Garry

I went to see the Doonans and they did a cracking version of 'a miners life', which up until then I had not heard of. Amazingly, at the guitar lessons I now attend it's one of the songs we are learning. When I can play it confidently, I am going to claim that I wrote it, along with 'A hand full of songs' that Art introduced me to.

I'll probably claim a couple of others as well.

Enjoy the music, keep it live.

Regards Ritchie 'the lone stranger'

Hang on to that book mate they are very rare!

Does your copy have the little sayings scattered about such as "cobwebs of comfort:when a man blacks yer eye then tells you he didn't mean to hit ye se hard"

My own copy is very worn and probably needs rebinding. Folks get the Alex Glasgow link from the "Joe Lives" musical as I said in the other thread

Glad to hear that the Bridge is still going strong. Someone further down was asking after the Ranters

Ritchie I sing Miners Life all the time, different version to the Doonans tho. Po into Bridge on Mon nights if you can

At the moment tho' I won't be able to well not just yet anyway, cos' am gannin' tee an art class ivory monday neet, an' it doesn't finish till aboot nine o clock.

It was funny how it happened, my wife wanted to enrol in a reflexology class and I went along and enrolled in the arts class just to be able give her a lift there and back.

Only to find that now her class has been cancelled which means that I go back and forth on my own. If, after my guitar lessons on tuesday nights, I don't improve enough to be able to perform a song or two at 'The Bridge' I'll do you a couple of drawings for you to hang on the wall on folk nights.

regards Ritchie 'do you know what it is yet?'