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A mix of original words and some from a19th century ballad. Intended for a robust singalong at any social or family event.

Words were taken from ‘Ballanafad - A New Song’ written between 1816 and 1843
Imprint: T. Hoggett, Printer, Durham. Roud Number: V9709
The rest of the lyrics written by Julian Gaskell, 2023.

lyrics

Johnny don’t like the new songs any more
He says ‘sing us something that we’ve all heard before
About vapouring, capering stylish young blades’
But I says to him no, I’ve a new song I’ve made
Because the tides will come and go
while we're waiting here on pause
And we’re dredging up our misery for the laughs and the applause
If there's one thing I've learned
From being stuck with you in the past
It’s once they've unlatched that door we'll all be ushered out fast

So here’s a new ballad, a comforting refrain
If you’ve not heard it before then let us sing it out again
If we can’t scream our sorrow then we’ll never purge our pain
So raise up a glass and we’ll sing it all again

TRUSS, SUNAK, JOHNSON AND ALL OF THEIR LIKE
Sail them down the shitty river, with their heads on a spike!
If we can’t scream our sorrow then we’ll never purge our pain
So raise up a glass and we’ll sing it again

Bad luck to you all with your balls and your jigs
Your home counties pack have smothered my pigs
Get back to your rotten old diesel fume ditch
You can’t remember the words and you can’t sing in pitch
I wish one last time I could dig up for you
Something to look at our life from anew
But Johnny he just wants that old familiar taste
Supt up like slurry from the riverside waste

So here’s a new ballad &c.

credits

from A Shandy Ballad, released November 3, 2023
Recorded in Penryn, October 2023 by Julian Gaskell - vocal, guitar, accordion, bodhran, bells

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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