Valentine's Day 2022

Last Friday it was good to see Mike back in fine voice following a dog-related incident which had kept him away. The said dog (Indy) was also present and had obviously been practising his scales. We had met to sing songs of love and lust for Valentine's Day (slightly prematurely) and that is pretty much what we did.

Colin, MCing as usual, started us off with Ralph McTell's The girl from the hiring fair. Simon followed with Scarborough Fair (roud 12, child 2) and Mike completed the first rotation with Come write me down (roud 381).

The only exception I have spotted to the love and lust theme was Mike's parting song, All the good times (Bob Pegg).

There were some doubles, the first one I noticed was Simon unusually singing two songs from Dolly Parton: Love is like a butterfly and Jolene.

Some humour came from Colin singing The Kipper Family's version of Soldier, soldier (roud 489), entitled The Disabled Seaman. This was also the only song from the evening for which I have been unable to find a YouTube recording.

Simon sang some songs more often sung by Colin: Running Bear (Jiles Perry Richardson "The Big Bopper") and Me and Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster). In return Colin sang She Moves Through The Fair (roud 861) which Simon sometimes sings.

Colin took on quite a task of singing John Jacob Niles' song Venezuela, while Simon's biggest challenge may have been the guitar accompaniment for Margarita (Harvey Andrews).

Colin closed the evening with the second part of another double, this time from Donovan. He had earlier sung To sing for you, and now finished is off with Josie.

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

(Number of people present - 3 of whom 3 performed)