Anchoring in Dunwich Bay

[Bru]

By design, you can't copy recordings on Youview and Sky boxes (to prevent piracy) and to back this up the HDMI standard doesn't allow recording over HDMI (there are naughty gadgets available to get around that but they're technically illegal)

You can, if the outputs and inputs are available, probably ecord via an analogue connection (i have done it using an old Sony video camera by plugging the analogue output of the PVR into the analogue input of the camera but there was a slight but noticeable drop in quality)

 

[Denek]

Just checked and it's not available on iPlayer unfortunately

It’s available on you tube I believe

 

[Denek]

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It’s available on you tube I believe

Or maybe not?

 

[ianc1200]

What is the name of the song in question?

 

[Bru]

What is the name of the song in question?

"The Worst Old Ship" aka "Waiting for the Day"

 

[Bru]

Oh and also known as "The Humber Belle" (by which name i know it) and its starting to come back to new!

Here's Bob's version ...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...UwAnoECBUQBA&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov

My version starts ...

"Now listen sailormen and i will tell
About the poor old Humber Belle"

then continues much the same until the ship finishes her voyage in the Tyne rather than the Humber with a double verse ...

"First the Dudgeon, then the Spurn,
Flamborough Head comes next in turn
Our old man says if things go right
We'll be in the Tyne tomorrow night"

She then loads (shoots ie load at the coal drops) rather than discharges

"Shoots at Shields with a drunken crew
Coal hits the bottom and goes right through"

and a final verse ...

"And that's all sailormen that i can tell
About the poor old Humber Belle"

closing with a double chorus

 

[Slowboat35]

Wow! That's news to me! I know that song well (esp. by Bob Roberts) and have never heard your version before!
What a nice surprise.
Sadly the link doesn't work.
This is the version I know;

This is probably yours, or very like it;

 

[Bru]

My version is my version

The second version above is basically the version i learnt from canal folk singer David Blagrove who wrote or collected nearly all of the songs on "Straight From the Tunnels Mouth: Songs of the Inland Waterways" although he didn't perform on the album

I then mixed and matched verses from both versions and tweaked the lyrics to make a song i liked and to correct some geographic anomalies which had crept in as even Blagrove wasn't singing the version on that album ten years later! (He'd added a verse from Bob's version but not knowing the East Coast it was out of sequence)

David collected his version from Thames lightermen at Brentford in the 1950s. Bob (i was told second hand) apparently got his from older Sailing Barge crews

Like most folk songs, there are nigh as many versions as there are singers singing the song