Worthing Local Group “At Home” Session – Wednesday 3rd March 2021

7.30pm start if attending the Zoom meeting

Hello everyone. Following on from last month’s ‘At Home’ Session we have decided to give it another go. We are getting closer to being able to meet up hopefully, but in the meantime we will need to be a bit longer with the ZOOM or AT HOME Worthing sessions.

If you are unable to join by Zoom, or you feel it is not for you, then please join us in spirit by singing the same songs.

The song list below is adaptable to a Zoom or a no-Zoom session. Either way, all singers welcome – and welcome to our March Zoom. It is not designed to take over from Tina’s wonderful sessions, but is there to supplement our Worthing sessions which are currently based around singing alone in our own homes (but at the same time). It would be really good it we were to do some interaction with each other which will lead into small, local, socially-distanced groups when the current climate eventually changes, for those who may wish to.

Though I’m not musically gifted like a lot of our members, I am content to put my IT skills to the use of the group to get these sessions moving. Therefore I have set up an initial Zoom Session for Wednesday 3rd March at 7.30pm. Currently Zoom sessions are free as long as I keep them below 40 minutes in duration; however we can have two sessions back to back. Therefore I would suggest if we are able to get this one running, that we have 35-minute session, followed by a coffee/beer break of 5 minutes, followed by another half-hour session. All is subject to change. To log into the session use the following details below.

Join Zoom Meeting
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 at 7.30pm
Meeting ID Number: 553 923 1152
Password: SDFSMar21

The following is a list of proposed songs which we can pull from.

• Pleasant and Delightful
• Oak, Ash and Thorn (Lead requested)
• The Bee-Boy’s Song
• Lark in the Morning
• Ebernoe Horn Fair
• A Smuggler’s Song (individual verses – volunteers required)
• Rosebuds in June
• Green Grow the Laurel (Lady volunteer please)
• West Sussex Drinking Song
• Where Stormy Winds do Blow
• Country Life or The Life of a Man (to finish)

If you would like to bring along an individual song, poem or story then feel free to so do. If you let me know at the beginning then I will ensure we fit it in.

Dave W

Lewes Virtual Session – Tuesday 16th February 2021

Hello again singers in Lewes or elsewhere. Hope you’re still surviving. At least now some people have had the first vaccination and the days are getting longer with occasional sunshine, despite the recent flurries of snow. Here are my February song suggestions. Just one new song this month with attachments to sing along at home HERE (the others recorded in previous months are marked *).

If you would rather sing and chat with others there are also two Zoom sessions where, as usual, those present will decide how we use the time. Stay as long as you want, all welcome from any area. If anyone is reading this who does not yet belong to SDFS do feel free to come and see what we do.

Tuesday 16th at 7.30pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83024913881?pwd=emdVWnFULzlLYXN5SDlmVmRTY09WZz09
Meeting ID: 830 2491 3881
Passcode: 802923

Sunday 21st at 3pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87825799809?pwd=SThZSFo2VGwvdkI5UVRwMThSTHM2UT09
Meeting ID: 878 2579 9809
Passcode: 500968

• We’ll kick off with Drink me Brave Boys* and Fathom the Bowl*
• Then our new item, one last wassailing song for the year – Wassail the Silver Apple from the West Country. On the website you can hear Alan & Anne from the Chichester group performing it in two parts with instruments. I’ve attached here each part recorded separately and the words.
• Taking us to our virtual comfort break a pair of sea-themed songs, both sad tales but set to lively tunes – The Constant Lovers* and Our Captain Cried, “All Hands”*.
• Welcome back with two songs concerning local Sussex places – Brighton Camp* from the East and Ha’nacker Mill* from the West.
• Next our thoughts turn to love with The Three Maidens* and The Sussex Wedding Song*.
• And to end another distanced evening, apart but together in spirit, our old favourite Thousands or More* with a slight topical change to the lyrics: “With my bottle and friend you will find me on Zoom!”

Best wishes, solidarity, golier etc!

Tina