The prodigal sons

Sailing ships at Boston Dock,
Boston, Lincolnshire

Last week's Dragon Folk Club session saw the return of two singers who we haven't seen for a long time: John B and Roger who added a bit of welcome variety to proceedings. It was also pleasing to note that while he hasn't been to one of our sessions for a long time, John B obviously reads these reports. I don't think any themes emerged and I'm afraid this report is going to be brief, but as usual you can find most (in fact all but one) of the songs we sang via the "a selection" link below.

Colin was MC as usual and started us off with Jez Lowe's Morpeth Olympics.

Both Roger and John B sang their turns through the evening, but on one of Roger's turns they joined forces with Roger on harmonica and John B on drum and vocals to appropriately sing Sloop John B (roud 15634 - otherwise called H'ist up the John B's sails or The John B sails).

The only song from the evening which doesn't feature in the "a selection" link is John Sykes' The Lincolnshire Song, sung by Simon. It's not that the song doesn't appear on YouTube, but that it is just part of a longer video of John's daughter Miranda Sykes singing and YouTube doesn't allow clips to be included in playlists.

Geoff gave us a poem, which turned out to be a version of Les Barker's Disaster at sea as modified by Fred Wedlock to locate it at Portishead.

Simon finished off the evening with When all men sing (Keith Scowcroft, Derek Gifford).

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

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