Ralph McTell - Streets of London 1975 - "Good Quality"
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2012
- Ralph McTell (born Ralph May in Farnborough, Kent, England, 3 December 1944 and raised in Croydon) is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.
Ralph McTell is best known for the song "Streets of London", which has been covered by over two hundred artists around the world
McTell re-recorded "Streets of London" with bassist Rod Clements and backing vocalists Prelude. Released as a single late in 1974, it rocketed up the charts to No. 2 over the Christmas period, became a worldwide million-seller, and won McTell the Ivor Novello Award. - www.ralphmctell.co.uk/ - Courtesy Wikepedia. - Hudba
This song breaks my heart. I was on the streets for a short time in 2017 with my then boyfriend then we were lucky enough to get a little studio flat in a shared house. It was tiny but it was paradise to us after trying to sleep out in the elements for weeks. This was in summer too, I don't know how people survive winter outside. I've since moved back to my hometown where there's not a big problem with homelessness but I still think of all the people who are living on the streets of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. I make an effort to help every person I see begging now. I don't care what they spend it on. As long as it helps them cope with the situation. I live about ten miles North of Newcastle and there's loads of homeless people there too. We shouldn't have anyone living on the streets in 2022 ffs. It's not just the homeless part that gets me though, it's the lonely old man. It makes me think of my dad. If he was that old man. Oh God I'm gonna cry so I better leave it here. Beautiful song and definitely gonna be one of the first songs I attempt to play when I finally learn to play like this, picking through chords. I'm probably a good two years away from even thinking about it though
Heart warming words my mum and dad are gone but I think they are in a better place
You sound like a lovely person
A compliment to this song is Thomas Cole's four paintings Journey through Life.
I hope your doing well 💚
Homeless for most of my life believe me winter is tough but find a good sleeping bag and an underground car park that’s how I I survived
In 1975 I worked as a signal's technician at London Underground when word got around that there was a very talented guitar player singing in the underground walkways . We would then go and listen to him..he was very good. Later this song was released, and the rest is history. Many thanks Ralf
This should be called An Anthem for the Lonely and Homeless .... it makes me cry every time I hear it! Just a beautiful ballad and as important today as ever......💙💙🥲💙💙🥲💙💙
2020 Coronavirus updated verse
In March 2020, Ralph McTell agreed to write another verse to the song, inspired by the Coronavirus pandemic gripping the world at the time. The new verse is as follows:
In shop doorways, under bridges, in all our towns and cities
You can glimpse the makeshift bedding from the corner of your eye
Remember what you're seeing barely hides a human being
We're all in this together, brother, sister, you and I.[1
It is a ballad for the homeless and lonely you fucking silly twat...
Only the lonely by roy orbison
@@leewalker662 LMFAO tell us what you really think pal 😅 seriously though, An Anthem for the Lonely and Homeless doesn't quite have the same ring to it as The Streets of London does it? Obviously it IS one but the title shouldn't be a description of the song.
I still have it on cassette tape
The first song I learned to pick on the guitar. I as aged 7, and Dad wouldn't teach me to play Streets, because it would be too hard for me at my age. I taught myself instead. When he heard me play it, he gave me his guitar. I still have it, 42 years later.
That's great . Many blessings to you and your wonderful father .
Even more relevant today than all those years ago when it was written. A classic never dies
In all the years that ol' Ralph has been playing this song sadly nothing has changed.
@000matthias000 well said mon ami.
In The Netherlands it is getting worse
This song is an absolute classic, and as such never gets old.
Ralph McTell folk legend.
This song still cries out for those who are less fortunate than we are.. Always take time to chat with the homeless folk assure them of you're love.
Ich musste das Lied damals in Englisch Unterricht lernen, seit dem lässt mich das Thema nicht mehr in Ruhe.❤❤❤
Ich fühle mich nie einsam, wenn ich dieses Lied höre! Ich liebe den Text.
This song inspired me to become a musician,thanks Ralph
Hope your drems come true, im hopin for you
Beautifully rich voice. And my dads favourite song. Memories
This man saved my life. I lost my Girl and Mother in the same year. I thought it must be to be. But hope came from from his song.
Al
Chris Wilson hope you're well bro sorry for your losses keep fighting on. This song is fucking mind blowing.
So sorry for your loss
Same bro, split with my partner, lost my home family and was on the streets. Then had a serious bike crash and spent a year unable to work. This song kept me going
Take care
One of my dad's favourites. Lost him in 96 to lung cancer. Special memories
This is very moving...
My uncle ,who recently passed away played this to me as a child ,he did it so well ,memories will never fade.RIP uncle Mick X
so sorry for your loss xx
🙏🏼
Ralph McTell songs are like little stories.
Here he takes us on a tour of a city, focusing our minds on the lost and lonely.
The guitar ripples capture beautifully the fragments and impressions of a less than gentle life.
I've seen him sing/play this live very close up. Absolutely jaw dropping to observe - note perfect picking and his voice is actually richer than this...amazing.
This song did became a bit of cliché for third-rate buskers…but this belies Ralph’s brilliant voice and superlative fingerstyle technique
I learned the words of this song so that I could sing it (off key) to my daughter every night at bedtime. She loved it, but 20 years later when she hears it she says "so sad!"
I used to sing it for my little boy 20 years ago. Walking back and forth, gently rocking. It's a sad song but the melody is soothing for the youngins.
I met Ralph around 1968/9. Of course he sang this , absolutely brilliant. He gave me a plectrum and signed my blood donor's card. So did Krysia Kocjan who supported him that night. Sadly no longer with us.
Makes me bawl my eyes out every time.
Has come to my heart alot this week with the queen's passing
I think you’re kinda missing the whole point of the song
It’s about true deprivation, despair, depression and loneliness.
I can’t see that any of these phenomena are in any way linked to her
Such a beautiful song x
Such warming words
I remember years ago that the children's TV programme 'Saturday Superstore' asked the kids to enter their talented teachers into a competition, on the first week, a teacher sat and played this song on his guitar and sang it with all the emotion he could muster, he went through the elimination round every week and won the competition, rightly so!
I recall walking along of Oxford Street as a student. This guy stopped outside McDonalds, routed around in the bin found something and went straight into his mouth. Whenever I feel hard done by I think about that.
there by the grace of God.
A truly beautiful song.
One of the most hard hitting songs ever written.
Super good song🥳🥳🥳
I don't want the traditional British old songs to be lost 😭😭😭😭😭
Music is the most immediate and powerful method of contact with the spiritual realms.
60S and 70S such a lovely innocent time! love to go back for just one week!
Song for heroes and forgotten lost loved ones remember them they are decent people
One glorious day the Last shall be first & the first shall be Last!
...and nothing has changed from the 70s. My mum n dad have this on 7 inch vinyl, remember it so well. Hey kids, watch out for the chimps in suits (circa 2023) re
opening the mines!
You are right, half a century has passed and NOTHING has changed.
In fact if anything it has gotten worse.
I'm still Alive ? If you are a 60s child, please respond. I love you
.
Very good Song with serious contents. Although I am from Germany I understand every word
Because of this song, I would like to take a walk on the streets of London.
Not a good idea, full of violence.
Back when Ralph and others like him could compose and sing music, not trash. With a message.
Look harder for music. There’s still plenty of good music being produced. You just have to look harder
This is why folk music is unmatched fucking mind blowing how good this is
I remember this when it first came around. Poignant then and now.
So beautiful, such an important message delivered so sensitively and compassionately. This song means an awful lot to me.
This song always makes me count my blessings and reach an inner part of me.
You delivered this song 20 years later and i still love it ..thank you ralf
Sadness is unavoidable in our lives. But to wallow in self pity is unhealthy, often somewhat dishonest, and often driven by regrets and guilt. It clouds our eyes, closes our minds to our neighbor's plight, gets in the way of making our world just a little warmer and better. So be sad but don't exaggerate. Be honest about what drives it, and, if necessary, ask for forgiveness to begin healing and rejoining the good and necessary work of helping those in need.
Great advice
Yes not just of london now and then, it is every street in every country i think..
I didn’t feel anything when I was young, now I can feel the sad, good or bad? Luckily, I still have a warm home to stay.
A timeless classic.
this song has always made me cry,i imagine those people in the song,i feel for them
Brilliant song & lyrics....❣️
Still a great song 1975
What a great song and so well done. Thanks Ralph.
I love the sound of his voice.
His voice shows how pure his soul is...
This is the first time I've ever seen/heard this guy (I'm from Canada). He reminds me a lot of Elvis.
Great song, a classic ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏
I played this song on my guitar as an English lesson at a school in Germany!
Hi Robert,
You just sent me the link of this song via Camly. It’s so beautiful.
Thanks a lots.
@@linhtalinhtinh_ No worries...see you soon!
Always loved the song- this is the earliest version I have seen or heard. Thanks for posting.
Saw he just the other night, his voice has gotten better.
I first heard this song when i was a child in the 70s. I had no clue what it meant but after having experienced familial rejection and losing everything and being homeless for six months in 2020. I was lucky because my best friend stood by me and made sure that i could sleep on her sofa until i was finally rehoused. As a transgender woman, i wouldn't have survived a day on the streets. I am still struggling but not dead yet.
Apparently the market referred to in the first verse is Surrey Street Market in Croydon, where i used to go with my Mum.
I heard it played in a Dublin pub yesterday and immediately burst into tears. thank you Ralph McTell for caring about the unloved and the unwanted.
Hat tip to you. Admire the courage of trans people and others who are rejected and excluded but decide to stay, survive, and fight. All power to you from India
When i was a Baby my dad sang it every evening when i was in Bed. I olso dont understand it but now i am 14 and can understand english an its so Emotional for me.
Sorry to dispell your dilusional thinking but you are not a woman . Thinking that you are doesn't help you , and other people supporting your claim that you are a woman are no friends of yours . They are miss-guided liars who have been reduced to fantasy by marxist extreme left wing propagander and lies . For instance , what is your chromosome mix as regards x and y and were you born with a prostate ? You were born a biological man and you still are a biological man . Maybe it is your way of coping with the fact that you are homosexual - just as I am . And maybe , due to your upbringing and " tabbo's " around homosexuality when you were growing up ,you found it far easier to convince yourself that you are a woman and thus it wouldn't be homosexuality you had but femininity because you are a " woman " ? That is obviously pure speculation on my part because you really are only fooling yourself when you think and say that you are a woman . You are not , and as i have just proved , you are a man who likes / loves men .
Always a great song. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful song! I actually cried.
A few months before Punk. Sometimes i feel it still inside after such a long time 😊😢
Takes me back, oh the memories.
Ralph, thank you for this great song, that will go into history. I saw a different London, though.
Like all cities London has a dark underbelly just below the surface.
With all the prices going up and everything increasing in prices. Have a thought for the poor young people living on the streets. No food no bed just a peice of cardboard to sleep on. God bless them.
Still love ❤️ this song. We used to sing it at school when I was 7 years old. It used to make me cry 😢. It still moves me.
This is unplugged before MTV unplugged
This is pure class, unlike Bruno Mars this song will last forever.
Let's not mention names like that on great songs like this.
Wtf is that free shot on Bruno Mars?
Ralph McTell, a true son of Croydon.
My wonderful grandfather we sang and played this song. He died a year ago today
so sorry for your loss xx
Sorry
I love London
I use to, live there in the mid 70's was a wonderful vibrant city, not any more.
I was ten. I still remember listening this
i was only 3 lol
This song was already a hit in my home country the Netherlands in 1972, in the UK where it’s made in 1975, bit strange.
He wrote it in 1969 I believe but he may have rerecorded it in 1975.
A perfect song
Bless you Melody hope your life is getting better now x
Took me almost 30 years to realise what a man and musician he was and till is. Remember this song being released in 75 but took me all this years to realise his wonder.
I can't help it, but I think that the fashions and haircuts of that time were ridiculous. Imagine a teenager of today looking at the young people then. He is she would have a good laugh.
Beautiful...makes one weep
Thanks for listening
Lovely song.
Lots of versions .will always be ralphs song!
True👌Streets💯% Of London 🏴♥️
A song and voice for the ages.... regretfully but strangely at the same time i proudly (I don't want to desecrate this absolute classic but merely pay homage and pretend I'm even nearly as talented as the great man) I belt this tune out whenever theres a late nighter and an opportunity.....
This song gets my heart!
Mine to
great song and great voice
He was handsome
That's great it made me grateful
We sang this in school assembly every week
Amazing Singer , amazing song , Saw him in Poole last week , he was excellent !!
Sang it through with Ralph..... loved it.
Lovely. Thanks Ralph.
originally named the streets of Paris,after Ralph took a trip to France,renamed the streets of London and the rest is history as they say,
Great song love it from newfoundland canada
Absolutely fabulous song!!!!!!
Wonderful, singer, song-writer and guitarist. Saw him perform live a couple of times in the 1970s. The streets of London are very different to when this song was written. He gets a weird and pretty insulting introduction here.
Presentation is realy insulting, but ding so lovely and realy make you aware of all homeless people ❤️
Why insulting?.
O.K. kids, now we want all of you to dance to this..look like you're having a great time...shuffle around... rock out!
I know! I thought "WTF" They are dancing to this song? Maybe the shows producers told them to, which would prove how ignorant the producers were. McTell is a pro - he maintained his composure throughout.
We used to sing this at my junior school!
Fab song from 1975
The original and the best.
The one and only
TOP MAN
immer wieder schön
The early versions are the best.
Maravillosa
Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper
With his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
Arms held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news
So how can you tell me you're lonely
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and
Lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind
Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags
So how can you tell me you're lonely
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and
Lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind
In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven
Same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his teacup
Each tea lasts an hour
And he wanders home alone
So how can you tell me you're lonely
Don't say for you that the sun don't shine
Let me take you by the hand and
Lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind
Have you seen the old man
Outside the Seaman's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
In our winter city
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care
So how can you tell me you're lonely
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and
Lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind
❤
🙏🌺🎉😊
Such a sad song when you see the lyrics, especially "Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears"
Love how they dance...😂
Great song
Dale's brother?
written after a visit to Paris , but works near everywhere