To Thread - Forum Home

The Mudcat Café TM
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46305
11 messages

Lyr Req: England (Ralph McTell)

09 Apr 02 - 11:37 AM (#686203)
Subject: Ralph McTell
From: GUEST,Lucy

Please please please could someone tell me the lyrics to Ralph McTell's song "England" (theme music to Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales)or where i might find them? It's pretty urgent! Thanks, Lucy x

09 Apr 02 - 12:29 PM (#686257)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: GUEST

Refresh... Hope someone can drag themselves from the usual bullshit and help Lucy with a music question..

09 Apr 02 - 12:40 PM (#686267)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: Sorcha

I looked and couldn't find them. Ralph is pretty close with his lyrics.

09 Apr 02 - 03:28 PM (#686426)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: GUEST,Dita (at work)

This is quite an old Ralph song. It has only been released on a 7" single on a couple of occasions. Both had picture sleeves, but I can't remember if the lyrics are on either of them. I will check when I get home tomrrow.
love, john.

10 Apr 02 - 05:42 AM (#686875)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: GUEST,ralph_mctell@yahoo.co.uk

http://members.lycos.co.uk/songs2play/artist_ralphmctell.htm

10 Apr 02 - 12:39 PM (#687118)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: Noreen

Thanks Ralph,(!) but some of the lyrics there come up with You are not authorized to view this page

:0(

Any idea why?

10 Apr 02 - 01:48 PM (#687182)
Subject: Lyr Add: ENGLAND (Ralph McTell)
From: Dita

ENGLAND
(Ralph McTell)

What is it about you, makes me feel this way?
When I'm leaving you, when I'm coming home
I'm lost for words to say.
And I know your faults and failures,
And the troubles that you've been through.
But it's more about what happens now
and what we're coming to.

And the echo from the green hills
Runs through her city streets,
and the sun that shines on England
Well it lifts the heart in me.

What is it about you, that took men into war?
Rows and rows of crosses: Who remembers why what for?
The corners of these foreign fields,
The dust in them concealed.
Out of sight but not out of mind,
Don't you know that England feels?

And the echo from the green hills
Runs through the city streets.
The rain that falls on England
Well it washes care from me.

England, oh England
England, oh England
England, oh England

Don't make this out a battle hymn or a song of victory.
It's just a way to try to say what England means to me.
And our accents and our colours change
From the city to the farmland
From the moorland to the mountain,
From the river to the sea.

And the echo from the green hills
Runs through the city streets
The rain that falls on England
Well it washes care from me.

England, oh England (x3)

From the rolling road to the winding lane,
from the field to factory,
From summer's haze to winter's glaze,
And all the colours in between.
It's a stillness in the evening.
It's the heartbeat that I'm feeling.
Fron Cornwall to Northumberland,
from the Pennines to the sea.

And the echo from the green hills
Runs through the city streets.
The rain that falls on England
Well it washes care from me

England, oh England (x3)


love, john

Misty River Music 1981
Recorded on
MAYS Recordings ING1 7" single
EMI 5315 7" single
At the End of a Perfect Day - LP - Telstar STAR 2263

11 Apr 02 - 05:14 AM (#687701)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: songs2play

The "Song For Martin" is the only one I can't get on the web page - http://www.geocities.com/songs2play/artist_ralphmctell.htm All others are ok. Sorry about mix-up with "England" and "England 1914". Why is it so difficult to get lyrics for Ralph on the web ? Or am I missing something? I'll have to get the old LP's out. Anyway I'm off the See Ralph in a few weeks at The Lowrey in Manchester.

11 Apr 02 - 06:18 AM (#687719)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ralph McTell
From: GUEST,Lucy

Thank you so, so much! I've searched everywhere for them! It's for my A level coursework so i'm v grateful for all the help! Lucy x

12 Nov 03 - 06:08 AM (#1052242)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ENGLAND (Ralph McTell)
From: GUEST

I've got the sheet music. Le tme have your snail addy and i'll post you a copy.

philcole_130@hotmail.com

12 Nov 03 - 01:13 PM (#1052532)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ENGLAND (Ralph McTell)
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

I always thought this song could have been a big hit. Unfortunately, on Ralph's single. the production is such that the words aren't clear enough, and that kills its hit potential stone dead. I've seen a tv program where Jim Davidson - that famous folksinger - performs the the song to British servicemen somewhere overseas (The Failklands?)