{"id":915,"date":"2017-01-10T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=915"},"modified":"2017-01-10T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T22:25:19","slug":"man-with-no-name-story-behind-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/10\/man-with-no-name-story-behind-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with no name &#8211; The story behind the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=3719079705\/album=1411039729\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&#8216;Unknown man with my step-grandfather&#8217; Photograph Long Wittenham 1920s. Aubrey my step-grandfather is on the right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This song goes way back. Probably mid 1980&#8217;s in first version . This 1995 rendition probably as good a take as I had of it. A lot of Leonard Cohen in it.<\/p>\n<p>It is a difficult subject and one that explored more fully in the Coppard web page and in the poem there &#8216;The stone code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/coppard\">http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/coppard<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<p>Everything you need to know there. My father never knew who his father was. He was abandoned along with his mother in 1932.<\/p>\n<p>He was affected by it all his life and it transferred to me.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably never get a conclusive answer but the evidence has mounted over the years.<\/p>\n<p>But as the song says I remain a &#8216;Man with no name&#8217;<\/p>\n<h1>Man with no name<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You kick at the tyre of the tractor<br \/>\nThat hasn\u2019t moved since the snow last came down<br \/>\nYou pull at the chain-link fence blow a dandelion over the sow<br \/>\nAnd wonder whose hand on your arm could lead you now<\/p>\n<p>Well it\u2019s the middle of summer and clouds cover the sun, you feel cold<\/p>\n<p>You run for shelter, find your father with a halter and he\u2019s staring at the ground<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh why can\u2019t I tell you why can\u2019t I say<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a dark pantry a dog panting, tired from running under this August sun<\/p>\n<p>On the kitchen table a dripping pheasant shot down by a farmer\u2019s gun<\/p>\n<p>And you sat in your armchair reading news of a war that had hardly begun<\/p>\n<p>Whilst all the berries your wife picked in summer turn blood red in the cup<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And you told me I could break down all the fences put around me<br \/>\nAnd set my own pace<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well your stepfather fell in that kitchen and the dog sat and waited there all day<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the silent river rolled on and on and the clouds blew over the hills and away<\/p>\n<p>So father and son two years later we stand in this graveyard in the rain<\/p>\n<p>If I could show you the answer written in stone I would<br \/>\nIf I knew it I wouldn\u2019t have to say<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh why can\u2019t I tell you, oh why can\u2019t I say<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a man with no name<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an unmarked grave<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here Aubrey Didcock and Daisy and son Albert Didcock in better days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aubrey2.jpg?resize=353%2C492&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aubrey2.jpg?w=353&amp;ssl=1 353w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aubrey2.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Unknown man with my step-grandfather&#8217; Photograph Long Wittenham 1920s. Aubrey my step-grandfather is on the right. &nbsp; This song goes way back. Probably mid 1980&#8217;s in first version . This 1995 rendition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,31,34,10,1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-cassette-tape","category-edinburgh","category-horseshoe-tapes","category-song","category-story-behind-the-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DCHF-eL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}