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16 Dec 02 - 05:27 PM (#848409) Subject: Lyr Req: Land of the old and grey From: le cheffie I'm trying to find the words for a song a heard many years ago. The chorus came back to me afew days ago The Young Folks keep Movin Away Who Can Get Them To Stay There's Money and Jobs In The Wool Towns Of The Valleys This is The Land Of The Old And Grey. Can any body come up with the rest or at least tell me who wrote it and where it can be found Ta Nick |
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16 Dec 02 - 06:42 PM (#848458) Subject: Lyr Add: LAND OF THE OLD AND GREY From: nutty LAND OF THE OLD AND GREY (Em) I am a (D) man of this (Em) land Thirty (D) long years or (Em) more I have worked the (D) Mallerstang fells (Em) Never (D) asked for (Em) more chorus (G) Young folks keep (C) mo-ving a- (D) way (G) Who can (C) get them to (D) stay There's (Em) money and there's jobs in the (D) wool towns of the valleys (Em) This is the (D) land of the old and (Em) grey I have been a leadminer Over the Swaledale way The clothes on our back,they never get dry Freezing on a winter's day I have seen the colours of this land Thirty long years or more Many men drifting to the mines of Durham To the Bradford factory floor Working on the Carlisle railway Mending broken track There's snow on the fells and it's raining in the valleys Muscles aching in my back Words and Music by Mike Donald Printed in The Jolly Herring (77 songs of Folk and Pop) |
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17 Dec 02 - 05:03 AM (#848736) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Land of the old and grey From: le cheffie Thanks Nutty Nick |
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17 Dec 02 - 05:30 AM (#848744) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Land of the old and grey From: harvey andrews "land of the old and grey"...a perfect description of England at this bloody awful time of year. Will the clouds ever lift, will we ever see sunshine again,can I last the distance till the first daffodil? |