Which songs most sung? I think it depends where you are in the I have a notion that there is a geographical divide...but maybe someone could do a paper on it....now that would be fun.   What a hardship I'd have do go to clubs and festivals and sit and listen and sing, all in the name of research. Hmm

We had a couple of big singarounds last weekend at Girvan and it was intersting (for me)to see the songs that were turning up. In Saturday nights "Driech and Coorse" session we had all sorts from "Nine inch will please a Lady" and "John Anderson My Jo" from Burns' Merry Muses to ballads "The Bonny Hind" to the well loved "Star of the Bar" (brilliantly sung by Charlie Strachan) In the bar after it was different again but still great.

I go to two clubs locally in the Borders, Denholm and Melrose and they are both great clubs but both very different in what is sung by the regulars. I find that I adapt repetiore to suit the club unless i am feeling particularly thrawn and then I'll sing a big ballad at Denholm.

Although I think I shocked one of the Denholm regulars the other week by singing a bit of the wonderful Peegy Lee number "Fever", Phil the bass was noodling the bass line and I just started singing a bit. Been meaning to learn it for years. Its a great song but they were a bit taken aback that I'd even know it. A good song is a good song regardless of genre.