Although 78 years of age Blake was a very fine and intelligent singer and this song is worth including if only for its tune which I find rather "handsome." The words are typical broadside stuff but in the mouth of a good singer can sound impressive. Tune and text from George Blake, St Denys, Southampton. Source: Purslow, F, (1968), The Wanton Seed, EDFS, London The following is the footnote in the collection: The chord progression I am using is of my own devising. () but today I am singing the first in this pairing, "In a British Man-of-War". The first time I looked at this one, I bypassed it in favour of its sequel, "On Board of a Man-of-War" also known as "Susan's Adventures in a Man-of-War". This is another song from Joe Offer's collection of songs from the BBC programme, "Singing Together". The audience usually 12 to 20 in number was only 3 for Boxing Day 2014.ġ2-string Guitar: In a British Man-of-War (Including lyrics and chords) I suppose that the biggest audience I have performed in front of would have been about 200 or so at the Peel Centenary Centre in the Isle of Man with the Cronk Illiam Scratchers, and the smallest an audience of three at Reayrt Y Chrink, the sheltered accommodation at which I live and give a monthly sing-around session on the last Friday of each month with help from quite a few of my musical friends. Not really surprising, as the lad's name was (and still is) Nigel Kennedy! His playing was magical enhancing our performance tremendously. Wow! What a difference he made to our performance.
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Neither Liam my friend, nor myself being professional players, so we were a bit dubious to begin with, but the lad said he could vamp along with us, so we agreed. He, however, was getting fed up and asked us if he could join us.
We were invited to entertain a group of people in a local pub after they had been at a concert at the Erin Arts Centre given by an up-and-coming young violinist.ĭuring our performance, the audience were not really listening to us, being more interested in ingratiating themselves with the 16 year old violinist. I have just produced an eBook containing 50 songs (first volume hopefully provided it sells) which can be seen and purchased by following this link:īack in 1981, I paired up with a friend singing folk songs. These annotations are best seen on full-screen, which you can do by clicking on the YouTube icon to the bottom right of the video. You would think that after all that time I would be a virtuoso on at least one of them, but I am merely fairly competent at using them mainly to accompany my singing, my voice being in my humble opinion my best instrument!įor over three years now I have been uploading songs on YouTube and include lyrics and chords as annotations on-screen to help others learn to play along with me. More recently I have been trying to play mandolin and also ocarina. Next got a 5-string banjo as a birthday present age 25 and about the same time bought my first autoharp. Took up guitar at college aged 21 and became interested in folk singing. Messed about with a harmonica from the age of 13.
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