This Train

Kingston Flyer, New Zealand
(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Another fun session at the Dragon Folk Club last week. It was good to have a new face join us albeit a visitor from Penzance. His name was Bob, so given our regular Bob J was also there we will call him Bob G.

I'm going to have to keep this week's report quite short, so bear with me for a whistle-stop tour of some of what happened.

The first rotation comprised:

• Colin - The Apprentice Song (Ian Campbell)
• John - Rising Sun Blues (roud 6393)
• Bob G - The Smuggler (Ian Woods noted, "In 1970 a child gave me an old spectacle case to display in an Education Act centenary exhibition. Underneath the velvet inlay was a broadside containing four songs, of which this was one. The tune was given as Lowlands of Holland. I learnt it and have been singing it ever since. Masefield includes it in his A Sailor’s Garland [New York: Macmillan, 1906, p.209] but omits the last verse.")
• Stan - Wedding Bells (Claude Boone)
• Simon - No Sir No (roud 146)
• Sue - Ride On (Jimmy McCarthy)
• Bob J - Lake Charles (Lucinda Williams)

Newcomer Bob G went on to sing:

• He Tried his Best (Bob Glanville)
• The Mayfly (Sid Meets [?] with extra verses by Bob Glanville)
• Star of the County Down (Cathal MacGarvey)

There were some other songs worth a mention as being new to the Dragon database, if not necessarily to the club:

• Stan - Forty shades of green (Johnny Cash)
• Sue - Low Bridge, Everybody Down (roud 6598, Thomas S Allen)
• Bob J - Rats in my Kitchen (Sleepy John Estes)
• Sue and Bob J - Under the Boardwalk (Kenny Young, Arthur Resnick)
• John - Freedom Town (Delila Paz, Edgey Pires)
• Sue - The Runaway Train (roud 9859)
• Stan - So Sad [to watch good love go bad] (Don Everly)

The evening came to a close with Sue singing This Train (roud 6702)

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

(Number of people present - 7 of whom 7 performed)