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27 Oct 03 - 07:57 PM (#1042900) Subject: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: Slaw Does anyone have to hand the full lyrics to the song "Geordie will dance the jig"? I played guitar for this song about 10 years ago, but I've can't recall the lyrics. (I used to think it was "Jodie" rather than "Geordie", but an internet search has out me right on that point.) |
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27 Oct 03 - 09:10 PM (#1042936) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: Sorcha Didn't find any lyrics, but maybe this will help. Seems they sing it.....Contact info available there. |
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28 Oct 03 - 04:22 AM (#1043033) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: nickp Sneaking feeling that Fairport used to do it. Can't remember if it got recorded - too out of touch with that scene now. |
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28 Oct 03 - 04:34 AM (#1043038) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: nickp But I may be wrong... I'm thinking of 'Ginny will dance the/a jig tonight'... although they may have just changed the sex for Simon Nicol to sing it. |
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28 Oct 03 - 05:55 AM (#1043064) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: HuwG No, nickp, you are quite right, Fairport did indeed record it. It is track 9 of the CD, "The Five Seasons", as "Ginnie". The info. gives the writing credits to "Huw Williams". |
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28 Oct 03 - 06:11 AM (#1043068) Subject: Lyr Add: GINNIE (H Williams / Fairport Convention) From: HuwG GINNIE. Author: Huw Williams Artist: Fairport Convention everyone can hear the music, you can taste the mood of the wine getting high on the beer and the atmosphere of a good time you can here everyone laughing like they've got something to share cigarette some and bad jokes hang in the air But Ginnie doesn't hear it - I wonder does she realise she's sitting there with that faraway look in her eyes ? where she goes she doesn't say, but she'll leave you way behind somewhere else in her mind But if the music is right, and the rhythm is light ginnie will dance the jig tonight Soon we'll all bt singing the chorus from some old song guitars, fiddles, everything playing along we'll all be hitting the high notes when the piano begins to play all those songs we hate but we sing them anyway But ginnies doesn't hear it, it's that moment when she goes some place in her mind nobody knows her laughter's gone, her smile is faded, she loese it all and then that something forgotten comes back now and again But if the music is right, and the rhythm is light ginnie will dance the jig tonight There are people talking everywhere but ginnie's all alone she's locked up in that little world of her own you can look into her eyes but there's something you won't see a forgotten moment of some old memory But if the music is right, and the rhythm is light ginnie will dance the jig tonight -------------------------------- Spelling, spacing, punctuation, capitals or lack thereof, all [sic], as per the information booklet for the CD, "The Five Seasons". |
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28 Oct 03 - 07:47 AM (#1043093) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: A Wandering Minstrel The song is indeed by Huw Williams and also features on Huw and Tonys album Junction 26. Huw wrote several songs for fairport including Summer before the War. Huws original lyrics are definitely about Geordie who appears to be female! maybe the names were changed to protect the innocent. |
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28 Oct 03 - 08:11 PM (#1043495) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: Slaw Champion! Many thanks. I think I'll stick with "Jodie" - it's pretty much how "Geordie" sounds in that accent, and it's clearly a female name. And it's more elegant than "Ginnie". Plus, the Jodie I knew at school was a gorgeous buxom stunner - top of my list of people I'd like to see doing a jig ... |
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20 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM (#2107759) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Geordie will dance the jig From: GUEST,James I will have to look for this album. I know the song Summer before the war from Connie Dover who does a very beautiful version on one of her 4 or 5 CDs, she also does the one about Rosemary's sister on another cd, it is also good, but has more pathos. |