The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56242   Message #880504
Posted By: Ebbie
02-Feb-03 - 02:10 AM
Thread Name: songs to warm up a song circle
Subject: RE: songs to warm up a song circle
Let's see if I can remember some of the songs and tunes we did last night...

Opened with a 5string banjo leading Lonesome Road Blues. Then, in no particular order, Wild Colonial Boy; Texas River Song; Summer Wages; My Sweet Wyoming Home; instrumental Red Wing; sung Snow Deer; Four Strong Winds; Bil Staines' The Miner's Song; Angel Band; instrumental Soldier's Joy segueing into Arkansas Traveler; John O' Dreams; Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky; instrumental Back up and Push; instrumental Whiskey Before Breakfast; sung Zebra Dun; Hard Times Come Again No More; lots and lots more.

At the end when there were only half a dozen or so people left, a mando player and I did 'Letter from Lilac Acres' (Thanks, Jed Marum! I love it.) and then finished with just the chorus of 'When We Gather Once More' (Thanks, Rick Fielding!)

"Be well, be safe, be kind, be strong
For the times will test us sore
And to gladden our hearts, our bodies, our souls
Be here when we gather once more
Oh, be here when we gather once more..."