Biography:
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.
Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….
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- Tell Me Its Not True
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- The Plooman Laddies
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Barbara Dickson - Johnnie Cope
[INTRO:] Dm
[VERSE 1:]
Cope sent a letter tae Dunbar
C
Saying, "Charlie, meet me an ye daur
F C F C
And I'll learn ye the arts o' war
Dm Am Dm
If you meet me in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 2:]
Fye, noo Johnnie, gets up and run
C
The Hi'land bagpipes mak a din
F C F C
It's better tae sleep in a hale skin
Dm Am Dm
For it'll be a bloody morning
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 3:]
When Charlie looked the letter upon
C
He drew his sword the scabbard from
F C F C
"Follow me, my merry men
Dm Am Dm
And we'll meet Johnnie Cope in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 4:]
When Johnnie Cope tae Dunbar cam
C
They spiered at him, "Where's a' your men?"
F C F C
"The De'il confound me, I dinnae ken
Dm Am Dm
For I left them all in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 5:]
Then, "Faith", quo' Johnnie, "I got sic fegs
C
Wi' their claymores and their philabegs
F C F C
Cannae face them again, De'il brak ma legs
Dm Am Dm
And I bid you's all 'Good morning'"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[INTRO:] Dm
[VERSE 1:]
Cope sent a letter tae Dunbar
C
Saying, "Charlie, meet me an ye daur
F C F C
And I'll learn ye the arts o' war
Dm Am Dm
If you meet me in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 2:]
Fye, noo Johnnie, gets up and run
C
The Hi'land bagpipes mak a din
F C F C
It's better tae sleep in a hale skin
Dm Am Dm
For it'll be a bloody morning
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 3:]
When Charlie looked the letter upon
C
He drew his sword the scabbard from
F C F C
"Follow me, my merry men
Dm Am Dm
And we'll meet Johnnie Cope in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 4:]
When Johnnie Cope tae Dunbar cam
C
They spiered at him, "Where's a' your men?"
F C F C
"The De'il confound me, I dinnae ken
Dm Am Dm
For I left them all in the morning"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[VERSE 5:]
Then, "Faith", quo' Johnnie, "I got sic fegs
C
Wi' their claymores and their philabegs
F C F C
Cannae face them again, De'il brak ma legs
Dm Am Dm
And I bid you's all 'Good morning'"
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
[CHORUS:]
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
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