Biography:
“There's a song in there somewhere," sings Dave Gunning optimistically on his seventh album We're All Leaving, but the Pictou County, Nova Scotia performer is being far too modest.
Scoring three 2010 East Coast Music Award Nominations for Songwriter, Male Solo Recording and FACTOR Recording of the Year, and recently named as a Finalist in the Great American Song Contest and International Songwriting Competition for his song, Before The Morning Sun (co-written by James Keelaghan), Gunning is on the move.
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Other songs:
- April Girl
- As Far As This Town Goes
- Ashen Town
- Banks Of Sicily
- Before The Morning Sun
- Big Shoes
- Broom O The Cowdenknowes
- Christmas Blanket
- Colleen Malone
- Cowboys Dream
- Daddys Beer
- Do You Feel What I Feel
- Dust To Dust
- Fade On The Line
- Hard Workin Hands
- Here She Comes A Running
- House By The Stream
- House For Sale
- House Painted Green
- Kate O The Gowrie
- Love Fell In
- Made On A Monday
- New Highway
- Pasadena
- Pills Of White Mercury
- Prince Of Pictou
- Saltwater Hearts
- Shadow Over Me
- Shadows
- Silver Bells
- Smiths Rock
- Something Im Missing
- Sound The Pibroch
- The Colour Of Gone
- The Long Black Veil
- The Miners Song
- The Road Ahead
- The Weight Of My Guitar
- These Roads
- They Dont Do That No More
- Tie Me Down
- Time Slips Away
- Too Soon To Turn Back
- Twilight
- Twitters Song
- Were All Leaving
- When The Cold Weather Comes
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Pills of White Mercury
Dave Gunning
G Am C D
As I was walking by the banks of the Ugie
G Am C D
Come my dear fellows and a story I will tell
G Am C D
I spied a dear comrade, dressed in white flannel
G C D G
Dressed in white flannel and cruel was his fate
G Am C D
The mercury was beating, the limestone was reeking
G Am C D
His tongue all in flamed hung over his chin
G Am C D
With a hole in his bosom, his teeth were a closin'
G C D G
Bad luck to the girl who gave it to him
[Chorus]
G Am C D
And had she but told me, when she dis honoured me
G Am C D
Had she but told me of it in time
G Am C D
I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury
G C D G
But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime
G Am C D
My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided
G Am C D
With those young flash girls do not sport and play
G Am C D
But I never listened, no I never heeded
G C D G Chorus
I just carried on in my own wicked way
G Am C D
It was down on the corner two flash girls were talking
G Am C D
One to the other in a whisper did say
G Am C D
There goes that young man who once was so jolly
G C D G Chorus
But now for his sins his poor body must pay
G Am C D
Oh doctor, dear doctor be fore you de parture
G Am C D
Take all these bottles of mercury away
G Am C D
And send for the minister to say a prayer over me
G C D G
Then you can lay my poor body in the clay
G Am C D
Now get you six fellows to carry my coffin
G Am C D
Six pretty fair maids to bear up my pall
G Am C D
And give each of them a bunch of red roses
G C D G Chorus
So when they pass by me they'll not know the smell
Dave Gunning
G Am C D
As I was walking by the banks of the Ugie
G Am C D
Come my dear fellows and a story I will tell
G Am C D
I spied a dear comrade, dressed in white flannel
G C D G
Dressed in white flannel and cruel was his fate
G Am C D
The mercury was beating, the limestone was reeking
G Am C D
His tongue all in flamed hung over his chin
G Am C D
With a hole in his bosom, his teeth were a closin'
G C D G
Bad luck to the girl who gave it to him
[Chorus]
G Am C D
And had she but told me, when she dis honoured me
G Am C D
Had she but told me of it in time
G Am C D
I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury
G C D G
But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime
G Am C D
My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided
G Am C D
With those young flash girls do not sport and play
G Am C D
But I never listened, no I never heeded
G C D G Chorus
I just carried on in my own wicked way
G Am C D
It was down on the corner two flash girls were talking
G Am C D
One to the other in a whisper did say
G Am C D
There goes that young man who once was so jolly
G C D G Chorus
But now for his sins his poor body must pay
G Am C D
Oh doctor, dear doctor be fore you de parture
G Am C D
Take all these bottles of mercury away
G Am C D
And send for the minister to say a prayer over me
G C D G
Then you can lay my poor body in the clay
G Am C D
Now get you six fellows to carry my coffin
G Am C D
Six pretty fair maids to bear up my pall
G Am C D
And give each of them a bunch of red roses
G C D G Chorus
So when they pass by me they'll not know the smell
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