Taking a breather before the big one

It was good to have a close to quorate group of singers at last Friday's themeless Dragon Folk Club session. This week (15 December) will be our official Christmas themed singaround, so do come along with your songs of Christmas, Winterval, or Bah Humbug as appropriate to your feelings.

We are still undecided whether to have a session next week (22 December) , so if you would like to come and sing, play or otherwise perform with us (or be our audience), then please get in touch to say you are coming. Please watch this space for confirmation or cancellation.

Colin started us off, marking the fortieth anniversary of the murder of John Lennon with his song Imagine (John Lennon, Yoko Ono).

I have got carried away with other things today and I do like to get this report out on Tuesday, so I am afraid it will be very brief this week. In fact I will mention only these songs not in the YouTube playlist linked from "a selection" below.

• Simon sang John Sykes' The Lincolnshire Song. There is a performance of the song by John's daughter Miranada Sykes on YouTube, but it is as part of a longer set, so here is a link to part a clip from that video.
• Paul sang Steve Thomason's Tracks in the snow.
• Simon's information (from mudcat) is that the version of Lord Franklin that he sang is by Les Barker, but the lyrics are quite different from the one on YouTube.
• Denny sang King of the railways (Roy Duffield)

Paul finished off the evening with Thousands or more (roud 1220).

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

(Number of people present - 4 of whom 4 performed)