Find that track

[JohnnyDrum]

Hi all

Bit tentative about starting a new thread on such a popular forum but I think others might find this useful and I don't think it's covered elsewhere.

It goes like this, you know, or maybe half know a song, but don't have a recording of it. Chances are, if a recording exists, someone in our wonderful community will know about it. All you have to do is ask.

So, to set the ball rolling, this is prompted as my daughter got married last week, that's why we were away in Sri Lanka. Tonight is the party for all the poor souls that didn't make the trip. This got me thinking about what I know as "The Wedding Song". It used to be sung unaccompanied by a couple of guys that sang in a club I ran back in the late 60's.

I have the lyrics and a fair idea of the tune but does anyone know of a recording?

The opening verse is -

Go write me down you powers above
The man that first created love
For I’ve a diamant in my eye
Where all my joys and comfort lie X2

It's the sort of thing the Copper Family might have done (random thought).

John

[basketbob]

Hi John,

you were right about the Coppers

http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs...ongs/come.html

Bob

[jools]

Have lyrics if you need to most Copper songs.

[JohnnyDrum]

I'll make a mental note of that, Jools. Thanks.

John

[MetryRoad]

I’m new to this forum, so I hope I’m posting this in the right place.

I’m trying to identify a song I have on a dusty old cassette tape that’s been sitting in a box in the garage for twenty years or more. I recorded it off the radio - ‘Folk On Two’ with Jim Lloyd I think - sometime around 1990, but the tape cuts off before the announcer says who it is.

It’s a rather sad dirge-like song about a factory closing and the men being laid-off. The singer has a Scottish accent and is accompanied by a harmonium (I think).

Lyrics:

The rumour runs between the men
It runs as water runs through sand
The bosses have passed down new orders
They'll not take any more new hands
The bosses tell the local paper
Things are better than they look
It's just a holding operation
'till we get new orders in the books

Rumours running 'round the fact'ry
Rumours running down the line
Rumours buzzing in the cables
When this jobs done we're on short time
The man in the plain gray suit talks to us
Gives to us a plain gray smile
And he's sure we'll understand the reason
And accept short time for a little while

Have you heard the latest whisper?
D'you know what the latest rumours say?
Head-office men will soon be coming
Visiting from far away
The man with the clean white hands talks to us
He's sure that we can clearly see
That in the int'rests of the many
A few must take redundancy

The word is heavy on the grapevine
When we are called to the works canteen
Where we ate the food our labour paid for
We take our part in the final scene
A man with a sad gray face talks to us
Says what everyone already knows
The firm has suffered heavy losses
The factory will have to close

We've cursed this place like a slave with a master
On many and many a workin' day
Now we curse this place like a man that's drowning
Curses a lifeboat that turns away
The boss says he is sad to lose us
But things are not in his control
And we walk out through the gate to the fact'ry
To the back of the queue to sign for dole

Thanks for your help
Best wishes
Metairie Road

　

[outney bill]

I’m new to this forum, so I hope I’m posting this in the right place.

I’m trying to identify a song

　

Hi, MetryRoad ... you're in the right place.

As for the song ... i'm sorry, i haven't a clue !.

Tried numerous sites . Have looked under - ''The Radio Ballads'',
can't find any reference.

Keep it FruKie, though, someone will come up with the answer .

see ya