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24 Apr 02 - 07:59 AM (#697350) Subject: Lyr Add: THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY (Matt McGinn) From: robinia Can anyone help me with a lyric gap and some info on a song that I have on tape (simply labeled "from the Northeast of Scotland")? It goes:
CHORUS: Three nights and a Sunday double time.
There's a fella doon the road that I avoid.
[They've went and introduced a new machine.
The wife came to the work the ither day.
Now, I never miss the pub on a Friday night
Now there's some'll head for heaven when they die, * All the verses but this one are on the album "Matt McGinn Again" (1967) |
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24 Apr 02 - 08:14 AM (#697358) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Zipster Its on my "Best of Matt MCGinn" so I've assumed its he wrote, if I find out different I'll post. You'll get more on MAtt McGinn websites (search on Google).He was "born and raised in Glasgow in a Gallowgate tenement", so your info is inaccurate. Zipster |
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24 Apr 02 - 08:22 AM (#697362) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Moleskin Joe The Bay Horse is a pub at the corner of Bath Street and West Nile Street in Glasgow and Matt McGinn used to drink there. |
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24 Apr 02 - 10:53 AM (#697475) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Scabby Douglas The missing line is : Ah never miss the pub on a Friday night It's there you'll always find me gay and bright Ye'll see me doon at the auld Bay Horse Ah'm a weekend waiter there of course
Cheers Steven |
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24 Apr 02 - 01:26 PM (#697598) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Annegi It was written by Matt McGinn - I have it in his song book. The other missing word is 'Dunlo-pillow' - it's a brand name - pillows made by Dunlop. |
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24 Apr 02 - 05:31 PM (#697769) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: robinia Does anyone know if McGinn's songbook is still available? (The websites I accessed sell CDs; they don't seem to mention songbooks). And were he and Adam MacNaughton in school together (as I seem to remember hearing). What a pair they must have made! |
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25 Apr 02 - 01:29 AM (#698045) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,andymac If you're looking for books on Matt McGinn, then try "McGinn of the Calton" which is his autobiography, not quite finished before he died, but wonderful nonetheless. It was published by Glasgow District Libraries to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Apart from that, you could look for the CD "best of..." mentioned earlier, which was published with help from his wife Jeanette recently, for a contact number/email and try from there. Adam McNaughtan and Matt were not at school together, but got to know each other through the Glasgow folk scene in the 60s and 70s, would have been fun and a privilege to have been around them though... |
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25 Apr 02 - 03:23 AM (#698078) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Hugh What memories! I had the great pleasure of seeing Matt McGinn quite a few times, performing in the Bathgate area. I seem to recall a verse that starts.... Theres a fellow doon the road that I avoid he's one o' them they call the unemployed he hasnae goat a job you see he hasnae goat a job, an av'e goat three etc. |
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10 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM (#906810) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar I am scratching my head to identify what tune Matt used for this. I have spotted some close relatives, but what actual song did he draw on? |
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11 Mar 03 - 01:57 PM (#907531) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Jim McLean You're quite right, Ewan, to spot a few close relatives, one of them being 'Mary, My Scotch Bluebell' or 'I love a sausage'. When Matt lodged with me (a long while ago) in London, he suggested we write a song together and told me how he went about the process. He would take a well known tune, e.g. 'I left my baby lying there' and change certain parts to come up with 'Coorie Doon'. We never did write anything together.(!!) Jim McLean |
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12 Mar 03 - 04:22 AM (#908019) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Jim McLean PS. Try Woody Guthrie's 'Vigilante Man' |
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12 Mar 03 - 04:29 PM (#908463) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Good ones, Jim. I never spotted the 'Left My Baby' into 'Coorie Doon' transmogrification. Vigilante Man is fascinating too. Now, what tune did Guthrie use for that? High On A Mountain which I've heard sung by a singer with a wondrous name - something like Ola Belle Reed - springs to mind. The closest I have thought of yet for Three Nights is Wee Gallus Bloke, but I feel there ought to be a closer one. In the original of this by the way Josh Shaw does not sing 'factory lassies', he sings 'hairy pie'. I now and then wonder how much Harry Lauder raided traditional tunes for his compositions. Best regards Ewan |
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13 Mar 03 - 12:26 PM (#909154) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Dave Smith I seem to remember the "weekend waiter" was "drinking waiter". It was a long time ago. I saw the great man himself sing it in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, not bad for a Glaswegian, but he had a rotten voice. Far better for others to sing his songs. No offence to the departed. Dave |
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14 Mar 03 - 12:57 AM (#909645) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Billy Dick Gaughan pays wonderful tribute to Matt on his website at www.dickalba.demon.co.uk in a section called "Links In The Chain". Dick writes " 'McGinn of the Calton'. Once met, never forgotten. He constantly played the clown but behind that mask lay an extremely sharp mind with a deep knowledge of the history of the Scottish working class. I served as accompanist to Matt for a short time in the late 60s and played on his album 'Take Me Back to the Jungle'. It was quite an experience. He had a highly idiosyncratic attitude to performance, particularly to pitch. He would begin by giving the audience a long and hilarious preamble to whatever the song was, which might or might not have any direct relevance to the song, and launch himself into the first verse without warning. I would spend the first couple of bars finding what key he was approximately singing in and just when I had managed to catch up with him, he'd stop and start talking, wander up and down the byways of wherever his mind took him before firing into the next verse of the song. By this time, I would be falling about laughing as helplessly as the audience and would struggle to regain some kind of composure and try to find whatever key he was singing in this time, usually far away from the initial key. This was the pattern for the evening. Comparisons are always a bit of a waste of time but if I were forced to make one, I would say that Matt is probably as close to a Scottish equivalent of Woody Guthrie as we've produced. His songs had the same deceptive simplicity but always with the same objective - to instill a sense of pride. In his song about the new Cunard liner being built at John Browns (codenamed Q4, later named QE2) there are quite profound ideas lurking behind the apparent simplicity of the literal text. He pays homage to the skills of older generations of workers and shows how these skills are passed on and improved upon - Thank you dad for all your skill But the Clyde is a river that'll no stand still You did gey well but we'll do more Make way for the finest of them all, Q4." |
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14 Mar 03 - 12:20 PM (#910032) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Big Jock Matt McGinn was closer to William McGonnigle than Woody Guthrie. His songs were shallow and appealed to the lowest common denominator of the Scottish working class. He went down to the lowest level but did not pick anyone up -- he stayed there. Big Jock |
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14 Mar 03 - 06:35 PM (#910349) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Strupag Hey Big Jock, You've got problems! Have you heard "The Rolling Hills of the Borders? It's a great pity that the Scots Cringe is alive and well |
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15 Mar 03 - 06:23 PM (#910945) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST Hi Strupag, stick tae yer tea. The Rolling Hills of the border brings Harry Lauder intae the equation. Big Jock |
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16 Mar 03 - 02:55 PM (#911376) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar I take from Big Jock's remark that Harry Lauder is also deserving of BJ contempt? I do hope Big Jock does not approve of me - I'd rather be classed with McGinn and Lauder, who brought more joy to more people than most of us ever encountered personally. Big Jock must be a helluva good songwriter himself if he can be so superior. |
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16 Mar 03 - 04:27 PM (#911428) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: GUEST,Big Jock I've never written a song in my life. I'm merely saying that people in general deserve better than McGinn and Lauder. Guthrie was in a different class than stereotypical bunnet-wearing drunks, rolling their rrrrrrrrrrrrrrs in a hamely way or living off the great Scots myth of tightness while accompanying himself on a bent stick. Orrrrrra best, Big Jock |
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16 Mar 03 - 04:49 PM (#911441) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: ard mhacha C`mon all of you Jocks and enlighten me. I am going back to 1961 and I remember the man himself singing this song on a BBC programme that featured Nadia Cattouse. The programme was a weekly folk item and various folkies had their first exposure to to "the rude and scoffing multitudes", my oul memory also conjures up another name, Steve Benbow. Any takers?. Ard Mhacha. |
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16 Mar 03 - 09:00 PM (#911593) Subject: RE: Help: Three nights and a Sunday double time From: Susanne (skw) Jock, "Guthrie was in a different class than stereotypical bunnet-wearing drunks, rolling their rrrrrrrrrrrrrrs in a hamely way...": I couldn't agree with you more - but so were Matt McGinn and Harry Lauder. What have the Scots done to you that you feel the urge to put them down (not only in this thread)? Get rid of that chip on your shoulder! |
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07 Jul 03 - 06:27 PM (#978595) Subject: RE: Three nights and a Sunday double time (McGinn) From: GUEST,Sarah The beauty of matt McGinn is that he was the genuine article; he wrote daft throw away songs and he produced classics like the DEPTH of my EGO; Deep in my heart and deep in my mind Deep in the depth of my ego Deep in my breast lies a treasure chest a world that only I can know You can criticise me try to analyse me put me in your little pigeon hole but I'll still hold the key to the place where I am free A place that only I control I can love you dearly I can love you true I can love you long and love you well but I must have my own song only I can sing my own tale that only I can tell Place me in your prison put me in your cell lock me up and throw away the key I will only wander wander all around this big world that's inside me Deep in my heart and deep in my mind Deep in the depth of my ego Deep in my breast lies a treasure chest a world that only I can know |
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10 Jul 12 - 04:54 PM (#3374614) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Nights and a Sunday (Matt McGinn) From: GUEST,Margaret I am going back to 1961 and I remember the man himself singing this song on a BBC programme that featured Nadia Cattouse. The programme was a weekly folk item and various folkies had their first exposure to to "the rude and scoffing multitudes", my oul memory also conjures up another name, Steve Benbow. Any takers?. Ard Mhacha. Aye, that would be The London Folk Song Cellar, w/ Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor. They'd Matt, Nadia, Benbow, the Watersons, Martin Carthy, Lyn & Graham McCarthy from Oz, Packie Manus Byrne, Alex Campbell before he killed himself with the drink, Gareth & Elinedd(sp?) Francis and I can't remember how many others. What a bugger that BBC never issued the recordings. |
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07 Sep 16 - 03:53 PM (#3808853) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Nights and a Sunday (Matt McGinn) From: GUEST,Alistair Mackie I am looking for the chords to Three nights and a sunday. Anyone who can help |
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08 Sep 16 - 03:27 PM (#3809001) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Nights and a Sunday (Matt McGinn) From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Can't help with the tune although I'm sure Matt recorded it. He was a regular guest at the Marsden folk club in South Shields in the sixties. He was unpretentious, direct and funny- not a stage Scot at all& able to adapt/invent tunes to his excellent songs in a unique way. I'm still singing a verse to the song which is the header of this discussion- not sure if it was ever recorded by him but I clearly recall him singing... I've a big post office book, it's true And in it I've aa fiver more than you I've saved through eatin' potted heid*** It'll pay for the hearse when I drap deid chorus.. ** as a mere Geordie, I'll leave it to those ''''Geordies with their brains kicked oot'''''' north of the border to explain this Scottish delicacy |
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08 Sep 16 - 05:03 PM (#3809021) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Nights and a Sunday (Matt McGinn) From: The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkOv3U9778 |
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08 Sep 16 - 05:13 PM (#3809022) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Nights and a Sunday (Matt McGinn) From: The Sandman three chords, if you are in d major, the only time you use the g chord is on to hell with you jack im alright.the rest is d or a major. three nights and sunday double time is d major. the second line finishes on a major on the word time. next line starts with d major, then g major on to hell. the last three nights is d major. on sunday its a major. the last word timeis d major |