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Thread #137101   Message #3143698
Posted By: Ross Campbell
27-Apr-11 - 06:32 PM
Thread Name: Fleetwood & Fishing: Songs of the Trawling Trade
Subject: RE: Fleetwood & Fishing: Songs of the Trawling Trade
As I plan to list the songs from "The Final Trawl" in the order that we used them in the show, the track-list from the CDs can act as an index for what's to come. The split across the two CDs was made at the half-time point in the live performance:-

CD One
The Smacksman (Trad.)
The Fleetwood Fireman (R. Baxter)*
Old Dinas (Coll. by M. Huntington)*
Bobby Nash's Song (Nash)*
Our Cook's Tater Pie (Coll. from R. Smith)
Don't Marry a Lumper (R. Baxter)
Best Stuff i' Lancashire (R. Gillingham)
Two o'clock Artillery (poem - R. Baxter)
Tell Me Skipper (Coll. Mike Waterson)
The Silent Walkabout (R. Baxter)*
Oh, Mr Thompson (R. Baxter)*
The Blue Flamingo (R.Baxter/R.Gillingham)

CD Two
Windy Old Weather (Trad)
Deckie Learner (Coll. R.Baxter/R.Gillingham)
Why Are You Crying, Mam? (R. Baxter)*
Lament for the Red Falcon (poem - R. Baxter)
Pull for the Shore (Moodey and Sankey Coll.)
Old Man Vic (R. Baxter)*
Lord Middleton (R. Baxter/A. Bell)
Up on the Chatsworth Estate (R. Baxter)
The Arctic Grounds (R. Baxter)*
Iceman and Lumper (R. Baxter/R. Campbell)
Three Day Millionaire (Mike Waterson)
My Brian (R. Baxter from an idea by Owen Hand)
Strike Boys, Strike (Trad. arr. Baxter)
Fighting the Cod War (D. Pearce)*
Flowers of the Sea (R. Baxter)*
The Trawlerman (poem - D. Pearce)

(* indicates that a traditional tune was used)

Ross