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• Ain't It Grand
  Inspired by hearing a radio interview with a former merchant navy sailor recalling his days at sea.
• A Potato Has Feelings As Well
  A song written for a vegetarian in my office who once complained about my eating ham sandwiches at lunchtime.
• A Sign Of The Times
• Day Time Tele
• Embalming Tommy
  A throwback to my days working at a cemetery and having to deal with undertakers.
• English Puddings
  Written one morning on the train journey to work at the suggestion of my wife who had heard a radio report that restaurants no longer included traditional English puddings on their menus.
• Happy Christmas Everyone
• Here We Go Again
• Jack Hamble (The Gravedigger)
  One of my former incarnations was as a cemetery supervisor. Mechanical diggers could not be used in our graveyard and this song is in praise of the contract digger who did all the work by hand.
• Launch The Lifeboat
  An antidote to all those interminable songs about lifeboat disasters.
• Leather And Last
  The story of my own grandfather who had a small cobbler's shop in Ipswich before the Second World War.
• My Lady At Tesco's
  Just an idea I had one night at The Herga and was encouraged by others to write down. No offence is intended to Dave Webber or his wonderful song Lady Of Autumn.
• Oh Damn
  The joys of performing at a folk club...
• Reach For The Gin
  A song about all those people who buy big white shiny sailing boats and cruisers and then tie them up in marinas. Written during a walk around St Katherine's Dock in East London.
• Remembrance Day
• Sailing Down The Orwell
  The beautiful River Orwell in Suffolk was part of my childhood, going to school near the docks and spending holiday times with family at Pin Mill.
• St George's Day
  Written for George Clarke, the excellent MC of the Herga Folk Club.
• The Shades Of Love
  I was challenged to write a love song and this is the result. The melody comes from a slightly altered Dave Webber tune.
• Thirteen Florins On The Bar
  This is about the brave men of Hartest in Suffolk who, before they went to war in 1914, each left money on the bar in the local pub for beer when they returned. Many of them never came back and their money can still be counted where they left it.
• Trust In God Above
  My entry for the 2005 Maidenhead Folk Club Song Contest. It got nowhere.
• Where The River Meets The Sea
  This was my offering for the 2001 Maidenhead Folk Club Song Contest. It got nowhere, but has subsequently been recorded by Graeme Knights for his CD 'Life Is A Song'.
• Your Country Needs You
  Put together after reading a book about The London Postal Rifles, many of whom volunteered to serve in the First World War and never came back.