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05 Sep 99 - 05:27 PM (#111706) Subject: Here Come The Navvies From: Graham Can anybody please help with the lyrics for "Here Come The Navvies", the Ewan MacColl song about building canals in England? |
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05 Jan 02 - 06:21 PM (#621686) Subject: words for: The navies: Please From: GUEST,Ceridwen I am a navigationer and I come from Connty Cork, and I had to leave my native home to find a job of work, CH;-Here come the navies out to earn thier pay, they work with barrow, plough and spade to clear the cut away Thankyou,x |
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06 Jan 02 - 04:33 PM (#622291) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: words for: The navies: Please From: Willa refresh before it drops off the page |
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06 Jan 02 - 04:36 PM (#622292) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: words for: The navies: Please From: Sorcha I looked. Didn't find anything. Sorry. |
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06 Jan 02 - 04:40 PM (#622296) Subject: Lyr Add: HERE COME THE NAVVIES From: Jon Freeman I found this in Singing Together BBC Schools Radio, 1972. HERE COME THE NAVVIES I am a navigational and I come from County Cork, I had to leave my native home to find a job of work. The crops where bad in Ireland and the tax too much to pay And so here I am in England digging up the waterway.
Chorus
Once I was a ploughman and I did a decent job,
The lads who build the moterway they are a motely crew Jon |
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06 Jan 02 - 05:47 PM (#622329) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: words for: The navies: Please From: folkmonster I believe these are words by Ian Campbell to 'down in the coal mine' from A L Lloyd's book 'Come all ye bold miners'. I sure I had it on an LP somewhere ... |
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06 Jan 02 - 06:01 PM (#622336) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: words for: The navies: Please From: Susanne (skw) Thank you, Jon! I had the words all typed out ...:-). This is what I have on 'Ian Campbell and the Ian Campbell Folk Group' (1969): Tune: Roving Journeyman [1973:] Ian Campbell wrote Here Come the Navvies in 1962, for a BBC Radio Ballad programme called 'A Cry from the Cut'. The programme was a documentary about canal life, and the song tells of the men who built those canals. These men - the navigational construction workers - were the first of a new class of men, the casual labourer. The first navvies were a mixed bunch; many were unemployed and unskilled men from the growing industrial towns, crofters driven from the Scottish Highlands during the clearances, deserters from the Army and Navy, and, the subject of the song, the Irish small farmer whose crops had failed. The navvies brought a new colour to the English countryside as they dug the once so important network of inland waterways. (Forces Folk 10/73) |
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09 Jan 02 - 08:43 AM (#624035) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: words for: The navies: Please From: GUEST,Ceridwen To all who replied to my request for words,Thankyou!!!. It's the first time that I've used this site and I just cannot believe the responce.Thankyou all once again.Ceridwen. |
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04 Dec 11 - 12:37 AM (#3268159) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Here Come The Navvies From: Jim Dixon I think it may have been Ian Campbell, not Ewan MacColl, who wrote HERE COME THE NAVVIES. |
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04 Dec 11 - 07:48 AM (#3268231) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies From: Ian Hendrie The song was written by Ian Campbell. More details can be found at http://www.waterwaysongs.co.uk/here_come.htm. Many other canal related songs are also present (words, music, chords, additional info) on the Songs of the Inland Waterways site which I run as a hobby project. Contributions of songs and/or information is also welcome. |
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10 Dec 11 - 11:51 AM (#3271534) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST Without a doubt it was Ian Campbell who both wrote and recorded it for the BBC - I remember him singing this at the Jug of Punch in Birmingham when I worked for the BBC in Broad Street. It must have been early to mid-60s and before I left to work in Africa in 1967, for I have been singing it myself ever since. In fact, I am about to record it in my own film and recording studio (www.lanreathstudio.co.uk) and welcome anyone visiting Cornwall who plays and sings to make contact. Tony |
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11 Jul 17 - 03:20 PM (#3865641) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST I can remember singing this song at school,just stumbled on this thread as I could only remember the chorus. |
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12 Jul 17 - 03:20 AM (#3865702) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST,threelegsoman As with another song from the repertoire of the Ian Campbell Folk Group, the tune for this song is "The Red Haired Boy". My own version of it can be seen on YouTube: Here Come The Navvies (Including lyrics and chords) |
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12 Jul 17 - 03:22 AM (#3865703) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST,threelegsoman The other song I meant to name was "Down In The Coal Mine" |
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14 Aug 17 - 07:53 AM (#3871572) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST,Jeff Parton Does anyone have the lyrics to another song about navvies told from a woman's point of view. She "marries" one navvy and when he is killed she moves on from one navvy to another. I don't know the title but when I google "navvies" I get every song but that one. I'd be very grateful if anyone can supply this as my wife wants to sing it! |
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15 Aug 17 - 04:54 AM (#3871695) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST I think the song you're after is "Alice White", written by Alan Bell. Marie Little sings it beautifully. |
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15 Aug 17 - 06:56 AM (#3871706) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: Gozz Jeff, There is also a song within Mick Ryans, Navvy's Wife "folk opera" project which is on a similar theme I believe. |
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15 Aug 17 - 10:51 AM (#3871767) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: Jim Carroll Some of MacColl's best songs were those he made about Navvies - specifically those for the film, The Irishmen (unreleased in Britain and shown only once in Ireland as an obituary tribute to the film-maker, Phillip Donnellan) Because of the programme not being shown, the songs didn't get the circulaation they deserved - I think Tunnel Tigers was the only one to have made an impact Others include, 'Farewell to Ireland' (re-written from the tradition, 'Rambler from Clare', 'The Nipper's Song', 'New Rocks of Bawn', 'Indeed I Would', 'Van Diemans Land 1965', 'Dublin Jack-of-All-Trades', 'The Devil and Ganger McGlinn' and 'The Rambling Irishman' Like many of MacColl's best songs, several of these are based on recordings of navvies used for the film Jim Carroll |
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15 Aug 17 - 11:18 AM (#3871777) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Here Come the Navvies (I Campbell) From: GUEST,Jeff Parton I've found 'Alice White'. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. |