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Can you identify this song?
Posted by Lando Cakes on 18 May 2009 - 3:10pm.
I heard this in a record shop, didn't follow it up at the time due to penury but have never quite been able to get it out of my head. No-one I have described it to has recognised it - even google draws a blank. Can the Word Massive do better?
It's a long folk-esque track with a chorus along the lines of:
"The wheels go round without a sound"
"My father walked a hundred (?)miles to watch these wheels go round"
This has been bugging me for years - since 1983-ish, in fact, which may be a clue.
Any suggestions?
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"Wheels go round"
Daytrip To Bangor by Fiddler's Dram?
Lovely time..
...but no.
The Wheels On The Bus...
Go Round And Round?
The bloggers on the bus go type, type, type?
No.
Searched Google Books...
... and came up with this (look under Lady Howard's Coach p219)
http://books.google.com/books?id=B_K17hW40SkC&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=The+...
then looking under Lady Howard's Coach, I came up with:
Sabine Baring-Gould: Songs of the West
http://dartmoorresource.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
Hope this helps...
There's some lovely versions...
...by Brit jazz legend Mike Westbrook, sung by the incomparable Phil Minton...
One is "Route Che Girano" from "The Cortege", but my favourite is the Brass Band version "Wheels Go Round" on the album "Goose Sauce"
This could be it...
I've had a listen to some Mike Westbrook stuff on spotify and it sounds like the kind of thing I would have found intriguing. And the date for Cortege fits. Can't find it anywhere for listening purposes yet, unfortunately.
Thanks!
Thank you, kind stranger!
I've now obtained a copy of 'The Cortege' via eBay. That's the song alright. And, goodness me, what a fabulous album. Not what you'd call easy listening but exactly what my jaded musical palate needed.
So thanks on both counts.
It's a good feeling, having such a long-standing mystery (25+ years)solved:-)
Interesting!
And, you know, it could have been a version of this.
It was a male vocalist and memory suggests a west country twang.
So that's a definite lead - thanks.
If it wasn't
for the folky nature of the track, and the different lyric it might be Level 42' timeless classic (cough) 'My Father's Shoes'. I realise this is of no help whatsoever. Sorry.
Lady Howard
My ladye hath a sable coach,
And horses two and four;
My ladye hath a black blood-hound
That runneth on before.
My ladye's coach hath nodding plumes,
The driver hath no head;
My ladye is an ashen white,
As one that long is dead.
"Now pray step in!" my ladye saith,
"Now pray step in and ride."
I thank thee, I had rather walk
Than gather to thy side.
The wheels go round without a sound,
Or tramp or turn of wheels;
As cloud at night, in pale moonlight,
Along the carriage steals.
"Now pray step in!" my ladye saith,
"Now prithee come to me."
She takes the baby from the crib,
She sits it on her knee.
"Now pray step in!" my ladye saith,
"Now pray step in and ride."
Then deadly pale, in waving veil,
She takes to her the bride.
"Now pray step in!" my ladye saith,
"There's room I wot for you."
She wav'd her hand, the coach did stand,
The Squire within she drew.
"Now pray step in!" my ladye saith,
"Why shouldst thou trudge afoot?"
She took the gaffer in by her,
His crutches in the boot.
I'd rather walk a hundred miles,
And run by night and day,
Than have that carriage halt for me
And hear my ladye say—
"Now pray step in, and make no din,
Step in with me to ride ;
There's room, I trow, by me for you,
And all the world beside."