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Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)

11 Feb 97 - 03:13 PM (#2133)
Subject: Hawks and Eagles
From: kingpen@ukans.edu

I am looking for the lyrics to a Scottish folk tune titled HAwks and Eagles.

If you have any info please email me at

kingpen@ukans.edu

kory


11 Feb 97 - 09:53 PM (#2140)
Subject: RE: Hawks and Eagles
From: Valery Malin

We have this song on a Scottish collection CD. If you haven't located the words yet, I can play it through & try to write down the lyrics for you.

It is a great song!

Let me know if this helps.


05 Apr 03 - 11:16 PM (#927032)
Subject: RE: lyr req: Hawks and Eagles
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

HAwks & Eagles


31 Jan 05 - 01:34 PM (#1394482)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: open mike

looking for the dots and lines for the fiddle tune Hawks and Eagles.
I found the tab
HERE.


31 Jan 05 - 08:25 PM (#1395069)
Subject: Tune Add: HAWKS AND EAGLES (Scottish folk tune)
From: masato sakurai

From Ceolas: The Fiddler's Companion:

X:1
T:Hawks and Eagles
L:1/8
M:C
K:G
d2|g3g g2 gg|gg g2e2d2|a3a a ga|b2a2g2e2|g3g g2 gg|gg g2e2d2|
ba2 geed|eggg g2:|
|:d2|G3G G2 GG|GG G2 E2 D2|A3A A2 GA|B2A2G2E2|
G3G G2 GG|GG G2 E2D2|ABd2 d2e2|dB A2 G2:|


31 Jan 05 - 08:46 PM (#1395089)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: John in Brisbane

A couple of bars in the A Part only have 7 beats in the bar instead of 8. I don't know the tune but it gives the impression that the bar lengths should be uniform? Any other clues?

Regards, John


01 Feb 05 - 08:40 AM (#1395521)
Subject: Tune Add: HAWKS AND EAGLES (Scottish folk tune)
From: John in Brisbane

Silly me, I played with the rhythm of the A Part and adjusted some note values accordingly, only to realise that that the B Part repeats most of the tune an octave lower. I'm fairly confident that it should sound like this:

X:1
T:Hawks and Eagles
M:C
L:1/8
K:G
d2 |g3g g2gg |ggg2 e2d2|a3a a2ga |b2a2 g2e2|
g3g   g2gg   |ggg2 e2d2    |ba3 geed|eggg g2:|
|:d2|G3G G2GG|GGG2 E2D2|A3A A2GA|B2A2 G2E2|
G3G G2GG|GGG2 E2D2|ABd2 d2e2|dBA2 G2:|

Regards, John


08 Sep 07 - 09:40 PM (#2144338)
Subject: Lyr Add: HAWKS AND EAGLES (Ian Walker)
From: MystMoonstruck

I have a collection of Scottish songs and tunes with this one on it, quite well-sung. I found these lyrics with my first search; I hope this is what you're looking for, as they are the ones on that CD:

HAWKS AND EAGLES
(Ian Walker/M.C.P.S./P.R.S.)

As I was walking down the road,
I met my brother with a heavy load
I said to him what have you seen,
He said to me
I have a dream.
In 1960, I thought I'd died in Sharpeville's bloody town,
But I got up I walked on tall nobody's goin' to put me down.

Hawks and eagles fly like doves (x4)

As I walked out along the way
I saw my sister bend and pray,
I said to her why do you kneel,
She says you don't know how I feel.
I had a little boy and a little girl,
I loved to watch them grow.
But they were butchered on the streets in the blood of Sowetto.

It's '85 and I'm walking still,
Across Uitenhaage Hill,
Saw a crowd set off at the dawn of day,
The soldiers said don't come this way.
Then somebody threw a stone as they walked up the track
A boy on a bike was the first to fall with a bullet in his back.

It's been a long, long hard road,
Three hundred years since the settlers strode
Into that Southern land,
Now they rule with an iron hand.
Low pay, no vote and passbook laws,
Don't talk back they say.
But the hawks and the eagles will fly like doves,
When the people rise one day.


08 Sep 07 - 10:47 PM (#2144356)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: MystMoonstruck

Sorry. I see that someone else found the same source for lyrics. Oh well...


09 Sep 07 - 08:13 PM (#2144976)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: BanjoRay

The ABC code given by Masato Sakurai and John In Brisbane is for an American Old Time fiddle tune, and, I suspect not the one for the Scottish song also called Hawks and Eagles. I've played the OT tune for years and never heard of any lyrics for it.
Ray


12 Sep 07 - 08:14 AM (#2147216)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: maeve

BanjoRay- It seems that in this old thread there were actually two requests; one for the song syrics and a later one for the fiddle tune. It appears to me that both have been fulfilled and this request can be removed from the Unanswered Requests thread.

Elves/Experienced Mudcatters, is my assessment correct?

maeve


12 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM (#2147432)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: GUEST,Auldtimer

Written by Ian Walker, wwwianwalkeronline.com


12 Sep 07 - 12:43 PM (#2147445)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: maeve

Correct, Auldtimer.

Bye the bye, no song syrics were found, but sufficient song lyrics were posted to fill the need.

Sigh.

maeve


28 May 14 - 12:33 PM (#3628728)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: GUEST,Of Golspie

Why is a Scottish tune referencing three South African massacres?


28 May 14 - 12:40 PM (#3628729)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: GUEST,kenny

Why not ? Probably because it's something that Ian Walker felt strongly about. By your reckoning, Hamish Henderson should never have written "The Freedom Come All-Ye".
Do you think Scots songwriters should ignore the rest of the world and only write about Scotland ? Ludicrous.


31 May 14 - 04:00 PM (#3629382)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hawks and Eagles (Scottish folk tune)
From: GUEST,Dickmac

When Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow he was given the Freedom of The City and the song was performed for him by a local choir. Over the years Ian Walker has written some very good songs and I think this is the best of the lot