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29 Dec 01 - 08:23 AM (#618025) Subject: GROOVING WELL DESPERATE!! From: GUEST,Spike Help people, I cant get any response to this plea for lyrics at all. So for the last time, can ANYONE tell me ANYTHING about a song about a Yorkshire lead miners song called ( I think ) The Groovers Song, with the chorus :- Here's to the men of the Tees and the Swale To the Niddvale and Wharfe and Arkengarth dale And here's to Charles Bamforth the fellow won't fail To provide work for groovers. C'mon you Tykes, there's got to be SOMEONE whose heard of it Happy New Year Cheers all Spike |
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29 Dec 01 - 10:21 AM (#618052) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: GROOVING WELL DESPERATE!! From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca I think I heard the song. Don't remember if it is that title. I was in Vancouver last month, and met a singer/songwriter from the Teesdale (originally) area. He had several recordings, and I bought a couple of them. I might have left them in my mom's apartment when I came home. I can't remember his name right now. Will check with the proprietor of the shop ( Celtic Woolens ) in Vancouver to see what they can tell me. |
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29 Dec 01 - 10:29 AM (#618056) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: GROOVING WELL DESPERATE!! From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca I can't find the CDs, but check with Richard Grainger. I suspect he'w the person who wrote it, or he would know it. He's from that area, and has written numerous songs about his home region. |
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22 Nov 10 - 11:55 AM (#3038025) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: GROOVING WELL DESPERATE!! From: GUEST,John H - Swaledale The lyric is Charles Bathurst not Charles Bamforth ! |
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06 May 18 - 05:08 AM (#3922465) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Grooving Well Desperate From: GUEST,Ian Hazell I thought this was written by Arthur Jackson from Nidderdale . Final line of chorus should be ' he gave me the life of a groover' Sorry I do not remember any of he verses . This song was often sung at Knaresborough Folk Cleb in the 1970s |
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06 May 18 - 09:38 AM (#3922495) Subject: Lyr Add: THE ARKENGARTHDALE SONG (Arthur Jackson) From: GUEST,Mick Pearce (MCP) You can find a lot here: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To - Chas Marshall - CatBook (pdf). It contains info on the man who sang it - page 3+. You can find many examples of the tune on youtube eg My Home (I'll post an abc if anyone wants that). Mick THE ARKENGARTHDALE SONG (Arthur Jackson) Chorus: Here’s to the men of the Tees and the Swale, To the Nidd, Wear and Wharfe and Arkengarthdale And here’s to Charles Bathurst, the fellow won’t fail, To provide work for t’groovers When I was a young lad wi’ mi’ father I went Up to the mine where mi’ time it was spent Breaking up the lead ore to help out wi’t rent And learn the trade of a groover Now I’m a youth and I’ll go down below I’ll go wi’ mi’ father, he’ll teach me you know How to look for the signs and to hew the lead ore And teach me the trade of the groover I’ve bairns of me own now the eldest is nine He’ll come with me up to the mine With his booker in hand reckon he will do fine Like his father he’ll be a groover Source: Cat Book as listed above. As sung by Arthur Jackson to the Scottish pipe tune “My Home”. |