Guess the song

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Guess the song
Topic Started: May 23 2008, 05:12 PM (68 Views)
Thyunda	May 23 2008, 05:12 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	I did not make it. Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangways and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay I'm on my way down to the quay, where the good ship lies in bay. To command a gang of navvys, and I was told to engage something (couldn't hear it. Dammit.) but it was okay, For to take a trip on an emigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangers and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay The foreman called this morning, he says "Well, Pat hello! If you didn't get your navvys out, I'm afraid you'll have to go" So I asked him for my wages and he told me go away. For I told him straight, I'm going to emigrate to the shores of Botany Bay Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangways and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay And when I reach Australia I'll go and look for gold There's plenty there for the digging of, or so I have been told Or else I'll go back to my trade and a hundred bricks I'll lay Because I live for an eight hour shift on the shores of Botany Bay Farewell to your bricks and mortar, farewell to your dirty lies Farewell to your gangers and gang planks And to hell with your overtime For the good ship Ragamuffin, she's lying at the quay For to take oul Pat with a shovel on his back To the shores of Botany Bay



Loz	May 23 2008, 05:38 PM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 326 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: May 15, 2008	That was a good song



Thyunda	May 23 2008, 05:45 PM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	You know exactly which one it is, right?



Loz	May 23 2008, 05:55 PM Post #4
Advanced Member Posts: 326 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: May 15, 2008	Botany Bay That was the one you sent me, right?



Thyunda	May 23 2008, 05:56 PM Post #5
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	Uh huh



Ragnarok III	May 24 2008, 06:50 AM Post #6
AKA King Crimson Posts: 0 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: May 20, 2008	:lol: I know this song! I have the sheet music to it in this book my grandad got me about the history of harmonicas! It's australian, right? The version you heard may not have harmonicas, incidentaly, but in general "folk" songs are rarlely written by the CD performers (E.G House of the Rising Sun is credited Author Unknown).



Thyunda	May 24 2008, 08:18 AM Post #7
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	Heh. This one is used as an Irish rebel song. With the typical Irish acoustic in the background. And the accent. God, Irish people have real singing accents.



Thyunda	May 30 2008, 02:52 PM Post #8
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	Alright...who can guess this: We took the highway till the road went black. We'd marked, Truth or Consequences on our map A voice drifted up from the radio And I thought of a voice from long ago Who'll be the last to die for a mistake? The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break, Who'll be the last to die, for a mistake? Kids asleep in the backseat, We're just counting the miles, you and me. We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore. We just stack the bodies outside the door. Who'll be the last to die for a mistake? The last to die, for a mistake. Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break? Who'll be the last to die, for a mistake? The wise men were all fools, what to do? The sun sets in flames as the city burns Another day gone down as the night turns And I hold you here in my heart, As things fall apart. A downtown window flushed with light, 'Faces of the dead at five' Our martyr's silent eyes Petition the drivers as we pass by Who'll be the last to die for a mistake, The last to die for a mistake, Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break? Who'll be the last to die? Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Darlin' will tyrants and kings Fall to the same fate, Strung up at your city gates Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?



Thyunda	Jun 3 2008, 06:22 PM Post #9
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	Guess nobody can guess?



Loz	Jun 3 2008, 08:36 PM Post #10
Advanced Member Posts: 326 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: May 15, 2008	Sorry don't know.



Ragnarok III	Jun 7 2008, 08:25 AM Post #11
AKA King Crimson Posts: 0 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: May 20, 2008	I guessed Springstein cause of the way the lyrics sound and one look through Google says this is Last to Die. Is there any chance of a song we might all possibly know? I like Springstein, but not that many people are going to guess a random song, especially when it isn't famous (ie not Born In The USA). For instance, do you honestly now this the lyrics to The Fish by Yes or Brother by Focus?



Thyunda	Jun 10 2008, 04:16 PM Post #12
Administrator Posts: 711 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 20, 2008	I want to listen to Focus. And you can do perfectly random songs. You worked out what it was through Google. And besides, his famous ones suck. I hate them. I didn't expect anyone to know Botany Bay other than Loz.


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