9/18/20 Webconcert 17 "Talk Like A Pirate Day EVE" (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 01) Leavin' Of Liverpooll + (inst) Off to California 02) Jim Jones 03) Barret's Privateers (request) 04) If I Had A Boat 05) Yarn Of The Nancy Bell 05) Mariner's Reveng (request) 07) The Mermaid (request) 08) Polly Oliver's Dilemma 09) Dead Men's Song (original tune) 10) Sticks & Stones (Spoken) 11) (original sonnet) Scylla 12) (original sonnet) Charybdis (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 13) Golden Vanity (request) 14) Nasty Nell (request) 15) A Drop Of Nelson's Blood 15) Wing Chang Lu 16) Bimini 17) Ballad Of Serenity 18) Lincoln Park Pirates (request) 19) Away Rio 20) Cape Cod Girls 21) Jamaica Farewell 22) Pump Shanty 23) Brandy 24) For My Lady 25) Pirate Looks At Forty 26) Sloop John B (request) As the crew were gathering, we got news of the passing of that most Notorious Lady, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our hearts were sore to hear of it. Our fair and free seas will be sadder for her loss. For some, the news was sore to bear, indeed. For myself and others, we had but one recourse for comfort: slaking the dark thirst of our collective Id with tankards of song filled with lawlessness and debauchery on the high seas. Fair winds and a following sea for you Great Lady! I look forward to this set every year. There's some great material that I don't get to feature just anywhere, plus favourites rendered even more potent and poignant in theirnatural habitat. There were, as always, some excellent requests and some new material since last year. And then there's the strange and sometimes epic juxtapositions. There were songs of piracy (naturally), But we also had drinking, adventure, drinking, love of the sea, drinking, hate of the sea, drinking, fighting, drinking, love, drinking, hatred, drinking, revenge, drinking, mermaids, drinking, a food fight, drinking, heartreak, drinking, pirate space ships, drinking, sinking, drinking, cannibalism, and of course- sailing. Our songical cruise also featured a fun excursion to a different shore: Having just (last week) hosted an online workshop elsewhere on writing sonnets, I'd had an opportunity to revisit some of my writing in that millieu and found two that I'd thought quite suitable for inclusion in my set last night as a dramatic reading. Both featured some rather doomed sailors. Big thanks for everyone who tuned in and big hugs to us all for the loss of our fiercest Champion.
