Smallish session but we had fun, got a lot of songs sung, and kept both the bar and the dining room entertained. The crew was me, Linn (aka Bat Goddess), Charlie (nom de Mudcat Charley Noble), Hutch, Dianne, Don Hale, Gail & Jim Finn, and listeners Don Young and MaryPat. We seemed to have an ongoing theme of shipwreck or near shipwreck -- not planned. What we sang -- 1. Heave Away, My Johnny - Don Hale 2. Talcahuana Girls - Linn 3. Fall Down, Billy O'Shea - Hutch 4. The Rosabella - Dianne 5. Bound Away (Liverpool Packet) - Charlie 6. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn 7. recitation: Tale of the Kennebec Mariner - Hutch 8. The Katahdin's Battle With the Gale - Charlie 9. Sonny's Dream - Gail Finn 10. Fire Down Below ("fetch a bucket of water, girls" version) - Don 11. Haul Away, Joe - Jim Finn 12. The Nervous Wreck of Edna Fitzgerald (Camille West) - Linn (brucing it again) 13. Lukey's Boat - Hutch 14. Never Turn a blind Eye To the Storm - Charlie 15. Jeannie C. - Dianne 16. Banks of Sicily - Hutch 17. Baidin Fheilimi - Jim 18. Jamestown Homeward Bound - Don 19. Dunbarton's Drums - Dianne (demonstrating the song to Gail) 20. Lee Fore Brace - Charlie 21. Backside of Nantucket Point - Linn 22. That's the Ticket - Gail 23. Bold Riley - Don 24. A Pier Head Chorus - Charlie 25. Shawnee-town - Hutch 26. The Bad Bob Lee - Charli 27. south Australia - Jim 28. Boozing - Dianne 29. Knickerbocker Line - Linn 30. Old Zeb - Hutch 31. Soon May the Wellerman Come - Don 32. Bonnie Bunch of Thyme - Dianne 33. Stormalong, Stormy, Stormalong - Charlie 34. The Cat Came Back (with nautical verse) - Charlie 35. Rowdy Soul - Hutch I'll have to continue this tomorrow. Linn
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