He’s always there week after week he puts up with a lot

He does what’s known within the trade as “The Kamikaze Spot”

He’s there to warm you buggers up and try to make you sing

But the highlight of the evening is when he breaks a string!

Folk don’t always listen they’re busy at the bar

Or chatting to each other and drowning his guitar

Sometimes he thinks he’s cracked it 

When some open mouths he’ll see

But it’s only some old friends he’s brought

And they came in for free!

Why do we do it? I don’t know, we masochistic band

Maybe one day we’ll find that never, Neverland

Where an audience has ears and sings just like a choir

When you ask them to join in they raise their voices higher

Like some Eisteddfod winners far removed from any pub

Why then I’ll know I’ve really died and hosting Heaven’s Folk Club

Ian Chesterman (11/5/1978)