Eli the Barrow Boy | The Longest Johns (The Decemberists Cover)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A lot of you have been requesting a studio version of 'Eli the Barrow Boy' by the incredible @TheDecemberists so we finally made it happen! Tell us what other songs you want us to cover in the studio next by leaving a comment below.
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Such a sad song, but love JD singing this one.
This. I am an entertainer, myself and these guys are such an inspiration to me.
A studio version of Fare Thee Well would also be amazing 😊
And here we are only two months later 😉😍
Lyrics:
Eli, the barrow boy
Of the old town
Sells coal and marigolds
And he cries out
All down the day
Below the tamaracks
She is crying
Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying
All down the day
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
She is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
Still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day
Eli, the barrow boy
When they found him
Dressed all in corduroy
He had drowned in
The river down the way
They laid his body down in a church yard
But still when the moon is out
With his push cart
He calls down the day
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
But, I am dead and gone and lying in a church ground
And still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day
I must push my barrow all the day
I must push my barrow all the day
Thanks for this!
Yes!! This makes me very happy!
As for songs, I'd reeeeeally love a Roll Northumbria video. I miss it from Andy's chill streams, it's so beautiful in his voice.
I vote for roll northumbria too
A cover of Wreck of the Dandenong would be absolutely amazing. Bang-up job as always, lads!
Sometimes the AI that auto-generates the subtitles comes up with some gems. "What I could afford to buy my love a fine cow, made of gold and silver Caribbean threat."
It’s slightly surreal to see the infamous lampshade on the lamp, and not on Andy’s head, but I’m adequately happy to be getting a stand-alone recording of yet another livestream favorite
😂
That lamp will forever be remembered as one half of Lampdy. Its life will never be the same. Let's just hope the fame doesn't go to its head. (Or Andy's, I guess, in case they share feelings when they are joined.. Ok, now my brain is just being weird)
@@alvpyrola I mean, it’s already had fanart made of it, sooo😂
I'm out of the loop. 😄 I've seen the lamp in several of the music videos that were recorded in this room but I didn't see when it was on Andy's head lol. Was this during a live stream?
@@ProfesoraNut I replied but then I guess edited my reply too much and it glitched and vanished? 😂 I’ll try again.
Had to look it up, but yes, in the “streamship troopers” live stream (9 months ago) starting around the one hour fifteen mark, Andy puts the lampshade on his head, then ends up singing with it on.
I believe the lamp had been moved off its usual table for some reason, and it kept falling over, and Andy got fed up with it and got his revenge by wearing it. (He frequently puts things on his head/face, it’s one of the livestream bingo squares)
One of the folks on the discord even made a drawing of it, and someone made a “Lampdy” emoji for the discord.
Splendid TLJ lore😂
I'm casting my vote for Antiguan Graveyard. Loving this series!
I second this motion!!!
a cover of 'Over the Hills' form sharpe and 'Cornwall My Home' from the fishermans friends would be amazing. and a colab of you and Colm Mcguinness would awsome
"Over the Hills" is a good one. And SO MUCH YES on "Cornwall My Home". I'd not heard the song until last summer. It was one of those YT recs that went along with some non-YT research of the genealogical variety. Ancestors from Stoke Climsland. And it is definitely a beautiful song.
They NEED to do ‘Cornwall my home’!
I love this song. I used to listen to the Decemberists a ton back in school. Lots of good songs.
Same here, I forgot about this one for years. So happy to hear it from TLJ!
Can you recommend some?
@@fandyus4125 actually, you can't go wrong with any of their songs.
@@fandyus4125 They're not wrong. I probably started with songs like Chimbley Sweep, Mariner's Revenge, Annan Water, etc. But even the albums they've released the last few years have had amazing songs on them.
I'd like to note that I've only ever heard this song sung by TLJ people (first Andy, then the whole band). I love it!
Would love a studio recording of Old Bloke Pickin' on a Banjo next!
I can't stop admiring those decals on JD's guitar
His sister designed it & his wife designed the ship on the top of the neck
It must be paua? I would think..
we get lots in New Zealand, it has such lovely colours :)
Abalone inlays most likely.
absolutely gorgeous, and expensive @_@
@@thothtahuti5509 Yes, I thought that is what has been used. Paua in NZ, abalone elsewhere. Beautiful.
@@glenysr7816 huh I never knew that, I only ever heard it referred to as paua... thanks, i learned something :)
This was absolutely spectacular to listen to.
As for more songs, I absolutely love Rocky Road to Dublin, and a studio version would be awesome
Edit: For everyone who doesn't know, and I'm updating this a bit late, but they released both a studio recording (on C-Sides) and music video for Rocky Road to Dublin
Please! I love the rocky road to dublin!
I loved Planxty’s version and the Dubliners but these guys do a great job.
Another beautiful and adequate job! Would love to hear you cover Scarborough Fair and My Mother Told Me!
+1 on Scarborough fair!
I love "My Mother Told Me". A version by TLJ would be magic.
There are so many that I would love to hear official recordings for, but I am going to keep requesting Star of the County Down. Love you, lads.
So sad and so beautiful! I'd also love a studio version of "Sailor Ain't A Sailor".
Wish I could play this on Spotify so I don’t have to keep listening to UA-cam ads when I replay it 1000 times
Roll Northumbria would be an excellent song to cover! Fantastic job with this one guys!
Thank you for doing a stand alone cover of this song I have had it stuck in my head all week. As for future videos "Oh Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" would be a great American folk song to cover or "The Downeaster Alexa" by Billy Joel.
I'm once more coming before you to humbly request a cover of White Squall. You guys do Excellent with Stan Rogers older songs, and this is my personal favorite of his.
This is beautiful. I'm still hoping for covers of Vin Garbutt's Blue Sunset or G. Lightfoot's Big Blue🐳, but this one has made me think of Whiskey on a Sunday, which I first heard by Max Boyce, but decades later, I turned a corner in Whitby to see a busker perform it, complete with the two dancing dolls on planks. Silly grin and tears all at once!
This is absolutely lovely.
Hanging Johnny anyone?
Big Iron by Marty Robbins
I think this is, in my opinion, the most beautiful one you've done yet. I actually like it way more than the original.
A cover of Dawson's Christian by Julia Ecklar, Vic Tyler and Ernie Mansfield would be fantastic!
Seconded!
So many songs from Free Fall and Other Delights would be grand, truly.
Hear, hear!
What a beautiful cover!! I'd love to hear a studio recording of Corncrake, I still listen to the kitchen table version because it's one of my favorites!
Casting a vote for Nebraska once again, loved it from the chill streams
These guys are as good as the icons of folk music I watched in the 60’s and 70’s.
You guys are amazing! Thanks for all the work you guys do to perform such great music.
It would be a long time dream come true if you guys played Low Bridge (the Eerie Canal song). There are no good records of it on UA-cam, and it is a great folk song (and fairly watery to boot), and I'm sure you guys would do it great honor.
Would love to see Sixteen Tons performed by you guys!
love your music, i was struggling for a long time to find my music taste as a young adult, but eventually found that folk and sailor type songs just really were what i enjoyed, you have been a big part in that discovery, ive noticed one song from a stream that hasnt gotten its own video was "Hard On The Beach Oar", i looked for a while wondering where i had heard it and it was from a stream of yours im over 90% sure
Beautiful cover! I love the Decemberists! “The King is Dead” is one of my favorite albums. The guitarist from R.E.M. plays on it too.
I'd love to see a video for Old Bloke Pickin' on a Banjo or Barrett's Privateers
Definitely a melancholy song. Surmising here… Since selling coal and marigolds can’t make him much he’s very sad. His girlfriend died and he couldn’t afford a nice robe to bury her in. His grief then was so overwhelming that he drowned himself, and he now “haunts” the area still pushing his wheelbarrow.
Absolutely beautiful boys, one of my favourites of yours, so nice to have a proper recording. Any chance of Chemical Workers/Mining for Gold in the future?
Also a little question about JD's gorgeous guitar, what's the inlay done with, is it Pāua?
I believe I have a new TLJ favourite!
I love all their songs, but those led by JD are perfection!
A song I would love a studio cover of you guys doing would be; Old Moke Picking on the Banjo
Best version of this song I have ever heard, including the Decemberists' own version. Please try and get it on your next album🙏
I would love to see then cover "Sleeping in the cold below"
They did such a great job on we all lift together (which is from the same game)
Yeah, this one - like many of your best - is really strengthened by ya'll taking advantage of your split harmonies. Every time I'm sure I'm able to hear all 4 of ya, I love it most. Good choice for a cover, plays to the lead's strengths and the 3 instruments well, too.
What a lovely song,
as for what to record next, would love to hear Old bloke picking on a banjo, it has such good energy.
Great cover. I would love to hear Call for Soldiers by poor man’s poison
I'd love if you guys could cover Shine On by the Porters. I think your melodies and vibe will suit it very well.
I'd be interested to hear y'all do Diggy Diggy hole.
A beautiful sad song. I'll definitely look up The Decemberists.
You guys should cover “Molly May” by J. P. Cormier! Such a good sailing song!!
Can't stop listening! Your music always reminds me of my college days, when we used to sing together around the campfire. This is a great ghost song, and would have been much loved.
I Ride an Old Paint is a nice old cowboy song that would go great with Andy's banjo. 🤗
This is one of my favorite songs!! Thank you so much for this cover, you guys gave us an amazing version of this beautiful song!
I almost made it all the way through without crying. But now I can't stop.. So beautiful, so sad, such lovely voices and harmonies.
Does this mean I will have another song that makes me cry while I'm playing Minecraft? How rude. I mean thank you. Thank you for bringing beautiful things into the world
Crying whilst minecrafting is dangerous. Too easy to fall in a deep hole and die (she says, from experience)😅
@@jessinthegarden Yeah, exploring a huge scary cave wasn't the best when The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald started playing... I had to pause the game for a bit. For some reason my vision got really bad all of a sudden.
@@alvpyrola I’m sure I don’t know what you mean… also not familiar with thinking “huh, that’s a nice extra layer of music, wonder what that’s…. Ohhh Minecraft music is still playing. Oops.” Nope. Not me 😂
I have multiple youtube mixes jammed full of longest johns vids, and also a playlist on Spotify that is 70% or so the same, that I listen to at work... the odds of tearing up are decent.
Beautiful; thank you 🙏
Wow!
Absolutely loved the cover!
Would love a studio version of Rocky Road to Dublin or Chicken on a Raft!
The Decemberists are my favourite band, so this is a delightful treat, and I love this version.
Amazing work like always, Can't wait for the next one.
Might I suggest a cover of "C'mon down by Poor Man's Poison" or "Royal Oak by The Jolly Rogers"
I love this one, wonderfully sad. JD killed it!
Speaking of sad, how about And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, seeing as Anzac Day is coming?
My hats off to you boys.
Cheers from wilmington, North Carolina. Usa
The two bands I saw live last year: The Decemberists and The Longest Johns!
gorgeous cover as always
Great cover & the inlay on that guitar is glorious
I love your covers. Always leaving it recognizable but adding that bit that makes it yours. As you have already covered Stan Rogers I wondered if you thought of Northwest Passage, Fogarty's Cove or Giant? I'm from New Scotland (Nova Scotia) and would love to hear more from over here played over there. Thanks for making your music.
I'm in love with The Decemberists and The Longest Johns.
I'd love one of South Australia
A few suggestions:
Leave a light on,
Man of constant sorrow,
Come out ye black and tans,
Skye boat song,
Lean on me,
Green Fields of France
Fare Thee Well - Dinks song please. Would love to see a studio version of this.
Excellent version! Sad but beautiful.
As always lots of good suggestions already here. "Dawson's Christian" (by Vic Tyler from the Carmen Miranda's Ghost album which is a Leslie Fish and Vic Tyler collab) is possibly my first choice. But there are others on the same album. "Some Kind of Hero", "Guardians", "Sam Jones" are my other faves. But really, it's space exploration which has a huge nautical theme to the language (astronaut, space ships, naval terms for crew of said space ships) AND "Dawson's Christian" is a ghost story on top of that. As is "Guardians". "Some Kind of Hero" and "Sam Jones" both have the theme of sacrifice for their fellow man kind of theme. But filk aside...
"Over the Hills" from Sharpe, "Cornwall My Home", "Witch of the Westmoreland" (the music of the Stan Rogers version but preserving Archie Fisher's lyrics), "Wreck of the Athens Queen" is another Stan Rogers song. And my personal non-sea themed song by Stan Rogers, "Field Behind the Plow" are all good too.
Sorry to ventilate your pressure chamber there, but Dawson's Christian is not originally by Vic Tyler. It is far older, as far as I can tell it is by a guy named Duane Elms. Also, I don't like Vic's version, it is too weak and twangy. Try to find Vixy and Tony's interpretation of that song, it is much better.
@@ctw30002000 Not blowing my mind at all. I am well aware of who wrote "Dawson's Christian" (and have noted that in prior comments). In fact I've heard a 1987 version that appears to be by Duane Elms. I have also heard Vixy and Tony's version. And one by Larry Warner. And another one that's Vic Tyler, Kristoph Klover, and Ben Lange. And here's the thing. I like all 5 versions! Though Vixy and Tony's version is a bit heavy on the drum, violin and cello. But because I was also listing the other songs on Carmen Miranda's Ghost, that is the one I chose to use as an example. And if you want to go on which version is older, of course the writer's is older (1987) though not much older than Vic Tyler's (1989), Larry Warner (1990), Vixy & Tony (2016) and the Tyler, Klover, Lange version which is titled a "Retro Filk Mix" from a 6 track EP from Prometheus Music that just came out this year.
I'd love to hear you guys take a whack at The Mermaid.
Not sure of the origin, but it's been described as a traditional sea shanty and this version begins with :
It was Friday morn when we set sail
And we were not so far from the land
When our captain, he spied a mermaid so fair
With a comb and a glass in her hand
I'd like to request a cover of "rueben james" or "sloop john b" by the Kingston trio, I'd love to hear it from yall!
How about Wreck of the Dandenong next? Or Chemical Workers?
All of these have been so good. Would love a studio cover of Shenandoah sometime, you did it on one of the streams with Lucy and the harmonies were just incredible
Of all their songs that I love, this song s my favorite.
Anything by the Decemberists would be amazing to hear covered by y’all, but if I had to request specifics I would give it to either The Mariner’s Revenge or From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)
I'm a fan of The High Kings, who have a similar..ish style of music to y'all's. (Although I will say that I think you transcend any one genre. 😸) Some of my favorites of theirs are 'The Fields Of Athenry', 'Raglan Road', 'Red Is The Rose' and
'Green Fields Of France'. It would be great to see you guys sing any or all of these. I'm quite sure they would sound phenomenal with some special TLJ 'TLC' added.
I hope The Decemberists let this version stay up, as any other version of this song was struck down for copyright reasons, even a TLJ cover from a stream way back in 2020
I'd love an official release of Mining for Gold/Chemical Workers please!!
As far as “what next,” these livestream favorites are really hitting so great. Maybe “Shallow Brown”? Loved that on the last stream❤
I'd love to hear Fare Thee Well/Dink's Song next! Absolutely love that one to bits!
Would love a studio version of Fish in the Sea!
I always enjoy the songs you guys play. Almost always one of the best versions I've heard. I'd love to hear Cornwall My Home - Harry Glasson or Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers. I feel you'd do both well.
Definitely "skipper Yan rebek" is my vote.
Loved the joke verses you added on stream ages ago
Much love for Eli. Would love a studio version of "High Barbary" at some point. :)
One of my favorite songs ever
Nicely done! Loved the additional vocal harmonies. I imagine Colin and the rest of the gang are pleased with it. :)
I would love a Shawnee Town cover!
Great stuff. Also, thanks Longest Johns, for making me realize my lampshade has been upside down for years.
my happiness at hearing you cover this is utterly inappropriate for the sadness of the song but god i am genuinely just sitting here grinning at the screen. this is perfect
Wow! Love The Infanta from the album this is from, I'll have to go through their other tracks now
So lovely. I'm so glad my son turned me on to you guys.
Man oh man. This has become one of new favorites. I just listen to 'em over and over 'till I get sick of it, y'all. 😆 I don't foresee that happening any time soon. Very somber, but very cool song. Love y'alls version. Sounds amazing 😊
These are all so good! Studio versions of Antiguan Graveyard or Rattling Bog would be amazing!
Seconding the request for "Dawson's Christian" by Elms/Tyler and adding "We Have Fed Our Sea" by Kipling/Bellamy
Another amazing cover, you guys absolutely nailed it. I would love to see you do Lies by Stan Rogers.
this is one of my favorite songs. it was incredible to search for covers of it on yt and find your old recordings from back in the day. thank you so much!
Love this song! Hope JD would release a guitar tutorial soon
Could Y'all please do a cover of Roll Northumbria. It sounded amazing in Andy's chill streams!
Chemical workers is my song suggestion
This aged well
The prophet speaks!
I've never heard this song before but this cover was beautiful
amazing job, I love all your songs, this one was a lost treasure, thank you for doing it. could you so bully in the alley, please?
I guess the Wreck of the Dandenong would be a nice one
This turned out so beautiful and sad. As for the next one, "Ghost from the Barrow" could be an interesting one. Or "Star of the County Down".
I would love for you to do roll Northumbria
I'd love to hear you guys do a cover of The Apple Tree Wassail ( the one sung by the dreadnoughts and Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews). I'm sure a TLJ version would be amazing.