| Author | Topic: Add: Leaving of Liverpool | |
| dmcg | Posted - 05 Mar 05 - 10:44 am | |
Fare thee well, the Princes Landing Stage, River Mersey, fare thee well, For I'm bound for California, It's a place that I know right well. (Chorus) So fare three well, my own true love, And when I return, united we will be. It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me, But my darling when I think of thee. Well, I'm bound for California By way of the stormy Cape Horn, But you know I'll write to you a letter my love, When I am homeward bound. I have shipped on a Yankee clipper ship, Davy Crockett is her name. And Burgess is the captain of her, ANd they say she's a floating shame. Fare the well to Lower Frederick Street, Anson Terrace and old Parkee Lane. For I know it will be some long, long tome Before I see you again. Source: Singing Together, Spring 1977, BBC Publications | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 05 Mar 05 - 10:52 am | |
I think it was at the 'Rochester Sweeps' last year during a singaround that someone who had previously just been listening felt brave enough to sing something and picked this one. It seemed pretty likely that it was one of the few traditional songs he knew: we long time folkies would not have dreamed of picking it since it was sung to death in the late sixties and early seventies and we all could sing it in our sleep. But we couldn't! When he forgot how a verse started there was a room full of dyed-in-the-wool, know-it-all folkies wracking their brains how the song went. Some things are sent to humble us, it seems. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 05 Mar 05 - 11:09 am | |
The hammered to death one is one that gets me sometimes. I suppose the Wild Rover is the best example. It got hammered because it was a good song... I think there is a case for not wanting the same old song over and over but I don't think they deserve the death penalty. | ||
| Mr Happy | Posted - 05 Mar 05 - 02:08 pm | |
As I recall in the early days, this was always done up-tempo as a mad thrash. Lately I've heard it done more gently as a slow ballad & feel this far preferable. | ||
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Posted - 06 Mar 05 - 08:18 pm | |
From: Peter_ Who cares iff it was sung to death....... Just take it for what it is...a beautiful song. Preferably done as a ballad that's so much nicer | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 07 Mar 05 - 08:43 pm | |
I agree, Peter and Jon. My remark was perhaps more a comment about myself than the song. | ||