I'm sad for your loss (it's our loss too). This song has haunted most of my life - but in the very best way. It echos through the decades. A great singer.
I have always loved this song. I was born in 69, and remember as a child my mum playing it on the record player on Saturday afternoons with other singles. Marc Almond did your grandfather proud with his version of the song, Marc comes from just up the road from where we live now. My in-laws know the original song too as and come from just down the motorway from your grandad. I think his song was really ahead of its time.
Intenzity Y .....look for the NME dated Oct. 14th 1967 and there’s a front page, full page advert for David advertising The Days of Pearly Spencer ...ideal for framing.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm glad I found it today by chance. I recall listening to it on the radio in my teens. Many many years ago! I forgot the title and the singer, BUT not the song.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm afraid, I'm a little bit younger than you, since I was listening to Pearly Spencer about 10 years later.. end of the 70s. In the year 1967 I attended my 1st school year and I was in a boarding school for 5 years.
@@DanielFranc35 The video clip created for the song contains footage of the singer playing his guitar on the wharf close to the Oudegracht, the main canal in the centre of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
One of those songs I heard on the radio a few times as a kid in the mid-70s without ever knowing who it was by...until now. I do remember the Marc Almond cover of it that got to about number 4 in April 1992,as well.
Last time I 've listened to this song was more than 40 years ago! It gave me goosebumbs this time. Timeless. As we grow older we understand more, we feel more, we learnmore, we love more ... if we want to!
This is my mum, this song reminds me my mum, when she was doing housework in early 80s with her small mobile radio and I was playing lego on the floor of my room, today with dad they are not on earth anymore, but so deeply rooted in my heart each day they are accompanying me to be the best daddy with my kids as they were to me 💔💔❤❤
Cette chanson est extraordinaire, 50 ans après ça passe comme au premier jour, voilà un TUBE pour la vie Peu de chansons ont se privilège !!! EXTRAORDINAIRE
👍👌👏🎉💕🎉... J'avais 14 ans à l'époque et, en cet été 2023, j'ai retrouvé tout à fait par hasard et en excellent état, le 45 tours d'origine, sorti, il me semble au début janvier 1968! ... Bien à vous.
Je l'ai découverte à 11 ans, en 1993, sur une compilation CD que mes parents avaient acheté intitulé "Sous les pavés... la plage (Les tubes de Mai 68)" sortie chez WMD Music pour les 25 ans de Mai 68. En mai 1993, même à seulement 11 ans à l'époque, je l'ai trouvée magnifique, et je ne trouvais absolument pas qu'elle faisait démodée. Elle aurait pu être sortie en 1991 ! La seule chanson de ce CD que je trouvais très démodée à l'époque, c'est "Cinderella Rockefella" d'Esther et Abi O'Farim. J'ai racheté ce CD depuis, et quand je le réécoute, je trouve ça fou que cela fasse déjà 30 ans que je connais ces chansons alors que cela me semble hier, et de me dire qu'elles avaient déjà 25 ans quand je les ai découvertes et en ont aujourd'hui 55, et toujours pas une ride.
Although it is a well.known song: It wasn't even a one-it wonder. It never hit the charts in the 1960s although Radio Caroline played it round the clock.
A tenement, a dirty street Walked and worn by shoe less feet Inside it's long and so complete Watched by shivering sun Old eyes in a small child's face Watching as the shadows race Trough walls and cracks and leave no trace And daylight's brightness shuns … The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run … Nose pressed hard on frosted glass Gazing as the swollen mass On concrete fields where grows no grass Stumbles blindly on Iron trees smother the air But withering they stand and stare Trough eyes that neither know nor care Where the grass is gone … The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run … Pearly where's your milk white skin? What that stubble on your chin? Buried in the rot gut gin You played and lost not won You played a house that can't be beat Now look your head's bowed in defeat You walked too far along the street Where only rats can run … The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run תרגום לעב
Encore une fois merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2024 comme en 1968. 56 ans et toujours pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Ce morceau est sur ma playlist depuis sa création en 1979 et n'est pas prêt d'en sortir.
One of the best songs ever written. Poetry, content, orchestration, and social relevance.. a masterpiece. Let those who tell their stories with obscenity and illiteracy listen and learn.
Cette chanson est une petite merveille ! Si belle qu'elle en est trop courte... Un ou deux couplets supplémentaires, ça aurait été encore plus magnifique !
What a great song. I've only discovered it as it was playing on a small local radio station and I had to find out the artist/song. This is a real gem and should be re-released as it is here.
Technical note: It seems that the portions that were recorded via a telephone are played while we see the guitarist at the dock, while the less-distorted portion is played while we see the man at the telephone.
## l'excellence de ces années sublimes à jamais perdues mais perpétuel dans nos mémoires c'est la médiocrité qui règne dans l'époque actuelle et ça dans tous les domaines Kiss.. 🎇🎇😘🎵🎸
i always liked this song especially as it was released the year I left Ireland as a 17 year old ...Just heard it yesterday on the radio and it brought back so many memories of my youth...David was a trail blazer with his caring nature for the homeless and those less fortunate and all that through the political unrest in the north and amazingly that situation is still going on to this day...when will it ever end.??
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2022 comme en 1968. 54 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Le téléphone lui aussi a pris des rides. Vous ne me croyez pas les jeunes mais c'était comme ça il y a 50 ans.
I was born in the 70's and raised with the music of my parents , so thankfull . A lot of people from my age loves the 80's more but not me i love the 70's
Je pense comme toi, c'est une chanson fantastique trés en avance pour son époque, n'y vois-tu pas une similitude sur l'effet de son étouffé sur le titre " radiio star " ?
@@jfdevilliers3474 Comme cela nous serons au moins trois ! :-) maintenant mon rêve serait de trouver les paroles, je me suis toujours demandé ce qu'il disait ne parlant que quelques mots d'anglais malheureusement...
My husband woke up this morning singing this song....so I had to het it on TH-cam....suuuuch a long time ago we first heard it. Great song. ❤ Thank you for posting so that we can listen again, never knew there was a video to go with it....Manchester canals ?
Competition was tough back then..Rod Stewart...David Bowie..Elton John...Bee Gees..Rolling Stones..Eagles..etc etc..declaring you are Transgender...Binary Gender etc won't guarantee you a hit..lol
I read many comments (on other clips of this beautiful song) stating that Marc Almond improved this gem. All Marc Almond did was add an up-beat last verse thereby missing the gist entirely and imo, ruining a masterpiece. Some music should be left well alone, this is absolute perfection. RIP David.
I was 15 when this was released......I froze as soon as those violins kicked in. It haunted me the very first time I heard it and it haunts me still. I have no idea why - but probably one of my favourite songs ever......and believe me, there are quite a few this old bugger has heard. ha ha
I was the same age. During that era, very few 'pop' songs used orchestras, another of my favourites, released a year or two later, is Darling Be Home Soon by Lovin' Spoonful. Superb.
huntiau OMG that could've been me writing your words as I felt and still feel the same way as you about this incredible song. I was 14 at the time. I think it haunts me 'cause it seems so full of despair and sadness for what I envisioned a child growing up in such a horrible desperate world with nothing to look forward to and all the beauty of it being stripped away. Now, in my mid 60s, I see it the same way but that sort of world has now come to fruition and the race is almost run I see as the human race has almost run, run out, soon to be over taken by machines. Sorry, very cynical but that's how I personally view the world today, sadly.
2amysloan826, You are very lucky... David McWilliams was a genius and this was a wonderful piece of writing. You should listen to "Lord Offaly" as well it is also the work of a genius. Himself and George Best both genius in their own way. Both, sadly, left this world too early. Sorry, this is months later. Just saw it today but one of the great songs ever written.
A tenement, a dirty street Walked and worn by shoe less feet Inside it's long and so complete Watched by shivering sun Old eyes in a small child's face Watching as the shadows race Trough walls and cracks and leave no trace And daylight's brightness shuns The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run Nose pressed hard on frosted glass Gazing as the swollen mass On concrete fields where grows no grass Stumbles blindly on Iron trees smother the air But withering they stand and stare Trough eyes that neither know nor care Where the grass is gone The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run Pearly where's your milk white skin? What that stubble on your chin? Buried in the rot gut gin You played and lost not won You played a house that can't be beat Now look your head's bowed in defeat You walked too far along the street Where only rats can run The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run The days of Pearly Spencer The race is almost run
The video was recorded at the (former) beer brewery “de Boog” at the Oudegracht-canal in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1967 In color! Lucky for us watching this in the 21st century.
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Je ne pensais pas reentendre cette chanson c est un réel plaisir ! Toute mon adolescence .❤
Hello ✌️moi itou et ça fait du bien !!! Bonne écoute trop cool !!! 🤗
Guitar playing near the canals in the city of Utrecht! Legendary, and what a unique and still a great song.
This is my grandad❤️ rest in peace to a legend. Sadly never got to meet him as he passed away 2 years before I was born but I’m proud of you grandad
Ja klar..
@@storagewars It is a name. The song is inspired to a homeless
I'm sad for your loss (it's our loss too). This song has haunted most of my life - but in the very best way. It echos through the decades. A great singer.
I have always loved this song. I was born in 69, and remember as a child my mum playing it on the record player on Saturday afternoons with other singles. Marc Almond did your grandfather proud with his version of the song, Marc comes from just up the road from where we live now. My in-laws know the original song too as and come from just down the motorway from your grandad. I think his song was really ahead of its time.
Intenzity Y .....look for the NME dated Oct. 14th 1967 and there’s a front page, full page advert for David advertising The Days of Pearly Spencer ...ideal for framing.
❤️❤️❤️ Please, a minute of silence for those who will never find this song...
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm out! I knew it but really forget it somehow.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm glad I found it today by chance. I recall listening to it on the radio in my teens. Many many years ago! I forgot the title and the singer, BUT not the song.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm afraid, I'm a little bit younger than you, since I was listening to Pearly Spencer about 10 years later.. end of the 70s. In the year 1967 I attended my 1st school year and I was in a boarding school for 5 years.
@BeRn ArT ZiC Sleep well, I'm going too.🌛 yes, the original was dedicated to ZZT, but then X died and I kept the name in his honour.
It took me almost 30 years to find it. I heard it in the back of my parents' car when I was a kid. 😅
Merci pour tout.
This song never fades away. This was real music.
👍👍👍
Excelente
I love the song but what does the second statement eve mean?
One of Northern Ireland,s great singers who deserved more recognition and success
Where recorded lads?
@@DanielFranc35
The video clip created for the song contains footage of the singer playing his guitar on the wharf close to the Oudegracht, the main canal in the centre of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Important share of outstanding musicians are underrated even on their countries. Glad of listen glorious music and poetry
Thanks for posting this most remembered song. Also, thanks to those who posted additional,info.
Wasn't aware he was from Norn Ireland
I remember this song when it came out in 1967, as a 14 year I liked it. As a 69 yaer old in 2022 I like even more.
couldn't agree more
Me too. It makes me go cold all over not sure why. Was it in 432 frequency?
One of those songs I heard on the radio a few times as a kid in the mid-70s without ever knowing who it was by...until now. I do remember the Marc Almond cover of it that got to about number 4 in April 1992,as well.
I was 11 years old. As a Dutch boy I couldn't understand English at that time. But I felt it. Still an all time favourite for me.
tenia yo. 4 años cuando escuche esta maravillosa cansion .
First came out in 1967. It has aged well. A brilliant song.
J'adore cette chanson. Je l'écoute encore en 2024.
Oui, moi aussi. Il habite en Ireland du Nord.
@@robmca9265depuis 8 janvier 2002 il est mort
Moi aussi avec,plaisir
Last time I 've listened to this song was more than 40 years ago! It gave me goosebumbs this time. Timeless. As we grow older we understand more, we feel more, we learnmore, we love more ... if we want to!
This is my mum, this song reminds me my mum, when she was doing housework in early 80s with her small mobile radio and I was playing lego on the floor of my room, today with dad they are not on earth anymore, but so deeply rooted in my heart each day they are accompanying me to be the best daddy with my kids as they were to me 💔💔❤❤
Parole bellissime, mamme e papà innanzitutto
Meme les français écoutaient cette chanson , c était les belles années de notre pays
🇨🇵
Juste intemporel ce morceau ... je l'ai écouté à sa sortie , j'avais 11 ans , il m’émerveille toujours autant
This song touches me again and again and is my favorite forever
RIP the great David McWilliams ✌️🍀
I was looking for this song for a long time (50 years) and thought I would die before I found it.
The song, the lyrics, the voice, the expression, the recording on summit. A real piece of art. Congrats.
Art. British art its best.
Dear Mr. McWilliams cool Song and and a cool shirt - R.I.P, your song never dies!
I love this song . One of my favorit
Nous ne sommes plus capables d'écrire d'aussi beaux textes, c'est regrettable !
superbe chanson de l epoque.mon epoque
Listening in 2021? Great song.
1/10/2024 son las 22:51hrs chaoooooo 🎼🇨🇱✌️
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2023 comme en 1968. 55 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) !
I was smitten by this song. What music. What lyrics. Sublime. The violins, really, Wohhhhhh.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ich Liebe diesen Song 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️
Une chanson culte et Éternelle une époque formidable notre jeunesse et notre enfance comment oublier cette époque ❤❤
Like this very rarely played😎
A MAGNIFICENT AND GLORIOUS SONG globally speaking,, RIP DAVID THANK YOU FOR ETERNITY,
Cette chanson est extraordinaire, 50 ans après ça passe comme au premier jour, voilà un TUBE pour la vie
Peu de chansons ont se privilège !!! EXTRAORDINAIRE
👍👌👏🎉💕🎉... J'avais 14 ans à l'époque et, en cet été 2023, j'ai retrouvé tout à fait par hasard et en excellent état, le 45 tours d'origine, sorti, il me semble au début janvier 1968! ... Bien à vous.
Je l'ai découverte à 11 ans, en 1993, sur une compilation CD que mes parents avaient acheté intitulé "Sous les pavés... la plage (Les tubes de Mai 68)" sortie chez WMD Music pour les 25 ans de Mai 68. En mai 1993, même à seulement 11 ans à l'époque, je l'ai trouvée magnifique, et je ne trouvais absolument pas qu'elle faisait démodée. Elle aurait pu être sortie en 1991 ! La seule chanson de ce CD que je trouvais très démodée à l'époque, c'est "Cinderella Rockefella" d'Esther et Abi O'Farim.
J'ai racheté ce CD depuis, et quand je le réécoute, je trouve ça fou que cela fasse déjà 30 ans que je connais ces chansons alors que cela me semble hier, et de me dire qu'elles avaient déjà 25 ans quand je les ai découvertes et en ont aujourd'hui 55, et toujours pas une ride.
A one hit wonder.
But an unforgettable one.
Simply Timeless.
I don't like your style of slurring a artist then in a ready brek weak porridge trying to amend .get lost . You suburban scotish nobody
Although it is a well.known song: It wasn't even a one-it wonder. It never hit the charts in the 1960s although Radio Caroline played it round the clock.
It was very much under rated at the time.. A brilliant song.
On ne s'en lasse pas ,les violons magnifique magique
Had completely forgotten this song. What a gem.
A haunting song that I have come back to many times over the last 50 plus years. It has that certain magic .
David was a great singer. He should have had greater success especially in the UK
A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoe less feet
Inside it's long and so complete
Watched by shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child's face
Watching as the shadows race
Trough walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight's brightness shuns
… The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
… Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Trough eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is gone
… The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
… Pearly where's your milk white skin?
What that stubble on your chin?
Buried in the rot gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can't be beat
Now look your head's bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can run
… The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
תרגום לעב
Thanks
poetry..what a song...!
Merci beaucoup pour cette traduction ❤
I mean: Its pure poe-zie..seldom I heard line's like this I'na pop-song Romantic & moonsong "zwane zang"
Encore une fois merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2024 comme en 1968. 56 ans et toujours pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Ce morceau est sur ma playlist depuis sa création en 1979 et n'est pas prêt d'en sortir.
Idem !!!! The number ONE !!!
@@sergeherbstvonmeyer4756 😊
Comme vous avez raison!@@sergeherbstvonmeyer4756
Cette chanson me bouleverse totalement ...😊
June the 13th 2024 ..Still listening ❤
This song brings back memories of my youth living in the UK cool❤❤
Pure poetry, as well as a great song.
Some songs are timeless and relevant.This is definitely one of them. 🥰🥰🥰
Was für ein brillanter Song. So zeitlos. Der Song ist älter als ich. Ich liebe ihn.
Wie alt? Zwölf?
@@mknie58 Flitzpiepe.
One of the best songs ever written. Poetry, content, orchestration, and social relevance.. a masterpiece. Let those who tell their stories with obscenity and illiteracy listen and learn.
What you said couldn't have been said better. Thank you.
@@detoxbvigilant52 🌷🌸🪷♥️
Rest in peace thanks for this classic song
One of the best ever..Still brings tears to my eyes. Was 14 when it was released,loved it then and have listened to it pretty regularly ever since
I forgot this song for so long. My sister dropped it for Easter, god blees a true gift. A memory.
1pépite j avais 14ans je l ai enfin retrouvé
I just heard the song on Qatar 🇶🇦 radio. I came to play again. Wonderful music
The original is almost always best. I liked Marc Almond's version, but it doesn't hold a candle to this.
Cette chanson est une petite merveille ! Si belle qu'elle en est trop courte... Un ou deux couplets supplémentaires, ça aurait été encore plus magnifique !
Excellent lyrics.
What a fantastically written song he must have been a great poet as well, Born in the Cregagh Estate Belfast.
Do you know what sporting icon came from the exact same place!
@@stephenmcwilliams5842that would be the great Georgie Best. 😊
They don't make them like they usta any more.
Thank God I lived through that era.
En écoutant cette chanson enfant,je savais très bien que j’allais vivre ,et vieillir avec.
me too!
Me too ❤
Idem
Theres something really magical about this song... theres a certain feeling it gives me and i cant even say what it is.
Same here!
@@larshimler2063 The style is French Chanson, popularised by singers like Edith Piaf, Jaques Brel and Serg Gainsborough, check them out!
Quite true. It is awesome how it makes me always feel notwithstanding the meaning of the lyrics.
Wistful melancholy.
Same here … 60/70s vibe and all of its trials and tribulations
a storm of feelings, i was 10years oldwhen listen first time, 27 when find the title, now i am 52,i am greek, but never forget this song...
5.4 million views tells you all a Very underrate singer his name shall live for ever more
I'm 66 old i'm from algeria and i say that David was à gréât singer
Tiger baby.
Je ne me lasserai de ce titre .
This is still one of the best songs ever written, and always will be.
Karen Larke Totally agree, a superb song.Have you heard any of his other songs e.g. CAN I GET THERE BY CANDLELIGHT ?
+John Ballard god and my country..also
Karen Larke a great Irishman singing this
Karen Larke Jonny caSh
This song went nowhere in UK but peaked at #2 in France
Great song , very spécial feeling. I like this!
A genuine, golden, timeless classic...
When you put this song on when you are in company. Nobody complains. They just...digest. Wonderful song.
What a great song. I've only discovered it as it was playing on a small local radio station and I had to find out the artist/song. This is a real gem and should be re-released as it is here.
It's about a real man
He met a homeless man called Pearly Spencer and wrote this
It's excellent
@heather9329 thanks I've been wondering if this was about a real person.
Technical note: It seems that the portions that were recorded via a telephone are played while we see the guitarist at the dock, while the less-distorted portion is played while we see the man at the telephone.
## l'excellence de ces années sublimes à jamais perdues mais perpétuel dans nos mémoires c'est la médiocrité qui règne dans l'époque actuelle et ça dans tous les domaines
Kiss..
🎇🎇😘🎵🎸
If you never heard his music you never lived
i always liked this song especially as it was released the year I left Ireland as a 17 year old ...Just heard it yesterday on the radio and it brought back so many memories of my youth...David was a trail blazer with his caring nature for the homeless and those less fortunate and all that through the political unrest in the north and amazingly that situation is still going on to this day...when will it ever end.??
Marc Almond adds magic to this.
Great song. Still gets airplay here in Israel (thanks, Geddy Livneh!).
You play the house that cant be beat , i just love this song , it has such catchy phrases and the drive is soooo nice
❤❤❤❤ rip Good blessu
I'm a GDR child and my father had ist on tape. 🥰 I was four yesrs old and love(d) it so much. ❤️
I miss you my pearly from bygone years living in the U K (birmingham) remember????❤❤❤
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2022 comme en 1968. 54 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Le téléphone lui aussi a pris des rides. Vous ne me croyez pas les jeunes mais c'était comme ça il y a 50 ans.
Suis d’accord
J ai adore 🥰 60.s époque magnifique
I was born in the 70's and raised with the music of my parents , so thankfull . A lot of people from my age loves the 80's more but not me i love the 70's
Extraordinaire chanson!j écoute toujours ce son particulier s en m en lasser❤️❤️❤️
Je pense comme toi, c'est une chanson fantastique trés en avance pour son époque, n'y vois-tu pas une similitude sur l'effet de son étouffé sur le titre " radiio star " ?
video killed the radio star by the Buggles
@@icedbass oui c est ça !je n avais pas fait le rapprochement
merci merci
Nostalgie quand tu nous tiens !magnifique chanson❤
Nostalgie aussi, délicieuse période de ma jeunesse...tempête de ciel bleu et pluie d"étoiles...!
@@jfdevilliers3474 Comme cela nous serons au moins trois ! :-)
maintenant mon rêve serait de trouver les paroles, je me suis toujours demandé ce qu'il disait
ne parlant que quelques mots d'anglais malheureusement...
My husband woke up this morning singing this song....so I had to het it on TH-cam....suuuuch a long time ago we first heard it. Great song. ❤
Thank you for posting so that we can listen again, never knew there was a video to go with it....Manchester canals ?
Ma jeunesse....perdue à tout jamais perdue......
Love this song what a great artist.
je ne m'en lasse pas je reviens , magnifique..
From a golden age of great songs.
Definitely. The gold. Age of music and freedom nowadays hell, hate war desperation.
Competition was tough back then..Rod Stewart...David Bowie..Elton John...Bee Gees..Rolling Stones..Eagles..etc etc..declaring you are Transgender...Binary Gender etc won't guarantee you a hit..lol
I read many comments (on other clips of this beautiful song) stating that Marc Almond improved this gem. All Marc Almond did was add an up-beat last verse thereby missing the gist entirely and imo, ruining a masterpiece. Some music should be left well alone, this is absolute perfection. RIP David.
I like both artists adding their styles
You said it!!
The opening Celebration for the Olympics at the Tour Eifel at around 23:10h made me look for this song. The violin theme reminded me.
who else started listening to old song randomly?
18. 12. 2020. at 9:34
I was 15 when this was released......I froze as soon as those violins kicked in. It haunted me the very first time I heard it and it haunts me still. I have no idea why - but probably one of my favourite songs ever......and believe me, there are quite a few this old bugger has heard. ha ha
I was the same age. During that era, very few 'pop' songs used orchestras, another of my favourites, released a year or two later, is Darling Be Home Soon by Lovin' Spoonful. Superb.
huntiau OMG that could've been me writing your words as I felt and still feel the same way as you about this incredible song. I was 14 at the time. I think it haunts me 'cause it seems so full of despair and sadness for what I envisioned a child growing up in such a horrible desperate world with nothing to look forward to and all the beauty of it being stripped away. Now, in my mid 60s, I see it the same way but that sort of world has now come to fruition and the race is almost run I see as the human race has almost run, run out, soon to be over taken by machines. Sorry, very cynical but that's how I personally view the world today, sadly.
I was 15 too and it was love at first listening for this wonderful song !
Yes! I was 13. This song is so spooky cool.
This song was one of the songs on my very first album i bought. I think i was about 14. Alway liked this song, and i'm glad it's on youtube!
Love this song, Davy was a great friend of my father's, I remember visiting often as a child to Ballycastle.
2amysloan826, You are very lucky... David McWilliams was a genius and this was a wonderful piece of writing. You should listen to "Lord Offaly" as well it is also the work of a genius. Himself and George Best both genius in their own way. Both, sadly, left this world too early. Sorry, this is months later. Just saw it today but one of the great songs ever written.
Great song 🎵 brilliant memories 👏
Sie müssen sehr stolz auf ihn sein!
Unvergesslich!!🎩🎸
The Race is Olmost Done love Blessings from new Mexico usa
Αυτό το υπέροχο κομμάτι το λάτρεψα απο την πρώτη στιγμή που το ακουσα.. πόσα χρονια πριν? 40?50? αγόρασα τον δίσκο μόλις πρωτοκυκλοφόρησε!
A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoe less feet
Inside it's long and so complete
Watched by shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child's face
Watching as the shadows race
Trough walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight's brightness shuns
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Trough eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is gone
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
Pearly where's your milk white skin?
What that stubble on your chin?
Buried in the rot gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can't be beat
Now look your head's bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵👍
wow I always loved this and hadn't heard it for years and years...thankyou ..great song
Great tune from the 60s with very unique sound
If you're going to phone in a vocal,that's how to do it.
The video was recorded at the (former) beer brewery “de Boog” at the Oudegracht-canal in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1967 In color! Lucky for us watching this in the 21st century.
100% agree, this is just so special
Beautiful song absolute masterpiece i also love the instrumental version xxx❤❤
Lammo played this today on 6Music, great to be reminded of this and I still credit Marc Almond for doing a good cover of this