The Old Chestnuts Song Circle - Carol's Song Lists, Season 25 (Sep 2019 - Jun 2020)

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Many thanks to Carol for scribing the song lists. Songs are show as "title - composer(s) if the song is not in a Rise Up songbook". An asterisk indicates some original content: an original song, or new verse, or arrangement.

June 2020 (On Zoom)

Five Famous Songs: When the Saints Go Marching in, Comin' 'Round the Mountain, You Get a Line and I'll Get a Pole, Mama Don't Allow, Good Night Ladies (Jack)
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
If I Had a Hammer
Bring Me a Little Water Sylvie
Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Blowin' in the Wind
Lemon Tree - Will Holt
Summertime
Four Strong Winds - with extra verse by Brad*
Hard Times Come Again No More
Weave Me the Sunshine
Swallow Song
Down on the Corner
We Shall Overcome
Hallelujah (Wheatley)
This Pretty Planet
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Walking After Midnight
Freight Train - version by Peter, Paul, and Mary, with extra verses by Rick*, Kate S.*, and Len*
Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones
Stand By Me
Mind Your Own Business - Hank Williams
Far Side of the World - Tide Lines
Catch the Wind
Scarborough Fair
I Don't Know Where I Stand - Joni Mitchell
What a Wonderful World
Gypsy Rover
Happy Together
Farewell to Nova Scotia
I'm on My Way

May 2020 (On Zoom)

A Little Help from My Friends
Love Potion #9
Lady Madonna - The Beatles
Stand by Me
All Around My Hat
Kansas City
Don't That Road Look Rough and Rocky
Octopus' Garden
You Are My Sunshine
If I Needed You
A Place in the Choir (All God's Critters)
Come on up to the House - Tom Waits
Diddie Wa Diddie - Blind Blake
Promises to Keep - Eliza Gilkyson
Circles (Chapin)
May I Suggest
Why Shouldn't We - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Turn off the News (and Build a Garden) - Lucas Nelson
Did You Hear John Hurt
Love Me Tender
What a Wonderful World
My Blue Heaven
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Those Were the Days - Bob & Sue*
Mercy - Jon Brooks
Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses)
Blowin' in the Wind
I'm on My Way

April 2020 (On Zoom)

Golden Golden - Silly Wizard
Nova Scotia Farewell
River (Staines)
Witch Hazel
Wondering Where the Lions Are
Make Something Beautiful - Ben Rector
Sunny
We Rise Again - The Rankin Family
Orphan Girl
Skye Boat Song
Light One Candle
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Let It Be Me
Let the Mystery Be
I'll Fly Away
Precious Friend
Angel From Montgomery
Lord of the Dance
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Sunny Roads - Bill Staines
Give Me Just a Little More Time - Albert Brumley
Pancho and Lefty
Our Town
True Colours
I'm On My Way

March 2020 (No Circle. No joy.)

February 2020 (Last circle in our home.)

I Don't Want Your Millions Mister
Say Darlin' Say - Traditional
Sunny
Coal Town Road
Your Cheatin' Heart
El Condor Pasa
You've Got a Friend (King)
The Times They Are A'Changin'
That Old Feeling - Coco Love Alcorn (Jack)
Take Me Home Country Roads
Born to Take the Highway - Joni Mitchell
Justice - Bruce Cockburn
West Virginia My Home
Wide River to Cross
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Forever Young
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Lizzie Lindsay - Robert Allan
These Hands
Teach Your Children
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Our Town (DeMent)
Circles (Chapin)
The Brakeman's Daughter - David Francey
The Virginia Brand - Tamarack
The L&N Don't Stop Here Any More
Spring Song - Jakki*
Fishin' Blues
Nowhere Man
Carolina in My Mind
My Bonny - Laura Smith
Go Safely Into the Night - Ennis Sisters
Pilgrim - Steve Earle
I'm On My Way

January 2020

Snowbird - Gene MacLellan
Wildflowers - Dolly Parton
Paradise (Prine)
This Little Light of Mine
Jackson - Lucinda Williams
Banks of the Seaway - David Francey
Doctor My Eyes
Where Do You Go to My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
Otto's Waltz - Sylvia*
Brown Eyed Girl
Bad Moon Rising
I Can See Clearly Now
The Spanish Lady/Wheel of Fortune/Dublin City - Trad.
Bridges - Bill Staines
All I Have to Do Is Dream
Skye Boat Song
Take a Picture of This - Ron Hynes
As Tears Go By
Waltzing Matilda
A Man's a Man for A' That - Robert Burns
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Doney Gal (Rain or Shine) - arr. Louise Henson
Bashana Haba'ah
Coal Tattoo - Billy Edd Wheeler
Still to Blame - Wendy*
Sounds of Silence
Move it on Over
Dimming of the Day
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
The Last Thing on My Mind (Paxton)
Summertime
Be Thou My Vision
Ballad of the Poor Child - Diana Jones
I'm a Believer
Shenandoah
Anthem - Leonard Cohen
Can't Help Falling in Love with You
When We Gather Once More - Rick Fielding/Holmes Hooke
I'm on My Way

December 2019

Wild Mountain Thyme
Study War No More
Home - Karla Bonoff
Roseville Fair
Children's Winter - Dermot O'Reilly
Song for a Winter's Night
Wood River - Connie Kaldor
Snow Shanty - Eileen McGann
At Last I'm Ready for Christmas - Stan Rogers
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings - as recorded by the Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan
Turn It Around - Eileen McGann
Huron Carol - Jean de Brebuef
Acadian Driftwood - The Band
Mary Had a Baby - as recorded by Bruce Cockburn
The Christmas Wish - The Muppets
When I'm Gone (Ochs)
The Peace Carol - The Muppets and John Denver
Hallelujah (Cohen)
If I Send for You - Corin Raymond
Sweet Bells - Kate Rusby
I Saw Three Ships - Traditional, as recorded by The Chieftains
Sand and Water - Beth Nielsen Chapman
Another Train - as recorded by Eileen McGann
I'll Be There Christmas Eve - Ennis Sisters/Ron Hynes
Frozen in Front of the Bay - Jack*
Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
Canadian Tire - Jack*
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Johnny Marks
Christmas in Washington
Glorious Kingdom - Kingston Trio
O Come, Emmanuel
The Weight
Dublin in the Rare Old Times - The Dubliners
O'Siem We Are All Family - Susan Aglukark
California Dreamin'
I'm On My Way
Also - cat Christmas songs by Lori, and Charlotte's two Hebrew songs: Mi Y'Malel and Mo'oz Tzur.

October 2019

Keep on the Sunny Side
Wabash Cannonball
Catch the Wind
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Jambalaya
Glory Bound - The Wailin' Jennys
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Fall Down As the Rain
The Circle Game
Well, Well, Well - Peter, Paul and Mary
To Try For the Sun
Give Me Summer Any Ol' Day - Jakki*
Helpless - Neil Young
Blossoms and Roses - Brad*
Woodsmoke and Oranges - Ian Tamblyn
Aragon Mill
The Mary Ellen Carter
The Dutchman
Evangeline - Robbie Robertson<`br> I Am a Wanderer<`br> Cover Up Your Eyes - Loretta*
Try to Remember
Mirabeau Bridge - Sam Larkin
Final Trawl
The Birch Tree's Tale - Sylvia*
Move It On Over
Bless This House
City of New Orleans
Log Driver's Waltz - Wade Hemsworth
Be the Man - The Young'uns
On My Way

September 2019 (First Circle with a song list!)

Four Strong Winds
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Chemical Worker's Song
Wagon Wheel
Song for the Mira
Isabella Gunn
Grim Cathedral
Mercy (Jon Brooks)
Doon in the Wee Room
In Spite of Ourselves
Imagine
Someday Soon
Log Driver's Waltz
Time in a Bottle
Never Turning Back
The Last Thing on My Mind
Hallelujah (Cohen)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
My Rambling Boy
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Hard Times Come Again No More
I Shall Be Released
Ripple
Hobo's Lullaby
Summertime
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Carolina in My Mind
Five Hundred Miles
This Old Guitar
Oh Mary Don't You Weep
Gentle on My Mind
Shower The People
I'm on My Way