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This song is my attempt to write a more traditional folk song. I come from Musselburgh on the east coast of Scotland which used to have a thriving fishing industry and my grandfather was a fisherman, this is a tribute to him and the fisher folk of Musselburgh and the east coast.
Lyrics:
Rolling Home
From Fisherrow to the Neuk o’ Fife
Fishermen and fisherwives
All depend upon the silvery shoals
To turn silver into gold
Silver into gold
On the cold November sea
Sailing round the Isle o’ May
Where the silver herrin’ go
To turn silver into gold
Silver into gold
So set the course and set the sail
Look for the Dog Star to trail
Catch a rolling tide home
The winds will take you there
The waves know just where
There’s a rolling tide home
Rolling home
In the mussel beds on the back sands
In the salt water wi’ calloused hands
They fill the creels ti’overflow
In auld Fisherrow
Auld Fisherrow
And fishwives aye ca’ their men
For being faithless a’ ower again
But their hearts aye ebb and flow
Tae auld Fisherrow
Auld Fisherrow
So set the course and set the sail...
A Newhaven bride wrapped in her shawl
Waves the men folk away to trawl
The herrin’ harvest from the sea
Tae bring tae yon quay
Tae bring tae yon quay
An’ on the sea they’re a’ your friends
The winds, the waves and the fishermen
But the best friend in a’ the sea
Will bring you to yon quay
Bring you tae yon quay
So set the course and set the sail...
© Rolling Home words & music by Tom Fairnie 1969 & November 2001
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Tom... &mdash 09/06/06 - 09:28:32 PM
You gotta tag your mp3s, man. When I download your songs the only
info is a track number... Get your name on the mp3s and any other
song info. This stuff is too good to be out there in the virtual music
world without any credits.
Another great song.
Jack [ Reply to This ]
Rolling Home &mdash 09/07/06 - 04:56:23 AM
awesome tune .....I always love that squeez box
so inspring ... well done ...!! [ Reply to This ]
tags &mdash 09/07/06 - 02:05:57 PM
Hey Jack
thanks for the valued comments but how do I tag my songs? If you can enlighten me then I'll just go right ahead and do it!
Tom [ Reply to This ]
Masterful &mdash 09/08/06 - 07:29:14 AM
Thru and thru, this is a fabulous track. I'd be inetrested to knnow if you improved the song at all between 1969 and 2001, and what those changes were. So good! [ Reply to This ]
So '69 &mdash 09/10/06 - 01:01:22 AM
Loved this recording. After serching around in MJ I was getting nostalgic
for what I call real music.
Found it!
This tune is well executed, well writen and... the production is perfect.
Nice.
Downloaded
ipoded
I'll check out what else you have posted.
Thank you
Tim [ Reply to This ]
You just can't miss... &mdash 09/17/06 - 06:49:54 PM
with good material, BUT---that voice---my God---that voice! Well sung
Tom. Heart wrenchingly beautiful take on a classic folk tune.
Be well!
All The Usual Suspects: http://www.macjams.com/song/24358 [ Reply to This ]
thanks....... &mdash 09/18/06 - 06:31:56 PM
.....for your more than generous comments - you'll see from the intro that I wrote this song as a tribute to my grandparents and it means a lot to me if I've managed to convey some of the emotion I feel when singing about them. [ Reply to This ]
hej &mdash 01/08/07 - 05:36:20 AM
I'm taggin as I download &mdash 02/11/07 - 09:58:24 PM
These songs of yours are just great. I really enjoy your sense of melody and your voice. Dadai is right, tag 'em if you can when you convert to mp3. That way the song file name is the same as the song title. I made the same mistake. [ Reply to This ]
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info is a track number... Get your name on the mp3s and any other
song info. This stuff is too good to be out there in the virtual music
world without any credits.
Another great song.
Jack
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