Box Of Frogs
1. B-Wear Knickers:
A back story in itself.
2.Come see the mackerel running:
An invitation I was given by a Folky friend with a little boat. I did not accept the invitation but my imagination did!
3.Cow Bar:
The road sign at the bottom of Boulby Bank on the coast road out of Whitby to the West sparked this one.
4.Fryup:
In a Folk singaround at the Station Inn, Whitby someone did a Highwayman song and there was some banter about 'stand on your liver'. I immediately wrote this song and performed it when it was my turn. The version here is the polished version!
5.Johan Sebastian Coe:
This ran into my mind about the time of the run up to the Olympics 2012.
6.Just so Ruddy Kipling:
I bought a cap in a charity shop decorated with an elephant. I was wearing it one evening and someone sang a song about an innocent Hare.
7.No Room in the Bins:
In August 2012 I left the Station Inn Whitby at closing time. The Landlord came out at the same time and was met by a female bar person who had been trying to dispose of rubbish. Somehow the conversation seemed to resonate and this song about the homeless was written.
8.Pirate:
I have friends, a duo, who write and sing about Pirates a lot. Perhaps this was a protest song.
9.Song of Egg's Isle:
I think someone had been rather precious about an emigration song.
10.The Elephant:
A piece of journalese to protest about.
11.Where a Chip awaits for me:
Someone sang a song that was apparently a poem of John Masefield's set to music. I misheard some of it and made use of the 'Mondegreen'.
12.Worse than Rough:
I was driving to the White Hart Folk Club at Mickleby one Saturday night and the car was being buffeted by a gale off the sea. I thought to myself, "It's a rough old night". And so a song was born!
1. B-Wear Knickers:
A back story in itself.
2.Come see the mackerel running:
An invitation I was given by a Folky friend with a little boat. I did not accept the invitation but my imagination did!
3.Cow Bar:
The road sign at the bottom of Boulby Bank on the coast road out of Whitby to the West sparked this one.
4.Fryup:
In a Folk singaround at the Station Inn, Whitby someone did a Highwayman song and there was some banter about 'stand on your liver'. I immediately wrote this song and performed it when it was my turn. The version here is the polished version!
5.Johan Sebastian Coe:
This ran into my mind about the time of the run up to the Olympics 2012.
6.Just so Ruddy Kipling:
I bought a cap in a charity shop decorated with an elephant. I was wearing it one evening and someone sang a song about an innocent Hare.
7.No Room in the Bins:
In August 2012 I left the Station Inn Whitby at closing time. The Landlord came out at the same time and was met by a female bar person who had been trying to dispose of rubbish. Somehow the conversation seemed to resonate and this song about the homeless was written.
8.Pirate:
I have friends, a duo, who write and sing about Pirates a lot. Perhaps this was a protest song.
9.Song of Egg's Isle:
I think someone had been rather precious about an emigration song.
10.The Elephant:
A piece of journalese to protest about.
11.Where a Chip awaits for me:
Someone sang a song that was apparently a poem of John Masefield's set to music. I misheard some of it and made use of the 'Mondegreen'.
12.Worse than Rough:
I was driving to the White Hart Folk Club at Mickleby one Saturday night and the car was being buffeted by a gale off the sea. I thought to myself, "It's a rough old night". And so a song was born!