Hi Les

Yes - the CD "Manchester Ballads" is still available from me for a tenner. PM me for more details.

I agree with you that some of these ballads are wordy and I had to make slight adjustments to get some of the lines to scan and give me a chance to sing them without having an asthma attack!

Hi Steve - it's thanks to you that we got the sheet music for "The Calico Printer's Clerk" or to give it its proper title "She was very fond of dancing". I was singing the original version at Boscastle singaround and said that probably no-one had heard this version. When I'd finished the song the lady in fron of me turned round and said that her mother used to sing it and it was the only version she knew!

Cheers
Mark