeff (PA)---
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17 Sep 01 - 11:05 PM (#552877) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: GUEST,Darrius thank you from the bottom of my heart |
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18 Sep 01 - 12:36 PM (#553265) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn From: MMario thanks cetmst. Lynn - hopefully I'll get to hear this in october... |
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23 Jul 08 - 11:43 AM (#2396021) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: GUEST,blenderwench This is many years later from these inquiry postings, but I came across this site in looking for this song, as well. I found it - an MP3 Download on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Blowed-and-Torn/dp/B000V8VJY2/ref=sr_f2_24?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1216827565&sr=102-24 |
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15 Apr 09 - 04:56 PM (#2611938) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: RowanGolightly Cetmst and Blenderwench, Thank you! QueenMaggie formerly from MDRF sent me looking for this for my group to do out in the midwest. I'm very grateful. RowanGolightly www.queens-gambit.com www.fairealacarte.com |
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16 Apr 09 - 11:57 AM (#2612470) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: GUEST,leeneia The line: Well I know that in me no harm, but this their learning said, is probably supposed to be: Well, I know they mean no harm... And that, in turn, should probably be 'I know they meant no harm.' |
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27 Oct 10 - 08:10 AM (#3016634) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: GUEST,GUEST.eliza Thank you for the work you did - it is still helping people |
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03 Apr 16 - 05:00 PM (#3783147) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: GUEST,lyndsay Are there any chords to this song? Got the lyrics already. Thanks. |
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03 Apr 16 - 08:10 PM (#3783179) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: JenBurdoo I'd say it's "Well, I know that it meant no harm." I recently learned it from Rambling Sailors at the South Florida Renfest, I'll see if I can't work out the chords. |
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03 Apr 16 - 09:11 PM (#3783188) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: JenBurdoo Oddly, I'm hearing elements of "This Old Man" in it... I wonder if I could start with those chords? |
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04 Apr 16 - 12:02 PM (#3783353) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blown and Torn / Blowed and Torn From: GUEST,# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGSmR27dKJ4 Chords are easy to make out on that take. |