Well, I went to the open folk sing in Brooklyn on Wednesday night and had a nice time. It was a bitter cold night, but the 10-minute chilly walk from Grand Army Plaza adds to the charm of arriving at a warm room with people singing. I must say that the main room of the Ethical Culture Society has beautiful accoustics, and even my simple songs sound good there.
There was a small turn-out, which means that I got to do a few songs:
*Frankie and Johnny
*Ballad of Casey Jones
*Fiddlers Green
Some other songs that others done were:
*40 Shades of Green (sounds like a traditional Irish song, but actually written by Johnny Cash)
*Weila Weila (the moral of the song, as revealed in the last verse is "Don't stick knives in babys' heads")
*Gypsy Rover (my mother used to sing this to me when I was a baby)
*Brennan on the Moor
*Haul Away Joe
Brian did Tom Russell's "Blue Wing".
In keeping with approaching St. Patrick's Day, there were a lot of Irish songs.
I'm looking forward to next month's gathering, on April 4.
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