Original Red Rover Lyrics...

[Merf]

Originally posted by GardenStateGirlie
You guys don't have to feel like you're missing anything. As far as I know, these lyrics were never recorded

Yeah, what she said.

Cammie- you guys can search every demo Lindsey ever recorded of "Red Rover" and it won't be on it. These were very rough, beginnings of thoughts about the song that got into the hands of a poster on the Ledge waaaaay before "Say You Will" was even a thought.

[Cammie]

Thanks GSGirlie...You don't have to try to
explain...we get it! Just hope you understand
me looking back to unpublished old lyrics an ledge
friend shared...no Red Rover lyrics at all !!!
There's 8 inchs of snow and we got cabin fever!
Been playing great old Lindsey Demos & Videos!

FYI ... from a '90's demo casette...

Interesting side-line...on the dat...Lindsey
wrote Try For The Son...repeated it once again
and wrote Try For The Son again!!! Wishfull
thinking perhaps!!! We are so happy Linz has
his son at last and a daughter... and another
on the way!!! Makes Me Smile! Bye,Sky

[Merf]

Interesting side-line...on the dat...Lindsey
wrote Try For The Son...repeated it once again
and wrote Try For The Son again!!! Wishfull
thinking perhaps!!! We are so happy Linz has
his son at last and a daughter... and another
on the way!!! Makes Me Smile! Bye,Sky

Cammie, the song you all are referring to is "Try for the SUN," not "Try for the Son." As in "SUN," the celestial object at the center of our solar system. It is not a Lindsey original, it is adapted from a song written by Donovan Leitch in 1965.

Lindsey's Adapted lyrics:

"Try for the Sun."

Written by D. Leitch; Adapted by L. Buckingham


We huddled in the derelict building
My gypsy girl and I
We made our bed together
With the rain dropping tears in our eyes

And who would be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare anyone to say, anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun

Mirror, mirror in the sky
Won't you look what’s happening below
No one knows what’s going on
Won't you give us a sign where to go?

And who would be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare anyone to say, anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun

And who would be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare anyone to say, anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun

Mirror, mirror in the sky
Won't you look what’s happening below
Nobody knows what’s going on
Won't you you give us a sign where to go?


The original lyrics by Donovan, written in 1965:

We stood in the windy city
The gypsy boy and I
We slept on the breeze in the midnight
With the rain dropping tears in our eyes

And who’s going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare a man to say I’m too young
For I’m going to try for the sun

We huddled in the derelict building
And when he thought I was asleep
He lay his poor coat round my shoulders
And shivered there beside me in a heap

And who’s going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare a man to say I’m too young
For I’m going to try for the sun

We sang and cracked the sky with laughter
Our breath turned to mist in the cold
Our years put together count to thirty
But our eyes told the dawn we were old

And who’s going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare a man to say I’m too young
For I’m going to try for the sun

Mirror mirror hanging in the sky
Won’t you look down what’s happening here below
I stand here singing to the flowers
So very few people really know

And who’s going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare a man to say I’m too young
For I’m going to try for the sun

We stood in the windy city
The gypsy boy and I
We slept on the breeze in the midnight
With the rain dropping tears in our eyes

And who’s going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare a man to say I’m too young
For I’m going to try for the sun

Now, I'm really a novice at lyrical interpretation, but to me, his adaptation of the song has nothing to do with a desire to have children. It is a love song.

[thanks to nancy for the lyrics.]

[sodascouts]

Originally posted by Cammie
FYI ... from a '90's demo casette...

Interesting side-line...on the dat...Lindsey
wrote Try For The Son...repeated it once again
and wrote Try For The Son again!!! Wishfull
thinking perhaps!!! We are so happy Linz has
his son at last and a daughter... and another
on the way!!! Makes Me Smile! Bye,Sky

Sky, I think I know why you are confused. Apparently, when Lindsey hurriedly scribbled the name on a demo cassette, he put "Son" instead of "Sun." However, I'm sure you can see from the lyrics posted that that was just a careless error.

I really don't think Lindsey is so sexist that he'd be "only trying for the son" lol!

[Cammie]

Hi Lindsey Girls! OH WOOOOW!!!
THANKS for posting those other great lyrics!
It's Definitely SUN...Gotcha'!!! Someone else
suggested that Son stuff to me fitting in with
when LB wrote Family Man! My thinking HAS
been changed about TRY FOR THE SUN! Sky


P. S. Can I still be stubborn and think the beginning
of his newer Peacekeeper DOES imply SON? Linz now
Has His Own Son and is Worried about the World!!!
LB sings ..."We Make All of OUR Sons...The Same!"
A greater force made the celestial sun in the sky!


FYI~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our 8 inchs of snow is turning into 9 inchs! Snowed IN!!!
We'er going out to make a snow man!Thanks for Help!

[wondergirl9847]

Send some of that snow down to the Dallas/Fort Worth area!! I love snow...although, we rarely see it.

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally posted by Cammie

Our 8 inchs of snow is turning into 9 inchs! Snowed IN!!!
We'er going out to make a snow man!Thanks for Help!

Make that a Snow Lindsey, ok?

[xdreamsunwindx]

Originally posted by Cammie

P. S. Can I still be stubborn and think the beginning
of his newer Peacekeeper DOES imply SON? Linz now
Has His Own Son and is Worried about the World!!!
LB sings ..."We Make All of OUR Sons...The Same!"
A greater force made the celestial sun in the sky!

I always thought Liddy was saying "We make all of our SONGS the same", or something like that. The son thing never crossed my mind, but ya never know, he could mean something like that, though I truly think he's talking about the sun, as in the star. I'm not sure what he would mean if he were saying something about "making all of our sons the same", because I don't think that'd make much sense. Oh well, it IS 1:04 AM, so...

[DownOnRodeo]

Me and Carne at least always thought it was suns as in warheads or other explosives. I think there's a few ppl who agree with that one.

No dout it probably does refer to the celestial body itself because after all, the song is about the pantheon of alien gods looking down on Earth, talking about all the galaxies they've made and how Earth is a big disappointment. (Aw poor Lindsey we give him such a hard time :P )