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| Paul and Denny making up (Photo: Simon Meeds) |
This Friday though we are likely to be a bit thinner on the ground with regulars, so you are strongly urged to come along and see what what we do. While we'd love you to perform it's fine if you don't feel like doing so this time, we'd just appreciate your company, your chat, and maybe you can join in with a chorus or five!
Last week Simon had arrived first, but was preempted by a slightly drunk pub customer who came into the room and asked whether we knew King Billy's on the wall (*). We didn't, so he gave us a chorus of it and thus found himself on the official record as the first singer. Unfortunately we didn't catch his name.
Simon sang I don't like Mondays (Bob Geldof) and Colin lightened the tone with Fred Wedlock's parody of English country garden (roud 29760).
Paul got us singing along to Shallow brown (roud 2621) and Denny continued that trend with Down by the sally gardens (roud V28639 - W B Yeats).
Helen gave us Poor wayfaring stranger (roud 3339) and Heather followed that with When you walk in the room (* Jackie DeShannon).
Simon had just started on You need skin (Leon Rosselson) when Sue and Bob arrived. By the time Simon finished singing it was Sue who ready to perform, so she went straight into Something (George Harrison). Bob therefore completed the first, slightly extended, rotation with Blood red river (roud 15807).
Colin gave us the first of three songs from the evening not found on YouTube and therefore not included in the linked playlist:
- Colin - 7TV Nights (*# Stanley Accrington)
- Heather - They don't play rock of ages on the juke box (*# J Spencer)
- Colin - Columbus' song (*#)
The remaining songs new to the Dragon database were as follows:
- Helen - Hazel eyes (* Sabrina Jordan)
- Colin - Don't cry for me Argentina (* Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice) - possibly influenced by the recent exit of the England team from the football World Cup
- Sue - Yesterday (* Lennon-McCartney)
- Bob - You can't judge a book by its cover (* Willie Dixon)
- Colin - Come my little son (* Ewan MacColl)
Meanwhile a comedic soap opera (at least I hope it was comedic) played out between our married couple, Paul and Denny. It started when Paul turned his back on Denny and sang Bonnet and shawl (Dave Webber) to their friend, Helen (a definite chat-up song). The rest of the conversation went something like this:
- Denny - Let him go, let him tarry (roud 1034) - "He don't care for me, and I'm sure I don't for him"
- Paul - Peggy Gordon (roud 2280) - "Oh Denny..., you are my darling. Come sit you down upon my knee"
- Denny - Love is pleasing (roud 1049) - "If I had known, love, before I courted, I never would have courted none"
- Paul - Green grows the laurel (roud 279) - "I once had a sweetheart but now I’ve got none"
- Denny - Young banker (roud 3321) - "It pierced her through the very heart, To think that young banker and her should part"
To avoid any confusion "young banker" is not someone of the financial profession but rather a strapping lad involved in making walls and ditches.
So I hope they made up before Paul was called upon to sing the last song of the evening. He pointed out that John Ball was hanged on 15 July 1381 so the anniversary of his death had just passed, and therefore sang John Ball (Sydney Carter).
Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.
(Number of people present - 10 of whom 9 performed)
In the above report songs new to the Dragon database (though not 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 (#).
