Let's see it I can eat a late lunch and get this posted... (Okay, that worked; now I'm trying to keep a cat off my shoulder because I can't type with her in my lap and she really prefers to stand either on my carotid artery or on my trachea, which REALLY complicates life...)

The crew yesterday was me (Linn Schulz = Bat Goddess), Dianne Lavoie, Nick Noble from Worcester, Lynn Noel and Phillip Nimeskern, Justine Donovan, Susan Young, Alan Eaton, Ramona Connelly, Carol Coronis, (which means we had all four London Julies), Bill Lehrman and Carol Pierson, Marty Stock (Bupkes) and several more people from Gloucester who I didn't get a chance to talk to or find out their names, Lynn Feingold, and Jeff Warner. Also in the audience was Alan's son Stephen and his wife and kids and Gail Diderickson and her sister Janice. And Ellen and Dave Hamil.

We were decidedly weighted towards the feminine side -- a hen frigate for the most part. Lynn, Lynn, and I don't often get to be in the same room together so yesterday was a treat. We've been threatening for several years to sing together as a group and call ourselves "Three Jolly Rogues Named Lynn". My suggestion is that one of them change the spelling of their name to Lynne and then, when asked how to tell us apart, we can say, "By our names."

1. All For Me Grog - Alan Eaton
2. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn Schulz
3. Congo River - Dianne Lavoie
4. A Drop Of Nelson's Blood (Roll the Old Chariot) - Nick Noble
5. Bedford Whalers (Masefield poem) - Lynn Noel (her setting of the poem)
6. Stormalong John - Justine Donovan
7. Race of Long Ago - Linn Schulz
8. Sitting On the River On the Levee (Noah Built the Ark) - Susan Young
9. Strike the Bell - Alan Eaton
10. Twelve Gates To the City - Lynn Noel
11. Five Constipated Men In the Bible - Dianne Lavoie
12. Haul On Your Sequins (Million Dollar Line) - Lynn Noel
13. Blow Ye Winds In the Morning - Nick Noble
14. Wild Goose Shanty - Alan Eaton
15. Sailor's Prayer (Tom Lewis) - Linn Schulz
16. Tinker, Tailor (Tom Lewis) - Dianne Lavoie
17. If I Were a Blackbird - Ramona Connelly
18. Heave Ya Ho - Marty Stock
19. Bay of Biscay - Lynn Noel (who also learned it from the
       Tim Hart & Maddy Prior LP)
20. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? - Carol Coronis
                                                                      w/Sue Young on bodhran
      (That was the kick ass Greek rock 'n roll version...)
21. Saltpetre Shanty (Tom Lewis) - Justine Donovan
22. Nancy Belle Brig - Nick Noble
23. 34 Essex Street - Lynn Noel
24. Aunt Clara - Linn Schulz (don't ask...)
25. Amelia Where You Bound To? (Across the Western Ocean) - Susan Young
26. A-Roving - Ramona Connelly (sort of "Maid of Portsmouth Town"...)
27. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth - Linn Schulz
28. Sprig of Thyme - Dianne Lavoie
29. Cape Cod Girls - Alan Eaton
30. Give Us a Drop of Brandy-O - Marty Stock
31. Backside of Nantucket Point - Linn Schulz
32. Spanish Graves On the Isles of Shoals - Lynn Noel
33. Mrs. McGrath - Justine Donovan
34. Lover's Wreck - Carol Coronis
35. Maggie May - Linn Schulz
36. Little Ball of Yarn - Lynn Feingold
37. Go To Sea Once More - Jeff Warner
38. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Nick Noble
39. The Rosabella - Dianne Lavoie & Lynn Noel
40. Help Me To Raise 'Em - Justine Donovan
41. Black Betty - Dianne Lavoie
42. All Through the Ale - Jeff Warner
43. Mary Mac At Sea - Jeff Warner
44. The Old Clockwinder - Lynn Feingold
45. Nelson's Prayer - Jeff Warner and the Company

There...lunch, two phone calls and a cat attack later...

Please let me know if and where I've screwed up as a scribe.

Linn