Silly, nautical or naughty?

Another great session at The Dragon Folk Club with a nicely quorate six singers. There was no official theme, but since it was the day before All Fools there were plenty of songs with some degree of silliness. A bit of a nautical theme (silly or otherwise) also developed.

After a social preamble and a fashionably late start to the session Colin as MC started us off with Jez Lowe's song Candles. Bob followed this with Matchbox (Carl Perkins) and Sue with the Crawdad Song (roud 4853).

Simon gave us the first song of the evening not present in the YouTube playlist: Richard Stilgoe's Transplant Squad.

Paul sang When All Men Sing (Keith Scowcroft, Derek Gifford) and Denny followed that with Pleasant and Delightful (roud 660, laws O30).

I'll leave you to investigate the "a selection" playlist linked below to see what other silliness and nauticality were on show, but I will mention those performances for which there is no representation on YouTube:

• Simon - House of the Rising Damp (Mary McCloud)
• Paul - Salty Young Sea Dog (Graham Holland)
• Colin - Laura The Leg (Mike Absalom)

And it was Colin who completed the evening with a good sing-a-long to Tom Lewis' The Last Shanty.

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

(Number of people present - 6 of whom 6 performed)

Halloween 2017

Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan,
a central figure in John Milton's Paradise Lost
c. 1866

Last week's Halloween themed session brought out only four singers. Let's ee if we can make this week's Bonfire themed evening more populous.

Colin was MC and he started us off on-topic with Fish, Tin And Copper, a song which has Old Nick visiting Cornwall and being frightened away by a pasty.

Steve C made his first appearance at the Dragon Folk Club for a while and was understandably the only one not prepared with songs in theme. His songs for the evening were The Jeannie C (Stan Rogers), Lunenburg Skies (Terry Young), The Blarney Roses (Roud 6329), White Squall (Stan Rogers), The Rare Ould Times (Pete St John), Ranter's Wharf (John Conolly, Bill Meek), Candles (Jon Heslop), Guard Your Man Weel (Johnny Handle) and Mantle Of Green (Roud 714, Laws N38).