Suffolk Folk Festival 30-31 May Woodbridge

If you prefer, you could go to the Ipswich May Day festival this sunday (3rd May) in Alexandra Park (walking distance from Ipswich Haven Marina/Neptune Marina).
There is a mix of music including some interesting rock/blues band. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Nah, full of old buggers playing squeezeboxes. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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be great if you did make it Tony, but of course, end of May, spose you will still be fitting out.

I sailed an old classic for many a year,
had a tatty old smock and all the right gear,
but now i've gone plastic and i'm over the moon,
theres no leaking decks and there's plenty of room.

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and its no nay never no nay never no more,
will I sail an old classic no never no more.

So now I go sailing every week of the year,
while you lot are worrying and living in fear,
of dry rot corrosion and gribble as well,
or all bloody three in the old classics hell

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the warm spring weeks are the best of the year,
the classics are toiling and mending their gear,
but we buy our polish for the price of a scotch,
then finish by lunchtime and sit back to watch

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I went into a chandlery I used to frequent
and there were the classics their money all spent,
that I've saved a fortune is perfectly clear,
so im sat in this pub drinking mighty fine beer

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is it bloody worth it Tony?
 
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Worse - Morris dancers!

I went to, I think, the first, on a bit of a boys trip. High tide had got us into the tide mill at 10.30 and we walked into the town and the first thing I spied after wondering what all these funnily dressed people were doing, was a large banner across the road saying 'Welcome to the woodbridge folk and BEER festival' it started at 11am which was jolly convenient. My friends were mightily impressed that I had engineered such a miracle of timing and kept it all to myself.
The festival was centered in the townhall(?) up in the square and all the local brewers were represented, the only downside was the vast number of Morris dancing 'sides' who all looked a bit decrepid and hairy (bit like prancing old gaffers), it did provide a back drop however. Dont know whether the Beer element has been dropped, but i felt a tad under the weather as we dropped back down the river the following day.
 
That would be hilarious were it not too close to the bone /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

However, come the summer.......... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
You are of course prepared to stand up and actually sing your fine song at any E.Coast meeting of the Old Gaffers. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif If so I,ll hold your coat, and keep the door open so you can make a sharp exit...Its bl**dy brilliant"! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
hello Mudplugger,

yes no problem. Actually I originally penned this in response to the old gaffers anthem "little bathtubs" sung to the tune of Pete Seegers "little boxes",which is equally scathing of us grp folk. It was originally "old gaffers" not "old classics" (changed that for anteak's Virtue) and we first sung it at a charlie night in the Ramsholt Arms where a few of us demanded the right of reply from the gaffers. Luckily there were more GRP folk than gaffers there on that night and we escaped with nothing more than the usual hangovers.
 
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