Sorry. I had a bit of an emotionally complicated set back yesterday after stopping at the credit union to start the process of taking Tom's name off the accounts and mortgage.

Anyway, here's the report on Saturday's session --

The crew -- Linn Schulz (Bat Goddess) all the way from Nottingham; Steve Willard and wife, Arlene from Gloucester; Charlie Ipcar (Charley Noble) and Judy Barrows (JudyB) from Richmond, Maine; Ernie Pigeon (NwptErnie) and Amy DeSilva from Newburyport; Alan Eaton; Erin Hathaway Weaver from Brattleboro, VT; W.B., Bill Lehrman and Carol Pierson from the Boston area; Ray Ray Spieker and Judy Keith from Gloucester; Don Hale from Norwood, MA; Joe and Lorna Simes (Red and Shorty's) from Dover; Marty Stock; Mike Rowe, Press Room regular who first sang for us last November; Justine Donovan and Steve Smith; Jean Pauly; Phyllis Richard-Sloat; Dave Johnson; and a couple Charlie "brought in" whose names I didn't find out.

1. Fire Marengo - Charlie Ipcar
2. Captain's Daughter - Ernie Pigeon
3. General Taylor - Alan Eaton
4. Cairo-Town - Don Hale
5. Sea People - Steve Willard
6. Bully In the Alley - Marty Stock
7. Anderson's Coast - Ray Spieker
8. I Have Loved You Dearly - Mike Rowe
9. Spectral Fishing Fleet - Charlie
10. Ballad of the Beth Noel - Ernie
11. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn Schulz
12. Heave Ya Ho - Marty
13. River Driver - Alan
14. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Don
15. Cotton Mill Girls - Lorna Simes [you may have noticed she sings with a "Dover" accent -- in joke. She's from Scotland...]
16. Lee Fore Brace - Charlie
17. Sailorman's Port In a Storm - Ernie and Amy
18. Who Will Feed the People? - Steve
19. Mary Ellen Carter - Marty
20. Dead Dog Cider - Charlie
21. Big Bow Wow - Don
22. May Song [Dave Webber's] - Linn (request from Erin)
23. Nellie J. Banks - Ernie
24. Ranzo Ray - Ray
25. It's a Pleasure to Know You - Marty
26. Limehouse Reach - Steve
27. Summer Ghosts - Judy Barrows
28. Stormalong, Stormy, Stormalong - Charlie
29. Away, Rio - Justine Donovan
30. Saltpetre Shanty – Don
31. Where Am I To Go? - Ernie (BTW, it was Wood's Tea Co.'s 1983 tape that I first heard that...)
32. Sailor's Prayer [Tom Lewis] - Linn (thanks, everyone, for carrying the choruses while my voice died completely)
33. Drink to the Men Who've Gone Ashore - Charlie
34. Country Life - Marty
35. Coal Black Rosie - Judy Barrows
36. The Dutchman - Steve
37. Paddy West - Don
38. Up She Rises - Ernie
39. Seraphina - Judy Keith
40. Cape Cod Girls - Jean Pauly
41. Running Down to Cuba - Charlie
42. Johnson Girls - Justine
43. Hurrah, Sing Fare Ye Well - Don
44. Silver Sea - Steve
45. The Corn Krake - Ernie
46. Fathom the Bowl - Ray
47. Roll the Old Chariot Along - Judy Barrows
48. I'm a Rowdy Soul - Jean
49. Mobile Bay (Roll the Cotton Down) - Charlie
50. A Sailor Ain't a Sailor - Judy Keith
51. My Johnny Was a Shoemaker - Lorna Simes
52. Drinkin' That Wine - Ernie
53. Lady Franklin's Lament - Don Hale
54. Marblehead Light (The Town That We Call Home) - Steve
55. The Nile Is a River - Charlie
56. This Boat - Ernie
57. Black Ball Line - Don
58. Bye Bye, My Roseanna - Jean
59. What Will We Do? - Justine
60. Long Summer Day - Ernie
61. Nelson's Prayer - Don (and company)

Corrections and addition welcome! (I'm sure I forgot SOMEBODY on the crew list!)

Linn