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Lyr Req: Blues Is Like Shoes (Moe Ewart)
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Subject: Blues is like shoes From: mjones@islandnet.com Date: 21 Nov 96 - 01:46 AM Hi there Can anyone out ther in cyberspace help me find the words to this song. I believe it was written by a British songwriter. The Chorus goes Blues is like shoes ranging in sizes, when your a young man the sizes are small. Blues is like shoes you'll find when your older, the one's you have now are the nicest of all. Thanks Mike Jones |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: john mayberry Date: 10 Mar 97 - 12:54 PM This song is an old favourite of mine- I've got it at home on a David Bradstreet Album- he's a Toronto musician. I think he wrote it. Will try to get you the lyrics. John |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: Eve Goldberg Date: 17 Mar 97 - 04:42 PM Don't know about the David Bradstreet album, but I'm pretty sure it was written by Moe Ewert, who I think lived in Toronto at some point. I don't know if he recorded or not. |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: GUEST,Lucille Date: 30 Sep 00 - 12:58 AM |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: Hollowfox Date: 30 Sep 00 - 03:16 PM Oh, Please post the lyrics!! I heard it only once, at Fiddler's Green in Toronto, and I've never forgotten it. Unfortunately, I've never had enough of it in my memory to learn it properly. I do recall (I think) that the singer called it Mud Puddle Sailor. Hope this helps. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BLUES IS LIKE SHOES (Moe Ewart) From: flattop Date: 30 Sep 00 - 04:33 PM BLUES IS LIKE SHOES ©Moe Ewart, Subterranean Music/SOCAN As recorded by David Bradstreet on "Black & White" (1980) As a boy I served a term as a mud-puddle sailor I had a sea of my own at the side of the road And with a patch on my eye I was Morgan the Pirate And in my rubber boots the Colossus of Rhodes And the cars sped on by like the Spanish Armada And the spin of their wheels sent a storm on my sea Until one of the fleet came too close to the sidewalk And rammed at my ship and she sunk at my feet So I dry-docked my wreck in my grandfather's kitchen And climbed on his lap as he picked up the thread And he mended my sails with a flash of his fingers And then drying my tears, here's the words that he said: "Blues is like shoes, ranging in sizes When you're a young boy, the sizes are small Blues is like shoes, you'll find when you're older The shoes you have now are the nicest of all." Only now that I'm grown, I find I'm still a sailor But I'm up to my neck in the mud puddle now And under fire by much more than the Spanish Armada And they're ramming my ship and they're crashing my bow And the worst of it is that it never stops raining And the wheels never slow and the storms never cease And I swear when my bones become too heavy with water I'll sink too deep to wash up on any one's beach But I can tell by the stars that I'm close to an island Would mean nothing to swim but the question is how And I can't even run to my grandfather's kitchen 'Cause the house where he lived is a parking lot now Blues is like shoes, ranging in sizes When you're a young boy, the sizes are small Blues is like shoes, you'll find now you're older The shoes you have now are the nicest of all. Today I ran into a mud-puddle sailor He had a sea of his own at the side of the road And with a patch on his eye he was Morgan the Pirate And in his rubber boots the Colossus of Rhodes And the cars sped on by like the Spanish Armada And the spin of their wheels sent a storm on his sea Until one of the fleet came too close to the sidewalk And rammed at his ship and she sunk at his feet So he dry-docked his wreck right there in my kitchen And climbed on my lap as I picked up the thread And I mended his sails with a flash of my fingers And then drying his tears, here's the words that I said: "Blues is like shoes, ranging in sizes When you're a young boy, the sizes are small Blues is like shoes, you'll find when you're older The shoes you have now are the nicest of all Blues in the shoes of a child are the nicest of all." |
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Subject: Lyr Add: RENAISSANCE (David Bradstreet) From: flattop Date: 30 Sep 00 - 04:43 PM The site also has lyrics for this wonderful Bradstreet song:
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: flattop Date: 30 Sep 00 - 05:00 PM Did you hear the song at the old Fiddler's Green, Mary - behind the Y, near Yonge and Eglinton, where Tam wore his coveralls and Grit sang harmony, before they moved to the Brunswick area? |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: Hollowfox Date: 30 Sep 00 - 05:18 PM They moved?? Yep, it was behind the "Y", about 1972 or so. |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: flattop Date: 30 Sep 00 - 05:38 PM (Just hit a wrong button so I'll try again.) Yes, they moved years ago to around Brunswick Avenue, into the building that (Rana who SHOULD be working) talks about. My memory is not great on details. Rana's group may be an offshoot of the old Fiddlers organization. I moved north towards the Rick Kane thread and lost touch. Where did you go? 1972 is a long time ago.
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: Hollowfox Date: 02 Oct 00 - 12:13 PM Actually, I was visiting from the US. I'd come to help chaperone a gaggle of art history students visiting the Royal Ontario Museum (that's a laugh; I was still an undergraduate myself). I went AWOL to Fiddler's Green (the teacher knew where I was going), and had a grand time. |
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Subject: RE: Blues is like shoes From: flattop Date: 03 Oct 00 - 01:05 AM I guess that lets you off the hook Mary. Perhaps I should feel more guilty myself for not having stayed involved. Tonight I cornered Brian Sutton at the Orillia Song Circle and asked him about Fiddlers. Brian plays the squeeze box, sings 'trads' and has a foot in both camps which are about 100 miles apart. He told me to check on the net for The Flying Cloud Folk Club, an offshoot of Fiddlers Green. www.northernjourney.com/cdnfolk/events/flycloud.html www.coolname.com/pipermail/cdnfolk-mirror/2000-August/000844.html http://toronto.com/E/G/TORON/0020/06/64/cs1.html
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blues Is Like Shoes (Moe Ewart) From: GUEST,Barley's Mum Date: 02 Dec 15 - 03:03 PM I heard Garnet Roger's sing this, which is how I learned it. I remember it as Mud Puddle Sailor. The last time I requested he play it, he said he no longer sang it out of respect for the songwriter. Terribly sad, but of the three versions I've heard, I prefer Garnet's. |
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