Just logged into Mudcat after running through my songs for tonights sing at The Steamer in Fleetwood... all of them from the singing and writing of Peter Bellamy, so imagine my horror to read this thread.

Abe Carmen - a Bellamy composition throughout, from The Transports, though I've taken the melancholy alternative version recorded for his 1985 EFDSS album Second Wind.

Glass on the Bar - a Bellamy setting of a poem by Henry Lawson, also from Second Wind.

Ford o' Kabul River - a Bellamy setting of a poem by Rudyard Kipling, from his 1982 Fellside album Keep on Kipling.

and, of course, The Fox Jumps Over the Parsons Gate - a traditional piece he essayed in fine old style on the 1970 Topic album of the same name, although sourced from his mother's singing of verses from Randolph Caldecott's picture book. See second post above for link to my wee video which unites Peter's singing and the pictures that inspired it!

18 years? Bloody hell. Another sobering thought - I'm now a year older than Peter was when he died, which is a sobering thought.

To the Boring Bleating Old Traddy himself - I miss you madly.

Sedayne : Bellamist.