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Lyr Req: Meet Me on the Corner (from Lindisfarne)

20 Jan 03 - 07:40 PM (#870964)
Subject: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: SiWells

yes I know Lindisfarne recorded it but I don't have the CD. I just know the song and have only a fragmentary grasp of the text. Ta

20 Jan 03 - 07:55 PM (#870974)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: GUEST

Hey, just ignore this post if I'm off base but let me throw out a couple of lines of a song I remember from around 1960 by Leroy Van Dyke.:

Just walk on by,
Meet me on the corner...

Hey, probably not the same song, but might be?

Bobert

20 Jan 03 - 08:08 PM (#870983)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: GUEST

it's here

20 Jan 03 - 08:29 PM (#871000)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: Cluin

Bobert, wasn't it "Wait on the corner"?

20 Jan 03 - 11:34 PM (#871104)
Subject: Lyr Add: MEET ME ON THE CORNER (Rod Clements)
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

From Guitaretab.com:

Meet Me On The Corner by Lindisfarne
From the album Fog On The Tyne

Hey Mister Dreamseller where have you been,
Tell me have you dreams I can see?
I came a-long just to bring you this song,
Can you spare one dream for me?
 
You won't have met me and you'll soon forget,
So don't mind me tugging at your sleeve,
I'm asking you if I can fix a rendezvous,
For your dreams are all I believe.
 
Chorus:
Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on
And I'll be there, I promise I'll be there,
Down the empty streets we'll disappear into the dawn,
If you have dreams enough to share.
 
Lay down your bundles of rags and reminders
And spread your wares on the ground,
Well I've got time if you're dealing rhyme,
I'm just hanging around.
 
Hey Mister Dreamseller where have you been,
Tell me have you dreams I can see?
I came a-long just to bring you this song,
Can you spare one dream for me?

21 Jan 03 - 03:07 AM (#871181)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: alanabit

It's a lovely song by Rod Clements, the Lindisfarne bass player. It was sung by harmonica and mandoline player Ray Jackson. Sadly, the band's main singer and writer, Alan Hull, died a few years back at the age of fifty. Lidnisfarne were a great live band and a nice bunch of people. The song brings back happpy memories.

21 Jan 03 - 03:20 AM (#871189)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: okthen

Meet me on the corner, don't be late,
I need to spend some money and it just won't wait,
Take me to the dance and hold me tight,
I want to see those bright lights tonight.

or

I'm standing on the corner,
On the corner of the street,
In case a certain little lady walks by,
Oh me, oh my,
I hope that little lady walks by.

Says something about the habits of songwriters don't it, nd in the light of a couple of recent threads, just how litle was that lady.

21 Jan 03 - 04:58 AM (#871220)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: Bullfrog Jones

Please note 'I came a-long just to bring you this song' and join me in my campaign to smack people round the back of the head when they change it to 'sing you this song'!

BJ

21 Jan 03 - 06:01 AM (#871258)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: Murray MacLeod

"Says something about the habits of songwriters don't it, and in the light of a couple of recent threads, just how litle was that lady."

What's that supposed to mean ?

As far as "Meet me On the Corner " is concerned, I assume everybody knows it was written as an ode to hallucinogenic drugs , a kind of Geordie "Mr Tambourine Man"

Murray

21 Jan 03 - 11:10 AM (#871445)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: alanabit

That's how I see it too. However, it doesn't have the smugness of a lot of drug songs and derives a lot of its charm from that.
Okthen has lost me this time too. I am afraid his comment went over my head. The corner of a street has always been recognised as a good meeting place, simply because it is easy to identify. I am not surprised that it turns up in songs by Richard Thompson, Rod Celments and was it Noel Gay who wrote "Leaning on a Lamp Post"?

21 Jan 03 - 12:06 PM (#871493)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meet me on the Corner
From: HuwG

Here is a link to Meet me on the corner, with guitar chords.

From the same site, another song in praise of iffy substances, We can swing together; a popular and catchy tune, never went down well with the BBC, I have no idea why ...