Morningtown Ride Lyrics And Guitar Chords
The sheet music is included and suitable for playing on the flute. Not an Irish song but a folk song. The easy guitar chords are in G Major. Written by Malvina Reynolda and recorded by The Seekers 1966. Tin whistle sheet music included.There's also a version of the chords in the key of D. The Seekers play the song in the key of G Major. The last piece of sheet music in D Major has the banjo intro included. Morningtown ride tenor ukulele tab now added.
The Seekers Play This Song in this easy key of G just like this version.
[G]Train whistle blowin',
[C]Makes a sleepy [G]noise;
[C]Underneath their [G]blankets
Go [Am]all the girls and [D]boys.
[G]Rockin', rollin', ridin',
[C]Out along the [G]bay,
[C]All bound for [G]Morningtown,
[D]Many miles a[G]way.
[G]Driver at the engine,
[C]Fireman rings the [G]bell,
[C]Sandman swings the [G]lantern
To [Am]show that all is [D]well.
[G]Maybe it is raining
[C]Where our train will [G]ride;
[C]All the little [G]travellers
Are [Am]warm and snug in[D]side.
[G]Somewhere there is sunshine,
[C]Somewhere there is [G]day,
[C]Somewhere there is [G]Morningtown,
[Am]Many miles a[D]way.
[G]Train whistle blowin',
[C]Makes a sleepy [G]noise;
[C]Underneath their [G]blankets
Go [Am]all the girls and [D]boys.
[G]Rockin', rollin', ridin',
[C]Out along the [G]bay,
[C]All bound for [G]Morningtown,
[D]Many miles a[G]way.
[G]Driver at the engine,
[C]Fireman rings the [G]bell,
[C]Sandman swings the [G]lantern
To [Am]show that all is [D]well.
[G]Maybe it is raining
[C]Where our train will [G]ride;
[C]All the little [G]travellers
Are [Am]warm and snug in[D]side.
[G]Somewhere there is sunshine,
[C]Somewhere there is [G]day,
[C]Somewhere there is [G]Morningtown,
[Am]Many miles a[D]way.
Morning town ride the seekers sheet music score
Note - The letter notes version is set in a different key than the tin whistle sheet music and is not suited for a D whistle.
Morningtown ride tenor ukulele tab
Included below is the full sheet music score for Morningtown Ride By The Seekers
The below sheet music for Morningtown Ride is in the key of D Major. That small piece at the beginning is the Banjo intro.
Morningtown Ride Guitar Tab
Interviews with The Seekers
Will please welcome our good friend Australia's good friends the original seeker who had hits with I'll Never Find Another You , Morningtown Ride and The Carnival Is Over to see yours is butt up good to see you Bruce well before this absolutely monumental tour began in the the times leading up a lot of people would say to television come peers like myself you know what happened to thee to the guys will Ethel guy here with no pun intended I mean since the breaking up with the original seekers went on to become a politician and extremely wealthy man Judith Dharam weren't a
great success with her husband Ron playing and singing and writing beautiful music Bruce over here Bruce Woodley one of Australia's finest jingle writers he went on from success to success and Keith Vodka he continued in his search he's successful search for the fountain of eternal youth he's the one who looked at a different does it it really is just sit here and see you face us together again tell us about the the happenings around Australia well it's just been
wonderful but we've finished our 80 first concert in Brisbane the other night back for two more here in Melbourne on Sunday a second show has already gone but there's a nice matinee in the afternoon and that will finish the concert tour and we did five private shows before that so that's eighty six we've racked up in a fairly short period of time and it's just been I can't find the words to describe us it's been a wonderful experience everybody's come along and of course they're what they're
their families with them who didn't really know us when we were together in the 60s and it's just been one of life's great experiences we've got the clue thereto as to what happened 25 years ago the reason for the breakup at will talk too much that was that Judith to you I suppose you were the key I mean they had to get the girl back into the Seekers the original seekers to do this sort of tour did they have to really do a lot of hard talking well they've always been lots of invitations
you know many many requests from the public and the media and the boys for various reasons but you know I've always been very happy doing what I was doing but it seemed to me that there was a real need for people just asked so much to just experience it one more time and with the 25th year coming up since we'd all been together it seemed like a lovely idea to celebrate that year as a very special year just seemed to me to that's that horrific car accident that you had which I mean there's always a
good side to everything and the the fine side of that was of course that people right around Australia in the world showed their support and their love for you did that have something to do with your decision to do it one more time well I think that our nur ability was certainly shown to me in that way very much a part of it being possible is the fact that we are all fit and well and that we're all geographically in the same place and after the car accident with two factors I mean they weren't
certainly the only catalysts but one was that I was still alive and geographically I'd been dumped in Melbourne by the helicopter when I came to the Alford hospital for treatment and of course with the 25th year coming up there were so many so many reasons it was quite a bit was obviously just meant to be so many pluses yet to you Bruce is the writer of so much of the material for the group over the years as a been a special buzz for you it's as Ethel said it's hard to describe the the warmth and
goodwill that flowed out from those audiences that were so happy to be there and listened to those songs and we did do it wasn't just total nostalgia we introduced very carefully some new appropriate songs into the show so from a musical point of view it was very satisfying yeah all the reviews have just been absolutely amazing of course you Keith it was an unbreaking change for you because you you continued to music and you work with either new seekers just after the the parting of
the the originals but I guess for you too because you personally had been through so many of those of those groups it must have been a terrific bounce for you yes it was amazing well Ethel and I were there at the outset even before the Seekers in a group called the skort so but we strangely enough didn't get any standing ovations with the escort you did it for me I sneaky water dive then you were so cheated was cheap as in terms of payment having to sit on in years how many how many groups have
you formed over the years one two three by three really yes yes court and the Ramblas grammar is the france-presse but yeah I had another director for that called the tri nameks and yes that was my start and when the tri nameks and the Ramblers broke up that was athel's and my start in the in the business together and it went on well almost unbroken since 1959 I suppose I've gotten Bruce and leave us not forget Morris Cox moonshine v oh yes yes hot pan very hot band if I die before
slow learner yes but it was had wonderful memories of that band which mind so easily that they were on I have memories of that they were great and I was on many chests you know jazz concerts at that Melbourne Town Hall and Bruce's group was on the same bill which is quite amazing you happy see you with the Jazz be back at me over yes jillyfell I suppose any other company has asked you this but I public I can because we're all close friends long before you you met Ron and you know I've
got attached and then became married my whole thing did any of these blokes ever you know um I can anyway it all the time really I have to die yeah what happens I think that was one time that you're madly in love with the one girl weren't you yeah well actually I I had a crush on each one of them in various stages but I wore off of today one was a bit shy y'all be sleep yeah we were - yes that was one thing about the guys and the signal always very shy boys yeah what about the chance of going to to
Europe well the album Bert which now is nearly double platinum in Australia I think it's done better hundred and twenty five-plus be nice to see get to the doubles yes is being released in February in the UK and they'd like us to go across and and promote that in there's talk of some concerts at that time if it's appropriate just just talk perhaps Bruce about those very early years will show some vision of of a group that really I mean took Australia then the world by storm it wasn't
extraordinary wasn't it it certainly was the Seekers through timing and circumstance arrived in the middle of a rock-and-roll revolution in England and of course by the very nature of what we did stood out like a beacon you know when we got the opportunity to be exposed luckily a look at the look at mother yes to the English comment there you go that's me in the audience that's later rata Rove it yeah but it's like the all expression silence screams loudest I mean here we
have a melodic harmonized music and we can do it exactly exactly there's McMorrow giving your low-key member back elite the first time Vic Morrow he was a great ad-lib it become a record him saying good night strippers yes right expected yeah what about what about the possibility of something of a more permanent nature for the original seekers who and I'll anyone take up that question well we get the same answer that we're all from all this but you could ask that I'm sure it's to
reunion and it's been very special and we don't want anything to change that it's a one-off and it's doing what it was meant to do anything terrific it really is so it's been the mazing situation the last couple of months with the concerts and with the record going so strongly and now with the possibility of going to England here's just a an example of the sort of work these people have been doing on this tour and wow them everywhere they've played stained abandon early this day
this time and very directionally history and boundaries day oh that's all I want to say that is it's that as a result of the stuff you've been doing over the last couple of months I don't wanna meet you guys I want to be Jamaica good luck to your Keith Bruce Judith an apple and greatest toy the thing is there has never been a more successful resettlement to you there are three concerts over the weekend there is one one matinee which is not sold out it's a 2 pm.
Will please welcome our good friend Australia's good friends the original seeker who had hits with I'll Never Find Another You , Morningtown Ride and The Carnival Is Over to see yours is butt up good to see you Bruce well before this absolutely monumental tour began in the the times leading up a lot of people would say to television come peers like myself you know what happened to thee to the guys will Ethel guy here with no pun intended I mean since the breaking up with the original seekers went on to become a politician and extremely wealthy man Judith Dharam weren't a
great success with her husband Ron playing and singing and writing beautiful music Bruce over here Bruce Woodley one of Australia's finest jingle writers he went on from success to success and Keith Vodka he continued in his search he's successful search for the fountain of eternal youth he's the one who looked at a different does it it really is just sit here and see you face us together again tell us about the the happenings around Australia well it's just been
wonderful but we've finished our 80 first concert in Brisbane the other night back for two more here in Melbourne on Sunday a second show has already gone but there's a nice matinee in the afternoon and that will finish the concert tour and we did five private shows before that so that's eighty six we've racked up in a fairly short period of time and it's just been I can't find the words to describe us it's been a wonderful experience everybody's come along and of course they're what they're
their families with them who didn't really know us when we were together in the 60s and it's just been one of life's great experiences we've got the clue thereto as to what happened 25 years ago the reason for the breakup at will talk too much that was that Judith to you I suppose you were the key I mean they had to get the girl back into the Seekers the original seekers to do this sort of tour did they have to really do a lot of hard talking well they've always been lots of invitations
you know many many requests from the public and the media and the boys for various reasons but you know I've always been very happy doing what I was doing but it seemed to me that there was a real need for people just asked so much to just experience it one more time and with the 25th year coming up since we'd all been together it seemed like a lovely idea to celebrate that year as a very special year just seemed to me to that's that horrific car accident that you had which I mean there's always a
good side to everything and the the fine side of that was of course that people right around Australia in the world showed their support and their love for you did that have something to do with your decision to do it one more time well I think that our nur ability was certainly shown to me in that way very much a part of it being possible is the fact that we are all fit and well and that we're all geographically in the same place and after the car accident with two factors I mean they weren't
certainly the only catalysts but one was that I was still alive and geographically I'd been dumped in Melbourne by the helicopter when I came to the Alford hospital for treatment and of course with the 25th year coming up there were so many so many reasons it was quite a bit was obviously just meant to be so many pluses yet to you Bruce is the writer of so much of the material for the group over the years as a been a special buzz for you it's as Ethel said it's hard to describe the the warmth and
goodwill that flowed out from those audiences that were so happy to be there and listened to those songs and we did do it wasn't just total nostalgia we introduced very carefully some new appropriate songs into the show so from a musical point of view it was very satisfying yeah all the reviews have just been absolutely amazing of course you Keith it was an unbreaking change for you because you you continued to music and you work with either new seekers just after the the parting of
the the originals but I guess for you too because you personally had been through so many of those of those groups it must have been a terrific bounce for you yes it was amazing well Ethel and I were there at the outset even before the Seekers in a group called the skort so but we strangely enough didn't get any standing ovations with the escort you did it for me I sneaky water dive then you were so cheated was cheap as in terms of payment having to sit on in years how many how many groups have
you formed over the years one two three by three really yes yes court and the Ramblas grammar is the france-presse but yeah I had another director for that called the tri nameks and yes that was my start and when the tri nameks and the Ramblers broke up that was athel's and my start in the in the business together and it went on well almost unbroken since 1959 I suppose I've gotten Bruce and leave us not forget Morris Cox moonshine v oh yes yes hot pan very hot band if I die before
slow learner yes but it was had wonderful memories of that band which mind so easily that they were on I have memories of that they were great and I was on many chests you know jazz concerts at that Melbourne Town Hall and Bruce's group was on the same bill which is quite amazing you happy see you with the Jazz be back at me over yes jillyfell I suppose any other company has asked you this but I public I can because we're all close friends long before you you met Ron and you know I've
got attached and then became married my whole thing did any of these blokes ever you know um I can anyway it all the time really I have to die yeah what happens I think that was one time that you're madly in love with the one girl weren't you yeah well actually I I had a crush on each one of them in various stages but I wore off of today one was a bit shy y'all be sleep yeah we were - yes that was one thing about the guys and the signal always very shy boys yeah what about the chance of going to to
Europe well the album Bert which now is nearly double platinum in Australia I think it's done better hundred and twenty five-plus be nice to see get to the doubles yes is being released in February in the UK and they'd like us to go across and and promote that in there's talk of some concerts at that time if it's appropriate just just talk perhaps Bruce about those very early years will show some vision of of a group that really I mean took Australia then the world by storm it wasn't
extraordinary wasn't it it certainly was the Seekers through timing and circumstance arrived in the middle of a rock-and-roll revolution in England and of course by the very nature of what we did stood out like a beacon you know when we got the opportunity to be exposed luckily a look at the look at mother yes to the English comment there you go that's me in the audience that's later rata Rove it yeah but it's like the all expression silence screams loudest I mean here we
have a melodic harmonized music and we can do it exactly exactly there's McMorrow giving your low-key member back elite the first time Vic Morrow he was a great ad-lib it become a record him saying good night strippers yes right expected yeah what about what about the possibility of something of a more permanent nature for the original seekers who and I'll anyone take up that question well we get the same answer that we're all from all this but you could ask that I'm sure it's to
reunion and it's been very special and we don't want anything to change that it's a one-off and it's doing what it was meant to do anything terrific it really is so it's been the mazing situation the last couple of months with the concerts and with the record going so strongly and now with the possibility of going to England here's just a an example of the sort of work these people have been doing on this tour and wow them everywhere they've played stained abandon early this day
this time and very directionally history and boundaries day oh that's all I want to say that is it's that as a result of the stuff you've been doing over the last couple of months I don't wanna meet you guys I want to be Jamaica good luck to your Keith Bruce Judith an apple and greatest toy the thing is there has never been a more successful resettlement to you there are three concerts over the weekend there is one one matinee which is not sold out it's a 2 pm.
well tell me Kate how does it feel to be back on the Australian soil once again fantastic John we came in on a an Air India flight and the little captain was saying oh we are getting very close to
Fremantle know a person we're saying we great I hope you got a very fabulous Australian welcome here anyway it was good yeah and how does it feel you know being back in Australia after the cold
freezing weather in in England actually we'd like to say it with : freezing but we had some terrific weather in England we arrived to a great summer and the winter wasn't all that bad we had a
white Christmas and everything like that so it was the big question with everybody is of course how did practically am my Australian group become such a very big thing in England
and even in America it was all done with mirrors I tell you well I can't really answer that John because you know we're still a bit bewildered by the whole thing and we don't really know what to
attribute success to I could can't imagine Judith that have a a great path to play in that is a feel and this is quite a common question with you I could imagine and how does it feel to be the
only girl amongst three other very and it's very nice to share something with three men I think I think you know traveling all over the world is a very secure feeling I think to begin with and
they will father me and brother min well we have heard rumors that in Melbourne at the moment they're trying to or trying to they're going to have some fantastic work and waiting there for you
so we sure hope that your tour from Perth and Melbourne and Sydney will be a very successful one and we'll look forward to seeing you again next time you are in perso from club 17 thanks
very much folks it's the best show yes club 40 it's a rumor yes we love 94 very good thank you very much
We are thrilled to be there with us together yes yes we were all looking forward to this day and finally we can come out and say right yeah this is it folks are there any plans to extend the tour or is this just going to be a resumption of the dates that we missed out on the first time round because you know there are some bigger plans for 2014 with uh with the uk also being added yes well we are lucky that we're now extending it over the oceans to tasmania which was yeah very big that's fantastic but uh and then of course as you're saying going to the uk which is uh in the new year but
primarily it'll be the same venues that we uh missed out on in may uh plus the tassie gigs so and we're looking forward to seeing all those fans who've loyally held onto all their tickets paul so yeah that'd be good fun we forgot to hang on to ours we have to rebook i'll have to pinch some back from friends it'll be it'll be wonderful now you had a rehearsal a couple of weeks ago can you take me through the rehearsal how it went and you know what were the nerves like just before you all started singing together well no real nerves that we
really looked forward to it and we planned it over a weekend when all of us mentally of course got into the concert mode and particularly for truth because it wasn't just the singing we needed you know her confidence in the fact that you know she could move around again and sleep in a motel if you like and have the gear there for her comfort zones and you know our own so we had a we had a beautiful day together and pretended that we're on tour and we were in a little hall up near my place which i look after as the chairman of the hall
so I had no problem securing a booking and the way we went we had a sound check in the afternoon which was great as we usually do took our time didn't rush and within 15 minutes of the sound check uh i remember due to turning around at me and saying smiling and saying this is what we do and it was rather lovely you know it was fantastic what was the first song you're saying together again i don't know what we still what did we say usually uh it's I'll never find another you but uh but then there are a couple of songs that we use as warm-ups anyway
before we do our concerts so I guess that's what we did really just just feel comfortable and let it all roll but what we were primarily aiming for was to try and recreate or replicate the concert vibe so that we did our warm-up we did our sound check then we did the show we ran through both arms of the show and um we all started and finished together as far as i can remember judas did you actually have to learn any of the songs again or did they just come back to you the songs came back to me I don't think I slipped up on no no you look fantastic that wasn't a
problem what didn't come easily to me and still may not is the bits you say in between the songs you know that was an interesting one so it'll be anybody's guess when I say between the songs we all have that problem yeah three months off and you suddenly go uh what comes next yeah you know otherwise I'll just smile sweetly and yeah in the show we make it up as we go though don't we yeah thank you for throwing to me that that's what uh cue sheets are for on the bottom of the uh yeah near the sound monitors those bits of white paper we keep looking down
at I was saying earlier when we did that rehearsal and I did make a point of saying to you that I was quite astounded at how strong and how clear her voice was because you hadn't been doing a lot of rehearsal really so to to get out and do that which is what 24 25 songs was a mighty effort but that's when i became very very confident she's she's got it nailed i think people need to um hear from me also that I put a huge emphasis on what I eat before a show and it's really really
important to me to um it's a low carbohydrate diet that I'm on and even though I'm pretty thin but I think it's probably an important thing to say because i do believe that that's a clue for me as to why i'm singing well because as you say i haven't been warming up hugely or anything like that and so i'm sticking to my guns with my diet I think it's really really important and the warm-up regime too which is something you're never too never too old to learn the warm-up routine we revised totally and it was fantastic I must say
you know it was a real confidence builder just to you know to get that into your voice even though there wasn't a huge audience out absolutely true yeah so all we've all revisited things right from scratch to think okay how do we warm the show up you know what are the best songs to do we're singing the hits you know we we're choosing songs from the show so it's not something outrageously different but just comfort zone stuff and then extend our range a little bit you know things like that so as musicians also for the boys it's important for them to be able to warm up and you know absolutely
instruments yeah yeah yeah well great to see you guys back together again not only a 50th anniversary show but uh good news to hear that there is a 51st anniversary show next year as well now we can't change the approaches and everything we have to revert a year take a year off yeah yeah the seekers joining us here at
Fremantle know a person we're saying we great I hope you got a very fabulous Australian welcome here anyway it was good yeah and how does it feel you know being back in Australia after the cold
freezing weather in in England actually we'd like to say it with : freezing but we had some terrific weather in England we arrived to a great summer and the winter wasn't all that bad we had a
white Christmas and everything like that so it was the big question with everybody is of course how did practically am my Australian group become such a very big thing in England
and even in America it was all done with mirrors I tell you well I can't really answer that John because you know we're still a bit bewildered by the whole thing and we don't really know what to
attribute success to I could can't imagine Judith that have a a great path to play in that is a feel and this is quite a common question with you I could imagine and how does it feel to be the
only girl amongst three other very and it's very nice to share something with three men I think I think you know traveling all over the world is a very secure feeling I think to begin with and
they will father me and brother min well we have heard rumors that in Melbourne at the moment they're trying to or trying to they're going to have some fantastic work and waiting there for you
so we sure hope that your tour from Perth and Melbourne and Sydney will be a very successful one and we'll look forward to seeing you again next time you are in perso from club 17 thanks
very much folks it's the best show yes club 40 it's a rumor yes we love 94 very good thank you very much
We are thrilled to be there with us together yes yes we were all looking forward to this day and finally we can come out and say right yeah this is it folks are there any plans to extend the tour or is this just going to be a resumption of the dates that we missed out on the first time round because you know there are some bigger plans for 2014 with uh with the uk also being added yes well we are lucky that we're now extending it over the oceans to tasmania which was yeah very big that's fantastic but uh and then of course as you're saying going to the uk which is uh in the new year but
primarily it'll be the same venues that we uh missed out on in may uh plus the tassie gigs so and we're looking forward to seeing all those fans who've loyally held onto all their tickets paul so yeah that'd be good fun we forgot to hang on to ours we have to rebook i'll have to pinch some back from friends it'll be it'll be wonderful now you had a rehearsal a couple of weeks ago can you take me through the rehearsal how it went and you know what were the nerves like just before you all started singing together well no real nerves that we
really looked forward to it and we planned it over a weekend when all of us mentally of course got into the concert mode and particularly for truth because it wasn't just the singing we needed you know her confidence in the fact that you know she could move around again and sleep in a motel if you like and have the gear there for her comfort zones and you know our own so we had a we had a beautiful day together and pretended that we're on tour and we were in a little hall up near my place which i look after as the chairman of the hall
so I had no problem securing a booking and the way we went we had a sound check in the afternoon which was great as we usually do took our time didn't rush and within 15 minutes of the sound check uh i remember due to turning around at me and saying smiling and saying this is what we do and it was rather lovely you know it was fantastic what was the first song you're saying together again i don't know what we still what did we say usually uh it's I'll never find another you but uh but then there are a couple of songs that we use as warm-ups anyway
before we do our concerts so I guess that's what we did really just just feel comfortable and let it all roll but what we were primarily aiming for was to try and recreate or replicate the concert vibe so that we did our warm-up we did our sound check then we did the show we ran through both arms of the show and um we all started and finished together as far as i can remember judas did you actually have to learn any of the songs again or did they just come back to you the songs came back to me I don't think I slipped up on no no you look fantastic that wasn't a
problem what didn't come easily to me and still may not is the bits you say in between the songs you know that was an interesting one so it'll be anybody's guess when I say between the songs we all have that problem yeah three months off and you suddenly go uh what comes next yeah you know otherwise I'll just smile sweetly and yeah in the show we make it up as we go though don't we yeah thank you for throwing to me that that's what uh cue sheets are for on the bottom of the uh yeah near the sound monitors those bits of white paper we keep looking down
at I was saying earlier when we did that rehearsal and I did make a point of saying to you that I was quite astounded at how strong and how clear her voice was because you hadn't been doing a lot of rehearsal really so to to get out and do that which is what 24 25 songs was a mighty effort but that's when i became very very confident she's she's got it nailed i think people need to um hear from me also that I put a huge emphasis on what I eat before a show and it's really really
important to me to um it's a low carbohydrate diet that I'm on and even though I'm pretty thin but I think it's probably an important thing to say because i do believe that that's a clue for me as to why i'm singing well because as you say i haven't been warming up hugely or anything like that and so i'm sticking to my guns with my diet I think it's really really important and the warm-up regime too which is something you're never too never too old to learn the warm-up routine we revised totally and it was fantastic I must say
you know it was a real confidence builder just to you know to get that into your voice even though there wasn't a huge audience out absolutely true yeah so all we've all revisited things right from scratch to think okay how do we warm the show up you know what are the best songs to do we're singing the hits you know we we're choosing songs from the show so it's not something outrageously different but just comfort zone stuff and then extend our range a little bit you know things like that so as musicians also for the boys it's important for them to be able to warm up and you know absolutely
instruments yeah yeah yeah well great to see you guys back together again not only a 50th anniversary show but uh good news to hear that there is a 51st anniversary show next year as well now we can't change the approaches and everything we have to revert a year take a year off yeah yeah the seekers joining us here at
