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A song about loss,

Musk

The Man Called Sorrow

YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/xRsRBoduSgk
A traditional 17th Century Scottish ballad. It was first recorded by Samuel Pepys on January 2, 1666 :-)

Bonny Barbra Allen

YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/OGMwmdR0I0Y
A song reflecting a way of community life in the not so distant past.
Written by John Nicolson and Peter Vealey in 1970.

Community Sun

YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/O9L4HGToAAg
A song set in the early 1960s about everyday life on the beautiful Inner Hebridean Island of Raasay, which lies between the Isle Of Skye and the Scottish mainland.

Down Along The Gangplank

YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/6su1xw1iepU
A song about lost love set in the Scottish Western Islands.

Fair Kirsty

A song I wrote for my sister to sing at folk clubs. Set in the highlands of Scotland a couple of hundred years ago. A small time Scottish pirate is betrayed to the English by a clansman.

Should Wishes Be Horses Then Beggars Would Ride

YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/nTVwQVFRfGc
Set about 200 years ago on the Scottish Islands. A recently married woman who is anxiously waiting for her husband to return from a voyage across the sea, suspects she may very well be a widow.

The Sunshine Boy (live performance)

YouTube Video :https://youtu.be/_8N0M25iA5E 
I wrote this song after seeing an aged homeless man walking along a country road at dusk.

The Winding Open Road

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A song about the strange meetings of a mysterious woman and a soldier who loses the use of his legs after being wounded in battle.

The Maid Of Pentacles

YouTube Video https://youtu.be/D6Ilj-eOW0M
He worked for the local authority. It was a hot summer's day. He decided to have a break from his work and so he drove his ride-on-mower into a wooded clearing. A wind rustled the tree branches and leaves as he sat on his mower enjoying a coffee and smoking a cigarette. A spacecraft in the form of a transparent bubble landed gracefully in front of him and a little girl climbed out of it and... :-)

The Secret Place Where White Lilies Grow

Songwriter & performer. Folk/Rock/Blues/Roots - Apache John : a unique fusion of acoustic folk, blues, rock and roots music. Sometimes theatrical, sometimes dark and moody, sometimes amusing; a writer and performer who carries the spirit of the festival with mainly original songs and music which can be sung and played around a camp fire as easily as on any stage.

Apache John

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