John Tyrone by Heartbreak Bill (While in Ontario, Canada, January to February 2000: After hearing on radio, only refinding after 6 weeks of searching, with final indignity of admitting defeat and E-mailing the local Queens University, Canada, radio station. Summary: (Even when searching on correct title of song, and after the event searching on the band) Web search engines and web databases are pish. Even ones concentrating on Canadian Folk and General Music. Heartbreak Hill is a band supposedly from Ontario(?!)) Thanks to Roger Eccleston (brewpub@kingstonbrewing.com) who DJ's the "Sweet Folk Also" on Thursday nights (10pm to midnight Canadian time - 3am to 5am Friday morning UK time) on CFRC, Queens University for playing this song. CFRC - Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Listen to CRFC via the internet: http://130.15.142.121:8000/listen.pls Schedule: http://www.myams.org/home/cfrc/schedule.asp However, if you know the correct search engine to use, you in theory can also find this type of information on the web: Mamma Search Engine (looks very good at the moment to getting relevant hits Feb/March 2000): http://www.mamma.com/ John Tyrone (Lyrics and Music: Jenny Whitely arranged by Aengus Finnan): http://www.indiecanada.com/aengusfinnan/8/john_tyrone.lyrics.htm John Tyrone comment: http://www.indiecanada.com/aengusfinnan/8/john_tyrone.htm Song List from Heartbreak Hill album titled "Heartbreak Hill". Packed My Bags High On A Mountain Bluegrass Stomp John Tyrone Fall On My Knees Weary, Weary Lonesome Blues Things We Must Choose (Ode To Maggie Bell) On This Run (From The Blues) Daybreak In Drive I Scare You Cedar Hill Lonesome Train Comments from Ian Gray Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:51:27 -0400 From: ian_gray ca inter net To: lc@bluehaze.com.au Subject: Heartbreak Hill Hi Lachlan, I stumbled onto your page and saw "John Tyrone" as well as a squib about Heatbreak Hill. They were from Toronto and the principles included Jenny and Dan Whiteley, daughter and son of Chris Whiteley. Chris and his brother Ken are the most prominent of Canada's recording artists in blues, folk, children, gospel and jazz. Chris is one of Toronto's first call harp, trumpet, pedal and slide guitar players; Ken plays everything and produces many, many albums each year from his own studio. Dan and Jenny grew up singing in the family business and appear on albums Ken and Chris produced for such entertainers as Raffi. Chris is married to Caitlin Hanford, one forth of Canada's women's super country group, Quartet. At its inception, Quartet consisted of Caitlin, the late Colleen Peterson, Sylvia Tyson (of Ian and Sylvia) and Cindy Church. They continue on with Gwen Swick replacing Colleen. There is also a spin off group called Marigolds. Heartbreak Hill was just that: an affair within the band broke them up. As Chris Quinn, the bluegrass style banjoist says, "We'll never get together again." He and Chris Coole still hold together forth from time to time as members of the Foggy Hogtown Boys. Jenny has gone on to win Juno awards with her wonderful compositions and has moved to Vancouver. Dan continues to gig around the country and Chris Coole does amazing old-time music with Erryn Marshall. My spelling might be a bit lacking, but I know many of these folks and love their music. Hence my sending this message. Hope this has been of interest! Ian John Tyrone Lyrics John Tyrone "John Tyrone lived alone, John Tyrone Live in the hills 'neath the shady mountain at the end of the road People say he was sent away, John Tyrone For killing a man who wouldn't pay his debt to John Tyrone, to John Tyrone John Tyrone sat alone, John Tyrone With a scrap book full of memories all dead and gone Newspaper date 1914, John Tyrone Town votes yes to ostracize old John Tyrone, oh John Tyrone Well I swear by god and the light of day That the ghosts of my past are slipping away And I wake up with bloody hands But every body wanted to kill that man Well Katie Jones fell in love with John Tyrone In the sweet summer nights before the war had hit home John he loved Katie too and their love shone My girl my girl I'll marry you when I get home, when I get home Well one year passed and another and the war raged on Letters home and a telegraph and then came John But she could see that the war had changed her John Tyrone His eyes were glass and far away and his kisses cold, his kisses cold When the moon rose high and the wind picked up I was carried away to the back of that truck And how he died don't matter now I've been alone four years and I know how Alone four years and I know how Some folks are born with hearts of gold and some of lead But the one they gave old Ian Thomas it must have been dead Cause Ian was mean and Ian was cruel, and Ian stole And the last mistake that he ever made was crossing John Tyrone, oh John Tyrone Well Katie begged John not to go "John don't go" But he and the boys drove Ian Thomas down the road Came to a spot near the woods no one was around And John Tyrone pulled a knife and he cut him down, he cut old Ian down Well I swear by god and the light of day That the ghosts of my past are slipping away And I wake up with bloody hands But every body wanted to kill that man Every body wanted to kill that man"