The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Jim Rowley       \………………….. From Blackthorn Buskers
3. Rebecca Kay \
4. Bill Taylor.          \…………………. Rebil
5. Veronica Lowe
6. Rod Livings
7. Gary Salter
8. Maria Gibbons
9. Flash

The Songs

• Perhaps Love (1/2)(G)
• Mary And The Soldier  (3/4)(G)
• Plane Crash At Los Gatos (3/4)(G/Man)
• Ship In The Sky (5)(G)
• Dia De Domingo (6)(G)
• Meaning Of Life (Own Song) (7/1)(G)
• Tom Of Bedlam (8)(U)
• Sweep! Chimney-Sweep (9)(U)
• When Annie Took Me Home (1)(G)
• Bread & Circuses (Own Song)(2)(G)
• A Bunch Of Thyme (3/4)(G)
• The Bold Fisherman (3/4)(G)
• Through Bushes And Through Briars (5)(U)
• Another Train (6)(G)
• The Gypsy Rover (8/5)(G)
• The Bonnie Banks O Fordie (9)(U)
• Spanish Is The Lovin’ Tongue (1)(G)
• She Moved Through The Fair (2)(U)
• Ratcliffe Highway (3/4)(G)
• After The Storm (3/4)(G)
• Dark Eyed Sailor (5)(U)
• Caroline And Her Young Sailor (6)(C)
• Lowlands Away (9)(U)
• Lady Franklin’s Dream (1)(G)
• The Unfortunate Rake (2)(U)
• The Broomfield Wager (3/4)(G)
• Walking The Long Mile Home (3/4)(G)
• East Virginia (5)9G)
• Bringing In The Sheaves (9)(U)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Jim Rowley       \………………….. From Blackthorn Buskers
3. Nigel Hastead
4. Rebecca Kay ……………………… From Rebil
5. Sue Hastead
6. Rod Livings
7. Flash
8. Veronica Lowe
9. Tricia Davies
10. Emma Fletcher
11. Maria Gibbons

The Songs

• Matt Hyland (1)(G)
• Skin And Bone (Own Song)  (2)(G)
• The Guist Ploughman  (3)(U)
• Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (4)(U)
• The Factory Girl (5)(U)
• The Water Is Wide (6)(G)
• Barrack Street (7)(U)
• The Royal Blackbird (8)(G)
• Past Caring (9)(U)
• The March Of The Women (10)(U)
• Steal Away (1)(G)
• Frank On The Lump (Own Song) (2)(G)
• The Green Fields Of France (3)(G)
• Josephine (4)(G)
• Hares On The Mountain (5)(U)
• Mantle OF Green (6)(V)
• Jock O’ Hazeldean (7)(U)
• Buttercup Joe (8)(U)
• So Will We Yet (9)(U)
• The Crow On The Cradle (8/10/11)(U)
• St James Infirmary Blues (2/1)(G/H)
• The Yew Tree (3)(G)
• Searching For The Lambs (4)(U)
• Servant Man (5)(U)
• Seventeen Come Sunday (6)(C)
• The Recruited Collier (8)(U)
• The Jubilee Sovereign (9)(Mono)
• Come Write Me Down (The Wedding Song) (8/10/11)(U)
• Go Down You Blood Red Roses (7)(U)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Jim Rowley       \
3. Ivor Keates          \ ___________From Blackthorn Buskers
4. John Bent-Marshall
5. Veronica Lowe
6. Emma Fletcher
7. Flash

The Songs

• Takamine Disaster (Own Song) (1)(G)
• The Traveller’s Rest (Own Song)  (2)(G)
• The Horn Of The Hunter  (3)(U)
• Gloucestershire Rambler (Own Song) (4)(G)
• The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses (5)(G)
• I once Loved A Lad (6)(U)
• Snail In The Youth Block (Own Poem) (7)
• My One And Only (Own Poem) (7)
• Lay Down Your Weary Tune (1/2/3)(G/Man/Caj)
• The Bonny Ship The Diamond (1/2/3)(G)
• Van Diemans Land (4)(G)
• Plaisir D’Amour (5)(G)
• Mount The Air (6)(U)
• There’s A Word For It (Own Poem)(7)
• Dark Eyed Sailor (1)(G)
• The Bankers Lament (Own Song) (2)(U)
• The Bold Fisherman (3)(U)
• The Holy Ground (4)(G)
• To Althea From Prison (5)(G)
• Follow The Drinking Gourd (6)(U)
• The Holmfirth Anthem (7)(U)
• Sammy’s Bar (1)(G)
• A Rainy Night In Soho (2)(G)
• Weile Weile Waile (7)(U)
• Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn  (3)(U)
• The Roads Of Kildare (4)(G)
• Lowlands Away (5)(U)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Ivor Keates       \ ___________From Blackthorn Buskers
3. John Bent-Marshall
4. Veronica Lowe
5. Bill Taylor.          ___________  From ReBill/ May Thrill
6. Rod Livings
7. Flash
8. Emma Fletcher
9. Tricia Davies
10. Robin Burton.  ————– From Gloucester Diamonds
11. Gwilym Davies

The Songs

• The Dalesman’s Litany (1)(G)
• The Flaxen Shroud (2)(U)
• Home Boys Home (3)(G)
• For Lovin’ Me (4)(G)
• Down Where The Drunkards Roll (5)(G)
• A Ship In Distress (6)(C)
• She’ll Be Skidding Down The Runway (7)(U)
• Pastures Of Plenty (8)(U)
• The Valiant Lady (9)(U)
• All By Yourself In The Moonlight (10)(U)
• The Lakes of Coolfin (11)(M)
• Forest Lawn (1)(G)
• Winster Gallop / Young Collins (2)(C)
• The Snowy Breasted Pearl (3)(G)
• Bold Bonny Boy (4)(U)
• Peggy Gordon (5)(G)
• Whisky Is The Life Of Man (6)(U)
• Slow The Man Down (7)(U)
• In The Early Morning Rain (8/4)(G)
• Cupids Garden (9)(U)
• Keep Haulin’ (10)(U)
• Rolling Home To England (1)(U)
• Hopping Down In Kent (11)(M)
• The Rare Auld Times (2)(U)
• The Sound Of Silence (3)(G)
• Four Pence A Day (4)(U)
• One More Step Along The World I Go (7)(U)
• The Volunteer Organist (5)(U)
• The Curragh Of Kildare (6)(G)
• Clouds (8/4)(G)
• No Followers (9)(U)
• Blackleg Miner (10)(U)
• Billy Johnson’s Ball (11)(M)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Ivor Keates       \ ___________From Blackthorn Buskers
3. John Bent-Marshall
4. Veronica Lowe
5. Alex Evans
6. Rebecca Kay \
7. Bill Taylor.          \___________ ReBil
8. Nigel Hastead
9. Sue Hastead
10. Eden Tanner
11. Rod Livings
12. Flash
13. Phil Heinricy
14. Tricia Davies
15. Paul Schofield

The Songs

• Outward Bound (1)(G)
• The Thirty Foot Trailer (2)(U)
• Muirsheen Durkin (3)(G)
• Morning Train (4)(G)
• The Bantry Girl’s Lament (5)(G)
• The Calico Printer’s Clerk (6/7)(G)
• Walking The Long Mile Home (6/7)(G)
• Dance Me To The End Of Love (8)(G)
• Oak And Ash And Thorn (9)(U)
• The Guist Ploughman (10)(U)
• The Skye Boat Song (11)(G)
• Oh Good Ale (12)(U)
• Poverty Knocks (13)(G)
• All Things Are Quite Silent (14)(U)
• Bloody Well Sailing (15)(U)
• Bar Room Incident (1)(U)
• Whisky On A Sunday (2)(U)
• Carrickfergus (3)(G)
• The Cemetery Song (4)(U)
• Down Where The Drunkards Roll (5)(G)
• Too Far From She (6/7)(G)
• The Golden Vanity (6/7)(G)
• Who Owns The Game? (8)(U)
• The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda (9)(U)
• The Crabfish Song (10)(U)
• Never Like The First Time (Own Song) (13)(G)
• The Baker’s Oven (14)(U)
• Knocking Nellie (15)(U)
• Go Down You Blood Red Roses (2)(U)
• Private William Coffey (10)(U)
• He Didn’t See It Coming (Own Song) (13)(G)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Ivor Keates       \ ___________From Blackthorn Buskers
3. John Bent-Marshall
4. Sue Hastead
5. Nigel Hastead
6. Flash
7. Veronica Lowe
8. Tricia Davies

The Songs

• Shelter (1)(G)
• Our Captain Called All Hands (2)(U)
• Blowing In The Wind (3)(G)
• Shallow Brown (4)(U)
• Rout Of The Blues (5)(G)
• Reuben Ranzo (6)(U)
• The Green Fields Of France (7)(G)
• Both Sexes Give Ear (8)(U)
• A Fair Maid Walking (1)(G)
• Byker Hill (2)(U)
• Moonshine (3)(G)
• Follow The Heron Home (4)(U)
• Fakenham Fair (5)(G)
• New York Girls (6)(U)
• Limady (7)(G)
• When Fishes Fly (No My Love Not I) (8)(U)
• Flash Stockman (1)(G/H)
• The Plains Of Waterloo (2)(U)
• Jamaica Farewell (3)(G)
• Sergeant William Bailey (4)(U)
• Spencer The Rover (5)(G)
• Bully In The Alley (6)(U)
• Long Time Boy (7)(G)
• The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses (8)(U)
• Now I’m Easy (1)(G)
• Dark Island (2)(C)
• Lord Of The Dance (3)(G)
• The Parting Glass (4)(U)
• Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (5)(G)
• Four Pence A Day (6)(U)
• The Farmers Toast (8)(U)
• The Mingulay Boat Song (2/6)(C)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Jim Rowley       \ ___________ From Blackthorn Buskers
3. Rebecca Kay   \
4. Bill Taylor            \ __________ ReBil
5. Veronica Lowe
6. Rod Livings
7. Sam Simmons
8. Eleanor Simmons

The Songs

• The Star Of The County Down (1)(G)
• I Shall Be Released (2)(G)
• Lady Jane (3/4)(G/Man)
• The Golden Vanity (3/4)(G)
• Sheep shearing (5)(U)
• Blow Away The Morning Dew (6)(U)
• Tŷ Bach Twt (7/8)(U)
• The Anacreontic Song (7/8)(U)
• As I Leave Behind Neidin (1)(G)
• A DiamondTeardrop (Own Song) (2)(G)
• Ladies Go Dancing At Whitsun (3/4)(G)
• Love Spoon (3/4)(G)
• Jug Of Punch (5)(U)
• Wild Mountain Thyme ((6)(G)
• Cape Cod Girls (7/8)(U)
• Hey Nelly Nelly (8)(U)
• I Followed Her Into The West (1)(G)
• Killing The Blues (2)(G)
• Blow You Winds Hi-o (3/4)(G)
• Leezie Lindsay (3/4)(G)
• Dark Eyed Sailor (5)(U)
• We Built Fires (6)(G)
• Earwig “O” (7)(U)
• Short Jacket And White Trousers (8)(U)
• Lady Franklin’s Dream (1)(G)
• Apprentice Boy (2)(G)
• Keep That Wheel A-Turning (3/4)(G)
• Gentleman Soldier (3/4)(G)
• John Ball (5)(U)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Ivor Keates       \ ___________From Blackthorn Buskers
3. John Bent-Marshal
4. Sam Simmons
5.  Eleanor  Simmons
6. Bill Taylor  ______________ From May Thrill / Rebil
7. Rod Livings
8. Robin Burton ……………………… From Gloucester Diamonds
9. Veronica Lowe

 

The Songs

• Needle Of Death (1)(G)
• One More Pull (2)(C)
• Leaving On A Jet Plane (3)(G)
• Gloucestershire Poacher (4/5)(U)
• Let Your Light Shine On Me (4/5)(U)
• The Watercress Girl (6)(G)
• The Oak And The Ash (7)(U)
• The Stratford And Northen May Song (8)(U)
• Rosebud In June (9)(U)
• Sweet Forget-Me-Not (1)(G)
• The Wedding Song (2)(U)
• To Be A Farmers Boy (3)(G)
• Gossip Jones (4/5)(U)
• Rownd Yr Horn (4/5)(U)
• I Sowed The Seeds Of Love (6)(G)
• The Wild Rover (7)(G)
• Trafalgar Square (8)(U)
• Shores Of Normandy (9)(U)
• When You Get Your Ticket (1)(G)
• Geordies Lost His Plinker (2)(U)
• The Old Carmarthen Oak (3)(G)
• Feeny Brown (4)(U)
• Do-Re-Mi (5)(U)
• Medway Flows Softly (6)(G)
• The Rose (7)(G)
• Marching Inland (8)(U)
• Pleasant And Delightful (9)(U)
• Ginny Come Lately (6)(G)

The Singers

1. Bill Craswell.  \
2. Jim Rowley.      \
3. Gerd Busker.     \
4. Ivor Keates          \_________________ Blackthorn Buskers
5. John Bent-Marshal
6. Eleanor Simmons
7.  Sam Simmons
8. Bill Taylor  _______________________ May Thrill / Rebil
9. Veronica Lowe
10. Rönnaug Dowle
11. Rod Livings
12. Tricia Davies

 

The Songs

• The Boston Burglar (1)(G)
• Frank On The Lump (Own Song)(2)(G)
• Fred’s Madrigal (4)(U)
• The Drunkards Song (5)(G)
• A Ei Di’r ‘Deryn (Will You Go Blackbird)(6/7)(U)
• The New Bell Wake (6/7)(U)
• Vincent Black Lightning 1952 (8)(G)
• Lisbon (9)(U)
• Gardens (10)(G)
• Mary Hamilton (Pt1)(11)(G)
• Whistle Daughter Whistle (2)(U)
• Drink Old England Dry (1/2/3/4)(M/G/DB/Bod)
• Way Down In Lamorna (1/2/3/4)(Uke/Guitar/DB/Bod)
• Al Die Willen Te Kaape Varen (Moeten Manne Met Baarden Zijn) (3)(G)
• Daar Was Laatst Een Meisje Loos (3)(G)
• Spancil Hill (5)(G)
• The Shropshire Lad (6)(U)
• Hobi Deri Dando (7)(U)
• Nobody’s Moggy (8)(G)
• Ladies Go Dancing At Whitsun (9)(G)
• Ola Ola (10)(G)
• Lady Hamilton (Pt2)(11)(G)
• South Australia (12)(U)
• Now I’m Easy (1)(G)
• Les Tendres Souhaits (2)(U)
• Hey Mr tambourine Man (5)(G)
• Jenny’s Gone To Ohio (6)(U)
• Essequibo river (7)(U)
• The Farmers Toast (8)(G)
• Oh Mary Don’t You Weep(9)(G)
• Lumberjack (10)(G)
• Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still (12)(U)
• Rolling Home (1)(G)

The Singers

1. 1. Bill Craswell     \
   2. Ivor Keates.          \______ From “Blackthorn Buskers”
   3. Eleanor Simmons
   4. Sam Simmons
   5. Sue Hastead
   6. Nigel Hastead
   7. Tricia Davies
   8. Ken Langsbury
   9. Jill Haworth

 

The Songs

• Who’s The Fool Now? (1/2)(U)
• Sammy’s Bar (1/2)(G)
• Staines Morris (3)(U)
• Ar Lan Y Mor (Beside The Sea)(4)(U)
• Ware Out Mother (5)(U)
• Timothy Briggs The Barber (6)(U)
• The Tailors Breeches (7)(U)
• Margarets Waltz (8/9)(V/P)
• In The Neighbourhood (8/9)(P)
• Lady Franklin’s Dream (1)(G)
• Jolly Ploughboys(2)(U)
• The New Navigation(3/4)(U)
• Soft Little Hands (3/4)(U)
• Annabelle (5/6)(U)
• Fakenham Fair (6)(G)
• The Pilot (7)(U)
• The Dragon Of Wantley (7)(U)
• To Be A Farmers Boy (1)(U)
• Little Boy Billie (2)(U)
• The Bells Of Rhymney (3)(U)
• Roll The Wood Pile Down (4)(U)
• The Gallant Hussar (5/6)(U)
• Awake Awake (6)(U)
• The Ledbury Clergyman (&)(U)
• Moreton in Marsh (8)(M)
• Happy Absentee (8)(U)