Being the 28th of November 2008...

I tried to write something that would encapsulate my feelings about the City Folk Club and all the humans who populate that state of mind...
I gave up and fell back on the bard...

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-- William Shakespeare

Thanks to all who have proved such true friends to me during the recent storms...
David.

And now, live from the City Folk Club Chichester...!

You Are My Sunshine/Bill Bailey: Brenda/Berry and Full Cast
John Ball: Colin and Full Cast
Caledonia: Carol
Somewhere Along the Road: Eddie
The Changing Years: Yvonne/Mike
Donegal Danny: Ken
Jack-o the Shunter: Mave
The Very Thought of You: Brenda/Berry
Tzena Tzena Tzena: Berry/Starship Enterprise
Young and Single Sailor: Anne/Alan
Best of Autumn: Anne/Alan
Country Roads: Lynda/Paul
Big Yellow Taxi: Paul
Waltzing's For Dreamers: Mike
Now and Then: David
?: Lucy
Parcel of Rogues: Colin
40 Shades of Green: Eddie
Lullaby: Yvonne/Mike
A Sad Dream: Phine
Biding My Time: Ken
Anderson's Coast: Mave
La Vie En Rose: Brenda/Berry
Sobre Las Olas/Merry-Go-Round Waltz: Berry/Starship Enterprise
Fair Thee Well My Dearest Dear: Anne/Alan
Songbird: Anita
Moonshadow: Paul
No Telling What a Love Song Will Do: Mike
Black Coffee: Lucy
Crazy Man Michael: Carol
A Quick Two Step: Anne/Alan

Beresford Greene Speaks (supplemental)....

Our resident mystic, Beresford Greene, has been moved to verse...
Over to you Berry...

Well folks, what a super night it was. {Fri 28thNov}. Brenda & I woke up still laughing. A true tonic and so cheap too. After his awful week, I am moved to this advice for the MC: -

Beware thou of the selfish - it's their turn now
Beware the turn that turns - because they don't know how
Beware be of the singer who - became person in the song
Beware your silly arses then - which get the meter wrong
Beware those big performers - whose love is not quite true
Even though you wouldn't - they will, and they do

Beware of honed perfection - when nowt is ever right
Beware ye those who take to floor - there want to stay all night
Beware that guitar tuner - an act that feeds all wrath
Beware thee they who couldn't - see themselves & laugh
Beware all souls who cannot bear - their turn be never due
Even though you wouldn't - they will, and they do
BJG-29thNov08

John Ball...

Another 'starter for ten' (or how ever many are in the room)
Here's how it goes...

Lead (unaccompanied) by Colin:
John Ball

Who’ll be the lady, who will be the lord, 

When we are ruled by the love of another? 

Tell me,who’ll be the lady, who will be the lord, 

In the light that is coming in the morning?

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all - 

Long live the day that is dawning! 

And I'll crow like a cock,
I'll carol like a lark, 

For the light that is coming in the morning.

Eve is the lady, Adam is the lord, 

When we are ruled by the love of another. 

Eve is the lady, Adam is the lord, 

In the light that is coming in the morning.

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all…

All shall be ruled by fellowship, I say, 

All shall be ruled by the love of one another. 

All shall be ruled by fellowship I say, 

In the light that is coming in the morning.

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all…

Labour and spin for fellowship I say, 

Labour and spin for the love of one another. 

Labour and spin for fellowship I say, 

And the light that is coming in the morning.

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all…

You Are My Sunshine....

Here's a merry tune to start next Friday's gathering...
Take it away Berry...!
YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE (Jimmie Davis & Charles Mitchell - 1911)

________F
The other night dear, when I lay dreaming

__F7____________Bb__________F
I dreamt that you were by my side

______________Bb_______________F_______Dm
Come disil - lusion when I a - woke dear

_________F_________C7__________F
You were gone and then - I - - cried

CHORUS
________F
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
____________Bb___________________F
You make me happy when skies are grey
_________F7__Bb____________________F_______(D7)
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
_____________F_______C_____________F
Please don’t take my sunshine a - way

V2
You told me once dear, there'd be no other
And no-one else could come between
But now you've left me to love another
You have broken all my dreams
CHORUS

V3
I'll always love you, and make you happy
If you will only do the same
But if you leave me, how it will grieve me
Nevermore I'll breathe your name
CHORUS