Name: Caledonia Dreamin'
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Channel: Pullar/ Gilbert
Description: "Caledonia Dreamin'" is a song by 39 Dangerous Street. Folksy psychodelilah, Wullie Pullar on electric guitars and keys, Kelvin's acoustic guitar, Samantha and Marilyn giving it their all, Wonkfloosh at the controls. Even some stringy synth on the choruses. Whats happened here?

Caledonia Dreamin'

39 Dangerous Street

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Folksy psychodelilah, Wullie Pullar on electric guitars and keys, Kelvin's acoustic guitar, Samantha and Marilyn giving it their all, Wonkfloosh at the controls. Even some stringy synth on the choruses. Whats happened here?

pop folk scottish rockabilly political perthshire

39 Dangerous Street

Whats this pish about peace, love & understanding... when they're eating YOUR pan loaf, shiting on your living room carpet & wanking over yer granny's photo.

Scottish Acid Avant Rockabilly Folk Pop with an unforgiving political edge. 39 Dangerous Street formed in 1987, and signed to Splairgin' Glit the following year. William Pullar...Acoustic,electric guitar, vocals Kelvin Gilbert... electric guitar, backing vocals Samantha Baxter...Bass Marilyn MacFarlane...Drums, percussion Associate members Captain W... electric guitar, Fiona Kennedy... Piano, keyboards Marilyn completed an SVQ level 3 in Poultry Husbandry in 1998. She works with poultry in Errol. Samantha Baxter works at an animal science lab in nearby Bridge of Earn. William Pullar runs a small dry cleaning firm in Perth. Kelvin Gilbert's CV shows lengthy stays in Lennox Castle, Gogarburn, The Royal Edinburgh and Spinbinnie Hospitals between his musical forays... Captain W commutes between his home in the dark heart of Southern Scotland and the splendour of St John's Toun. Fiona Kennedy pops over from Comrie regularly. A small but committed bunch of fans keep us in beer and whisky at occasional Friday night gigs in Scone.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Rock

Charts

#2,192 in subgenre Peak #15

Charts

Peak #70

Author

Pullar/ Gilbert

Rights

Splairgin' Glit

Uploaded

October 10, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:11

Story behind the song

Back in the mid 1980’s I was a student in Northern Ireland. After fresher’s week I had made a deep impression in an English girl (what with my accent  etc). She often invited me to go down South. I even visited her and her sisters and their bizarrely religious mother in Oxford. We even went to the states, met her dad and spent a summer working illegally on Cape Cod where we split up. October memories…

Lyrics

You know it seems the more I think the less I can remember
I mostly don’t remember you at all
But somehow each October the years just disappear
I dreamed last night that I could hear you call

October winds are blowing and whispering your name
Our memories lasted longer than our dreams
And Caledonia dreamin’ disnae really ease the pain
‘Cos nothin’ was as easy as it seemed

We drank a lot of whisky and we talked a lot that night
You liked the way I spoke I liked your smell
A cold grey dawn was breaking as I walked home in the rain
With nobody there to catch me I just fell

I phoned you up from Ulster and I caught a bus to Oxford
Your mother was a Christian and a fool
So we flew to see your father and he drove us to Manhattan
Then we split up in Hyannis, I was cruel  (sorry about that)

Memories I can’t recall and feelings best forgotten
I drove to Kinloch Rannoch yesterday
On forty miles of bad road with my spirits at rock bottom
I watched the Tummel flow into the Tay.