The proper title of "Sorrow Is My Stock-in-trade" is, I think, "Reunion". The story is about an ex-naval man who has had to give up drinking for medical reasons. He's bumped into an old navy friend who asks him if he'll be coming to the next service reunion. The song basically says that there's no point in him going because everyone else will be drinking and everything will seem so banal to him as he has to remain sober. It's one of Cyril's most moving songs. I have heard that Cyril wrote it about himself - but he still seems to have the odd drink.

I'm not sure about "In the Doorway" - is it the one about the drunken seaman on shore leave ?

Another of Cyril's songs "New names for old" puzzles some people. It's based on the fact that Ewan MacColl arranged for Alex Campbell to go through a marriage of convenience to Peggy Seeger, so that she could stay in the UK, while he was obtaining his divorce from Joan Littlewood.

After Cyril left the navy, he ran a weekly folk programme on west country radio. He used to try and write a new song for each week. Songs like "In the sidings now" were written at this time - and some of them might have been forgotten if fans hadn't refreshed his memory.

I can also remember that many years ago (I think during the 60s) there were several benefit concerts for Cyril, because he had been diagnosed as having Parkinson's Disease. Happily the diagnosis turned out to be wrong.