Author Ewan MacColl
Farewell To Sicily
The pipie is dozie, the pipie is fey
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/8/21 - 14:05
原爆許すまじ [No More Atomic Bombs]
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The English version by Ewan McColl.
Si tratta della versione inglese del grande folksinger Ewan McColl (marito di Peggy Seeger e quindi cognato di Pete Seeger, che ha pure interpretato la canzone). Inserita prima a suo nome, fino a quando non è stato reperito il testo originale giapponese della canzone-
The following is the English version by the great folksinger Ewan McColl (the husband to Peggy Seeger, who has performed the song, too and, thus, Pete Seeger's brother-in-law). Formerly included to his name until the original Japanese lyrics have been found and contributed.
Si tratta della versione inglese del grande folksinger Ewan McColl (marito di Peggy Seeger e quindi cognato di Pete Seeger, che ha pure interpretato la canzone). Inserita prima a suo nome, fino a quando non è stato reperito il testo originale giapponese della canzone-
The following is the English version by the great folksinger Ewan McColl (the husband to Peggy Seeger, who has performed the song, too and, thus, Pete Seeger's brother-in-law). Formerly included to his name until the original Japanese lyrics have been found and contributed.
HIROSHIMA SONG
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/4/20 - 18:00
The Fields Of Vietnam
Lyrics and music by Ewan McColl
Testo e musica di Ewan McColl
interpretata da Mick Moloney
http://www.mudcat.org
Testo e musica di Ewan McColl
interpretata da Mick Moloney
http://www.mudcat.org
Oh brothers though we're strangers and your land and mine are far apart,
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/11/20 - 01:43
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
Ballad Of The Unknown Soldier
[1969?]
Lyrics and music by Rod Shearman
Testo e musica di Rod Shearman
"The song is called "The Ballad of the Unknown Soldier." I
don't know whether anyone other than Barbara Dane sang it in the U.S.back in those days. Barbara recorded it on Paredon's "What Now People?" Vol. 1. some time in the early seventies. (She first got the song from Peggy Seeger who sent it to her in 1969.) The author, Rod Shearman, is English. Shearman wrote it after seeing a brief item in the Manchester Guardian about an American GI, dressed in sandals and black pajamas, who was found dead behind "enemy" lines. (There had been a number of other stories in the New York Times and other places about GIs who "went over to the other side" in Vietnam. One had to do with a team known as Salt and Pepper -- a Black GI and a white GI, and another solder called Porkchop, who also fought alongside the Vietnamese. Jack Warshaw,... (Continues)
Lyrics and music by Rod Shearman
Testo e musica di Rod Shearman
"The song is called "The Ballad of the Unknown Soldier." I
don't know whether anyone other than Barbara Dane sang it in the U.S.back in those days. Barbara recorded it on Paredon's "What Now People?" Vol. 1. some time in the early seventies. (She first got the song from Peggy Seeger who sent it to her in 1969.) The author, Rod Shearman, is English. Shearman wrote it after seeing a brief item in the Manchester Guardian about an American GI, dressed in sandals and black pajamas, who was found dead behind "enemy" lines. (There had been a number of other stories in the New York Times and other places about GIs who "went over to the other side" in Vietnam. One had to do with a team known as Salt and Pepper -- a Black GI and a white GI, and another solder called Porkchop, who also fought alongside the Vietnamese. Jack Warshaw,... (Continues)
Come and Listen to a story I will tell
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/11/13 - 14:50
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
Brother, Did You Weep?
[1967]
Lyrics and Music by Ewan McColl
Testo e musica di Ewan McColl
Si tratta di una canzone interpretata da molti gruppi che voleva testimoniare l’impegno di solidarietà col popolo vietnamita da parte degli artisti folk britannici. Venne interpretata anche dallo International Folk Group e dagli Stormy Six, in Italia. [Paolo Sollier dalla ML “Bielle”]
Lyrics and Music by Ewan McColl
Testo e musica di Ewan McColl
Si tratta di una canzone interpretata da molti gruppi che voleva testimoniare l’impegno di solidarietà col popolo vietnamita da parte degli artisti folk britannici. Venne interpretata anche dallo International Folk Group e dagli Stormy Six, in Italia. [Paolo Sollier dalla ML “Bielle”]
Disc of sun in the belching smoke,
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Contributed by Paolo Sollier
Song Itineraries:
Primitive AWS, War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
Scarborough Fair/Canticle, provided with The Elfin Knight, Whittingham Fair and Rosemary Lane, and with an Appendix on Riddles Wisely Expounded
A1. Scarborough Fair :
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong (Child #2S)
T. Bruce / J. Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882
Rielaborazione di / Reworking of Martin Carthy (1962)
A2. Canticle:
Lyrics by / Testo di Paul Simon (1963)
(Reworking of / Rielaborazione di The Side Of A Hill)
Musica / Music: Art Garfunkel
Album: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
B. The Elfin Knight:
Tradizionale scozzese / Scottish Traditional Folksong (Child #2 etc)
William Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, 1827
C. Ulteriori Versioni di “Scarborough Fair” / Further Versions of “Scarborough Fair”
D. Whittingham Fair:
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong
Rielaborazione / Reworking: Nancy Kerr, 1993
Album:Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr
E. Rosemary Lane:
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong
Rielaborazione / Reworking: Liz Jefferies, 1976
in: Barry... (Continues)
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong (Child #2S)
T. Bruce / J. Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882
Rielaborazione di / Reworking of Martin Carthy (1962)
A2. Canticle:
Lyrics by / Testo di Paul Simon (1963)
(Reworking of / Rielaborazione di The Side Of A Hill)
Musica / Music: Art Garfunkel
Album: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
B. The Elfin Knight:
Tradizionale scozzese / Scottish Traditional Folksong (Child #2 etc)
William Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, 1827
C. Ulteriori Versioni di “Scarborough Fair” / Further Versions of “Scarborough Fair”
D. Whittingham Fair:
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong
Rielaborazione / Reworking: Nancy Kerr, 1993
Album:Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr
E. Rosemary Lane:
Tradizionale inglese / English Traditional Folksong
Rielaborazione / Reworking: Liz Jefferies, 1976
in: Barry... (Continues)
A1. SCARBOROUGH FAIR
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi
That Bomb Has Got To Go!
Scritta assieme alla moglie, Peggy Seeger. Da cantarsi sull'aria di "100 Years on the Eastern Shore".
We're marching on Trafalgar Square, Oh yes, oh!
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi
The Ballad of Five Fingers
Interpretata anche da Pete Seeger
Five fingers has the hand, five fingers, five fingers.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi
Join the Line
Canzone contro la bomba atomica scritta assieme a Denise Kerr.
The birds they are a-singing, the sun's up in the sky.
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi
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Lyrics by Hamish Henderson
Music by Pipe Major James Robertson of Banff
Testo di Hamish Henderson
Musica del comandante della banda scozzese James Robertson di Banff
Una canzone scozzese, e scritta nel più stretto e ostico dialetto delle Highlands, dedicata...alla Sicilia? In guerra può succedere anche questo. Nel 1943, dopo lo sbarco alleato, il 51° reggimento di fanteria delle Highlands, proveniente dall'Africa Settentrionale, viene messo di stanza in Sicilia, con comando nella località di Tremestieri, presso Messina in direzione di Taormina. Ne fa parte anche il capitano Hamish Henderson, che nella vita civile fa il folklorista e lo scrittore di canzoni. Uno dei maggiori della sua terra. Nel 1944, quando il reggimento viene spostato e deve abbandonare la Sicilia, Henderson scrive una canzone facendola musicare al comandante ("Pipe Major", ovvero "Cornamusa maggiore") della... (Continues)