Anyone Remember The Limelighters

[The Lone Liberal]

I got the blues from my baby left me by the San Francisco Bay,
The ocean liner's gone so far away.
Didn't mean to treat her so bad,
She was the best girl I ever have had,
She said goodbye, I can take a cry, I want to lay down and die.

I ain't got a nickel and I ain't got a lousy dime.
She don't come back, think I'm going to lose my mind.
If she ever gets back to stay, it's going to be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay.

Sitting down looking from my back door,
Wondering which way to go,
The woman I'm so crazy about, she don't love me no more.
Think I'll catch me a freight train, 'cause I'm feeling blue,
And ride all the way to the end of the line, thinking only of you.

Meanwhile, in another city,
Just about to go insane,
Thought I heard my baby, Lord, the way she used to call my name.
If I ever get her back to stay, it's going to be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay

Loved them….great time…where does the good times go, I want to go there.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I'd rather go to Ireland.

On edit: I am decrepit enough to remember the Limelighters, LOL. But would still rather go to Ireland.

Chorus:
Armoured cars and tanks and guns
Came to take away our sons
But every man will stand behind
The Men Behind the Wire

Through the little streets of Belfast
In the dark of early morn
British soldiers came marauding
Wrecking little homes with scorn.

Heedless of the crying children
Dragging fathers from their beds
Beating sons while helpless mothers
Watched the blood flow from their heads

(Chorus).

Not for them a judge or jury
Or indeed a crime at all
Being Irish means they're guilty
So we're guilty one and all


Round the world the truth will echo
CromweIl's men are here again
England's name again is sullied
In the eyes of honest men

(Chorus).

Proudly march behind our banners
Firmly stand behind our men
We will have them free to help us
Build a Nation once again

On the people stand together
Proudly firmly on your way
Never fear, and never falter
Till the boys are home to stay.

[villager]

2. "Through Children's Eyes..."

one of the albums I grew up with.

Still love their rendition of "Morningtown Ride"

[TacticalPeek]

3. Nice tenor, IIRC. n/t

[Armstead]

4. Did you see them on the PBS folk special?

They're still at it, but I don'r recall if it was the original lineup. I do remember Alex being in it.

[OneBlueSky]

5. I remember them, and I liked some of their stuff, but . . .

their version of "San Francisco Bay Blues" can't hold a candle to Jesse Fuller's original or to many others that followed . . . just too vanilla to capture the blues essence of the song . . .