May 26th People are strange, When the Waters Rise

May 26th at Havering Folk Club ( HFC ) after missing a week for no particular reason.

People Are Strange - The Doors

A cover of the Doors song People Are Strange

When The Waters Rise

When The Waters Rise

San Francisco

After the interval at Havering Folk Club there was time to do one more song each and I decided to play San Francisco the song by Mazime Le Forestier

When The Waters Rise - Blog Action Day

October 15th is Blog Action Day so I performed my song "When The Waters Rise - blog action day" last night at Havering Folk Club




When the waters rise

When the waters rise, when the waters rise,

It's started to rain, could go on forever
The puddles grow then join together | As the waters rise

With energy a change of current
The trickle soon becomes a torrent And the waters rise

We'll have to move abandon camp,
where once was desert now is damp And the waters rise

The balance kept by plants and sea
has pushed beyond the boundary
Now the gas surrounds us like a cloak
a million years gone up in smoke

The climate's changed, the world's in motion,
Then the ice caps melt and join the ocean And the waters rise

In the short term we can head for the hills,
In the longer run we'll all grow gills and the waters rise

The weather warnings made no mark,
Now there's no time left to build the Ark As the waters rise..


Here's another version of the same song recorded at the previous Tuesday Evening 7.00pm Live Webcast

Andy Roberts - When The Waters Rise - Havering Folk Club

Last week's songs were recorded by Linda on a little Canon ixus stills camera, from the audience which captures a different kind of atmosphere. This song is "When The Waters Rise", a second attempt. Not available on last.fm yet

Andy Roberts Music

last night I returned to playing Andy Roberts Music at the Havering Folk Club
on a slightly quieter than usual singers night. Some of the regulars were off sick with colds etc and the audience seemed less inclined to join in the singing. There were some excellent new floor spots though, with more guitar players than usual which makes a change.

So I played my most recent version of Searching for Venus with reference to the recent conjunction of Venus and Jupiter with the moon. Hmm, well it seems the version on Last.fm is very different so maybe I'll need to re-record that one in the new year.

Then I played "When the Waters Rise" which is a dramatic tango about climate change but realised I haven't successfully memorised all the words yet.

Due to the new campaign to start the evening's entertainment more promptly there was even time to do one number in the second half so I played "The Wreckers Prayer" again since I've been getting some very positive feedback about that particular song.