New Year but Old Songs. Tina started us singing with Ale, Glorious Ale and The Farmer’s Toast, Poor Froze Out Gardeners, Where Stormy Winds Do Blow, before Apple Wassail, Sugar Wassail and Wassail Wassail. Then it was time to turn to spring with The Nightingale and Magpie (we still can’t find the harmony in the fifth line of the chorus!) We spent some time on Seasons Turn and were not too sure why some of the words have been changed, but stuck to the original as written by Sylvia Watts because a small group of us will be going to The Star at Alfriston on 13th February to sing two short sets at Mac’s Folk Club and we want unity in the ranks! That is why we sang The Woodcutter’s Song and Ha’nacker Mill too.
We did well with a few pub customers making a point of walking through to our snug and listening appreciatively and a couple who were visiting from Lincolnshire joining in singing with us.
After a refill break we had a surprisingly good run through Littlehampton Collier Lads and The Brave Eleven without Geoff and John who attended Secret Shore Workshops and also Dave’s seven-verse song titled Caburn Hill, together with harmonies. We finished with Thousands or More.
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