songs about rivers

[cesare]

Muddy by the Shacklefords (another BOGOF)

 

[Wookey]

MESSING ABOUT ON THE RIVER
(Tony Hatch / Les Reed)

When the weather is fine you know it's the time
For messin' about on the river
If you take my advice there's nothing so nice
As messin' about on the river
There's big boats and wee boats ands all kinds of craft
Puffers and keel boats and some with no raft
With the wind in your face there's no finer place
Than messin' about on the river

There are boats made from kits that'll reach you in bits
For messin' about on the river
And you might want to skull in a glass fibred hull
Go messin' about on the river
Anchors and tillers and rudders and cleets
Ropes that are sometimes referred to as sheets
With the wind in your face there's no finer place
Than messin' about on the river

Skippers and mates and rowing club eights
All messin' about on the river
Capstans and quays where you tie up with ease
All messin' about on the river
Outboards and inboards and dinghies you sail
The first thing you learn is the right way to bale
In a one man canoe you're both skipper and crew
Messin' about on the river

Moorings and docks, tailors and locks
All messin' about on the river
Whirlpools and weirs that you must not go near
Messin' about on the river
Backwater places all hidden from view
Mysterious wee islands just waiting for you
So I'll leave you right now, go cast off your bow
Go messing about on the river

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Or Diana Krall

Or Dinah Washington.

 

[cesare]

Oooo it's good. Check it out

*writes on list of tunes to download*

 

[cesare]

Or Dinah Washington.

Ahhhhh. Presumably the original?

 

[Annierak]

Here's 2 river songs i can't bear ......

Billy Joel - River Of Dreams
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song

 

[Andy the Don]

Fog on the Tyne - Gazza

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

 

[Annierak]

Ahhhhh. Presumably the original?

It was written by Arthur Hamilton and was published in 1953. It is about a loss of a relationship.

A torchy, jazzy blues tune, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). But the producer insisted Hamilton remove the word "plebeian" since "audiences wouldn't accept a black woman in the 1950s using that word."

It's first release was recorded by Julie London in 1955

 

[cesare]

You keep goin’ your way - I’ll keep goin’ my way (I’ll keep goin’ my way, you keep rollin’ your way)
River, stay ’way from the door
I just got (me) a cabin - you don’t need my (you’ll never need that) cabin
River, stay ’way from the door

Don’t (you) come up any higher - I’m so all alone
Leave the bed and the fire - that is all I own (- and you can have that phone)

I ain’t breakin’ your heart - don’t (you) start breakin’ my heart
River, stay ’way from the door

(stay ’way, get ’way, roll ’way, stay ’way)
(you dirty, old, muddy river, you)
(river, stay ’way from the door)

Ol Blue Eyes

 

[cesare]

It was written by Arthur Hamilton and was published in 1953. It is about a loss of a relationship.

A torchy, jazzy blues tune, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). But the producer insisted Hamilton remove the word "plebeian" since "audiences wouldn't accept a black woman in the 1950s using that word."

Anyway that idea was scrapped and it's first release was recorded by Julie London in 1955

Ah, so Julie London's version was the first, cheers for that.

 

[Annierak]

Ah, so Julie London's version was the first, cheers for that.

Yes. You're welcome. Been done by lots of other artists too over the years, the list is huge

 

[the button]

Seduction and murder. Good wholesome stuff from the English folk tradition: -

As I strolled out one May morning, it was down by the old riverside;
'Twas there I met a fair young maid, and on her I placed my eye.

I asked her if she would take a walk down by the old riverside,
That there we might sit and talk a while, making her my lawful bride.

"No then, kind sir, to get married to you, my age it is too young."
"The younger you are more better you is, more fitting you are for me.
That I should say in my old days, I married my wife a maid."

He took her home to his father's house, his lawful wife to be;
They laid there all that long night, 'til daylight did repair.

All the first part of the night, the couple sport and played,
And the rest part of the night, close in his arms she laid.

When that long night was past and gone, and daylight did repair;
The young man rose and put on his clothes, saying, "Fare thee well my dear."

"This is not the promise you made unto me, down by the old riverside;
You promised that you would marry me, and make me your lawful bride."

"For to promise to marry a girl like you, is not such a thing I would do;
You go home to your own dear mother's house, and there you cry your fill;
And tell them all what I've done to you, it was done by your own good will."

"Do you think I'd go home to my own mother's house, to bring her trouble and disgrace?
I'd rather go and drown myself, and sleep in some lonesome place."

Now he catched hold of her lily-white hand, and he kissed both cheek and chin;
He took her down by the old riverside, and he gently pushed her in.

See how she swims, see how she goes, she goes floating with the tide,
'Tis the room of a maid to have a watery grave, she had no right to have been my bride.

Now I'll sail away to some other foreign part, where another girl will take my eye,
Where no-one will know the deed I've done, to the girl I left behind.

I've got a root in my father's garden, some do call it rue;
For fishes swims and swallows dive young men they don't prove true.

 

[Iam]

Izzy Stradlin - River

 

[Y_I_Otter]

It was written by Arthur Hamilton and was published in 1953. It is about a loss of a relationship.

A torchy, jazzy blues tune, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). But the producer insisted Hamilton remove the word "plebeian" since "audiences wouldn't accept a black woman in the 1950s using that word."

It's first release was recorded by Julie London in 1955

Thanks, Annie. You're right to roll your eyes at that comment; Ella was among the most articulate women in her genre, as any interview with her instantly makes plain. The "Producer" in question was the star, Jack Webb, better known as Joe Friday on the original "Dragnet" TV series.

Pete Kelly's Blues is a perfectly stinky movie, but the band was pretty hot.

 

[stavros]

Brian Eno - By this River

OTM. A truly beautiful song

In anticipation of launching many more pun-ish suggestions, how about;
Cypress Hill - "In Seine In The Brain"
Ice Cube - "The Wrong Niger To Fuck Wit'"
Girls Aloud - "Ural I Ever Wanted"
Anything by Nine Inch Niles, who's lead singer is Trent Reznor.

 

[Annierak]

Thanks, Annie. You're right to roll your eyes at that comment; Ella was among the most articulate women in her genre, as any interview with her instantly makes plain. The "Producer" in question was the star, Jack Webb, better known as Joe Friday on the original "Dragnet" TV series.
Pete Kelly's Blues is a perfectly stinky movie, but the band was pretty hot.

I didn't know that. Thanks, i'm a slut for information .

Yeh Ella "First Lady of Song" was a top bird, very intelligent woman with a great vocal range.
Ira Gershwin said it best - "I didn't realize our songs were so good until Ella sang them."

 

[isitme]

Rivers off one of Courtney Pines album
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Bridge over Troubled Waters
Cry Me a River
The Nile song

 

[killer b]

em eye, double ess eye, double ess eye double pee eye

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Asleep at the Wheel-- I'm An Old Cowhand On The Rio Grande

 

[isitme]

Rio by Duran Duran

 

[Magic Sam]

Rivers Invitation- Percy Mayfield

 

[Magic Sam]

One more river to cross- The Soul stirrers (not sure if this was the original)
Green River blues- Charley Patton (probably my favourite Patton track)

 

[Annierak]

Marvin Gaye - Mersey Mersey Me
Chic - Good Thames
Eurythmics - Ouse That Girl?
David Bowie - Ribble Ribble
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - I've Had The Tyne Of My Life
Cliff Richard - Please Don't Tees
Frank Sinatra - I Did It Medway
Phil Collins & Philip Bailey - Zambezi Lover
David Bowie - Don I'm Only Dancing
UB40 - Red Red Rhine

 

[isitme]

Joey Beltram - It's Danube Style
Bob Dylan - Avon t you
Congo Natty - Ganges Man
Meat Loaf - I would do anything ford love

 

[Annierak]

Joey Beltram - It's Danube Style
Bob Dylan - Avon t you
Congo Natty - Ganges Man
Meat Loaf - I would do anything ford love

Not bad, prefer mine

 

[isitme]

Van Halen - Canal knowledge

 

[isitme]

Not bad, prefer mine

I'm trying tho

wikipedia is your friend

 

[Annierak]

Beatles - Zaire, There And Everywhere
Aretha Franklin - Amazon Grace
David Bowie - Aladdin Seine
Temptations - My Pearl

 

[Annierak]

I'm trying tho

wikipedia is your friend

Usually yeh, but i'm not on wiki, i've found something else

 

[isitme]

Culture Club - Do Yangtze really want to hurt me