| chris kennedy |
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Help! It's driving me nuts! I have listened to two recordings of Ken Colyer playing and singing Johnny Wigg's song 'Postman's Lament', and have heard a Wiggs recording of it once, but I still can't figure out the lyric for the first line of the second chorus vocal. It goes:
'Oh come sweet .........(?,
hear what my prayer says.'
Does any one know what the missing word/words might be? If you do, you could save me from despair!! |
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| Andreas Wandfluh | |
| chris kennedy |
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Andreas - thanks for that! Now I know missing words are 'air days'. I've got no idea what that means, but, hey hoh!
Chris |
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| chris kennedy |
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I'm back again I'm afraid! I had fun looking through that website, but, but as they got other parts of the lyric to Postman wrong, and the 'air days' doesn't make much sense, I think they are just guessing, as I've been trying to do.
Again, interesting site, but their motto 'it may not be right, but it's GOOD ENOUGH FOR JAZZ!' is a bit dubious, no? Chris K. |
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| Andreas Wandfluh |
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Hi Chris, I was again listening very carefully the 1954 version of Ken's Postman's Lament and according to my understanding the lyrics should be fine. But English is not my mother tongue...
Did you try to contact the Committee Members of Ken Colyer Trust? May be they have the original transcription and lyrics. This is the web link to the Committee:
http://www.kencolyertrust.org/trust4.html
Good look - and please post here the results of your search.
Thanks in advance
Andreas
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| chris kennedy |
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Hi Andreas,
Well, nobody at KC Trust could tell me...Martin Colyer listened hard, he didn't like 'air days' either. He also pointed out that on the Swiss web-site, in the same song, they put the words 'by the lake beside' where it should be 'by the levee side', setting the song firmly in New Orleans...
Then today I had an email from an old friend, Jim Currie, who says:
I like little challenges. I've looked at your poser on the Chris Barber messageboard. I
subscribe to Napster. £10 a month but well worth it. I called up the track Postman's
Lament. Ken Colyer and Acker Bilk came up, as well as a track from an album released in
2008 entitled "Back to New Orleans: The Best of British Jazz featuring Ian Wheeler". The
lyrics come up clear as can be "[Oh] Come sweet day of days, hear what my prayer says".
Acker sings it in the first chorus but the words as above are clear as well. Hope that
puts an end to your sleepless nights!
That sounds good to me! And it makes sense. Chris.
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| Andreas Wandfluh |
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Hi Chris
Great that you did find the clue... and thanks for posting the result here.
Andreas |
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