| Cresby´s songs & collected stuff | audio | plain text |
fancy | music | ||||
| Subject | Title | .MP3 | .txt | length | credit | singing | ||
| a shanty for synchronised crochet teams . 1 | Knittershanty | 0:00 | full | Cresby |
Cresby & Jackie | |||
| a plea to a friend not to consider suicide . 2 | Eilidh | Cresby | ||||||
| my kind of love song, full of meaning, and bathos . 3 | My Love is Like a Chocolate Box | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| abc not quite a shanty but close . 4 | RollBoysRoll | Cresby | ||||||
| a friend & down and out who was too proud to say hello . 5 | Ron Haywards Blues | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| abc Victorian trade of Pure Finding (dog poo to you) ! 6 | Pure Finder | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| I´m sentimantal about Malvern, this was my purple patch . 7 | No Matter Where I Wander | 0:00 | full |
Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| the battle for Upton bridge, Upton-u-Severn - Civil War. 8 | Upton Bridge | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| the Guy Fawkes story, remember, remember, but do you ? 9 | Coughton Conspiracy | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Chris |
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| a song about Nelson. 10 | Lord Nelson | Cresby | ||||||
| Hot Gospel, with just a hint of tongue in cheek. 11 | Station in the Sky | Cresby | ||||||
| a shanty in draft form? 12 | Pencil Sharpening Shanty | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| not a parody, but a modern re-working. Boy looses girl . 13 | All around my Hat | Cresby | ||||||
| a song celebrating the
quintessential English sauce (from India) . 14 |
Worcestershire Sauce | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Cresby & Somers TFC | |||
| Rag & Bone Men, (eg
Steptoe and Son) the original re-cyclers . 15 |
Old Rags & Bones | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Cresby & Somers TFC | |||
| "Black Country"
humour, Enoch v Eli . also on the yampy.co.uk Black Country Humour site16 |
Cud ´Ave Bin Werse | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| wind-up Mrs Lemon, tell her you have seen this song ! 17 | Shropshire Lemonade | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| culmination of a goal to write a trad song, did it work ? 18 | The Oak & the Willow | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Cresby & Somers TFC | |||
| pit shanty, that´s easy for me to say - sober . 19 | Gold for my Lady | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Cresby & Somers TFC | |||
| the "Old Barbed Why Here?" - three generations on . 20 | the Why Memorial | Cresby | ||||||
| light hearted expose of the leather trade of Walsall . 21 | Merry Book Binder | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Cresby & Somers TFC | |||
| the dead centre of civilisation, Wednesbury town. 22 | Hall Green Way | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| foundryman´s shanty, a true story. 23 | Push on the Shovel | Cresby | ||||||
| The problem of finding your car in a carpark. The speed sign looks like a level number . 24 | Dumb Numbers | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| is it a quote from Ogden Nash, Senator Sam Irvine or a Victorian saying ? 25 | the Rain it Raineth | 0:00 | full | trad/Cresby | Cresby | |||
| a Halloween Song, written for a specific night, on the night . 26 | If You Want to Find the Warlock | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| my Old School was here ! 27 | Wolverhampton I Wanders | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| Ah! An old flame creates inspiration ! 28 | Here Comes Trouble | 0:00 | extract | Cresby | Cresby | |||
| Chris finds a valley called Ingram. Which is a family name we share ! 29 | Northumbria | 0:00 | full | Chris | Chris | |||
| a name=30> the Rollright Stones, you can never count them . OK then, you just try it ! 30 | Old Rollright | 0:00 | full | Cresby | Chris | |||
| A Thomas Graves verse found in Bretforton churchyard set by Chris. 31 | As the Church Bells Chimed | 0:00 | full | Chris/Thomas Gray | Chris | |||
| Norfamton skittles are not like any other skittles, the ball isn't a ball ! 32 | Whack the Skittles | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| musing on the offerings in pubs owned by Mad O'Rourke! 33 | Bitters & Ales | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| inspired by Shakespear, banished from Stratford . 34 | A Tide in the Affairs of Man | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris | |||
| a tale of the other man's gold ! 35 | Golden Windows | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Donnie | |||
| a song about the Staffordshire city ! 36 | Ladies of Lichfield | 0:00 | full | Chris | Chris & Cresby | |||
| Lola Taplin, last private owner of the Fleece in Bretforton. She loved beeswax & flowers ! 37 | Lola's Flowers | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris | |||
| A marching song for the legions. All together - sinister - dexter - sinister - dexter . 38 | Roman Way | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| an historic tale about the owners of Chasleton ! 39 | Sarah's Brew | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Donnie | |||
| composed sitting on the eponymous footpath in Lechlade! 40 | Shelly's Walk | 0:00 | full | Chris | Chris & Cresby | |||
| a comment on the Black Country dielect, owr kid ! 41 | Them Ducks | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Donnie | |||
| Chris planted a plumstone in the grounds of Newstead Abbey, it didn't sprout ! 42 | Plumstone for Byron | 0:00 | full | Chris & Cresby | Chris & Cresby | |||
| a song collected from Donnie Donegan ! 43 | Down with Hitler & the Nazis | 0:00 | full | trad | Donnie | |||
| Joe Latter in 1992 . 44 | Joe Latter | 0:00 | full | trad | Cresby | |||
| Joe Latter at Bromyard Folk Festival . 45 | Joe Latter | 0:00 | full | trad | Cresby | |||
| I collected (& added 3 verses to) this Boer War recruiting song from Joe Latter (originally evacuated from London in WWII) . 46 | Old England she needs Soldiers | 0:00 | full | trad | Joe Latter | |||
| 2 "pace egging" songs collected from Joe Hurley, born nr Accrington . 47 | I´m a Paper Lad & I´m a Navvy | 0:00 | full | trad | Joe Hurley | |||
| Robert Graves´ version of the "Old Barbed Wire" collected from the TV and Radio . 48 | Old Barbed Wire | 0:00 | full | Robert Graves | Cresby | |||
| Back of the Bus song collected from a girlfriend ! 49 | Bald-headed Eagle | 0:00 | full | trad | Cresby | |||
| the other one from 1965. 50 | A Soldier I Will Be | 0:00 | full | trad | Cresby | |||
| 2 young peoples´ songs not heard elsewhere . 51 | Todd the Toad & Shine Your Buttocks | 0:00 | full | trad | Cresby | |||
| Riddles, family epithets, and a skipping rhyme from my youth. 52 | Hezzikia the King of the Jews | trad | ||||||
| Call & response girls/boys street song from Imelda Kucharzyszyn of Stroud . 53 | Three Dukes | 0:00 | full | trad | Imelda | |||
| Children's' skipping chant from Joyce Hart of Stroud . 54 | The Farmer's in his den | 0:00 | full | trad | Joyce | |||
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