Lyr Req: Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson)

07 Nov 02 - 07:24 AM (#820630)
Subject: You don't have any place to go
From: Tinkercat

I heard June Tabor sing this song in a radio show, and as far as I know it hasn't been recorded by her. It might be a song by Ewan McColl from the mood and theme. The chorus goes
"oh, helpless and slow
you don't have any place to go"
Has anybody got the lyrics and/or knos who wrote and/or recorded it?

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07 Nov 02 - 01:10 PM (#820873)
Subject: RE: You don't have any place to go
From: Noreen

Genesis Hall by Richard Thompson
sung by Sandy Denny with Fairport Convention on Unhalfbricking, July 1969.

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07 Nov 02 - 01:23 PM (#820884)
Subject: RE: You don't have any place to go
From: Noreen

Genesis Hall lyrics, details of other recordings etc.... at Reinhard Zierke's site

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07 Nov 02 - 05:34 PM (#821089)
Subject: RE: You don't have any place to go
From: Tinkercat

Thanks Noreen.
Perhaps you can help me out with another song I'm working on. It's called You brought me up, is by Louis de Paor, an Irish poet from Cork. I'm looking for the complete words and some background information on that song.
Again thanks for the help with the Richard Thompson song.

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12 Nov 02 - 03:47 AM (#823991)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You don't have any place to go
From: Brian Hoskin

There are lyrics to You Brought Me Up on this site

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16 Nov 02 - 12:32 PM (#827790)
Subject: Lyr Add: GENESIS HALL (Richard Thompson)
From: Jim Dixon

GENESIS HALL is in the DT, but I see no harm in having another copy in the Forum.

Copied from http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/sandy.denny/songs/genesishall.html

GENESIS HALL
(Richard Thompson)

My father he rides with your sheriffs,
And I know he would never mean harm,
But to see both sides of a quarrel
Is to judge without hate or alarm.

CHORUS: Oh, oh, helpless and slow,
And you don't have anywhere to go.

You take away homes from the homeless
And leave them to die in the cold.
The gypsy who begged for your presents,
He will laugh in your face when you're old. CHORUS

Well, one man he drinks up his whiskey;
Another, he drinks up his wine;
And they'll drink till their eyes are red with hate
For those of a different kind. CHORUS

When the rivers run quicker than trouble,
I'll be there at your side in the flood.
It was all I could do to keep myself
From taking revenge on your blood. CHORUS TWICE

CHORDS:
  
  Dm    Gm        C               Dm
     My father he rides with your sheriffs,
        Gm            Bb         C
  And I know he would never mean harm,
         F        Bb         C
  But to see both sides of a quarrel
        Gm                    Dm
  Is to judge without hate or alarm.
  
  F   Gm  Bb
  Oh, oh, helpless and slow,
      F              Gm          Dm
  And you don't have anywhere to go.

[From the "Fairport Convention Songbook 2". A slow song in 3/4 time, on which Thompson plays dulcimer while Denny sings. This was released as B-side of the single "Si Tu Dois Partir / Genesis Hall", on the album "Unhalfbricking", on the double CD compilation "Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975", and on Richard Thompson's 3 CD set, "Watching The Dark".

[Richard Thompson released a solo version of this song on "Small Town Romance". A Fairport live recording from Cropredy 1983 with Cathy LeSurf was released on the cassette "The Boot - 1983 Fairport Reunion" and on the "Fairport unConventioNal" 4-CD set. Another - 1997 - Cropredy version with Vikki Clayton is on "The Cropredy Box".]

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