LAWLS' FIREY FAREWELL WAKE, SE Queensland
26 April 2014 at Woodfordia Folk Festival site, Woodford

Songs :
1.        Blessings for Paul Lawler – Sarah Hopkins and other Friends of Paul, with cello, overtones, bells, whirlies
2.        Festival of Friends – Bruce Cockburn (sung by Noel Gardner)
3.        Branching Out – John Gorka (sung by Cloudstreet)
4.        When First We Met – Alan Bell (sung by Cloudstreet)
5.        Parting Friends – traditional shape-note hymn, a la Frankie Armstrong   (sung by Ann Bermingham & Jane Carpenter)
6.        Compassion – Anthony Bridge, a la Pink & White Bridge (sung by Tommy Leonard & Cloudstreet)
7.        Somewhere Along the Road – Rick Kemp (sung by Jenny Fitzgibbon & Rose Broe)
8.        Lawler's Balcony – Dave Oakes (sung by Tommy Leonard & Cloudstreet)
9.        I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire – Seiler, Marcus, Benjemen, Durham (Work in Progress recording)
10.    1812 Overture – bells and cannons excerpt – unknown recording used
11.    McPherson's Lament – traditional, a la Rawlins Cross (Rawlins Cross recording)
12.    Laganside – Tommy Sands (sung by Tommy Leonard)
13.    The Goodnight Song – Jim Boyes, a la Blue Murder (sung by Cloudstreet)

Spoken Word :
Farewell, My Friends (Rabindranath Tagore) – read by Joe Lynch
Inspiration Prayer from The Tibetan Book of the Dead (selected by Tenzin Choegyal) – read by John Wright
Farewell, My Friend (Wayne Petty) – read by Wayne Petty
Pome by an Honorary Son (Ben Sheppard) – read by Noel Gardner
Pome of Clifden and Sweden Memories (Arthur Caldicott) – read by Bill Hauritz
The Eulogy (Richenda Bridge) – read by Amanda Jackes

Fire Ceremony - Alex Podger & Fire Event Team / Music, Poetry, Eulogy - mainly Richenda Bridge / MC, Musicians, proceedings - mainly Noel Gardner /
Further assistance from Paul's looong-time mate, Bill Hauritz and all the Woodford Folk Festival Team.


LAWLS' MEMORIAL CONCERT CELEBRATION,   Northern Territory
9 June 2014 at the No. 1 Gun Turret (East Point), Darwin


1.           Roisin Dubh (trad) – Fritz Risler, Tony Suttor et al (Instrumental)
2.           My Dear Darwin (Paul Lawler) – Peter Bate et al
3.           Cock of the North (Dorothy Hewitt / Martyn Wyndham-Read) – Scotty Balfour
4.           Blues Run the Game (Jackson C. Frank) – Chris Pemberton
5.           The Curragh of Kildare (trad / Burns) – Scotty Balfour
6.           The Baron O' Brackley (trad) – Danny Spooner
7.           Silver in the Stubble (Sydney Carter) – Phil Beck
8.           Remember (Christina Rossetti) – Paul Stewart (Poem)
9.           Lawler's Balcony (Dave Oakes) – Dave Oakes
10.         Coshieville (Stewart MacGregor) – Scotty Balfour
11.         Play Something We Know, Mate (Dave Evans) – Dave Evans
12.         Oh, Darwin is Beautiful (Paul Lawler / trad) – Tony Suttor et al
13.         Maleny Washing Line (Paul Lawler / Cyril Tawney) – Peter Bate et al
14.         White Cockade (trad) – Danny Spooner, Tony Suttor, Phil Beck
15.         Soldiers of the Queen (Leslie Stuart) – Phil Beck et al
16.         They Don't Write 'em Like That Anymore (Pete Betts) – Phil Beck et al
17.         Memorial (Si Khan) – Paul Stewart (Poem)
18.         The March of Anton the Younger (trad) – Fritz Risler (Instrumental)

Ceremony, Celebration, Eulogy and Music, mainly devised - and MC'd - by Paul's looong-time mate, Paul "Stewie" Stewart – along with Top End Folk Club / Top Half Folk Festival personnel.


PAUL's ASHES were ceremonially distributed by Friends & Family in places highly significant in his Life.
We didn't manage to get any to Sweden, but did pretty well covering Australia, England, and Ireland :

In the Canon which spectacularly blasted him into the atmosphere over the Woodfordia Amphitheatre, Qld and
Under his special White Beech rainforest tree planted at Woodfordia, Qld and
Around the Blueberry Bush at our home in Maleny, Qld and
Behind the Gun Turret on East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT in a line towards the cliffs and the setting sun and
Into the breeze looking towards The New World, from off The Sky Road, Clifden, Connemara, Ireland and
Down on the River Mersey, Liverpool, England, from the back of the Ferry, Royal Iris.

Well, after all, he saw himself as a Citizen of the World/s – and he still is!


Heartfelt THANKS to all Participants everywhere.
Love always and forever ....

Signed,
(his ever-lovin) Rich-Joy