Bushcraft Anthems

[Marts]

Just thought of another one tho', does anyone remember "the littlest hobo" - the series about the GSD that runs around saving everyone from depression and debt ? The tune was quite cool.

Maybe tommorow i'll wanna settle down, but 'til tommorow i'll just keep roamin' on.

Or something like that anyway

I used to love that...

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road is where I'll always be
Every stop I make, I'll make a new friend
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
Down this road, that never seems to end,
Where new adventure, lies just around the bend.
So if you want to join me for a while
Just grab your hat, come travel light - that's hobo style.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want settle down,
Until tomorrow, the whole world is my home.
So if you want to join me for a while
Just grab your hat, come travel light
That's hobo style.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

There's a world, that's waiting to unfold,
A brand new tale, no one has ever told,
We've journey'd far but, you know it won't be long,
We're almost there and we've paid our fare, with the hobo song.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
So if you want to join me for a while
Just grab your hat, come travel light - that's hobo style.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll find what I call home
Until tomorrow, you know I'm free to roam.

 

[innocent bystander]

Ooh, that gets my vote too. Brilliant album and one of my all time favourites! Forgot all about it for years (how does that happen?) then re-discovered it just before Christmas.

The title track for the anthem of course but every bit of the album is excellent. Nice to end the day with a little 'Fire at Midnight'.

Funny, it's the only Jethro Tull album I got into.

Try and get hold of stormwatch. It is the very best, most brilliant album ever made. By tull, anyway. Well, maybe. It's got pride of place in the car multi disk....

 

[FeralSheryl]

Oops, sorry... deleted and reposted this to add summat, not it's out of synch

Anyhoo here's how it went:

For an album, it has to be "Jethro Tull - Song's from the wood " surely ?

Ooh, that gets my vote too. Brilliant album and one of my all time favourites! Forgot all about it for years (how does that happen?) then re-discovered it just before Christmas and still can't stop playing it now.

The title track for the anthem of course but every bit of the album is excellent. Nice to end the day with a little 'Fire at Midnight'.

Funny, it's the only Jethro Tull album I got into though.

Ooooo, someone else who knows Jethro Tull and Iron Maiden. Are we a nature loving bunch of rockers??

Not so sure about Iron Maiden, but early Zep and Sabbath and you're talking my language. In fact I'm sure there must be a Led Zeppelin song or two that would fit the bill. Let me think on it...

 

[FeralSheryl]

Try and get hold of stormwatch. It is the very best, most brilliant album ever made. By tull, anyway. Well, maybe. It's got pride of place in the car multi disk....

I thought I recognised your Avatar from somewhere but the penny didn't drop!
I've taken your advice and been listening to snippets of Stormwatch on Amazon. Needless to say, there's been a 1-click(ing)!

Thanks for that

 

[innocent bystander]

Well for bushcrafty led zep titles it's gotta be :

Ramble On
Travelling Riverside Blues
White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Over The Hills And Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
The Rain Song
Stairway To Heaven
Fool In The Rain

 

[Mikey P]

How about:

'Always take the weather with you' by Crowded House

Wish I could...

 

[FeralSheryl]

Well for bushcrafty led zep titles it's gotta be :

Ramble On
Travelling Riverside Blues
White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Over The Hills And Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
The Rain Song
Stairway To Heaven
Fool In The Rain

I struggled with that one myself, the titles work but the Lyrics... hmmm, not so much. Having said that Ramble On does have potential

Na, you were right the first time Songs from the Wood, it has to be. The whole album. For those unfarmiliar with it, a taster:

"Songs From The Wood"

Let me bring you songs from the wood:
to make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
it'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain
that threatens again and again
as you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

And from "Cup of Wonder" a couple of lines that kinda sum up this Forum, wouldn't you say?

Question all as to their ways,
and learn the secrets that they hold.

 

[innocent bystander]

Okay, granted, but i can counter with "under wraps", Tundra.Some of lyrics :

Tundra
Short Arctic desert day
and someone left their snow-shoes in the tundra.
Look around every which way
but I can't see just where the footprints go.
Is it a casual disappearance?
Plucked from the middle atmosphere
like straw wind-blown.
No speck on the horizon
no simple message scrawled
upon the snow.

Quite bushcrafty, no ?

 

[Spacemonkey]

Can't be arsed to read all of this, so if nobody has said it, I'll recommend any of the Lonely Planet soundtrack cds and the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans.

 

[FeralSheryl]

Okay, granted, but i can counter with "under wraps", Tundra.Some of lyrics :

Tundra
Short Arctic desert day
and someone left their snow-shoes in the tundra.
Look around every which way
but I can't see just where the footprints go.
Is it a casual disappearance?
Plucked from the middle atmosphere
like straw wind-blown.
No speck on the horizon
no simple message scrawled
upon the snow.

Quite bushcrafty, no ?

Ah this is where I show myself up and admit I'm unfamiliar with that one. See what you mean from the Lyrics though.

 

[Smithy]

I reckon: "On The Road Again" by Canned Heat or pretty much anything from Lynard Skinard.

 

[Squidders]

Killing in the name of - Rage against the machine
My boomerang won't come back - Rolf Harris

 

[Povarian]

Although I'm usualy covered by the "rocker" description, one tune I find myself humming when in the woods is "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong.

For 'Tull, it would have to be "Fire at midnight" or "Coronach". Then there's a whole host of stuff like "All right now" by free.
But mostly, I like to take my tin whistle and play something that feels right for both the mood I'm in and where I find myself.

 

[Doc]

I too like the tin whistle. Good bushcraft instrument - especially the two piece Clare whistle.

If anyone is interested, you can buy a good quality tin whistle in any music shop or on the net for £3 or £4 pounds (you want one in the key of 'D') and there is loads of tutorial material and sound files available free on the net. You will be pleasantly surprised as to how quickly you learn tunes.

What other instrument can you learn for just £3?

 

[FeralSheryl]

... "All right now" by free.
But mostly, I like to take my tin whistle and play something that feels right for both the mood I'm in and where I find myself.

Ah Free, yes "Wishing Well" is one of my Favourites.

Ya know, a tin whistle sounds like a good idea (no pun intended there). I think I might give it a try. At £3, Doc, ya can't go wrong. Then again, my Cats and my neighbours may not agree while I'm learning. The violin didn't exactly go down too well and I never did get the hang of it.

 

[MartiniDave]

I've always liked "Over the Hill and Far Away" as used as the closing theme for the Sharpe's series.

Dave

 

[Rob]

Levelling the lan, by The Levellers.

Reminds me of being a student...lol

 

[Povarian]

Then again, my Cats and my neighbours may not agree while I'm learning. The violin didn't exactly go down too well and I never did get the hang of it.

Tin whistle is relatively inoffensive. My neighbours now understand that - they can hear me murdering tunes on the tenor sax four doors down the street. ...and I hardly ever crank the guitar amp right up.

Just let the muse grab yeh.

 

[Marts]

I've always liked "Over the Hill and Far Away" as used as the closing theme for the Sharpe's series.

Dave

I always loved that too. John Tams..
"Here's forty shillings on the drum for those who volunteer to come
To 'list and fight the foe today - Over the hills and far away

O'er the hills and o'er the main, Through Flanders Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey - Over the hills and far away

When duty calls me I must go, to stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stray - Over the Hills and far away

O'er the hills………….etc.

If I should fall to rise no more, as many comrades did before
Then ask the fifes and drums to play - Over the hills and far away

O'er the hills ……….etc.

The fall in lads behind the drum. With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may - Over the hills and far away

O'er the hills…………etc.

 

[Gail]

Just has to be "It's a wonderful, wonderful life" - Black