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16 Jun 06 - 11:02 AM (#1761433) Subject: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: GUEST,Brighid I have been searching high and low for the lyrics to "The Ballad of the Lady Jane" from Tommy Makem's Lonesome Waters CD. I love this song and have since the first time I heard it. But, there are some parts of the lyrics that I just cannot make out from the recording, and I am curious to know what it says. I have searched the internet and everywhere else I can think of and have had no luck finding these lyrics. I am hoping someone here will be able to help me! Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing/able to help!! |
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16 Jun 06 - 11:16 AM (#1761449) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: Peace If there is someway you could post an mp3, we'll help ya figure it out. Howzat? |
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16 Jun 06 - 11:47 AM (#1761482) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: GUEST,Brighid That would be fantastic!! Unfortunately I am currently at work and cannot post the mp3 from here. Soooo, unless there's somebody else out there who has it and is willing to post it, it'll be several hours before I can do so. |
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16 Jun 06 - 01:41 PM (#1761600) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: Peace Several hours is fine. If you have any of the lyrics, please post whatcha got and we could give it a try from there. I wish I could clain credit for the mp3 idea, but it was ClaireBear on another thread--I think. People love puzzles, and this IS one. |
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17 Jun 06 - 10:57 AM (#1762195) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: Rapparee According to the discography at Tommy Makem's website it's actually called "The Ballad of the Lady Jane." I have either an LP or a cassette of it somewhere (all I can find right now is a copy on a cassette), assuming it didn't get lost in moving, and the lyrics are supposed to be with the recording. |
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20 Jun 06 - 10:58 PM (#1765205) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: Jim Dixon Here's an excerpt transcribed from a sound sample: BALLAD OF THE LADY JANE J. B. Goodenough, Tommy Makem ...Jane She went down in a gale with her captain and her crew, But the devil brought her up again and set her straight and true. Lady Jane! He gathered up her men and he stood them in a line. Said, "Every man of you is dead but every man is mine...." [Recorded by Tommy Makem on "Lonesome Waters," Shanachie LP, CD, or Cassette #25011, 1990.] |
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21 Jun 06 - 04:40 PM (#1765862) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tommy Makem - Ballad of the Lady Jane From: EBarnacle So, how's the rest of it go? |
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11 Mar 07 - 11:10 PM (#1993942) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of the Lady Jane (Tommy Makem) From: Joe Offer frefresh |
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05 Dec 09 - 11:22 PM (#2781818) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BALLAD OF THE LADY JANE (Tommy Makem) From: GUEST,Lyric ADD Use a google of Ballad of the Lady Jane, The | Tuatha de Bhriain NO quotation marks. Ballad of the Lady Jane, The Submitted by Comyn on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 3:50pm. capo 2 There [Am] was a bonny ship and she sailed the Spanish [Em] Main and the [Am] name that they called her by it was the Lady [Em] Jane but she [Am] went down in a [Em] Gale with her [Am] captain and her [Em] crew but the [Am] devil brought her up again and set her straight and [Em] true Lady Jane He gathered up her men and he stood them in a line saying "Every man of you is dead, but every man is mine. For I'm taking me a ship, for to sail the seven seas I'm taking me a crew for to sail her where I please" Lady Jane and from underneath his arm he took his fiddle and his bow and he struck a note of fire and the Jane began to glow set your faces to the stormy seas, and bid the land farewell the Lady Jane has set her sail and set 'em straight for hell Lady Jane (fiddle solo) I'll make your daughters weep 'fore the turning of the tide I'll make orphans of your sons and widows of your brides and for a hundred years my boys, I'll wait for your return and for a hundred years my boys, the Lady Jane will burn Lady Jane So the Lady Jane she rolled for a hundred years of more and we heard her men lamenting as we stood upon the shore saying "Lucky were the landsmen, but luckier were we when we lay with the fishes at the bottom of the sea" Lady Jane They say you still can see her, if you pass her in the night Her decks are all on fire, and her sails are turning bright You can hear the fiddle playing, you can hear the sailors cry You can hear the devil laughing as the Lady Jane goes by Lady Jane Upon Lady Jane will you never come again with your captain and your crew and all your merry men or will you sail forever far beyond this side of land where dead men ride the rigging and the devil's in command Lady Jane by Tommy Makem, from his Lonesome Waters album I used a google of "But the devil brought her up again and set her straight and true" It's presently the second site on that page that comes up.
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