A drop of Nelson's blood

HMS Victory (Photo: Simon Meeds)

I'm afraid this is going to be a short report again on last Friday's session though we were reasonably quorate in numbers. It's simply that I'm running out of time. Nevertheless you can follow the link below to hear most of the songs we sang, and even better come along to The Bridge this Friday to see in person what we do. Maybe you will be able to join in.

Colin, taking his usual role of MC, started with The Drummer and the Cook (Roud 3136). It's entirely coincidental that I have linked Harry Belafonte's recording and that Simon followed it with the bawdy mento song Big Bamboo, which as Derek pointed out is of course entirely about plant products (hmm!). Derek's own first song was Mill O' Tifty's Annie (Roud 98). Mike rounded of the first circuit with Roll the Old Chariot (Roud 3632 - "a drop of Nelson's blood...") to mark the previous day's celebration of Trafalgar.

Keeping on the Napoleonic Wars theme, Simon sang an unapologetically junior school version of Boney Was a Warrior (Roud 485). And so we went on singing until there were only two of us and Colin rounded off the evening with Pull for the Shore (Roud 17400 - it actually starts in the linked video at 2:26).

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 5, of whom 4 performed)