Kill bill whistle song tab1/17/2024 My old man was a union man who'd had all his he days the system and was wise to the boss's ways he said if you want what yours by right you'll have to struggle with all your might they'll rub your blind if you don't find some bath with my own fan my old man was a proud old man at home on the foundry floor until the day they paid him off and showed him to the door they gave him his card said things are slack and we've got a machine can learn the knack of doing your job so don't come back the end of my old man my old man he was 51. Liverpool and in a birthday gala performance in the royal festival hall Ewan Mccall looks back in words and music on 70 years of struggle against bosses black legs policemen and the unmusical now we're going nice and steady boys do well both my parents were were Scots my father came from Sterlingshire my mother from Perthshire from akhtarando they were working people but both of them sang both of them had good repertories of traditional songs and a lot of other songs too you know music hall and and street songs and so on um my father was the son of a an ad molder he himself was an iron molder his grandfather had been an iron holder and of course he grew up in that part of Scotland where which is the classic soil of the of the iron industry and around about that time he fell under the influence of john Mclean who was the great Scottish revolutionary leader a friend of Lenin'sĪ protege of Lenin's in actual fact he would come home from work on a Saturday and he would sit there and after he had his meal he would sit there in his in his moleskins his small skin trousers with his galaxies his braces looped down with his feet up on the on the hump and he'd usually had a few drinks and he would sing a whistle my old man was a good old man skilled at the moulding train in the stinking heat of the iron foundry my old man was made down on his knees in the mold in sand he wore his trade like a company brand one of the cyclops smoky band yes that was my old man my old man wasn't really old it was just that i was young and anybody over 12 years old was halfway to the tomb he was loyal to his workmates all his life gave his pay packet to his wife had a few jars on a saturday night yes that was my old man Sailed a million miles, caught ten million fishesīelow is taken from filims made about Ewan McCollĬan i say on this evening it's a pleasure and a privilege to be present at this birthday celebration and present this special miner's lamp to someone like you McCall who has made an outstanding contribution not only to folk music but the working-class movement Ewan Mccall writer composer actor playwright folk singer educator romantic and Stalinist celebrated his 70th birthday this year folk fans refugees from the singing 60s striking miners reformed hippies and retired revolutionaries gathered to pay tribute to the daddy of the folk revival come on your gallon drivers wherever you may be whether you drive or you play door to 54 rp and take it nice and steady boys up the wrong way here in the singers club London which he runs with his wife Peggy Sieger and their family in a fundraising concert for striking shipyard workers in Just to earn your daily bread you're daringįrom the Dover Straits to the Faroe IslandsĪs you're following the shoals of herring While you're searching for the shoals of herring Take your turn on watch with the other fellows Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman That we'd taken from the shoals of herring O we left the homegrounds in the month of June O we fished the Swarth and the Broken BankĪnd I'd dream about the shoals of herring There was little kindness and the kicks were many Its there that we hunt and we earn our breadĪs we hunted for the shoals of herringįor to go and hunt the shoals of herringĪnd the treatment, sure it took some bearing Shoales Of Herring Song Words With Chords In C Major
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