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]
D A D A
[Verse]
A D
The West winds blow to Coshieville
A
And with the winds came we
E7 A
And where the river hugs the wood
D A F#m
And Blackthorns bloom in May, there stood
B7 E
A single Rowan Tree
D A E7
So young and tender, so were you
A
I loved you both, as there you grew
D A F#m
The day I took the road that leads
Bm E7 A D A D
By Rannoch to the sea
[Verse]
A
We carved our names in Coshieville
D A
The Rowan leaves were still
E7 A
But the darkening West was in your eyes
D A F#m
Despite your kisses and my lies
B7 E
My thoughts had crossed the hill
D A
I broke your heart as the minutes passed
E7 A
I shrugged and said that nothing lasts
D A F#m
But many the backward glance I cast
Bm E7 A D A D A
As I went North to the drill
[Verse]
A
The big wheels rumble up and down
D A
The lorries know the way
E7 A
I waved my hand, I hitched a ride
D A F#m
We crossed the bridge at Rannoch-side
B7 E
Where the diesel motors play
D A
Then I set myself to a cliff of stone
E7 A
My ears to the boring-hammer's drone
D A F#m
But the ache inside, I rued alone
Bm E7 A D A D A
For you were far away
[Verse]
A
But the money moved from Erichts Loch
D A
And the Great Glen beckoned on
E7 A
At Norriston the hills grew pale
D A F#m
We fought and drank through old Kintail
B7 E
Till our money soon was gone
D A
And I curse Loch Aweside's autumn rain
E7 A
The winter whiskey in Dunblane
D A F#m
Till the west winds rose in the spring again
Bm E7 A D A D A
And my heart leapt at its song
[Verse]
A
Then I came at last to Coshieville
D A E7
With a dozen hills aflame
A
You had another hand to hold
D A F#m
Beneath the names we carved of old
B7 E
There was another name
D A F#m
You looked me through, you made no sign
Bm E7 A
I drank that cup of bitter wine
D A F#m
For well we knew the fault was mine
Bm E7 A D A D A
And I went the road I came
D A D A
[Verse]
A D
The West winds blow to Coshieville
A
And with the winds came we
E7 A
And where the river hugs the wood
D A F#m
And Blackthorns bloom in May, there stood
B7 E
A single Rowan Tree
D A E7
So young and tender, so were you
A
I loved you both, as there you grew
D A F#m
The day I took the road that leads
Bm E7 A D A D
By Rannoch to the sea
[Verse]
A
We carved our names in Coshieville
D A
The Rowan leaves were still
E7 A
But the darkening West was in your eyes
D A F#m
Despite your kisses and my lies
B7 E
My thoughts had crossed the hill
D A
I broke your heart as the minutes passed
E7 A
I shrugged and said that nothing lasts
D A F#m
But many the backward glance I cast
Bm E7 A D A D A
As I went North to the drill
[Verse]
A
The big wheels rumble up and down
D A
The lorries know the way
E7 A
I waved my hand, I hitched a ride
D A F#m
We crossed the bridge at Rannoch-side
B7 E
Where the diesel motors play
D A
Then I set myself to a cliff of stone
E7 A
My ears to the boring-hammer's drone
D A F#m
But the ache inside, I rued alone
Bm E7 A D A D A
For you were far away
[Verse]
A
But the money moved from Erichts Loch
D A
And the Great Glen beckoned on
E7 A
At Norriston the hills grew pale
D A F#m
We fought and drank through old Kintail
B7 E
Till our money soon was gone
D A
And I curse Loch Aweside's autumn rain
E7 A
The winter whiskey in Dunblane
D A F#m
Till the west winds rose in the spring again
Bm E7 A D A D A
And my heart leapt at its song
[Verse]
A
Then I came at last to Coshieville
D A E7
With a dozen hills aflame
A
You had another hand to hold
D A F#m
Beneath the names we carved of old
B7 E
There was another name
D A F#m
You looked me through, you made no sign
Bm E7 A
I drank that cup of bitter wine
D A F#m
For well we knew the fault was mine
Bm E7 A D A D A
And I went the road I came
Gorgon City
Gori & Nekro
Goribor
Gorilla Biscuits
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