Some workshop suggestions:

20th Century American Military Songs-World Wars to the Present. Ones you learned yourself. Male AND Female Jody Calls. Songs your father sang. Songs from "Bless "em All" to those beyond blessing. Home Fires Burning to Cities Burning.

Out-Of-Wedlock Relationships

In-Wedlock Relationships

Songs You learned as a kid (with a recorded version sent up to Azizi)

Vile Fluids (Alchohol, poisons, medicines, potions, sewage, even Scottish waulking songs. Probably some ideas in the "uses for urine" thread). Anything from "Cod Liver Oil" to the contents of Larry Marr's "Big Five Gallon Jar".

Strangers In A Strange Land-(Songs about meeting up with and conflicts and adjustments to different cultures. Soldiers, tourists pilgrims, missionaries and just plain drifters and globetrotters, anything from "Lord Bateman" to "Call To A Foreign Field" to "The American Stranger" to "The Kerry Recruit" to countless sailors ashore on leave in Callao.

Keys-to locks, mysteries, another's heart or Big Bill Broonzy's highway.

Disguises-Anything from "The Half Hitch" to "Claudy Banks" to "Queen Elenor's Confession" to "Sovay" to "The Handome Cabin Boy"

Aging- Gracefully or going "Over The Hill To The Poorhouse"




Just some ideas. See if any of this floats.....



And Dick, the Roots Workshops can continue forever or until you finally run out of material.