20-09-2012, 07:00 PM
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Just the man.... Hammer can you recall a song called Leaning. Its about a man leaning on a gate looking at the fields and dreaming, and at the end he says his old dog is buried there, sang by a Bass.We used to have an Harvest supper and a concert in SCorton and one of the choir men sang it. I had to be taken out of the hall as my sobbing drowned out the singer!
20-09-2012, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by anniemuldoon
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Just the man.... Hammer can you recall a song called Leaning. Its about a man leaning on a gate looking at the fields and dreaming, and at the end he says his old dog is buried there, sang by a Bass.We used to have an Harvest supper and a concert in SCorton and one of the choir men sang it. I had to be taken out of the hall as my sobbing drowned out the singer!
Was it this one? sung by the Baritone Harold Williams.
I am still trying to track down a version of it.
LEANIN
Sowin's pretty good
Reapin' ain't so bad
Scarin' off the crows
Suits a farmer's lad
But if you ask'es me
The thing that suits a fellow
Is a little bit of straw to suck
To keep your fancies mellow
When you're leanin' on the gate beside
The pond that lies beside the side
Of farmer's stacks of new mown hay
It's just atwix the ricks
Beside the barn where farmers sticks inside
The chicks he only hatch'd today
Leanin', leanin'
I'm champion down our way, they say
At leanin' on the gate beside the pond that lies beside
The side of farmer's stacks of new mown hay
That he's been gleanin'
While I've been leanin' ..... all day
Had a lurcher once
Better than a gal
Poacher? Well, a bit
But 'e was a pal
Now there's just a mound
Underneath the el-lum
Reckon folks would laugh at I
If I was to tell 'em...
Why I'm leanin' on the gate beside the pond that lies beside
The side the hedge where my old dog would play
It's just a'cos from there I see the sunlight
Glintin' through the tree
Upon the grave where 'e do lie
Sleepin', sleepin'
Goodbye is hard to say
That's why
I'm leanin' on the gate beside the pond that lies beside
The side of farmer's stacks of new-mown hay
And at the gleanin'
He'll find me leanin' ..... all day
20-09-2012, 11:26 PM
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You are more than welcome Annie,I have found a couple of references to it.
The Harold Williams recording was very early but I believe it can be found on a CD entitled : '25 Great Singers in Popular Ballads.'
There is a CD called 'Alan Titchmarsh: 'Radio 2 Melodies For You'. and Owen Brannigan should have a version on there. It is also thought that Ian Wallace may have recorded it.
21-09-2012, 11:11 PM
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I have a lot of albums by David Arkenstone both as solo and in collaboration with Diane Arkenstone. This is track five from of his best albums: Atlantis.It is a 2006 import on the Narada label and still worth a punt if you can find it.
Might be worth a listen, if you have a mind to
Jewel of the Sea
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