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Colin as MC started off with Ewan MacColl's The Manchester Rambler (roud 26771). This prompted Simon to inform the gathered singers that our previous week's blog report had gained "likes" from both Peggy Seeger and Davey Arthur. A quick side-note to Colin: Davey Arthur is younger than you.
Rob gave us the first of two songs from the singing of The Pogues which was The Irish Rover (roud 4379) - are we surprised that one is traditional? The second was the definitely non-traditional Navigator (Phil Gaston). Gaston was manager of Shane McGowan's first band, The Nips.
Next was Simon singing Blues run the game by Jackson C Frank.
After Simon came Sue with the gospel song, This Train (roud 6702), followed by her partner Bob with California Cotton Fields (Dallas Frazier, Earl Montgomery).
And so we got round to Geoff and the first of his cowboy songs, Marty Robbins' Big Iron. Geoff told us how Robbins went into a gun store and found a Colt revolver that had been converted with a rifle barrel and was labelled "Big Iron". This is apparently just one of several origin stories.
Just for the sake of argument I will list the remaining songs that were sung and exist in the Roud Folk Song Index to prove that we do sing folk songs.
- Colin - The Battle of New Orleans (roud 17913, Jimmy Driftwood)
- Rob - Santianna (roud 207)
- Sue - The owl and the pussy cat (roud 30935, Edward Lear)
- Colin - The water is wide (roud 87, child 204)
- Rob - Sally Brown (roud 2628)
- Bob - Fireball mail (roud 28855, Fred Rose, Floyd Jenkins) - note that Floyd Jenkins is a pen name for Fred Rose.
- Colin - The bold fisherman (roud 291, laws O24)
- Rob - Rosemary Lane (roud 269, laws K43)
- Simon - The tailor's breeches (roud 1610)
- Geoff - Only the hangman (roud 2, laws B01, Wayne P Walker)
- Rob - The Winnipeg whore (roud 8348)
Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.
(Number of people present - 6 of whom 6 performed)
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