The Old Chestnuts Song Circle - Carol's Song Lists, Season 28 (Sep 2022 - May 2023)

See the previous season's song list

Many thanks to Carol for scribing the song lists. Songs are show as "title - composer(s) (song leader or requester)". An asterisk indicates some original content: an original song, or new verse, or arrangement.

May 2023 (No Circle. Rained out.)

April 2023 (On Zoom)

Turn the World Around - Harry Belafonte, Robert Freedman (Jack)
Fare Thee Well Love - The Rankin Family (Kate)
Island in the Sun - Harry Belafonte, Irving Burgie (Rick)
Turn Around - Malvina Reynolds, Alan Greene, Harry Belafonte (Margaret)
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - trad., arr. Harry Belafonte, William Attaway, Lord Burgess (Len)
The Last Thing on My Mind - Tom Paxton (Carol)
A Well-Respected Man - Ray Davies, as rec. by The Kinks (Susan & Sarah)
Better Times Will Come - Janis Ian (Jack)
I'm So Glad - Royal Wood (Kate)
Boulder to Birmingham - Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert (Rick)
Mother's Prayer - Connie Kaldor (Margaret)
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan (Len)
Shuttle & Loom - Si Kahn, as rec. by Joe Jencks (Carol)
Eight Days a Week - Paul McCartney, John Lennon, as rec. by The Beatles (Susan & Sarah)
Jolene - Dolly Parton (Susan & Sarah)
Cruel - trad., adapted by Kate Rusby (Jack)
All Around My Hat - trad. (Kate)
Kathy's Song - Paul Simon (Rick)
By the Glow of the Kerosene Light - Wince Coles (Margaret)
Lies - Stan Rogers (Carol)
Killing the Blues - Rowland Salley, as rec. by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Susan & Sarah)

March 2023 (On Zoom)

We Are Circling - Buffy Sainte-Marie (Jack)
The Longest Time - Billy Joel (Wendy)
I'll Fly Away - Albert E. Brumley (Kate, Isla, Iona, Simone, Theresa, and Hugh)
Peace Like a River - Marvin V. Frey (Kate, Isla, Iona, Simone, Theresa, and Hugh)
Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl (Len)
Please Mr. Postman - Robert Bateman, Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland (Jennifer)
Catch the Wind - Donovan Leitch (Jim)
Jackson - Billy Edd Wheeler & Jerry Leiber (Susan)
Fields of Gold - Sting, as rec. by Eva Cassidy (Carol)
The Faith of Man - Bill Staines (Jack)
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley (Kate, Isla, Iona, Simone, Theresa, and Hugh)
Song of Bernadette - Leonard Cohen (Wendy)
Molly Malone - trad. (Len)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bob Dylan (Jim)
If We Were Vampires - Jason Isbell (Susan)
Star of the County Down - trad. (Carol)
Sing Now - Dave Gunning & J.P. Cormier (Jack)
Something to Love - Jason Isbell (Susan)
Colours - Donovan Leitch (Jim)

February 2023 (No circle. Zoom fatigue.)

January 2023 (On Zoom. Theme: Songs from those we've recently lost)

Navajo Rug - Ian Tyson & Tom Russell (Jack)
January Hymn - The Decemberists (Kate, Isla, Dewi, Emily)
North Country - Rankin Family (Kate, Isla, Dewi, Emily)
Someday Soon - Ian Tyson (Jim)
Roseville Fair - Bill Staines (Margaret)
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns (Rick)
It Takes Time - Shirley Elkhard (Wendy)
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis (Len)
Don't Stop - Christine McVie (Jennifer)
Many a Mile - Patrick Sky (Jakki)
Linda Goes to Mars - John Prine (Wayne)
Angel from Montgomery - John Prine (Susan)
Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison, as rec. by Linda Rondstadt (Carol)
Sing for Peace - Jon Cobert & Tom Chapin (Jack)
Rainbow Connection - Paul Williams & Kenneth L. Ascher (Kate, Isla, Dewi,Emily)
I'll Fly Away - Albert E. Brumley (Kate, Isla, Dewi, Emily)
Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell (Jim)
Mirabeau Bridge - Sam Larkin (Margaret)
Three Wishes - Rosemary Phelan (Rick)
Wasted on the Way - Graham Nash, as rec. by Crosby, Stills & Nash (Wendy)
Always on My Mind - Wayne Carson Thompson, Mark James, Johnny Christopher (Len)
I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King (Jennifer)
Reason to Believe - Tim Hardin (Jakki)
Here Comes the Sun - George Harrison (Wayne)
Eastern Girl - Catherine MacLellan (Susan)
River Road - Sylvia Tyson (Carol)
I'm on My Way - Mark Haines (all)

December 2022 (On Zoom)

Please Don't Bury Me - John Prine (Jack)
Nothing but a Child - Steve Earle (Wendy)
When You Say Nothing at All - Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, as rec. by Alison Krauss (Carol)
Old Toy Trains - Roger Miller (Len)
Blue Moon - Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, arr. by Len* (Jennifer)
There Is No Silent Night - James Gordon* (Rick)
Handful of Songs - Jerry Rasmussen (Margaret)
Blankets of Snow - James Gordon* (James)
At Last I'm Ready for Christmas - Stan Rogers (Brad)
Wellerman - unknown (Hugh, Kate, Isla)
Winter Song - Sara Bareilles (Isla, Kate, Hugh)
The St. Stephen's Day Murders - Paddy Moloney and Elvis Costello (Jim)
Eve of Christmas Day - Allison Lupton (Jack)
Sit With Kings - J.P. Cormier and Dave Gunning (Carol)
The Peace Carol - Bob Beers, as rec. by John Denver and the Muppets (Wendy)
Don't Stop - Christine McVey (Jennifer)
Santa Claus is Comin' on a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train - The Tractors (Len)
Another New Year - Pat Humphries (Margaret)
Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot (Rick)
Christmastide - w. E. Pauline Johnson, m. James Gordon* (James)
I'll Be There Christmas Eve - Ron Hynes, as rec. by The Ennis Sisters (Brad)
Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake - Charles Frank Horn (Jim)
Jingle Bells - James Lord Pierpont (Iona, Kate, Pete, Hugh, Isla)
Two Brothers - Irving Gordon (Isla, Kate)
Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo - David Myles (Jack)

October 2022 (Outdoors)

We Belong to the Earth - Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, as rec. by Magpie (Jack)
Song for Canada - Ian Tyson and Peter Gzowski (Carol)
California Dreamin' - John Phillips and Michelle Phillips (Brad)
Do-re-mi Beer - Unknown (Irena)
Killing the Blues - Rowland Salley (Madeleine, Susan)
Turnaround - Stan Rogers (Jack)
I Will Follow You into the Dark - Ben Gibbard, as rec. by Death Cab for Cutie (Carol)
Wonderful Baby - Don McLean (Brad)
Turn Around - Harry Belafonte, Malvina Reynolds, and Alan Greene (Madeleine)
Leave Her, Johnny - Trad. (Susan)
500 Miles - Hedy West (Kathie)
That's the Way the World Goes Around - John Prine (Jack)
Lies - Stan Rogers (Carol)
The Field Behind the Plow - Stan Rogers (Brad)
Jolene - Dolly Parton (Susan)
Whisky Evening - Maria Dunn (Jack)
Goodnight Irene - Lead Belly, John A. Lomax (Irena)
I'm a Beauty - Laura Smith (Madeleine)
Fire - Bruce Springsteen, as rec. by the Pointer Sisters (Susan)
For Baby (For Bobbie) - John Denver (Brad)
Paradise - John Prine (Jay)
Heart in Hand - Maria Dunn (Jack)
I'm on My Way - Mark Haines (all)

September 2022 (Outdoors)

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell (Brad)
Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot (Jack)
Virginia's Reel - Guy Clark (Margaret)
The Schooner Song - John Prince (Rick)
Hallelujah - Katherine Wheatley (Irena)
Bring it on Home to Me - Sam Cooke (Susan)
Amazing Grace - w. John Newton, m. trad. (Carol)
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) - Paul Simon (Len)
You Belong to Me - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, and Chilton Price (Jennifer)
Study War No More - trad. (Jay)
Sunshine Medley: You Are My Sunshine / Keep on the Sunny Side / Open up Your Heart (and Let the Sunshine In) - Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell / A. P. Carter and Gary Garett / Stuart Hamblen, arr. by Brad* (Brad)
Well May the World Go - Pete Seeger, additional verses by Jack* (Jack)
Jamaica Farewell - Irving Burgie (Margaret)
What Will We Tell Them - Barry Dransfield (Rick)
Down Under - Colin Hay and Ron Strykert (Susan)
Witch Hazel - Tom Gala (Carol)
Daydream - John Sebastian (Len)
Wagon Wheel - Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor (Jennifer)
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz (Alex)
California Dreamin - John Phillips and Michelle Phillips (Jay)
Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell (Brad)
Roseville Fair - Bill Staines (Margaret)
The Road to El Dorado - Eric Bogle (Rick)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Billie Joe Armstrong (Susan)
I'm on My Way - Mark Haines (all)