Ballads, tunes and Traveller’s tales in the folk tradition.

Please click here for a selection of sound and video clips Links

Songs (descending chronological order)

Goodbye for Now, Ireland (Slain go foill hEirann, Dmaj 4/4 song and reel)

Echoes from the Lough (Belfast NI, Cmaj 3/4 ballad)

Bon Temps bayou (Louisiana, Gmaj 4/4)

The Jolly Minnesotan (Gmaj 4/4 Reel)

Going to Glory of Going to Hell? (Gmaj 2/4 March Tim protest song)

Winter lovin’ (Cmaj/Em 3/4 blues)

Transcontinental Blues (Gmaj 3/4)

My Roving days are Done (Talking to my dad, Dmaj 3/8 Waltz)

I’m Boston Bound (D maj 4/4 with 12 bar reel)

Living by the Sea (E maj 4/4 with bridge)

Land of Ten Thousand Dreams (F maj 4/4 with bridge)

Cambridge Lights (G maj 4/4 with 8 bar bridge)

Aussie Ceilidh Time (D maj 6/8 with 10 bar jig)

My Belfast Lullaby (C maj / A min 4/4 with bridge)

Poems 

Mountain Memories (WA, dedicated to my Mum and Alzheimer’s disease)

Desert Bloom (AZ USA)

Tides of London (UK)

Blue Mountain Dreaming (NSW)

Life is but a Marathon (MN)

Going to there Limit

Cold-hearted Winter

Wandering in the Woods

Rheinfluss

Jet Lag Blues