Original song written and performed by Judith Summers before she passed away in May 2013. Her Album Singing Strings is available. Please contact me for details

Imagination Judith Summers

Decembers song writer demo for the Coventry Songwriters

You Made Me laugh         Jan Richardson

The third verse written by me Jan Richardson

Roots written by Paul Moore

Writen and performed by Jan Richardson Recorded by Graham Weston 

The Green Lady  Jan Richardson

I Never Knew   Jan Richardson - 07 02 2015 23.36

In Theory (It’s All About The Song)         Jan Richardson

Verse 1

First you have to choose your key
Will it be a blues in E?
Got to get the timing right
Otherwise the words will fight
Chord progressions let me see
I’ll write a song bring you to me
Middle eights and chorus lines
Flowing words or should they rhyme?
I’ll write a song to make you mine

Chorus

Chorus’s we all can sing 
In harmonies or on the wing
This is how we write the songs
There’s no rights and there’s no wrongs

Verse 2 

If I want to touch your heart
Music doth inspire great thought
In my arms then you will fall
Don’t want one verse
I want you all
To the muse Jon will say
Inspiration for today
And words will flow like blood red wine
I’ll write a song to make you mine

Chorus

Verse 3 

Kindle love or move the soul 
Strive towards melodic goal
I’ll pluck your heart strings like a harp
For music be the sacred art
Dylan’s words or Bernstein’s scores
A million tunes and endless more
You sing yours and I’ll sing mine
That’s how it’s been 
For all of time

Chorus

Outro

This is how we write the songs
This is how we write the wrongs
When your heart is weary
This is how we write the songs
This is how we write the wrongs
Well it is…….in theory 

In Theory ( It's All About The Song) Jan Richardson

Jenny Diver (Mary Young)

Jenny Diver's real name was Mary Young but she was re-christened by her gang as she was such an expert "diver," as pick pockets were known at the time.

Born the illegitimate daughter of a lady’s maid who soon abandoned her. This was no doubt a blessing as she was taken in by an elderly gentlewoman and schooled so that she could read and write and mastered the art of sewing. Leaving Ireland she went to London to make her living as a seamstress, and after beguiling a young man to pay the ferry, the couple arrive in Liverpool where he is arrested for robbery, and sent back to Ireland for sentencing. 

Once in London Jenny was befriended by an young irish girl, Anne Murphy, and took up her apprenticeship as a pickpocket. Her skills as a seamstress made her nimble of hand and her education and fine clothes made it easy for her to blend with the gentry so she could easily rob them of their riches. 

She was arrested twice for her crimes and deported but soon returned to London to carry on where she left off. After being caught for the third time, and being recognised by the officer who previously arrested her, she was tried for High Treason and sentenced to the gallows. There was no escape this time. She was hanged on the 18th March 1741.

The gallows at Tyburn consisted of 3 tall uprights joined at the top with beams in a triangular form under which three carts could be backed at a time, containing up to 24 prisoners, eight under each beam.

The route led west out of the City of London, along Holborn, St Giles, and the Tyburn Road (now called Oxford Street) to the gallows at what is now Marble Arch at the north-eastern corner of Hyde Park. Extraordinarily as it seems to us now, the procession could make at least two refreshment stops where the prisoners were allowed to have food and alcohol, before reaching Tyburn. The first was at the Bowl Inn in St Giles, the second at the Mason's Arms in Seymour Place.

Was it simple greed or the love of London and the excitement of crime and the easy living she made from it that led Jenny to continue down the path that she knew would inevitably lead to the gallows? She was an intelligent woman who would have been fully aware of the likely punishment for her crimes and yet, it seems, she could not resist the excitement and glamour of being London's most successful pickpocket.

Thanks to Simon Veasey for recording and adding the beautiful second guitar part. 

Tyburn Tree    Jan Richardson

March 2015 Demo for the Coventry Singer Songwriters group. 

Thanks again to Simon Veasey for his time and patience recording me and the lovely second guitar part.

Lottery  Jan Richardson  March 2015

New addition to The Tyburn Tree, original song written by Jan Richardson. Here you will hear the last verse going into The Tyburn Jig composed and played by Dave Cook and Hedley Stone

The Tyburn Tree

The Tyburn Tree going into The Tyburn Jig

No More Last Chances...Jan Richardson

This is Januarys 2013 song challenge for the Coventry Singer Songwriters. 

Echoes Demo

John Lawe (White Elephants) Feb 2013 Demo Original Song Written by Jan Richardson

This months song writing topic is "keys" This my take on it.

You Hold The Key Original Song Demo Jan Richardson

I'm pretty new to this recording stuff as you can tell...it's just me and my trusty Martin guitar and M-Audio through my PC. 

All I can manage is click and record...no fancy smansy business...guess you can really tell. ehh?  With time and a lot of help I will improve the quality of my recordings and one day may even get some professional recording done......Watch this space. More from me  to come.   Hope you like it?

7 Feb 2015
Still writing the songs but unfortunately still struggling with the recording process. Now I have a new Mac Pro laptop and a Blue Yeti mic so that's what I'm using. Still tussling with Garage Band. God I'm rubbish with technology :-)

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