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26 Sep 98 - 06:04 PM (#39523) Subject: the sky is bluer in scotland From: stephen.mcmanus@gisp.net Would anyone have any information on which song this line comes from, and possibly send me the rest of the lyrics? Thanks |
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27 Sep 98 - 05:09 PM (#39662) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca The second line is "When it isn't pouring rain.":) |
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27 Sep 98 - 06:35 PM (#39677) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Mo Don't mislead the chap Tim - it's ALWAYS pouring with rain...! Well at least it seemed so this year... Actually, if anyone really dones know the words and tune to this I would love to know them too - for purely partisan reasons! Drookit' Mo |
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28 Sep 98 - 09:25 AM (#39711) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I checked on the web and couldn't find it. I will ask for you on the Scots-Music list and get back to you. In the meantime, it inspired me to write my own song.
O, the sky is bluer in Scotland
O, the sun shines brighter in Scotland,
O, the sea is warmer off Scotland
O, the fields are lusher in Scotland
O, the cities are grander in Scotland
O, the music is sweeter in Scotland,
O, Australia it has beastly snakes,
O, America's full of guns and strife
O, I think I rather like it here |
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28 Sep 98 - 03:04 PM (#39748) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Mo Tim - I love it! And of course, it's all true!(!) Thank you for being so inspired. Mo |
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28 Sep 98 - 06:18 PM (#39766) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: The Shambles Nice one Tim! |
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28 Sep 98 - 11:20 PM (#39813) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: alison Hi, I like the song Tim. Now what's your tune? Slainte alison |
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29 Sep 98 - 01:20 AM (#39827) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I was trying to think of one. Something from the tunes to which the Louis Caroll poems were set would likely work, as it has that same simplistic childish metre. A sonnet writer I ain't.:) I already got a flame on this. I wonder if Louis got them in his day from carpenters and oysters?:) |
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29 Sep 98 - 04:25 AM (#39864) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Alan of Australia G'day, Great song Tim. The tune will have to be "The Blue Skies Of Scotland"
Cheers, |
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29 Sep 98 - 08:23 AM (#39883) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca The tune or the title? BTW, I have had no responses from the Scots list respecting the original post. I can't say as I have ever heard of it. |
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29 Sep 98 - 08:39 AM (#39885) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Wolfgang Hell Obviously this song existed even before Tim rewrote it with no more information than a line or title. I'm getting curious whether the original is half as good as the version above. Look at track 10 < a href=http://www.movingmusic.co.uk/mus/mus480.htm> over here if you had thought the title was an invention. Wolfgang |
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29 Sep 98 - 08:45 AM (#39886) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Wolfgang next try for the link: over here |
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29 Sep 98 - 08:55 AM (#39887) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: alison Hi, Guess what. It fits the tune of "Star of the County Down" (but then most things do) and if you really string out the words you can make them fit "Loch Lomond" too. Slainte alison |
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30 Sep 98 - 06:57 PM (#40066) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Teru The tune is completely different from that of "Star Of The County Down". This song is played in triple (waltz) time. I have a set of two CDs containing this song recorded by The Tartan Lads (The Sounds of Scotland, EMI Records Ltd, Hayes, Middlesex, UK, 1992). According to a short explanation, this song was written by Douglas. The song starts with CHORUS: The sky is bluer in Scotland, The grass is greener-------. / The air smells sweeter, the rivers are deeper. / The mountains are lovelier----. --------- . I cannot follow the words. That's why I asked the lyrics last year, although the title of the thread has been changed to wrong one (CHORDS PLEASE: Leader of the Pack). Anyway, I am looking for the lyrics, too. Does anyone help us? Regards Teru |
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30 Sep 98 - 08:30 PM (#40084) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: alison hi Teru, I was referring to Tim's words. I've never heard of the original one. Sorry about any confusion. Slainte alison |
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01 Oct 98 - 10:11 AM (#40159) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Anne Cormack Tim, Exellent words, but can I suggest a change from citrus trees to rowan??? Having been born and bred there, I seem to remember a distinct lack of citrus trees in the back yard - but maybe the climate outside Edinburgh was more salubrious!!! Cheers |
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01 Oct 98 - 05:10 PM (#40216) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: I think that's the point Anne - though I wouldn't want to put words in Tim's mouth... I don't think many angel fish, manatees, quaggas, spires of gold, etc are seen in Scotland either.... Born and bred a Cape Codder - I can picture many a person I grew up with nodding and smiling if you just substituted "on Cape Cod" for "in Scotland" and " Cape Codder" for "scotsman" MMario
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01 Oct 98 - 05:40 PM (#40223) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I would be willing to substitute "olive" for citrus.:) Teru, perhaps you could post the real words for the gentleman who started the thread? I asked on the Scots Trad list but got no replies. |
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01 Oct 98 - 05:42 PM (#40224) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Oh, sorry, Teru, I see that you couldn't make out the lyrics on your CD. |
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07 Oct 98 - 01:39 AM (#40651) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca It occurred to me that this would fit to the tune of The Derby Ram, but then I'd have to write a chorus. Indeed, Sir, it's true, Sir, I've never been known to lie . . . |
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08 Oct 98 - 08:07 AM (#40866) Subject: RE: the sky is bluer in scotland From: Frank in the swamps Oh the kilts are shorter in Floriday, Where the seventh generation Scotsmen say, "Ya caint take the high road we only got the low but pack yuh up some oranges, afore yuh up 'n' go and take yuh 'long some skeeters, to feed the highland midge, it's 'bout time we found some use, for that nasty sonuva b&^$%!. Frank i.t.s. |
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23 Feb 11 - 11:17 PM (#3101662) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the sky is bluer in scotland? From: Jim Dixon Lyrics have been posted in this thread: Lyr Req: The Sky Is Bluer in Scotland |
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24 Feb 11 - 10:30 PM (#3102346) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the sky is bluer in scotland? From: GUEST,Tim Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyzj0tTIDBs not same song but google suggested that |