roadies

We're on the road to God knows where
We're on the one road,
it may be the wrong road
But we're together now who cares?
Northmen, Southmen, comrades all!
Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Donegal!
We're on the one road, swinging along, singin' a soldier's song!
Though we've had our troubles now and then
Now's the time to make them up again
Sure aren't we all Irish anyhow?
Now is the time to step together now
Now's the time to make them up again
Sure aren't we all Irish anyhow?
Now is the time to step together now

sharing the one load
We're on the road to God knows where
We're on the one road,
it may be the wrong road
But we're together now who cares?
Northmen, Southmen, comrades all!
Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Donegal!
We're on the one road, swinging along, singin' a soldier's song!
Tinker, tailor every mother's son
Butcher, baker shouldering his gun
Rich man, poor man every man in line
All together, just like Auld Lang Syne!
Butcher, baker shouldering his gun
Rich man, poor man every man in line
All together, just like Auld Lang Syne!

sharing the one load
We're on the road to God knows where
We're on the one road,
it may be the wrong road
But we're together now who cares?
Northmen, Southmen, comrades all!
Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Donegal!
We're on the one road, swinging along, singin' a soldier's song!
Night is darkness just before the dawn
From dissensions, Ireland is reborn
Soon, will all United Irishmen
Make our land a Nation Once Again!
From dissensions, Ireland is reborn
Soon, will all United Irishmen
Make our land a Nation Once Again!

sharing the one load
We're on the road to
God knows where
We're on the one road,
it may be the wrong road
But we're together now
who cares?
Northmen, Southmen,
comrades all!
Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Donegal!
We're on the one road, swinging along, singin' a soldier's song! 1




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Labels: e h hubbard, frank brangwyn, hall thorpe, jack kerouac, theophile steinlen, willie nelson
8 Comments:
Magnifique...:)
merci beaucoup, mon ami.
Thanks for the great post. Kerouac, what a star! I must have read everything by and about him when I was a teen. Well, him and William Burroughs, but that's another story. And you threw in a Frank Brangwyn!
you want to hear something really amazing? preparing this post made me realize that i don't think i ever actually read kerouac before! i mean now this was all around the time when i was 12 and had already decided i wanted to be a beatnik when i grew up. (i had read about them in some magazine)
i started reading zen buddhism, wearing all black, listening to jazz, and writing poetry. 12!
and still, never read him! did read some burroughs but not the man.
yeah frank brangwyn. some of his stuff i really really love and some just does nothing for me.
i should go see if you've written on him.
Haven't got to Brangwyn yet, but it's on the list of to do subjects.
Kerouac is one of those interesting writers who so many people know well, but have not neccessarily read. I wonder whether it really matters whether you have read the books, as long as you get where he was coming from and where he was going.
Strangely, I don't seem to have any problem in picturing you as a proto 12 year old beatnik.
It reminds me the intense moment when Romano ( Mastroianni ) shouts from his waggon to the Gypsies at dawn to wait for him as they overtake him in songs and music ("Oci Ciornie", 1987).
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john-- you're a riot... and a treasure.
d- god--that sounds amazing--but i don't know the reference! sounds like i should!
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