My memory decided to retire some time ago - so I began to make a serious compilation of what I could remember - but as time goes by I find that songs are still turning up, and I am making a few, collecting a few - I even get my guitar in tune and play a few from time to time. My family has always had singers, so I do sometimes introduce a song as one from my mother or grandmother's singing, or explain that my version of Goodbye Dolly has the soldier returning home, because my grandfather did, and sang it to my mother. He called her Dolly Grey-eyes. At the last meeting of the local folk club I found the idea of my book being placed in an archive when I no longer need it quite hilarious - but maybe I should consider it after all.
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