Biography:
Harvey Andrews (born Harvey John Andrews, May 7, 1943 in Birmingham) is an English singer, songwriter, and poet.
From 1964, Andrews supported his nascent career as a singer/songwriter by working as a schoolteacher, before becoming a full-time professional musician in 1966.
Andrews has produced 15 successful albums singing his own songs, many of which have also been recorded by other artists.
His emotive The Soldier transmits the same quiet desperation of a soldier about to die "in conflict" as Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est
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Other songs:
- 1964
- Able Baker
- Anna My Love
- Annie In The Morning Rain
- Anon
- Autumn Song
- Birthday Boy
- Bruges
- Cheeky Young Lad
- Cousin Joe
- Downshifting
- Driving In The Middle Lane
- Fading Voices
- Fifty Years On
- Found And Loved
- Friends Till Then
- From The Heart
- Fruit And Veg
- Ghost Town
- Gift Of A Brand New Day
- Give A Damn
- Golden Pennies
- Grain Of Sand Tiny Little Sister
- Harvey Andrews
- House In The Hills
- Im Coming Home Molly
- Im Here
- Impressions
- In The Days When We Had Nothing
- Its A Wonderful Day
- Jowett Javelin
- La Jeusseliniere
- Learning The Game
- Leaving Home
- Liberation
- Life
- Little Businesses
- Living In An Ugly World
- Long Ago Far Away
- Long Long Time
- Lovely Lonely Lady
- Man From Brummagem Town
- Manet Monet
- Margarita
- Never Noticed
- Old Face
- On My Way
- One Machine
- Perfect Folk Club In The Sky
- Pg
- Pigeon
- Pinball
- Please Dont Get On The Plane
- Press Ganged
- Punch And Judy Man
- Saturdays
- She Saw Him Smile
- Simply Being Dad
- Soldier
- Somewhere In The Stars
- Song For Anne Frank
- Songs That Harry Wrote
- Sons And Daughters
- Spinning Concertinas
- Spring Again
- Take A Little Time
- The Centurion
- The Gift
- The Journey
- The Last Train
- The Navys In Dock
- The Old Tin Bath
- The Pocket Song
- The Role You Choose
- The Songwriter
- The Waiting Room
- The Way We Lived Then
- Wheels
- You Get Back What You Put In
- Youth In Age
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Able Baker
Harvey Andrews
Capo:III
This was recorded by Harvey Andrews on his 1980 vinyl album Margarita (Beeswing
Records). There is a YouTube video of him singing this song at Acoustic Routes Cambridge
in 2007
(search for 'Harvey Andrews Acoustic Routes' as the song title is not in the video
title). He plays it with the capo at fret 3 and uses the chords of the key of G but in the
video recording his tuning seems to be about a quarter tone down. Watch out for the
slight change of pattern in the second lines of verses 6 and 7.
Intro: play the chords of the first verse
G D
There hasn't been much to do for a long time
C G D G
Someone won the war they say
C G Em
But he won't give thanks to you for thinking
A7 D
We're far better off that way
G D
For he wore the wings and the runway waited
C G D G
Spitfire flies like a bird of prey
C G Em
Heinkels come again for hunting
A7 D
As they did that far off May
G D
And he rummages through all the books in view
C G D G
The belts, the badges, after something new
C G Em
He reads the novels to remind him when
A7 D
He fought beside the best of men
G D
Ghosts and shades that haunt the memory
C G D G
Words he hears but can't recall
C G Em
A place that brings a face before him
A7 D
Names upon a billet wall
G D
One more year and the boys reunion
C G D G
Finds another face not there
C G Em
Still he wears the faded ribbon
A7 D
Of the Cross and the Croix de Guerre
G D
And he flies again with the boys in blue
G C G
The Few remaining of the very few
C G Em
He tells the tales that he's told before
A7 D
And he feels again the esprit de corps
G D
With his victory roll and a mounting toll
G C G
He's a fighter pilot with an aces soul
C G Em
He drinks with boys who will soon be men
A7 D
And he wakes at dawn, he flies again
G C G D
And he flies......... again
G D G D G
Able Baker, Charlie Two and Angels Ten,
G D G
And the fields of England pass beneath the men
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G D G
Who fly again, who fly again
Harvey Andrews
Capo:III
This was recorded by Harvey Andrews on his 1980 vinyl album Margarita (Beeswing
Records). There is a YouTube video of him singing this song at Acoustic Routes Cambridge
in 2007
(search for 'Harvey Andrews Acoustic Routes' as the song title is not in the video
title). He plays it with the capo at fret 3 and uses the chords of the key of G but in the
video recording his tuning seems to be about a quarter tone down. Watch out for the
slight change of pattern in the second lines of verses 6 and 7.
Intro: play the chords of the first verse
G D
There hasn't been much to do for a long time
C G D G
Someone won the war they say
C G Em
But he won't give thanks to you for thinking
A7 D
We're far better off that way
G D
For he wore the wings and the runway waited
C G D G
Spitfire flies like a bird of prey
C G Em
Heinkels come again for hunting
A7 D
As they did that far off May
G D
And he rummages through all the books in view
C G D G
The belts, the badges, after something new
C G Em
He reads the novels to remind him when
A7 D
He fought beside the best of men
G D
Ghosts and shades that haunt the memory
C G D G
Words he hears but can't recall
C G Em
A place that brings a face before him
A7 D
Names upon a billet wall
G D
One more year and the boys reunion
C G D G
Finds another face not there
C G Em
Still he wears the faded ribbon
A7 D
Of the Cross and the Croix de Guerre
G D
And he flies again with the boys in blue
G C G
The Few remaining of the very few
C G Em
He tells the tales that he's told before
A7 D
And he feels again the esprit de corps
G D
With his victory roll and a mounting toll
G C G
He's a fighter pilot with an aces soul
C G Em
He drinks with boys who will soon be men
A7 D
And he wakes at dawn, he flies again
G C G D
And he flies......... again
G D G D G
Able Baker, Charlie Two and Angels Ten,
G D G
And the fields of England pass beneath the men
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G D G
Who fly again, who fly again
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