A Mark In Time
Previous Albums => Get Lucky (2009) => Topic started by: emilianomk on August 11, 2009, 04:10:03 AM
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Hi if you dont mind we can post all the lyrics here and talk about it
thanks!
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Very good idea! I for my part am strongly interested in the lyrics from "Before Gas & TV" because I found this song after the first two listens very great and spectacular MK! (Well I my opinion). And in the now closed thread a forumer, don
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yeah gas and tv looks like its has great lyrics
My english is not so good to write it
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Yeah, I have an interview where he says they used to have a little holiday cottage somewhere in Northumberland that was a run down place. Maybe that's what it is.
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Shangri-La, THANK YOU very much for posting the lyrics! :-*
I loved to read them.
Fieneke
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Yes, dusty, I read the story of the little cottage in Northumberland, I have looked everywhere for it, but can't find the clip anywhere now, perhaps you can jog my memory! ;D Anyway, I'm sure that's what the song is about. :)
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Thought I'd just copy and paste the lyrics from "So Far From The Clyde" over to this thread... Thanks to Wolfgang for some additions; there are still some words missing or wrong so maybe one of you native speakers could help us out.
So Far From The Clyde
They had a last supper
The day of the Beaching
She's a dead ship sailing
Skeleton Crew
The galley is empty
The stove pots are cooling
With what's left of the stew
The time is approaching
The captain moves over
The hangman steps in
To do what he's paid for
With the wind down the tide
She goes proud ahead steaming
And he drives her hard into the shore
So far from the Clyde
Together we ride
We did ride
As if to a wave
From her bows to her rudder
Bravely she rises to meet with the land
Under their feet they all feel her keel shatter
The shallow see washes their hands
Later the captain
Shakes hands with the hangman
And climbs slowly down
To the oily wet ground
Goes 'bout(?) to the car that has come here to take him
To the graveyard and back to the town
So far from the Clyde
Together we ride
We did ride
They pull out her cables
And hack off her hatches
Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time
They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes
Like a whale on the bloody shoreline
Stripped of her pillars
Her stays and her stantions
When there's only her bones on the wet poison land
Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines
'Til it's only a stain on the sand
So far from the Clyde
Together we ride
We did ride
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I really think these lyrics are fantastic, maybe some of MK's best. Awesome. Never thought I could feel sorry for an old ship... He almost makes it appear - human. Somehow the whole act of dismantling and "dying" of the vessel - at least in my view - is a metaphor for the end of life. Am I exaggerating or does someone agree with me?
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Piper To The End
When I leave this world behind me
To another I will go
And if there are no pipes in heaven
I
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Remembrance Day
On your maypole green
See the winding morrismen
Angry Alfie, Bill and Ken
Waving hankies, sticks and ?
All the earthen roofs
Standing at the crease
The batsman takes a look around
The boys are fielding on homeground
The steeple sharp against the blue
When I think of you
Sam and Andy
Jack and John
Charlie, Martin
Jamie, Ron
Harry, Stephen
Will and Don
Matthew, Michael
On and on
We will remember them, etc....
Time has slipped away
The Summer sky to Autumn yields
A haze of smoke across the fields
Let's sup and fight another round
And walk the stubbled ground
When November brings
The poppies on Remembrance Day
When the vicar comes to say
May God bless them every one
Lest we forget our sons
We will remember them, etc...
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Hard Shoulder
I've got latches for windows
handles for doors
grinders and scrapers
and sanders for floors
rake for the gravel
chains for the snow
always got the shovel
you never know
I never thought you'd go
man's broken down
man's broken down
on the slip road
got a slip load
and it's a hard shoulder
to cry on
hacksaws and hammers
brushes and mop
and I've got the ladders
up on the top
if something needs doing
I always say
you want it done
the proper way
I need you to stay
man's broken down
man's broken down
on the slip road
got a slip load
and it's a hard shoulder
to cry on
give me a minute
we'll be going again
sound as a bell
right as rain
right as rain
and it's a hard shoulder
to cry on
to cry on
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The Car Was The One 4:02
In the summer of
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Goldenheart - In the last verse of "So Far From the Clyde", it's "carcass" not caulkers. ;)
In "The Car Was the One" - "I'm up in a corner nursing a beer"
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Goldenheart - In the last verse of "So Far From the Clyde", it's "carcass" not caulkers. ;)
In "The Car Was the One" - "I'm up in a corner nursing a beer"
Thanks Superval, carcass makes more sense, especially with the dead whale comparison. And it's even more scary :'(
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I find "So Far From the Clyde" a really sad song. It feels like the captain had a very close relationship with the ship and it is almost as though he is taking a much-loved dog to the vet to be put down. I know how that feels. :'(
I think another missing word from this song is "goes back to the car..."
"Steel ropes will drag her..."
"Stripped of her pillars, her stays and her stantions"
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I would like to read Monteleone lyrics, looks like a very nice biography :)
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There you go, still a few things missing...
Monteleone
The chisels are calling
It
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I would say:
Monteleone
The new one and only (will be)
Thats the only help I can provide right now (I
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I think it is:
"Too quick or too careless"
http://www.mandolinmagazine.com/articles/monteleone.html
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Before Gas & TV
Before gas and tv
before people had cars
we'd sit around the fires
pass around our guitars
Remembering songs
when my daddy was home
he'd play along
on the spoons and a comb
We'd go with the flow
when the weather was fine
sometimes we'd go
collecting scrap iron
And we'd sit around the fires
pass a bottle of wine
in the tales of the road
since time out of mind
If heaven's like this
well that's OK with me
where the living is fine
and living is free
If heaven's like this
well then here's where I'll be
on the edge of the field
on the edge of the world
before gas and tv.
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Border Reiver:
I think it is "My Scotstoun lassie"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_Motors
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:) ;) Thanks Nikolas.... ;)
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Ammended your MOnteleone lyrics slightly:
Monteleone
The chisels are calling
It
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Thanks Dusty :)
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Can somebody help me to translate "slip load" from the "Hard Shoulder" lyrics ?
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macsa, I think it's "slip road". :)
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Look:
"man's broken down
man's broken down
on the slip road
got a slip load
and it's a hard shoulder
to cry on"
after "slip road" is "slip load",
mistake ?
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Oh, sorry, maybe it's "slipped load" - his load slipped off. It's a bit metaphorical! :-\
Yes, just had another listen - definitely "slipped load" ! ;)
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Thank you - I think the same way...
Can you try this:
"On your maypole green
See the windign morrismen"
from "Remembrance Day"
please :-\
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In England we have morris dancers who dance around a maypole, which has coloured ribbons hanging from the top and the morrismen, or other folk also, hold the ends of the ribbons and twist and weave under and over, around the maypole on the village green, to music. It happens usually on May Day, or to celebrate Midsummer.
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Thank you very much, it's clear to me now...
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In England we have morris dancers who dance around a maypole, which has coloured ribbons hanging from the top and the morrismen, or other folk also, hold the ends of the ribbons and twist and weave under and over, around the maypole on the village green, to music. It happens usually on May Day, or to celebrate Midsummer.
I long for the day when the England rugby team perform a morris dance in response to the All Blacks haka :D
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I wonder if "So Far From The Clyde" refers to a concrete naval inccident. After a beaching, a ship is driven into the land willingly by a "hangman".
It would be very interesting to know WHEN and WHERE this song lyrics are set. Somehow I always think about Namibia with its skeleton coast or Patagonia or another far country. And it must be very far from the Clyde, mustn
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And another point: I have NO clue what "Cleaning my gun" is about. Is it about a store that sells weapons? Is Cleaning my Gun a phrase or is it meant literally? There is the name of a firm, bla bla and Malarkey, anybody has an idea about that?
LE
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I thought "So Far From The Clyde" could be about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_River_Clyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_River_Clyde) but I could be wrong... Any ideas?
As for "Cleaning My Gun", I first thought it was about a bar or something, like in "Sucker Row" but I'm not sure. We need a transcript :)
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Hmmm, what about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/world/on-an-indian-shore-where-ships-go-to-die-profit-is-law.html?pagewanted=all
At least it contains the description of "beaching" a ship and then wrack it down - even the word "hangman" is used... Maybe MK googles a good deal for songwriting these days? ;D Just remember Boom, like that...
LE
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LE, This seems more probable to me, especially the location, India.
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Hi guys,
here's a partial transcript for "cleaning my gun":
I keep a weathered eye on the horizon
back to the wall
I like to know who's coming through the door
that's all
it's the old army training
kicking in
I'm not complaining
it's the world we live in
Galloni & Malarkey(???)
they're a devious firm
take it to the cleaners
and let them burn
The help is breaking dishes
in the kitchen
thanks a lot
We hired the worst dishwasher
this place ever got
in below the radar
they wanna spoil our fun
in the meantimde
I'm cleaning my gun
remember he got so cool
ice froze at the tank
he lit a fire beneath her
just so she would crank
Keep a weathered eye on the horizon
tap stone glass(???) now and then
I gotta case of old damnation
for when you get here my friend
we can have ourselves a party
before they come
in the meantime
I'm cleaning my gun
We had women and a merry ball
we had a DJ
used to eat pretty much all
paying his way
ever since the goons came in
took apart the place
I keep a tyre iron in the corner
just in case
I may need a magic bullet
on a little chain
keep us safe from the chilly winds
and out of the rain
we gonna might need bullets
should we get stuck
any which way
we're gonna need a little luck
We could still get gas in heaven
and a drink in kingdom come
in the meantime
I'm cleaning my gun
I have no clue what the song is about; A biker bar? The mafia? A family feud?
As Love Expresso says, maybe the key is the "Malarkey" firm - if we can decipher it.
Detective work is fun! Thanks for the research on "so far from the clyde"!
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The first verse is
It's my old army training
kicking in
I'm not complaining
it's the world we live in
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Not really had a good listen to the lyrics on " Cleaning My Gun" but i'm loving the Gibson sound on this track. The best "rockier" song we've had for a long time. I've already decided that,for me,this is the best MK solo album since Golden Heart. ;D
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BORDER REIVER 4:37
The Ministry don
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Not really had a good listen to the lyrics on " Cleaning My Gun" but i'm loving the Gibson sound on this track. The best "rockier" song we've had for a long time. I've already decided that,for me,this is the best MK solo album since Golden Heart. ;D
You know, I'm not 100% convinced that it is a Gibson on this track. Could well be wrong but I wonder if he's playing the Grosh on this one.
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Not really had a good listen to the lyrics on " Cleaning My Gun" but i'm loving the Gibson sound on this track. The best "rockier" song we've had for a long time. I've already decided that,for me,this is the best MK solo album since Golden Heart. ;D
You know, I'm not 100% convinced that it is a Gibson on this track. Could well be wrong but I wonder if he's playing the Grosh on this one.
I'm no expert,far from it ;D ;D i just thought it sounded like the Gibson, but whatever he's playing i just love the sound on this track.
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The first verse is
It's my old army training
Thanks Dusty! - I've updated my post.
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hi,
I think that the guitar on "Cleaning my gun" is a Pensa maybe MK1 or MK2 ! it sound like on "Millionaire blues" an "Kingdom come". the Gibson is more rough and heavy !
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According to Guy
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According to Guy
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Pretty sure he played a Pensa on the KTGC tour :)
On what track?
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Telegraph Road?
(http://localhero.free.fr/2bgal/img/20080505/hh059_filtered.jpg)
Pic is taken from the Local-Hero.org homepage from the Hamburg show. Hope Miriam doesn
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Of course not LE. Oh dear, I had almost forgotten about those pics. Was the tour soo long ago? ;D
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Oops forgot about that, had it in my head that he'd used the MK strat (he did for half of the tour in 05 including the show I saw). :)
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You cant mistake that glorious instrument....... :-*
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Pretty sure he played a Pensa on the KTGC tour :)
On what track?
Can't remember which track he played it on but i'm pretty sure i have some pictures of it from the Birmingham NEC concert on my Facebook page. The quality's not great though,as i took them with my phone
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=75264&l=1c1add7913&id=1054661012
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=75267&l=2df92d07da&id=1054661012
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It was during Telegraph Road !
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=30266582&id=1209485202 (live in Strasbourg)
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Yep correct he did. http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=100000135445560#/photo.php?pid=53598&id=100000135445560 (http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=100000135445560#/photo.php?pid=53598&id=100000135445560)
This is Amsterdam 30 march 2008 and here he played TR.
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Hmmm, what about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/world/on-an-indian-shore-where-ships-go-to-die-profit-is-law.html?pagewanted=all
At least it contains the description of "beaching" a ship and then wrack it down - even the word "hangman" is used... Maybe MK googles a good deal for songwriting these days? ;D Just remember Boom, like that...
LE
Sorry, I still find this story very interesting. There is this special place called Alang, in Gujarat, India, where exactly everything is happening as told in the song "So Far From The Clyde". It is cheaper for the industrial nations to wreck up their ships over there, also because of environmental reasons.
So this places boomed because of the great amount of scrap. This has a lot to do with money, much money. So the song alone for that reason fits into the context of "Get Lucky".
(http://static4.bareka.com/photos/medium/22847435.jpg)
and
(http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/22847496.jpg)
The article however is from 1998. When you use google-earth for that named location, you can see the ships and the oily beach. So I think it is still running that way, maybe even bigger than ever.
LE
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In Cleaning My Gun I'm pretty sure it's
"Blarney and Malarkey, theyre a devious firm
They'll..."
and the other bit sounds like
"I keep a weather eye on the horizon, tap the stormglass now and then
I've got a case of.........."
Didn't want to hear anything till Weds night but I've given in!
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I have become a bit of a veteran at this music thing, so there
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TK has put the official lyrics onto the MKNews site (already).
Just to inform you!
LE
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1 BORDER REIVER 4:37
Southern bound from Glasgow town
she
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2 HARD SHOULDER 4:36
I
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4 BEFORE GAS AND TV (5:51)
Before gas and TV
before people had cars
we
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5 MONTELEONE (3:37)
The chisels are calling
It
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6 CLEANING MY GUN (4:44)
I keep a weather eye on the horizon, my back to the wall
I like to know who
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7 THE CAR WAS THE ONE (4:02)
In summer
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8 REMEMBRANCE DAY (5:03)
On your maypole green
see the winding morris men
Angry Alfie, Bill and Ken
waving hankies, sticks and boots
- all the earth and roots
Standing at the crease
the batsman takes a look around
The boys are fielding on home ground
The steeple sharp against the blue
- when I think of you
Sam and Andy, Jack and John
Charlie, Martin, Jamie, Ron
Harry, Stephen, Will and Don
Matthew, Michael - on and on
We will remember them
remember them, remember them
We will remember them
remember them, remember them
Time has slipped away
The summer sky to autumn yields
A haze of smoke across the fields
Let
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9 GET LUCKY (4:36)
I
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10 SO FAR FROM THE CLYDE (6:01)
They had a last supper
the day of the beaching
She
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11 PIPER TO THE END (6:18)
When I leave this world behind me
to another I will go
And if there are no pipes in heaven
I
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3 YOU CAN'T BEAT THE HOUSE(3:25)
Are you ready Chuck?
Take one
One, two, one two, three
You can
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Hey, thanks, a lot of work to compile all these lyrics.... :o
So these are the "official" lyrics then? Taken from the booklet or somewhere else?
LE
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So these are the "official" lyrics then? Taken from the booklet or somewhere else?
LE
copy and paste from TK's forum would be less laboured ;D
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:D
LE
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Anyone out there shares the lyrics for Early Bird??? I love that song very much!!!
Wishes
Allen
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Checking in late, as usual. Has anyone figured out 'slipped load"? It maybe means that the load was not balanced well and on a curve or something, it slid over to one side of the truck, unbalancing it. Or it could mean that the whole unbalanced load slipped off the truck entirely. I've seen lots of slipped loads on hay trucks. I hate to meet the things on curves.
Ian, the the ship in the photo here looks like the video clip you put together. Your video adds even more poignancy to the song. It's a heartbreaker.
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:) Hi Marie. Yes I think the slipped load could be a double meaning also. The driver has been down on his luck (maybe a broken relationship?) and then I also think the "Hard shoulder" itself could also have a double meaning. Being that he has had to pull over to the shoulder of the road to try to recover his slipped load and he needs a shoulder to cry on also as a result of his two instances of bad fortune?
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Maybe it is very gritty as a non native speaker but I think it has nothing to do with trucks. It is just a picture. He has stuff for every possible cases as he listes in the first lines of the lyrics. But now the holy regularity has gone down the drain and he can
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12 EARLY BIRD (5:35)
Got no books in my house, got no time for those
No room in my closets, closet
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Thanks very much, Ian!!!! Your efforts are much appreciated!!!!! Muchos gracias!!!! hehehehe. I really love this song and the lyrics.
Better buy this better buy that, ----- let that baby ride
Out here every day it
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Allen, you told me about this saying a while back. It's fun to see it here. It must make you smile. ;)
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Yeah, indeed. MK really does me good this time. Now I'm waiting for the guitar tab for this song. Oh, one question, in the Deluxe box, we can find Guitar tab for the song Get Lucky or the Get Lucky album. Hopefully your answer is the latter one.
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Allen, I'm afraid it is just the one song: Get Lucky :-[
You can read it here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Lucky-Deluxe-Boxset-Vinyl/dp/B002DPA55A/ref=sr_1_3/275-6751410-2608136?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252798478&sr=8-3
"Guitar tab for lead track "Get Lucky"
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I think it's ONLY Get Lucky track
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Err, I see. It's the news on MKNews that confused me. So I need to wait for fans' versions. Thanks for letting me know this.
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:) ;) Thanks Marie. My first video attempt so I'm glad you liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrTOeje9Rhs
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13 PULLING DOWN THE RIDE (2:41)
I
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14 HOME BOY (3:15)
Home boy, not exactly on a roll here
Just growing old here
Home boy
Home boy, you
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15 GOOD AS GOLD (3:27)
Beer and wine, waste of time
What have you got handy?
Got any Whisky, got any gin, have you got any brandy?
Beer and wine, waste of time
What have you got handy?
Got any Whisky, got any gin, have you got any brandy?
Don
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Thank you for posting these lyrics, shangri-la 1. Usually b-side tracks are neglected in that matter even if they are released.
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Thanks Ian, as always. I dream one day I could get your English listening level.
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:) ;) Allen at least your English has a life - my Chinese is yet to be born...... :(
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Now here
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;) Thanks Tommy. Yes that sounds a lot more realistic than my guess... :)
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Seems clear to me that the character in Hard Shoulder is a call-out car break down man. Here in the UK we have organisations like the AA and the RAC who will come and fix your car if you break down on the road, he is one of those guys. But also his own relationship with somebody has "broken down".
The song to me is very similar to the Jimmy Webb/Glenn Campbell classic "Witchita Lineman", musically it has similarities but lyrically too it's about a working man being lonely on the job.
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16 Time In The Sun (2:52)
Everybody wants their time in the sun
time in the sun
you've got it now your time in the sun
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
Round here you don't get Time in the sun
time in the sun
Don't get the ball you don't get to run
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
Try Try Try no cigar
time in the sun
Pull over here get out of the car
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
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Seems clear to me that the character in Hard Shoulder is a call-out car break down man. Here in the UK we have organisations like the AA and the RAC who will come and fix your car if you break down on the road, he is one of those guys. But also his own relationship with somebody has "broken down".
The song to me is very similar to the Jimmy Webb/Glenn Campbell classic "Witchita Lineman", musically it has similarities but lyrically too it's about a working man being lonely on the job.
Man, thats a great interpretation! I think i`m one of the few that really love this song, but i know i`d have listened to it for years without making the jump to understanding!!! (which can be a good thing i guess)
The reverse of this is i`d prefer to have NOT known what Border Reiver was about. My imagination and vibe with the music would have believed it was some sort of Ode To Girl with Irish Dance, instead of truck driving!!!! :)
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Yeah, indeed. MK really does me good this time. Now I'm waiting for the guitar tab for this song. Oh, one question, in the Deluxe box, we can find Guitar tab for the song Get Lucky or the Get Lucky album. Hopefully your answer is the latter one.
The tab is for the song Get Lucky, not for the whole album... :)
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Thanks for your answer, localhero1986. :(
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16 Time In The Sun (2:52)
Everybody wants their time in the sun
time in the sun
you've got it now your time in the sun
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
Round here you don't get Time in the sun
time in the sun
Don't get the ball you don't get to run
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
Try Try Try no cigar
time in the sun
Pull over here get out of the car
time in the sun
Time In The Sun
Hm, those lyrics are interesting... Where did you hear the whole song? Me want! :o
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In Cleaning My Gun I'm pretty sure it's
"Blarney and Malarkey, theyre a devious firm
They'll..."
What or who is Blarney & Malarkey,I've googled it but I'm still no wiser ::) ::)
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Dan, You're an Irishman! It means a lot of misleading talk - Blarney & Malarkey - Imagine a dodgy roofing firm coming round after a gale "We've noticed you've a few ridge tiles loose, sir, we can fix it now, sir, only
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Dan, You're an Irishman! It means a lot of misleading talk - Blarney & Malarkey - Imagine a dodgy roofing firm coming round after a gale "We've noticed you've a few ridge tiles loose, sir, we can fix it now, sir, only