Recorded on location, somewhere or other, near Trunch, Norfolk, England by the Dambuster mobile recording unit;
Produced by Richard Digance, engineered by Dave Bubb;
The Company: Sid and Henry Kipper, with family and friends: Annie, Dot, George, Kevin and Len Kipper, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden—and the vicar;
George Kipper appears courtesy of HM Prisons.

(P) Dambuster Records 1970 (Note that this is the epoch in the UNIX world!)

Tracks

Side 1

1. Introduction by Henry and Sid Kipper (0.40)
2. Not Sixteen Till Sunday (2.10)
3. The Male Female Highwayman (3.56)
4. The Unlaid Maid (3.22)
5. The Cricket Match (2.38)
6. All on the Shore (The Body) (2.29)
7. Hollow Ground (2.49)
8. Dido, Fido (3.11)

Side 2

9. The Whistling Monologue (1.34)
10. The Village P.I.M.P. (4.37)
11. Poor Old Cow (1.57)
12. To Be a Pharmacist (3.27)
13. Adieu You Pretty Nancy (4.15)
14. A Lightweight Dirge (4.54)

Note to Not Sixteen Till Sunday

This song obviously predates the many printed versions of a superficially similar song, Seventeen Come Sunday. Here, though, the reason for the inclusion of the girl’s age is quite clear—obviously earlier collectors and publishers found the idea of a song about under-age sex too much for their prissy sensibilities, and “improved” it almost out of all recognition. The refrain, too, is rescued from the nonsense of Victorian sensibility to something much more meaningful. A full analysis is not possible here, but it should be noted that rhubarb is traditionally an aphrodisiac—“that get you going,” says Henry—while the fiddle is a well known sexual referent, as in Jack Onion, who fiddled so badly that the girls all wept.

Notes

Just when you thought there were no great traditional singers to find in England, along comes the Kipper Family (Henry and his up and coming son Sid) singing songs from the rarely heard tradition of Trunch in Norfolk. Unaccompanied they sing unique versions of traditional songs - Not Sixteen Till Sunday, The Unlaid Maid, All on the Shore, The Village P.I.M.P., and of course, their masterpiece Dido Fido which is passing into the tradition—not surprising when you consider the beauty of the lyrics:

There was Dido, Fido, Bonzo and Rex,
Rover and Lassie and Spot,
There was Butch, there was Candy,
There was Patch and there was Sandy,
These were the dogs what I had got.

Sheer poetry! A satirical classic!

(Thanks to F. S. for the note.)

Recorded at a variety of locations, including the Parish Church of St. Just-outside-Trunch, the Old Goat, and the Front Parlour (courtesy of Mrs. Dot Kipper), by the Dambuster mobile recording studio.
Produced by Richard Digance and engineered by Dave Bubb
Sid and Henry Kipper are joined, instrumentally, by the New Trunch Coronation Band and, vocally, by the Trunch Glee Club, the regulars of the Old Goat Inn, George, Len, Dot, Kevin and Annie Kipper, and the Vicar.

Tracks

Side 1

1. Thirty Days (0.05)
2. Rusty Cold Farmer (3.31)
3. The Turning of the Year (0.08)
4. The Trunch Wassail Song (2.08)
5. Valentine Rhyme (0.13)
6. The Losing of the Whale (4.50)
7. Easter Week (0.22)
8. The Southrepps May Song (2.54)
9. Derby Day (0.08)
10. Creeping Ivy (2.40)
11. The Wild Mounting Time (4.12)

Side 2

12. The Glorious Twelfth (0.15)
13. Bald General Coote (4.19)
14. Plough the Fields and Scatter (0.09)
15. Harvest Away (3.32)
16. Summer Is a Going Out (0.10)
17. Joan Sugarbeet (3.26)
18. Remember, Remember (0.13)
19. Spencer the Wild Rover (2.46)
20. No Ale (0.11)
21. The Poacher’s Christmas (5.56)
22. Happy New Year (0.06)

Note to Spencer the Wild Rover

The discovery that two pages of Billy Kipper’s old song book had become stuck together has raised more questions than it has answered. When did they get stuck together, and, more importantly, how? Is the entire Kipper repertoire the result of pages getting stuck together? Such questions are better left to experts in matters adhesive. The fact is, however, that anyone who regarded Sid and Henry as simple, innocent rustics must now think again. It is quite clear that they are also enthusiastic and methodical researchers into their local traditions. With loving care and old rabbit-skinning knife Sid prised the errant pages apart and discovered this little gem. The big question now is how such an unusual song found its way into the Trunch tradition in the first place. According to Henry there is a story that it was first sung in the middle of the last century by Ephraim Kipper, who suffered from what might now be described as schizophrenia. Other favourites of his, such as Pretty Nancy Usher’s Well and Cruising All Around My Hat are now, sadly, lost.

(from the record sleeve notes)

Notes

Those loveable bastions of the Norfolk singing tradition are back with another selection of singular Trunch variants of traditional English songs. Unlike their first a cappella album they are joined by the famed New Trunch Coronation Band which features such superb musicians as Tony Hall, melodeon (a brilliant musician who has been absent from record for too long), Pennie Harris, hammered dulcimer, Tim Laycock, concertina, and Ursula Pank, cello. Here we have our first chance to hear such classic songs as The Rusty Cold Farmer, The Losing of the Whale, The Southrepps May Song, Bald General Coote, The Wild Mounting Time, Joan Sugarbeet, the amazing Spencer The Wild Rover, and others.

(Thanks to F. S. for the note.)

This is a parody on Peter Bellamy’s Ballad Opera The Transports. Note that Chris Sugden sang The Ballad of Norwich Gaol in the role of The Convict on Free Reed’s 2004 re-recording of The Transports.

All titles written and composed by Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden, published by Dambuster Music;
Recorded at Dambuster Studios;
Produced by Richard Digance and Dave Bubb;
Except The Mason’s a Prune (trad. arr. Sanders), recorded at Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire;
Sleeve design and artwork by Molly Nudds;
Sleeve insert by Chris Sugden

The Cast

The Prologue: Ashley Hutchings;
The Narrator: John Kirkpatrick;
Captain Upspoke: Shep Woolley;
Belle Bow: Cathy Lesurf;
Admiral Ben Bow: Martin Carthy;
Cromeo: Mick Graves;
Sheriet: Sarah Graves;
The Bosun: Tim Laycock;
The Parson: Phil Beer;
The Town Crier: Peter Bellamy

Incidental Music

by the Cast,
plus
John Smith,
Richard Digance,
Gary Carpenter, and
Fairport Convention

Tracks

Side 1

1. Sid and Henry arrive (0.49)
   at the Old Goat
2. Come All You (Overture) (0.16)
   John Smith: mandolins
3. The Prologue (2.55)
   Ashley Hutchings
4. Come All You (3.14)
   John Kirkpatrick: vocals, button accordion, concertina and bass concertina
5. Sid’s round (1.30)
6. Upspoke’s Dream (2.19)
   Shep Wooley: vocals; Dave Bubb, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden: chorus
7. Henry and Sid get some out (1.34)
8. I Wish I Was Plural No More (2.14)
   Martin Carthy: vocals and acoustic guitar; Cathy Lesurf: vocals
9. Sid shuts up (1.13)
10. Oh! It’s Hard (2.38)
    Mick Graves: vocals and fiddle; Sarah Graves: vocals and concertina
11. Oh! It’s Hard (Reprise) (1.03)
    Mick Graves: fiddle; Sarah Graves: concertina; John Smith: electric guitar; Richard digance: acoustic guitar

Side 2

12. Jolly Boasting Weather (3.22)
    Tim Laycock: vocals and concertina; Dave Bubb, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden: chorus
13. Henry finds talking thirsty work (2.30)
14. Lost and Foundered (3.23)
    John Kirkpatrick: vocals and melodeon
15. Henry doesn’t mind if he does (0.34)
16. The Parson Knows (2.37)
    Phil Beer: vocals; Dave Bubb, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden: chorus
17. All Washed Up (2.27)
    Mick Graves: vocals
18. Sid discusses (1.00)
    a matter of convenience
19. Brave Old World (3.14)
    Sarah Graves: vocals; Gary Carpenter: Yamaha DX7

Side 3

20. Here Is the News (1.37)
    Peter Bellamy: vocals
21. Henry’s a bit short (1.00)
22. Belle’s On Her Toes (3.03)
    Cathy Lesurf: vocals
23. Sealed With a Curse (4.45)
    Martin Carthy and Shep Woolley: vocals
24. Sid explains himself (1.55)
25. Ninety-Eight Not Out (3.24)
    Tim Laycock: vocals and concertina; Phil Beer: mandolins
26. Henry gets what he deserves (1.21)
27. Here Is the News (II) (1.33)
    Peter Bellamy: vocals
28. The Mason’s A Prune (1.10)
    Fairport Convention: Dave Pegg: bass; Dave Mattacks: drums; Simon Nicol: guitar; Ric Sanders: fiddle; Maartin Allcock: mandolin

Side 4

29. The Leaving Of Sheringham (3.26)
    Sarah Graves: vocals; Gary Carpenter: Yamaha DX7; Mick Graves, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden: chorus
30. Here Is the News (III) (1.04)
    Peter Bellamy: vocals
31. Herny confuses the issue (3.18)
    by explaining things
32. In With the In-Breed (2.00)
    John Kirkpatrick: vocals
33. In With the In-Breed (Reprise) (1.50)
    John Kirkpatrick: button accordion
34. Sid loses count (0.43)
35. Fall Down (3.18)
    Mick Graves: vocals; Sarah Graves: vocals and concertina; Phil Beer, Dick Nudds and Chris Sugden: chorus
36. A Narrator’s Life (2.04)
    John Kirkpatrick: vocals and button accordion
37. Fall Down (Reprise) (1.25)
    Sarah Graves: concertina; Mick Graves: vocals; Phil Beer and Richard Digance: acoustic guitars
38. Henry comes clean (1.11)
    in the rain on the way home

Unfortunately the CD reissue misses tracks 15-16 and 28 even though the CD sleeve still claims Fairport Convention to perform.

Design and artwork by Molly Nudds;
Music transcription and artwork by Kevin Elliott;
Back cover photographs by Doc Rowe and Cluve Tully

Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

The Ever Decreasing Circle: Ritual and seasonal songs

6. The Rusty Cold Farmer
8. The Wild Mounting Time
10. All on the Shore (The Body)
12. Harvest Away
14. Dido, Fido
16. Joan Sugarbeet
18. Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
20. The Poacher’s Christmas
22. The Lightweight Dirge

Love, Lust and Lamentation: Songs of courtship and marriage

24. Not Sixteen ’Til Sunday
26. The Cricket Match
28. Gorleston Town
30. All Around My Head
32. The Unlaid Maid
34. The Male Female Highwayman
36. Will Kipper’s Waltz
36. The Dashing White Privates
37. Hollow Ground
38. To Be a Pharmacist
40. I Wish I Was Plural No More
42. The Seven Deadly Sins

Drowning Sorrows and Sinking Sailors: Naval, drinking and other songs

44. The Village P.I.M.P.
46. Bold General Coote
48. The Bloke Who Came Home Broke From Cromer Bingo
50. Get ’Em Down
52. Dicky Riding
54. The Landlady’s Shoe
56. Bring Us in Hot Tea
58. Adieu You Pretty Nancy
60. Ninety-Eight Not Out
62. The Losing of the Whale

Tracks

1. Uncle Tom Cobbley Can’t Come (7.34)
2. Big Musgrave (6.53)
3. The Seven Deadly Sins (7.12)
4. Bored of the Dance (5.32)
5. Yes Sir, Yes (6.20)
6. The Old Irishman (4.07)
7. One Drunken Maiden (3.05)
8. My Grandfather’s Cock (6.41)
9. The Bloke Who Came Home Broke from Cromer Bingo (8.10)

Produced at Blue Strike Studios, Harrogate, by Chris Sugden.

With Bridget Bream, Briony Bream, Derek Bream, Sharon Cockle, Annie Kipper, George Kipper, Henry Kipper, Kevin Kipper, Sid Kipper, The Lyng Singers, Rory McLoud, S.E. Rowdie, Flaco Spratt, Tiger Trout.

Tracks

Side 1

1. Arrest These Merry Gentlemen (2.25)
2. Thanks a Lot, God (4.48)
3. Northrepps Twelfth Night Song (2.05)
4. The Awful Story of Black Shag (3.10)
5. Oh Little Town of Gimingham (4.00)
6. The Roots of the Blues (4.17)
7. Anna Ingram’s Sister (2.40)
8. Ring Out Wild Jingle Bells (3.26)

Side 2

9. Awayday (3.23)
10. I Know What I Believe (3.38)
11. That Was Christmas Eve (2.49)
12. The Disabled Seaman (2.48)
13. Underwood’s Milk (3.45)
14. The Ivy and the Holly (2.10)
15. The Trunch A to Z (3.00)
16. Christmas Collapso (2.29)
17. We Wish You a Merry Xmas (2.42)

Notes

There’s no one else quite like The Kipper Family (who said “thank goodness”) and their rendings, er renderings of traditional songs from around their home village of Trunch. As the liner notes so succinctly point out “For those who admire the old style of singing, Sid & Henry Kipper have become something of a cult. For those who don’t, of course, they haven’t.” On this collection they perform mostly Christmas songs and stories and are joined for the festivities by various friends and enemies including The Rev Derek Bream, Bridget Bream, Annie Kipper (Miss), The St Just-Near-Trunch Handbell Ringers and others. Besides the title song they perform other seasonal ditties like Thanks A Lot, God, Oh Little Town Of Gimingham, Ring Out Wild Jingle Bells, That Was Christmas Eve, The Ivy & The Holly, Christmas Collapso, and others. You have been warned! (FS)

Thanks for this note to: [have to find this site again]

Recorded at Box Cottage, St. Just-near-Trunch, Norfolk by Blue Strike Recorders, Harrogate;
Engineered by Will Jackson;
Produced by Chris Sugden

Tracks

1. Walsingham Matilda (4.12)
2. Peculiar Ale (3.11)
3. (Do) The Rock of Ages (3.51)
4. Probably Not (3.47)
5. We Did It Sideways (3.38)
6. Fowl Jimmy (4.15)
7. Jam Tomorrow (3.05)
8. Yarmouth Races (2.54)
9. Are You Dry? (3.07)
10. Cheap Day Return to Hemsby (2.57)
11. The Punnet of Strawberries (4.27)
12. The Trousers in Between (2.02)
13. The Bonny Spotted Cuckoo (3.01)
14. We’re Norfolk and Good (3.38)
15. Daises Up (5.44)

Like a Rhinestone Ploughboy was originally broadcast by Trunch Wireless. This recording is reproduced without their permission;
Produced by Chris Sugden;
Engineered by Will Jackson;
Digitally remistressed by Blue Strike Recording, Harrowgate;
All songs copyright Chris Sugden, except Folk Roots ’66, The Bloody Wars, and The Twenty Pound Frog, for which Dick Nudds must share some responsibility.

Musicians

Sid Kipper: vocals, guitar, accordion, scallops, gob iron, trombone, stylophone, pan-european pipes, walnut shells, bass walnut shells, animal noises, trunch blowpipe and fiddle;
Linda Herring and Cocklesdale (Val Marlin, John O’Hake and Graham Perch): additional vocals

Tracks

1. Sid (0.21)
2. The Old, Waily, Windy Knight (4.35)
3. Sid (0.10)
4. The Innocent Dodo (3.11)
5. Sid (0.06)
6. The Bodyline Collapso (5.27)
7. Sid (0.12)
8. The Bloody Wars (2.40)
9. Sid (0.06)
10. The Twenty Pound Frog (3.53)
11. Sid (0.19)
12. The Stack of Domies (4.25)
13. Sid (0.08)
14. Gobblers in the Garden (3.49)
15. Sid (0.12)
16. All Things Are Quite Equal (4.28)
17. Sid (0.08)
18. The Stick of Rhubarb (3.42)
19. Folk Roots ’66 (2.22)
20. Sid (0.07)
21. Jack Onion (4.48)
22. Sid (0.12)
23. The Song of the E.U. (4.05)
24. Sid (0.21)

Produced by Chris Sugden;
Recorded by Calum and Dave Bulmer

Musicians

Sid Kipper: walnut shells, accordion, guitar, whistle, English bodhrán, harmonica, vocals;
Dave Burland: guitar, vocals

Tracks

1. Allan Barber (3.10)
2. Bobby Dazzler (2.11)
3. Hay! Do the Morris (3.38)
4. The Roughton Wriggle Song (1.59)
5. The Muntons of Moorgate (2.42)
6. The Bonny Heavy Plough Horse (2.57)
7. The Shoals of Whiting (3.00)
8. A Jimmy Kipper Muddley (3.52)
9. We Will Rob You (2.24)
10. Shepherd of the Ups (1.53)
11. Death or Glory Wassail (3.16)
12. The Knapton White Hare (1.45)
13. The Prince of Whales (2.07)
14. Murder at the Red Barndance (2.45)
15. The Mild Rover (3.52)
16. Breasting the Waves (3.02)
17. Combing the Mane (2.23)
18. The Harvest Moan (3.53)
19. The Wraggle Taggle Travellers-Oh (3.22)

An innovative album of story telling, linked by a monologue from Sid recorded at Tapecraft Studio and in the Old Goat Inn, St Just-near-Trunch.
Produced by Nick Patrick of Boom Media.

Artists

Sid Kipper, with a little help from Rev Derek Bream and Chris Sugden.

Tracks

1. The Case of the Cuckoos Nest (5.50)
2. The Headless Horse Man of Happisburgh (4.35)
3. Crackers for Fanny (5.20)
4. Sir Wayne, the Green Knight (5.40)
5. Piering Out to Sea (5.10)
6. The Lesson of Len’s Lorry (2.20)
7. The Story of Saint Nick of Trunch (4.30)
8. The Digression of the Three Gruff Billy Goats (3.40)
9. The Trunch Flitch (5.15)
10. The Voyage of the Golden Behind (4.20)
11. Phyllis Ferret’s Big Day (4.05)
12. The Horrible History of the Harry Celeste (3.15)
13. How The Turkey Got His Gobble (3.15)
14. The Sirens of Scroby Sands (5.10)
15. Cleverclogs and the Three Bears (4.40)

Produced by Chris Sugden;
Engineered by Calum Bulmer;
All titles copyright Chris Sugden

Tracks

1. East Side Story (0.23)
2. The Belles of St Just (1.43)
3. Lord Hardwick (3.53)
4. Hard As Oak (0.33)
5. Wighton Walnut Song (3.10)
6. Times of the Rigs (2.55)
7. London Spurning (0.30)
8. Haul the Deck (3.06)
9. Queensbury Rules, OK (2.40)
10. A Runton Rousaby (0.12)
11. Talking Postman Blues (2.30)
12. Knock Down, Knock Down For Jesus (3.03)
13. Narborough Fair (0.52)
14. Where Have All the Cauliflowers Gone? (2.33)
15. Polly on the Floor (3.05)
16. Pretty Penny-Oh (3.05)
17. The Hard Times of Old Buckenham (1.00)
18. The Bold Low Way Man (3.31)
19. The Wide Miss Audrey (2.20)
20. The Sailor in Diss Dress (2.58)
21. Old King Cod (0.12)
22. The Old Lamb Sigh (3.01)
23. Haddiscoe Maypole Song (0.42)
24. Down, Duvet Down (3.17)
25. The Farmer’s Crumpet (3.30)
26. Weeds of the Wood (0.41)
27. Way Down in the Bayeux Tapestry (2.48)
28. East Side Story (0.23)

Recorded on location in St Just-near-Trunch by Calum Bulmer;
Produced by Chris Sugden;
Sleeve design by Andy Northing, with notes by Chris Sugden and Sid Kipper;
Cover picture by Terence Loan

Tracks

1. Big Dick of Whittington (4.29)
2. Ship Fashion and Bristol Shaped (2.42)
3. Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (9.17)
4. Bunfight at the OK Chorale (4.56)
5. Christmas With Carol (3.59)
6. Mutiny on the Bouncy (7.03)
7. Derek’s Third Letter to the Truncheons (1.52)
8. The Romance of Rumpled Stiltskin O’Bugger (8.02)
9. Flora and Fauna (1.41)
10. Pathetic (6.20)
11. The Pied Blowpiper of Kings Lynn (4.30)
12. The Ugly Sisters (8.24)
13. A Partly Political Broadcast for Bigots Against Tolerance (2.42)
14. My Bootiful Mawther (7.03)

Recorded at The Olde Filling Station, Swafield, by Calum Bulmer;
Produced, in his absence, by Chris Sugden;
Sleeve design by Andy Northing, with notes by Chris Sugden

Tracks

1. The Gimmingham Idiot’s Song (0.19)
2. The Writes of Man (1.55)
3. Dirty Old Man (0.26)
4. Grey is the Colour (2.02)
5. Shut Up, Little Baby (0.29)
6. Biker Bill (2.49)
7. To Be a Milkman (0.29)
8. Man of Convictions (3.05)
9. Searching for Songs (0.17)
10. The Sisters of Percy (2.01)
11. The Sperm Bank of Life (0.20)
12. The Drag Hunt (2.33)
13. Winterton Wassup Song (0.22)
14. The Happy Clappy Chappy (2.03)
15. There Is No Tavern in the Town (0.18)
16. Rolling Drunk (4.29)
17. I Know a Young Lady (0.10)
18. I Love Not Where I Live (2.58)
19. The Outrageous Night (0.40)
20. Hate Story (2.32)
21. Old Rhyme (0.12)
22. The Dumpling Song (3.00)
23. The False Bridegroom (0.19)
24. The Cruel She (2.53)
25. For He’s a Jolly Good Felon (0.11)
26. Open Prison Blues (2.09)
27. Skipping Rhyme (0.06)
28. The Illiterate’s Alphabet (2.47)
29. Dashed Company (0.24)
30. This Is My Land (2.39)
31. As With Gladys (0.27)
32. Cool Yule (2.38)
33. Unpleasant and Frightful (0.24)
34. Deadly Dick’s (2.12)
35. The Gimmingham Idiot’s Song (0.22)
36. The Weeds of Love (2.33)

Contents

0. An Appreciation of George Kipper by Martin Carthy MBE
2. The Illiterate’s Alphabet
4. The Lay of the Lass
6. The Haddiscoe Maypole Song
8. The Banker’s Daughter
10. The Wighton Walnut Song
12. The Cruel She
14. The Trousers in Between
16. Down, Duvet, Down
18. The Bold Low Way Man
20. The Knapton White Hare
22. The Outrageous Night
24. Do You Know Ken Peel?
26. The Wide Miss Audrey
28. Cheap Day Return to Hemsby
30. My Grandfather’s Cock
32. The Disabled Seaman
34. The Old Lamb Sign
36. Big Musgrave
38. The Bloody Wars
40. Folk Roots ’66
42. The Belles of St Just
44. The Happy Clappy Chappy
46. Talking Postman Blues
48. The Sisters of Percy
50. Narborough Fair
52. Awayday
54. Biker Bill
56. The Right Wrong Song
58. The Punnet of Strawberries
60. The Farmer’s Crumpet
62. The Man with the Big Guitar
64. Bored of the Dance
66. Way Down in the Bayeaux Tapestry
68. Deadly Dick’s
70. Excuse Me
72. Grey is the Colour
74. Man of Convictions
76. We’re Norfolk and Good
78. Daisies Up
80. East Side Story
82. The Drag Hunt
84. Pretty Penny-Oh
86. The Twenty Pound Frog
88. The Flat of the Land
90. The Writes of Man
92. Backwaterside
94. This Is My Land
96. Hate Story

Recorded and mixed at Brook Row Studio by Mike Hockenhull;
Produced by Chris Sugden;
All words and music copyright Chris Sugden;
Incidental songs recorded by Gleesome Gimingham;
Photo by Genevieve Tudor and Allan Price—with thanks;
Sleeve notes by Chris Sugden;
Mr Kipper’s elocution was trained by Augustus Swineherd.

Tracks

1. New Year (1.03)
2. Love Divining (1.39)
3. January (1.17)
4. Willing to Woo (2.33)
5. February (0.57)
6. By the Cobblers (2.36)
7. March (1.15)
8. Moo Cows Poo (2.19)
9. April (0.59)
10. Bed and Bawd (3.24)
11. May (0.54)
12. Rue-the-Day (2.37)
13. June (1.14)
14. On Wedlock Edge (2.19)
15. July (1.16)
16. The Whaleman’s Complaint (3.32)
17. August (0.48)
18. The Festive Harvestall (2.12)
19. September (1.22)
20. Arrivederci Cromer (3.34)
21. October (0.53)
22. The Three Sisters (2.58)
23. November (1.01)
24. A Larling Lullaby (2.34)
25. December (1.29)
26. Turkey in the Door (2.33)
27. Old Year’s Night (0.55)
28. The Winterton Wassup Song (3.05)
29. The Spheres Spin On (0.23)
30. So Tearfully Round (2.30)
31. The End (0.16)

Recorded live “here, there and everywhere”;
Mastered at Brook Row Studios by Mike Hockenhull;
Produced by Chris Sugden except [14] produced by Richard Digance;
Sleeve design by Caroline Mickina

Tracks

1. “Here we all are then” (0.55)
2. De’Ath and the Lady – “You don’t want to worry” (6.08)
3. Kippers and Bloaters – “Now I’d like to sing” (6.08)
4. Get ’Em Down (Mavis Blair) – “Henry Kipper” – “What?” (2.41)
5. One Bloke Can Cut the Grass – “You were born” (3.50)
6. Robin Hood and the Sexton – “Your parents were poor” (5.41)
7. I Diddled ’em Darby – “Very soon you had a younger brother” (2.47)
8. All Around My Head – “Now you and George went” (4.52)
9. Dicky Riding – “Now you left school” (3.22)
10. Come Strike Me Down – “Yes, I remember that day” (2.58)
11. The Landlady’s Shoe – “Now before many months” (4.11)
12. Gorleston Town – “So that brings us almost to the end” (5.29)
13. Bring Us in Hot Tea – “But the worst thing about it was” (3.39)
14. Wind That Blows – “And so the swings of life turned full roundabout” (3.06)
15. Red Herring Song – –“In 1985 you became a professional” (3.41)
16. Strip the Widow / Canticle (3.31)
17. The Rusty Cold Farmer (with mad uncle Don) (3.20)
18. Do You Know Ken Peel? (4.26)

All tracks Dick Nudds, Chris Sugden

Recorded at Brook Row Studios by Mike Hockenhull;
Produced by Chris Sugden;
Sleeve notes by Chris Sugden;
Sleeve design by Caroline Mickina

Tracks

1. All Things Dark & Dangerous (3.07)
2. A-Rowing (2.41)
3. The Banker’s Daughter (2.14)
4. Bats in the Belfry (2.13)
5. Bear Down Below (1.46)
6. The Bold Folk Singer (1.48)
7. Bushes and Brians (2.00)
8. The Complete Swine (1.15)
9. Constant Lovers (2.04)
10. The Dead Cert (1.30)
11. The Doggy Few (2.36)
12. The Fheep Fhearing Fong (1.31)
13. A for Sale Shanty (2.04)
14. Gentleman’s Relish (2.10)
15. The Gift to Be Sinful (1.21)
16. Helen Highwater (2.27)
17. Like For Like (2.18)
18. London Spurning (2.06)
19. Lord Lambkin (2.30)
20. The Milkmaid’s Oath (2.05)
21. New Roman TimeS (1.33)
22. The Old Saint George (2.15)
23. One The Fa Cup (2.57)
24. The Second Innings (2.33)
25. Sing Cuckoo Doodle Doo (2.41)
26. The Song Called Mike Harding (2.01)
27. Three Points On My License (3.00)

All tracks by Chris Sugden except
Track 24 Dick Nudds, Chris Sugden