SETTLE TO CARLISLE RAILWAY - from Robbie Ellis

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SETTLE TO CARLISLE RAILWAY - from Robbie Ellis

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Robbie Ellis

Күн бұрын

A great song by Mike Donald

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@user-vw6ku1el1n 2 ай бұрын

I lived in Chapel-leDale for 40 years so the area round Ribblehead and the 3 Peaks was my playground so this is amazing to hear and bring back memories of happy days

@sarahparkinson8999 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mike Donald was my father and it's great to hear his music still being played 30 years after his death. Xxx

@jonpaulchallinor3714 7 жыл бұрын

Sarah Parkinson what a fantastic tune. I've been listening to visions of Cumbria recently too. How can I get more mike donald music? I sing a bit too, at work mostly and have been belting out 'visions' whilst walling at work. He had the sound and tone of a real artist.

@dhimmiwit 9 жыл бұрын

Mike Donald came to my primary school and sang this and 'Doug the Bug', I love that railway and love this song :)

@Anglo_Saxon1 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant folk song about the"navies"who built the railway.Tough men.many died, many got ill. This is pure nostalgia for me.My class used to sing this song in middle school(1984)with Mrs Sheard on piano, Lovely memories.

@Norris_The_Lifter 3 ай бұрын

Very good

@helsnic Жыл бұрын

We sang this at school in the 90s. Thank you!

@MidlandProductions Жыл бұрын

Dear god this needs more attention

@karenblackadder9446 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who is up and down this line faster than a fiddler's elbow it's great to hear this song again.

@Bahamas-rd8le 5 жыл бұрын

Do you know if this is copyright free?

@beccalangdale 11 жыл бұрын

I agree the best railway song ever

@b4n4nn4 9 жыл бұрын

I remember singing this song at school brings back memories

@adammckone3318 6 жыл бұрын

you didnt go to duns primary school did ya lol

@rogerfindlay6836 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. Thankyou. R.

@alistaircampbell3302 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, been 30 years since i heard this. There was a version on the Rail Riders club record i had as a kid and been looking for years.

@TheBroomwagon 2 жыл бұрын

This is wonderful

@jaidencracknell2326 3 жыл бұрын

jeez this is a good song

@andrewspencer4843 2 жыл бұрын

My wife used to sing this at her primary school in Lazonby apparently

@ellenhannon1122 8 жыл бұрын

Visited Ingle borough Hall with kids from Linthwaite Primary School in1986-87. Learnt about Ribblehead viaduct and when we returned we did an assembly based on this song. Hope those kids now watching Jericho remember the trip!

@NickMaini 11 жыл бұрын

ive been looking everywhere for this wonderful tune. im so glad to have found it and such a beautiful rendition at that

@dansterland1824 3 жыл бұрын

great song really catchy seems to cheer me up when i no happy been across that amazing line its fantastic

@adammckone3318 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant Cover. We did this song as part of a railway study we were doing at duns primary school in the scottish borders in 1989. 27 years later i now live just outside appleby within a stones throw of this very line. and this monday im going to be performing this song in my local pubs open mic night. Gonna be my very first public performance :-O

@thomasthepaintrain8880 7 ай бұрын

How did it go?

@adammckone3318 7 ай бұрын

@@thomasthepaintrain8880 i chickened out 😞

@thomasthepaintrain8880 7 ай бұрын

@@adammckone3318 I'm not too great on a stage myself, good that you atleast tried to get out of your comfort zone.

@adammckone3318 7 ай бұрын

Its 5 years later and i still haven't had the balls to perform in public 😂

@Suparef Жыл бұрын

Very good.

@symms9952 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you like song very much about settle carlisle railway judy symms

@Wettonbunker 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@jimrudolf1723 9 жыл бұрын

Its funny cos I,ve got an album by Mike Donald. North by North East. I still play it, some of the songs are fantastic. Songs like Roseberry Topping, Travelling the Newcastle Way and Land of the Pennine God are songs that I grew up with. Fantastic memories. Fantastic folk singer.

@MiistaC 11 жыл бұрын

class.

@ibidydo 10 жыл бұрын

Haul away you navvies!!!!!!!

@PaulBills73 10 жыл бұрын

Hi Robbie, is there any chance I could get a copy of the lyrics/chords/mandolin parts? I love the Settle line, and I love this song :)

@Inkyminkyzizwoz 2 жыл бұрын

Lyrics: 1. In the year of '69 they planned to run a train From Settle to Carlisle and across the mountain range They employed 3,000 navvies to build this mighty road And across the fells through Appleby that old steam engine rolled CHORUS. And it's up in the morning, lads In wind, snow and hail Hold fast to your hammers, lads And lay another rail 2. It's 72 miles from Settle to Carlisle Across the roughest country in the British Isles They said it would take four years but it took 'em nearer seven And the first 20 miles sent 400 men to Heaven 3. They set up shanty towns to protect them from the cold Inkerman, Sebastopol and Batty Wife Hole And when they tired of women and the drinking of strong beer They fought bare fist style and the came from far and near 4. And when the winter came, it froze them to the floor It blew them off the viaducts and it killed them on Blea Moor Some died of the smallpox and some of cholera The chapel at St Leonard's has many buried there 5. So if you ride this famous line across those heathered fells When crossing Ribblehead Viaduct remember the tale I tell There's Mallerstang and Ais Gill and the Dent Dale's lovely wilds And navvy lads a-slaving from Settle to Carlisle