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Title: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: bill_leader on November 24, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
November 24, 2012

Greetings from Ohio in the US!

Recently I watched a Ralph McTell Youtube video. McTell was singing his composition "A Kiss In The Rain". The song is about Anne Briggs handing off her version of "Blackwaterside" to Bert Jansch.

The Youtube video was not of high quality and as I attempted to write down the lyrics I was unable to determine key verses.

After a search of the Internet I discovered that not a single lyrics website had the words to this wonderful song.

I have joined this chat forum to ask the members to assist me, if they can, in tracking down the lyrics to McTell's song,
"A Kiss In The Rain".

Thank you!

Tom Young


Title: Re: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: Alan2 on November 24, 2012, 02:10:20 PM
The album booklet to Somewhere Down the Road (featuring the song) may have the lyrics?


Title: Re: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: SteveK on November 24, 2012, 02:26:01 PM

The album booklet to Somewhere Down the Road (featuring the song) may have the lyrics?
Indeed, the lyrics are in the booklet supplied with (at least) the CD version of "Somewhere Down the Road".


Title: Re: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: bill_leader on November 24, 2012, 02:32:46 PM

The album booklet to Somewhere Down the Road (featuring the song) may have the lyrics?


Yes, I may well have to buy the CD, if I can find a firm here in the US which offers his recent work, Somewhere Down The Road, and that the lyrics to A Kiss In The Rain are indeed enclosed.

It is a curious thing that as popular a singer as Ralph McTell is, and his excellent song about two folk legends of the 1960's, singer Anne Briggs and guitarist Bert Jansch, that a quality Youtube version of the song, and the lyrics, are absent from the Internet.

TY


Title: Re: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: John Beresford on November 25, 2012, 12:15:18 PM
Tom, try McTell's webshop:
http://shop.ralphmctell.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=81


Title: Re: Ralph McTell's "A Kiss In The Rain"
Post by: JJ (Joanna) on November 25, 2012, 02:09:18 PM

Tom, try McTell's webshop:
http://shop.ralphmctell.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=81


Good idea John, plus, please hang around here Tom and contribute and tell us what you think! Ralph makes it in Ohio! Fantastic!  ;D