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14 Feb 06 - 06:26 AM (#1668006) Subject: Lyr Req: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: Hrothgar Can't find the lyrics anywhere, and we've been trying to transcribe it from Cyril's tape, but there is a flaw in the tape on the first line of the second verse. We think it is "Some men catch you with a line and some men with a snare." Can anybody help? |
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14 Feb 06 - 07:00 PM (#1668614) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: Joe Offer Can you post what you have, Hrothgar? -Joe Offer- |
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15 Feb 06 - 03:28 AM (#1669068) Subject: ADD: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: GUEST,Hrothgar at work If We Did To Their Daughters (Cyril Tawney) They're gnawin' at the moorland and they're nibblin' at the shore There's scarce a week goes by without they've cornered something more It seems they've heard the proverb and they're taking its advice If a loaf's already cut who's going to miss another slice Chorus: If we did to their daughters what they're doing to our land Every barricade in Bumbledom would bloomin' soon be manned And every dad in Whitehall would come marching gun in hand If we did to their daughters what they're doing to our land Some men catch (????????) you with a line and some men with a snare But others do their poaching from a leather covered chair The gamekeeper is on their side likewise the legal men And the squire he shrugs his shoulders in the halls of Number 10 Make a mark upon that map, we mustn't be delayed And pass across that rubber stamp there's progress to be made To hell with those petitions, we've no time to read 'em all Just pack 'em up and stack 'em in the toilet down the hall There's twenty miles of shoreline in the town where I was born But I won't walk around it 'til the willow bears a thorn They've left us scarce a quarter where a man can wander free Yes, there's water, water everywhere but not for you and me The wealth of Britain seems to need a smoke infested sky You can't have gold without the grime has always been the cry But I once met a country chap who opened up my eyes The piggery's just as clean, he said, as him who tends the sty When our children come to curse us won't we all deserve our share If we leave them with a legacy of diesel laden air Don't pass your rucksacks on to them, they'll have nowhere to hike And they'll put on our old videos just to see what trees were like |
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15 Feb 06 - 11:10 AM (#1669381) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: Flash Company Hrothgar... I'd not seen this before, but I love it, reminiscent of Betjemen's 'The Town Clerk's Views', which is unfortunately too long to set to music. FC |
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16 Feb 06 - 06:57 PM (#1670389) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: Jim Dixon IF WE DID TO THEIR DAUGHTERS is on Cyril Tawney's cassette called "Man of Honour: The Non-Maritime Songs." There's an advertisement on this page (and several other places on the 'net). |
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17 Feb 06 - 05:36 AM (#1670898) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney From: Hrothgar Refresh - if somebody doesn't come up with something, we'll have to use it as we've interpreted it. It's for a presentation of "Songs of Cyril tawney" at the National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter. |
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10 Jan 20 - 01:29 PM (#4027541) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If We Did to Their Daughters (C Tawney) From: Folkie Frank Verse 2, Line 1: Some men poach with rotted line and some men with a snare |