Old friends

Tom, just a few years ago

The usual scribe was absent for last week's Dragon Folk Club session and will also be away this Friday. The report will take a slightly different format for now: not all facts will be checked and there will be no YouTube playlist of songs at least for the moment.

It was great to see that our old friend Tom turned up
for the first time in quite a while and complete with his banjo! Occasional visitors Steve and Jane also made a welcome appearance.

• Colin - Bring it on home (Sam Cooke)
• Denny - Collier Laddie (roud 3787)
• Paul - God speed the plough (roud 1475)
• Geoff - The Cape (Guy Clark)
• Tom - Raining in my heart (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant)
• Steve - Jolly Waggoner (roud 1088)
• Jane - A new story "Belief", on the subject of war and refugees
• Colin - Day-o (Jerry Silverman)
• Denny - The wizard of Alderley Edge (Pete Coe)
• Paul - The Farmer's Boy (roud 408)
• Geoff - The Manchester Rambler (Ewan MacColl)
• Tom - Everyone (Bryan Cookman)
• Steve - Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy (roud 165)
• Jane - The beggar the priest and the cobbler (given to Jane by Sheila Stewart)
• Colin - Between the wars (Billy Bragg)
• Denny - Miner's Lifeguard (roud 3510)
• Paul - Rolling down to old Maui (roud 2005)
• Geoff - Universal soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
• Tom - Eyes of a painter (Kate Wolfe)
• Steve - The lock keeper (Stan Rogers)
• Colin - The rigs of the times (William James Emberley - roud 876)
• Denny - Young Banker (roud 3321)
• Paul - Rose of Allandale (Charles Jefferys and Sidney Nelson - roud 1218)
• Geoff - Copper kettle (Albert Frank Beddoe)
• Steve - Bonnie ship the Diamond (roud 2172)
• Jane - Old Nick's cow café

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

Land and sea

Ravenscar from Boggle Hole (Photo: Simon Meeds)

With Geoff back from his chess-related activities and occasional visitor, Richard on board we had a perfectly adequate showing for last Friday's session. It was the last session for a while without a theme. We start this Friday (25 October) with Halloween, so ghosts and magic and things that go bump in the night are all fair game together with more traditional religious themes from All Saints.

Back to last week, MC Colin started us off with Dominic Behan's The Sea Around Us. This inspired Derek to sing a song which included the line "the land between England and Ireland, it's covered in water you know", although unfortunately I wasn't able to trace it. (See The Yorkshire Irishman for an update)