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Lyr Req: Bristol Mail

03 Oct 01 - 06:22 PM (#564504)
Subject: Bristol Mail
From: Allan C.

Copied from another thread:

Subject: words for the Bristol Mail please. From: dimplydoo Date: 03-Oct-01 - 05:52 PM

03 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM (#564630)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: Sorcha

"Bristol Mail" lyrics came up no go at Google. Need more info if possible.

04 Oct 01 - 04:41 AM (#564787)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: IanC

Apparently by Johnny Collins but I can't find any lyrics on the web.

04 Oct 01 - 09:03 AM (#564891)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: GUEST,Brian

I believe I have a recording of this song, somewhere. I'll try to dig it out when I get home.

Brian.

04 Oct 01 - 09:06 AM (#564892)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: GUEST,MCP

The song is by Keith Marsden and is in Picking Sooty Blackberries under the title Crack Your Whip.

Interestingly, Johnny has an extra (last) verse not given there.

05 Oct 01 - 04:32 AM (#565517)
Subject: Lyr Add: CRACK YOUR WHIP (BRISTOL MAIL) (Marsden)
From: GUEST,Brian

CRACK YOUR WHIP (BRISTOL MAIL) by Keith Marsden

All you that serve a master hard and work to no avail,
Come live with me the life that's free and ride the Bristol Mail,

Chorus.
It's crack your whip and rouse your team and make the wheels to roll,
By Severn tide and Avon side where the bells do sweetly toll.

CHORUS.

We've carpenter and lady's maid, a captain and his love,
And Tom and Dick do guard them all and they do ride above.

CHORUS.

And at the inn we rest the team when they can go on more,
And them with gold sleep on fine sheets and poor folk on the floor.

CHORUS.

What care we for the bold footpads who'd rob the likes of us,
When Tom he has his pistols two and Dick hid blunderbuss.

CHORUS.


That' as printed in Picking Sooty Blackberries.

Brian

HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 29-Nov-01.

05 Oct 01 - 08:23 PM (#566005)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: Dimple

Thanks for answers to bristol mail got a tape but couldn't make out the words

05 Oct 01 - 08:27 PM (#566011)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: Gareth

These days of course the Mail from Bristol is held up by the legal larcenry of the Severn Bridge Toll.

Ah Rebbeca - were that your daughters destroying the gates again.

( Free point at Llanstock to the catter who spots the reference)

Gareth

06 Oct 01 - 10:20 AM (#566209)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bristol Mail
From: Snuffy

They called it a point when I lived in Suffolk, but everywhere else it's called a pint, Gareth.

And did the Daughters of Rebecca ever stray byond their native land when carrying out their activities?

The River Severn is deep and wide
And all the tollgates on the English side!

See you at Llanstock.

Wassail! V