Roger Wilco

Fishing boat with attendant gulls on Loch Hourn
(Photo: Simon Meeds)

We initially thought we would be four singers at the Dragon Folk Club last Friday, but then Roger turned up to make a perfectly quorate fivesome. It was Roger who added the most "new" songs to the Dragon database as you will see in this report.

Colin, our regular MC, started us off with The fox and the hare (roud 1140) followed by Denny who gave us Wings (Brian Bedford).

Paul proposed The Farmer's Toast (roud 1603) and Simon reprised his signature King of Rome (Dave Sudbury) after being disappointed with his own showing the previous week. And so ended the first rotation.

Second time around Colin sang the Song of the digger (* Neil Colquhoun with chorus words from a poem by William Satchell). Before it came round to Colin again Roger arrived and his first song of the evening was Flora (roud 957, laws P29).

It was Roger who sang Blueberry Hill (* Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Al Lewis) followed by Colin with Sailing on the briny sea (# Miles Wootton).

Roger gave us two of his own songs: Goodbye I'll Try (*# Roger Stanleigh) and Dry your eyes (# Roger Stanleigh).

Colin added to the database a comedy song: The Dundee cat (* Matt McGinn) and the last "new" song of the evening came from Roger with The air that I breathe (* Albert Hammond, Michael Hazlewood).

The final song of the evening, The Mingulay boat song (Sir Hugh S Roberton) came from Paul.

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

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

In the above report songs new to the Dragon database (though no always new to the club) are marked with an asterisk (*) and any songs not included in the "a selection" playlist are marked with a hash (#).