Remembrance 2025

Avro Lancaster "Just Jane"
at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Last Friday's Dragon Folk Club session had our delayed Remembrance theme; delayed due to a conflicting room booking the week before. Was it because of the gap in service that we were short of singers? Never mind, we had fun singing a total of 36 songs during the evening.

This Friday (28th November) this scribe will your MC for a change so your presence and performance (optional) would be especially encouraged. I propose a theme (optional as always) of St Andrew's Day. As you know St Andrew is patron saint of Scotland. If that isn't scope enough, you may like to know that he is also patron of:

Barbados, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Constantinople, Romania, Patras, Burgundy, San Andrés (Tenerife), Diocese of Parañaque, Candaba, Masinloc, Telhado, Sarzana, Pienza, Amalfi, Luqa (Malta), Fontana, Gozo (Malta), Manila and Prussia; the Diocese of Victoria and Canada; fishermen, fishmongers, rope-makers, textile workers, singers, miners, pregnant women, butchers, farm workers, the Russian Navy, the US Army Rangers; protection against sore throats, convulsions, fever and whooping cough.

Get your thinking caps on and we'll see you there.

Back to last Friday, Colin was MC, but Simon who had arrived first started us off on theme with The band played waltzing matilda (Eric Bogle). And I'm afraid to say that Colin completed the first rotation (more of an alternation) with our friend Gary Hopwood's White poppy (*).

Being a bit short of time I will simply list the songs sung which are new to the Dragon database:

• Colin - Red and Gold (* Ralph McTell)
• Colin - I just wanna stay at home (*# Irwin Silber)
• Colin - Christmas in the trenches - (* John McCutcheon)
• Simon - Brothers in Arms (* Mark Knopfler) to the tune Monk's Gate (Ralph Vaughan Williams, traditional)

Two other songs were sung which couldn't be found on YouTube and therefore doesn't appear in the playlist linked from "a selection" below:

• Colin - The kriegie ballad (Robert Garioch)
• Colin - Falklands song (sung by Mabsant)

Colin rounded off the evening with Only remembered (Horatius Bonar, Ira D Sankey).

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

(Number of people present - 2 of whom 2 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 (#).