Biography:
Gordon Bok stands out among the various artists that can be lumped into the "Traditional Folk" category. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to Camden, Maine and it was there in coastal Maine that Bok was influenced by sea-faring culture and its music. He released his first album in 1965 and in 1970 signed to Folk-Legacy records, where he released a number of solo albums, as well as many collaborations with Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett. In 1990 he began releasing music on his own label, Timberhead Music.
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Other songs:
- A Little Road And A Stone To Roll
- A Most Unpleasant Way Sir
- A Song For Angela
- A Tune For November
- All My Sailors
- Along The Famine Road
- An Diran Than Soulder
- Another Bay
- Apples In The Basket
- Astoria Bar
- Banks Of The Reedy Lagoon
- Bare
- Bay Of Fundy
- Belamena
- Bheir Me O
- Blackbird
- Boat Of Silver
- Bold Reynolds
- Broken Down Squatter
- Candlelight Fisherman
- Cannery Shed
- Canso Strait
- Cape Ann
- Changing Times
- Clear Away In The Morning
- Come By The Hills
- Connemara Cradle Song
- Coshieville
- Crossing The Water
- Dillon Bay
- Do Something
- Dublin City
- Duna
- Duncan And Brady
- Easy And Slow
- Faraway Tom
- Farewell To Nova Scotia
- Fiddler Of Dooney
- Frankie On The Sheepscot
- Freedom On The Wallaby
- Get Her Into Shore
- Going On
- Handsome Cabin Boy
- Hang On John
- Harp Song Of The Dane Women
- Herring Croon
- Hie Awa
- High Barbary
- Johnny Stewart Drover
- Shearers Lament
- Song For The Mira
- Song Of The Wheelhouse Door
- Southern Cross
- Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home
- Stone On Stone
- Stormy Weather
- Sufferin
- Swell Me Net Full
- The Angelus
- The Arbutus
- The Beaches Of Lukannon
- The Bird Rock
- The Boats Of Peters River
- The Brandy Tree
- The Bressay Lullaby
- The Kind Land
- The Last Battle
- The Liza Jane
- The Maiden Hind
- The Maiden In Birds Plumage
- The Net
- The Old Bard Song
- The Old Figurehead Carver
- The Parting Glass
- The Sands Of Dee
- The Shepherds Call
- The Stable Lad
- The Swag And The Shiner
- The Texas Song
- The Wreck Of The Green Cove
- These Dry Stone Walls
- This Old Mandolin
- Threeboot Philbricks Lament
- Tie Her Up
- Travelling People
- Trochus Boats
- Turn Ye To Me
- Turning Toward The Morning
- Waiting For The Rain
- Weary Of The Darning
- Weevily Wheat Wheat In The Ear
- Western Boat
- Where Am I To Go
- Wiscasset Schooners
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[Intro]
Am D G
[Verse]
Am
When Cobb & Co. ran coaches from the Buller to the Grey
D G
I went for a livery-stable lad in a halt up Westport way
Am G Am
And I gave my heart to a red-haired girl, and I left it where she lay
G C G D G
By the winding Westland highway from the Buller to the Grey
[Instrumental]
D G Am D G
[Verse]
Am
I've got Neatsfoot on me fingers, and lamp-black on me face
D G
I've saddle-soaped the harness and hung each piece in place
Am G Am
But my heart's not in the stable, it's in Charleston far away
G C G D G D
Where Cobb & Co. goes rolling by from the Buller to the Grey
[Verse]
G Am
There's a red-haired girl in Charleston, she's dancing in the bar
D G
And I know she's not like other girls who dance where miners are
Am G Am
And I can't forget her eyes and everything they seemed to say
G C G D G D
The day I rode with Cobb & Co. from the Buller to the Grey
[Verse]
G Am
There's a schooner down from Murchison, I can hear her in the gorge
D G
And I'll have to work the bellows now and redden up the forge
Am G Am
I'm going to strike that iron so hard, she'll hear it far away
G C G D G D
In the roaring European where the road runs by from Grey
[Verse]
G Am
Some day I'll be teamster with the ribbons in me fist
D G
And I'll drive that Cobb & Co. Express through rain and snow and mist
Am G Am
Drive a four-in-hand to Charleston, and no matter what they say
G C G D G
I'll take me girl up on the box and marry her in Grey
[Instrumental]
D G Am D G
[Verse]
Am
There's a graveyard down in Charleston where moss trails from the trees
D G
And the Westland wind comes moaning in from off the Tassman Seas
Am G Am
And it's there they laid my red-haired girl, in a pit of yellow clay
G C G D G D G
As Cobb & Co. went rolling by from the Buller to the Grey
Am D G
[Verse]
Am
When Cobb & Co. ran coaches from the Buller to the Grey
D G
I went for a livery-stable lad in a halt up Westport way
Am G Am
And I gave my heart to a red-haired girl, and I left it where she lay
G C G D G
By the winding Westland highway from the Buller to the Grey
[Instrumental]
D G Am D G
[Verse]
Am
I've got Neatsfoot on me fingers, and lamp-black on me face
D G
I've saddle-soaped the harness and hung each piece in place
Am G Am
But my heart's not in the stable, it's in Charleston far away
G C G D G D
Where Cobb & Co. goes rolling by from the Buller to the Grey
[Verse]
G Am
There's a red-haired girl in Charleston, she's dancing in the bar
D G
And I know she's not like other girls who dance where miners are
Am G Am
And I can't forget her eyes and everything they seemed to say
G C G D G D
The day I rode with Cobb & Co. from the Buller to the Grey
[Verse]
G Am
There's a schooner down from Murchison, I can hear her in the gorge
D G
And I'll have to work the bellows now and redden up the forge
Am G Am
I'm going to strike that iron so hard, she'll hear it far away
G C G D G D
In the roaring European where the road runs by from Grey
[Verse]
G Am
Some day I'll be teamster with the ribbons in me fist
D G
And I'll drive that Cobb & Co. Express through rain and snow and mist
Am G Am
Drive a four-in-hand to Charleston, and no matter what they say
G C G D G
I'll take me girl up on the box and marry her in Grey
[Instrumental]
D G Am D G
[Verse]
Am
There's a graveyard down in Charleston where moss trails from the trees
D G
And the Westland wind comes moaning in from off the Tassman Seas
Am G Am
And it's there they laid my red-haired girl, in a pit of yellow clay
G C G D G D G
As Cobb & Co. went rolling by from the Buller to the Grey
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