LYR REQ: As we go rolling home (Tams)

Subject: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Animaterra
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 09:04 AM

I think it's an English pub song. It refers to the ease and luxury of the rich, with lines like "while we poor weary laborers do plow the fields of corn...". It's not in the DT as far as I can tell!
Thanks- this song has been waking me up at night!
Allison

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Subject: Lyr Add: ROLLING HOME (John Tams)^^
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 09:39 AM

This was written by John Tams.

Round goes the wheel of fortune, don't be afraid to ride,
There's a land of milk and honey waits on the other side.
There'll be peace and there'll be plenty, you'll never need to roam,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home.

ch: Rolling home, when we go rolling home, when we go rolling, rolling, when we go rolling home.

The gentry in their finery do prosper night and morn,
While we unto the fields must go, to plough and sow the corn.

Several verses omitted due to encroaching senility...

The summer of resentment, the winter of despair,

Same again, I'll fill in these blanks when I get my songsheet tomorrow...

So pass the bottle round, and let the toast go free,
here's a health to every labourer, wherever he may be.
Fair wages now and ever, we'll reap what we have sown,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home.

Ch.^^

More soon. Can girls sing this song, do you think?

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 10:29 AM

Gee, by the thread title I thought you were looking for an old Boy Scout song:

I've got six pence, jolly, jolly six pence. I've got six pence to last me all my life. I've got two pence to lend and two pence to spend, And two pence to take home to my wife (poor wife).

No cares have I to grieve me, No pretty little girls to deceive me. I'm as happy as a lark believe me. As we go rolling, rolling home. Rolling home (rolling home), Rolling home (rolling home), As we go rolling, rolling home. Happy as the day when a poor man gets his pay, As we go rolling, rolling home.

It goes on with four pence, then two pence, and then no pence.

Thanks for the memory!

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLLING HOME (John Tams)^^
From: Liz C.
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 10:52 AM

The missing bits:

second half of 2nd verse:

The rich may steal the power, but the glory's ours alone,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home. Chorus

The frost is on the hedgerow, the icy winds do blow,
While we poor weary labourers strive through the driving snow
Their dreams fly up to glory, up where the lark has flown
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home. Chorus

The summer of resentment, the winter of despair,
The journey to contentment is set with trap and snare
Stand to and stand together, your labour's yours alone
When you go rolling home, when you go rolling home. Chorus

You've got the last verse from Dai.

I could regret this but I'm going to rise to the bait and ask why girls shouldn't sing this song?^^

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 11:00 AM

Thanks Liz, you've saved me a lot of typing... There is, of course, no reason girls shouldn't sing this song. Neither is there a reason that guys shouldn't sing The Trees They Do Grow High, but personally I wouldn't...

I've just always thought of this as a rollicking, rowdy, weekend-in-the-woods-discovering-your-power-animal kind of number, to be belted out in basso profundo while quaffing (yes, quaffing) Frog Island Owd Sole-Bender, belching and scratching. None of these activities can I easily reconcile with the ladies who attend our folky circle... no, really!

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Animaterra
Date: 07 Jun 99 - 04:14 PM

Thanks a million, Dai and Liz! The group I occasionally sing with does a rousing version of this whatever their gender. Two nights ago I literally leapt out of bed at 2 amwhen I heard this song roaring through my dreams at top volume- I took it as a sign that I should learn this song!
I just finished explainging to a class of 4th graders why boys could too sing "When I was a fair maid" even though it doesn't apply to them- so I'm with Liz, I can too sing this song!
Thanks again- Allison

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Sep 01 - 08:29 PM

I've learnt Rolling Home by osmosis - repeated renditions at Herga by Johnny Collins, Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman. This isn't just a drinking song but a deeply subversive and political one about the need for agricultural labourers to organise.

By the way, Dai must frequent a very sedate folk club if he hasn't met women who quaff, or sing bass harmonies. He clearly wasn't at the Wareham Wail.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:15 PM

Why has this thriend emerged again mw? I've learnt Rolling Home by osmosis - repeated renditions at Herga by Johnny Collins, Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman. This isn't just a drinking song but a deeply subversive and political one about the need for agricultural labourers to organise.

By the way, Dai must frequent a very sedate folk club if he hasn't met women who quaff, or sing bass harmonies. He clearly wasn't at the Wareham Wail.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: DG&D Dave2
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 06:47 AM

Hi All.

I hope everybody remembers to credit John Tamms when they sing AWGRH. Tamms has writen a wealth of great songs which are frequently mistaken as being traditional. (and Dave Webber too).

Dave B

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: GUEST,breezy
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 04:45 PM

9th nov at the silver cup harpenden herts. eng . we'll request webber & fentiman to lead itplease, so roll along you would be wailers.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Pelrad
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 08:47 PM

I know this song was also used in a movie soundtrack a while back, but can't remember what movie. Anyone seen it?

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: As we go rolling home
From: Penny S.
Date: 08 Sep 01 - 06:57 AM

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