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Lyr Req: Brown Photographs (Fivepenny Piece)

07 Sep 06 - 08:25 AM (#1829149)
Subject: Lyr Req: Brown Photgraphs by Fivepenny Piece
From: GerryMc

Anybody got the words stored on a computer somewhere out the there in the folkie ether?


07 Sep 06 - 09:27 AM (#1829186)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Photgraphs by Fivepenny Piece
From: Scrump

Try here: Brown Photographs by Fivepenny Piece


07 Sep 06 - 11:40 AM (#1829263)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Photgraphs by Fivepenny Piece
From: GerryMc

Cheers for that


07 Sep 06 - 03:32 PM (#1829443)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Photgraphs by Fivepenny Piece
From: Scrump

No problem - it's one of my favourite songs and I sing it myself.


08 Sep 06 - 04:09 AM (#1829817)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Photgraphs by Fivepenny Piece
From: GerryMc

t'is a great song indeed


09 Sep 06 - 07:15 PM (#1830875)
Subject: Lyr Add: BROWN PHOTOGRAPHS (Meeks, Radcliffe)
From: Jim Dixon

BROWN PHOTOGRAPHS
(John Meeks & Colin Radcliffe)
 Cm                         Fm
Sat on her knee for many an hour
G7 Cm
At brown photographs we'd be looking
Fm
And she'd tell of the times that she's had in her life
G Cm
Some good, some tears, and some laughing
Ab Bb7 Eb
And she'll tell of the time when life was so grand
Ab Bb Eb
When the mills were all weaving and spinning
Cm Fm
In her bonnet and shawl at the start of each day
G7 Cm
To work, to play, then her courting.
Her day it was long, most of it hard.
They didn't pay much for her working,
But when it were done, she always came home
To a house that was poor, that was loving;
And she lives all alone since me grandfather died.
She don't have the same joy of living;
But she don't mope around; she's always a smile.
Old fashioned advice she likes giving.

She says times have changed; people have too;
They're too busy fighting and grabbing;
When she were a lass, well, they hadn't much brass,
But were never frightened of giving;
And me grandfather's boots are still there by the fire,
As if home from the mill he'd be coming;
And as evening will come, you'll find her alone
By the fire, her memories living.

Yes, I've sat on her knee for many an hour.
At brown photographs we'd be looking.


13 Sep 06 - 08:16 AM (#1833427)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Photographs (Fivepenny Piece)
From: GerryMc

the songs is now in me set.


Cheers