Lyr Req: Broadside Man (John Conolly, Bill Meek)

Subject: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Spot
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 05:59 PM

Hello all......
Anybody have the lyrics and composer of said song, please?

    Regards to all .....Spot

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Ed.
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:06 PM

Google does

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Ed.
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:18 PM

Click here if the above is too much of a challenge

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:59 PM

A song with a very difficult last line! I invariably sing 'rolling in the milkman's arms' - don't know what my subconscious is playing at there ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 11:54 PM

A Freudian Slip, perhaps?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Spot
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 07:51 AM

Hello...mission accomplished...thanks people.

                  Regards to all ...Spot

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 09:15 AM

I'd guess "poultry penny" is really "paltry penny" and "tiger tree" is likely to be Tyburn tree

Subject: Lyr Add: BROADSIDE MAN (John Conolly, Bill Meek)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Jun 04 - 09:55 PM

I think we should have this at Mudcat.

Lyrics copied from http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/b/broadsid.html with corrections as suggested by Snuffy.

THE BROADSIDE MAN
(John Conolly and Bill Meek)

CHORUS: Come and buy, come and buy, be you poor or gentry.
Gather round the broadside man and lay your money down.
We have ballads long and short and the best of every sort:
For a single paltry penny, all the news of London Town.

There are floods in Worcester Town and the rain is tumbling down.
A most amazing monster has been captured in the deep.
Here's the bold and stirring tale of the hunting of the whale,
And the story of a person who was pressed away to sea.

Here's the finest sheets of all, fresh today from Stationer's Hall:
A newly written ballad of Lord Nelson's victory.
Here's the news from all the courts, all the cases and reports,
And the rantings of a pirate who was hanged on Tyburn tree.

Here's the tale about a maid of a brisk and rambling trade,
Betraying of a tinker who was taken by her charms;
And the story of a wife—it's the truth, upon my life—
Who came upon her husband rolling in the milkmaid's arms.

[As sung by The McCalmans on "Side By Side By Side." Also recorded by John Conolly and Bill Meek on "By Humber's Brown Water;" by the Yetties on "Keep A'Runnin' - It's the Yetties!" and "Focus on the Yetties."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: GUEST,betsy
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 10:03 AM

Wonderful song, great balance ,great subject matter and written by two great songwriters who happen to be bloody good eggs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 10:41 AM

Nit-picking, but pirates were usually hung from the gallows at Wapping as their crime was not considered to be of the land, and they were therefore hung below the high-water mark.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 05:24 AM

Dave, any complaints to the authors, please! This is what they wrote (or at least what the McCalmans are singing).
And thanks to Snuffy for his corrections. There are moments (not the above, though!) when I'm not too sure what the Macs are singing, and these are obviously two of them. I found Tyburn tree myself but it hasn't reached My Songbook yet. As for the penny - it hadn't dropped! Your suggestion sounds far more logical.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: GUEST,IanRed
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 12:34 PM

"And the story of a person who was pressed away to sea." This should be parson not person. Another not first line gentry is sung gent-er-rye to rhyme with buy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 08:23 PM

Thanks, Ian!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Stewie
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 11:00 PM

The Yetties sang 'captured in the Dee' (stanza 1) and 'Deceiving of a tinker' (stanza 3) - from 'The Yetties Song Book' EFDS Publications p 6.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 01 Jul 04 - 04:43 AM

I remember the first line as:

Come nigh Come nigh.

But I could be wrong.

Yours Inconclusively.

M of A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 01 Jul 04 - 04:44 AM

Inspite of my comment above, John & Bill are two of my favourite songwriters and their double CD "By Humber's Brown Water" is definitely one of the best compilations that Linda and I have heard. Besides some of their better known songs, there are other wondeful gems, "Angels of Lincoln" for example is about the way that mason who carved the stone faces in Lincoln Cathedral used his family as the models. There's a tremendous variety in the style and delivery of the 43 songs - if you like "Fiddler's Green", "Ranter's Wharf", "Punch & Judy Man" etc - then buy this CD set and hear a lot of other wonderful songs as well.

When John was singing near us the other year, there were some new songs - two which he wrote for the Holmfirth Rush-Bearing, and a beautiful one "Old Men Sing Love Songs" inspired by the death of the composer and folksong collector George Butterworth in WW1. When we told told him that we liked them he sent us a copy of a CD which he had made himself, containing them - for FREE. Linda sings the Butterworth one quite frequently.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 01 Jul 04 - 05:02 AM

I remember the first line as:

Come nigh Come nigh.

But I could be wrong.

Yours Inconclusively.

M of A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Broadside Man
From: open mike
Date: 01 Jul 04 - 01:11 PM

a gentle reminder of the broadside woman, sis cummingham...
who along with her partner "organized" the printing of a
topical song ballad newsletter, Broadside in the U.S. see
this thread:http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=71168&messages=19