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WINTERTIME: We don't play this song at gigs but we really enjoyed making it. Our daughter Sarah Directed us and made us look very silly one snowy winters afternoon. Louise is on piano. Son Matthew was Chief Snowball Thrower and played all the electronic music.
 

 

 

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MARS PARTY: I went to a party and people started taking off their clothes. There are many versions of this song. One is a little suggestive but harmless... another is best sung in wild venues with semi-naked bar staff and a third version is saved for raunchy pole-dancing Morris Dancers who take off their clothes and run naked around open fires. It is this version that is most popular in Folk Clubs!

This is a video of a local folk club committee.

(I cant say which one!)
 

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COFFEE HOUSE BLUES: I wrote this song as part of a Coventry Singer Songwriters Group challange and it was performed at the Stratford On Avon Fringe festival inside the McKechnies coffee bar. This is the first "Blues" song I have ever written.

THE CONSPIRACY SONG: I believe in all of them. Elvis, Lady Di, Roswell, President Kennedy, Michael Jackson, 7/7, 9/11, Chem Trails, Poisoning the water, UFO's, Space stations on the dark side of the moon, New World Order  Fairies, The Mayan calendar, The EU/ Nazi conspiracy and Little Green Men, ....  I am a sucker for all of the weird and wacky stories! They are ALL true!

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This is a song about recycling.
 This is a song about the MP's money grabbing rat bag politicians who cheated the people of the UK when claiming their expenses and then tried to hide it.