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Bricks and Mortar

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Bringing Home The Bacon by Dave Boulton

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Walk around your town and you’ll be shocked at what they’ve done
They’ve knocked down all the terraces and put up brand new slums.
With wood-look doors and wood-look floors, with plastic and with steel
It’s a pity that the people left to live in them are real

Walk around your town and you’ll be shocked at what they’ve done
They’ve knocked down all the terraces and put up brand new slums.
With wood-look doors and wood-look floors, with plastic and with steel
It’s a pity … Continue reading →

Boslem Wakes Revisited

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Words: Dave Boulton Music: Jeff Parton

Brian Berrington – a fine songwriter from Stoke during the 60’s&70’s wrote a charming little song called Boslem Wakes. It’s about 4 stoke lads – Willie Clough and Jim McGough and ‘arry Lowns and “Me.” going to Blackpool on a day trip. The trip culminates with one of the lads being involved in an impromptu “romantic entanglement” and missing his coach home. The song is written in “Stokinese” but it is easily understood and not a word is wasted. It is a beautiful, knowing, little sketch of the adventures of these 4 Stoke lads. … Continue reading →

I Hate Country Music

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Bringing Home The Bacon by Dave Boulton

See ‘em everywhere you go, town and country rodeo
Friday nights they’re everywhere you turn
Tattooed shirts and high-heeled shoes, accents that just don’t ring true
Cowboys in all senses of the word

Chorus:
Two sets of words, one worn-out tune
Singin’ in a vexin’ Texan drawl
I can’t stand Barry Manilow or the Tony Blackburn Show
But I hate country music best of all

In every public bar and lounge when they turn the juke box down
You can bet your boots it’s country music night
Everyone is looking bored … Continue reading →

Ancient Songs

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By: Dave Boulton

This song never made the cut to appear on a CD. My idea was sort of about cultural identity and how although people are moving around the world for a better life or for safety or whatever they often maintain a touch with their roots. A people’s ancient songs seem to be deeply embedded in their subconcious and culture and maybe help maintain a link back to the past and their origins, their country and the people they left behind and in some way who they really are. 

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The Alternative

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Laugh Or Cry Same Price by Dave Boulton

If your life’s a bowl of toenails and you can’t take any more
Of the endless toil and strife to keep the wolf from round the door
If money is a worry and work a pointless bind
Things might not seem so desperate if you’ll just bear this in mind:

Chorus:
Life can be a trouble and life can be a curse
But taken all round, on the whole, you know things could be worse
And remember when you feel that life’s put too much on your plate
Compared with … Continue reading →

Absent Friends

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Look Back In 'Anley by Dave Boulton

Words by Dave Boulton, music by Jeff Parton

CHORUS:
Come raise your glass and drink to absent friends
As the door behind us closes and another day begins
Think on the ones we’ve loved and lost who’ll never come again
Come raise your glass and drink to absent friends

Here among this company convivial and bright
Almost everyone has someone that they wish were here tonight
If the chair beside you’s empty or the bed beside you’s cold
If there’s arms you long to rest in or a hand you want … Continue reading →

Big Cosgrove

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Laugh Or Cry Same Price by Dave Boulton

Words by Dave Boulton, tune by Jeff Parton

This ballad was collected in a place called Abbey Hulton
But this one’s not a Child Ballad, this one’s an Adult’n
Turn off your Hi-Fi and TV, likewise the cursed Nintendo
And I’ll sing a song comprising mostly filth and innuendo 

Come listen to a stirring tale of passion and of power
There’s less than forty verses so it only lasts an hour
Concerning great Lord Wildblood and his lovely Lady Jane
And a man called Big Jack Cosgrove of great renown and fame

Now he wasn’t called … Continue reading →

The Aardvark Song

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Words by Dave Boulton, music by Jeff Parton
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The Pink Album by Dave Boulton

An early song from The Pink Album. I was astonished to find I didn’t have a recording of this song and had to beg a copy from friends. Unfortunately, I think this particular copy must have been copied onto wax cylinder at some point because the sound quality isn’t brilliant.

I will try and replace this with an original at some point.

This song came to me early one morning while I was in the shower – I’d got … Continue reading →

Lovely Evening At Formby Folk Club – Wed June 5th June 2019

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I had a lovely afternoon and evening with my friends Pam and Bob Anderton, organisers of Formby folk club. The club is located at the Guild Hall in Formby. A lovely spacious room. The resident band The Shanty Kings started off the evening in great form followed by a series of talented singers performing their own sets. My turn came just before the halftime break. I played Mind Over Matter, One Of Those Days and concluded with what I thought was a very apt song Boslem Wakes, a story of four lads from Stoke and their exploits in Blackpool … Continue reading →