This is interesting! I've just received my first fan e-mail on this song from China:

"Dear Mr. Charles Ipcar:

Great to see you! I am a girl from Fuzhou , the Province of Fujian in China, work in the Pagoda Anchorage Park. Recently, I am in your web site (http://charlieipcar.com) found a song " By the Old Pagoda Anchorage ", very excited. I find the relevant information, and know that this song is adapted from the poem of "By the Old Pagoda Anchorage" the British poetess Cicely Fox Smith wrote in 1926. I really like the lively style of music. I would very much like to learn more about this song and the history and stories of the Pagoda Anchorage, I do not know if fortunate enough to be able to buy your 《Sailortown Days Sea Songs 》CD, complete listen to it again. Thank you very much!"

I almost dumped it as SPAM without reading it. Anyway I did send back a thoughtful reply with an attached color image of the painting I use as a header graphic.

Maybe I'll get a gig to play at her local tea-house!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble