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Playing a card game at a folk festival. Pete Morton asked my Amy what he should do next, and she helpfully  replied ‘Any Heart will do’.

Good title for a song he said … and said that I could have that to work with, so I did.  It became a song about lust 🙂 Continue reading “In the Raw: Any Heart Will Do”

This was inspired by the 999 NHS march from Jarrow in 2014:   Continue reading “In the Raw: 999NHS”

This song was written by Kevin McCourt who was a modest musician, well-known around Leicester with his numerous instruments.

Kevin was keen to get me singing in Gaelic which I am still planning, however in the meantime this is a lovely song that he wrote and asked me to sing. Continue reading “In the Raw: What Is This Peace [written by Kevin McCourt]”

Words by Chris Gimlett from Hastings, dedicated to CND and a safer world. The tune is much older.

I Asked Continue reading “In the Raw: I Asked [words by Chris Gimlett]”

The inspiration for this song was an interview on TV by a reporter in Aleppo, Syria.  He was talking to a girl in tent city where she had been sent to be safe as the houses were being bombed, but the bombs were still falling.  Her little brother was behind her – he may have been about 3 – and was making aeroplanes from his fingers in the air, and his fingers were acting out the dropping bombs.  That was his life … Continue reading “In the Raw: Toast and Marmalade”

Bobba Cass  wrote the words to this song, and asked me to set it to music.  This is the result:

You’ll Be Continue reading “In the Raw: First attempt at home recording: You’ll Be [words by Bobba Cass, my melody]”