Song Added : The Bollington Burst by Steve Black (21 Sep 2024) Song Added : Boatmen by Eric Payne (21 Sep 2024) Song Added : Silt by Eric Payne (21 Sep 2024) Modified : They Brought the Sea to Manchester to include 1969 newspaper article with information from surviving navvies (4 Jun 2024) Song Added : Ship Canal Song by Mr John Kirkham (2 Jun 2024) Link Added : Music of the Cut - a Waterways World article (11 Apr 2024) Song Added : The Boatman’s Strike, 1923 by David Blagrove (6 Apr 2024) Song Added : The Fisherman’s Song by Ken Price (24 Mar 24) Album added : Heading to the Water by Martin Vogwell (16 Feb 24) Book added : Idle Women of the Wartime Waterways by Heather Wastie and Kate Saffin (30 Jan 24) Song Added : Idle Women of the Waterways by Charlotte Oliver (23 Jan 24) Recording Added : Kilcock by Noel Purcell (31 Oct 23) Song Added : Boatie Boy by Jane Rouse (28 Oct 23) Link Added : Narras and Flats TV script and original version of Coal Bargee by Chris Cheetham added (14 Aug 23) Song Added : The Great Glen Canal by Alastair McDonald (16 Jul 23) Video Added : The Navvies - A folk drama by Mick Ryan (10 May 23) Song Added : Boating by Proxy by Ian H Bruce (6 May 23) Song Added : The Grace Darling - Swansea Canal Song by Robert Blackford (18 Apr 23) Some longer recordings added and alphabetical links corrected (8 Apr 23) ‘Songs of the Inland Waterways’ Facebook page created (20 Mar 23) New Video Added : The Glamorganshire Canal by Mike Johnson. This replaces a previous YouTube video which was taken down by its owner (11 Mar 23) Song Added : Painted Lady by Andy LeFevre (12 Feb 23) Song Added : Towpath by Ken Stott (19 Jan 23) Link Added : From Roving Navigator to the Alfred Williams’ song collection on the Wiltshire Community History Project website. Song Added : Woman of the Waterways by Ellie Gowers (30 Nov 22) Possible problem with e-mail address hopefully sorted (16 Nov 22) Link added : To 1979 BBC radio programme ‘Canal Mania’ (31 Oct 22) All Google Analytics tracking code has been removed from this site (14 Jul 22) Video added : When the Chestnut Bloom’s in Flower featuring David Blagrove (25 May 22) Poem/Song Added : Standard Craft by W H Pryce (19 May 22) Thanks to Colin Shaw I’ve been made aware of problems in downloading audio recordings from the site. I believe I have fixed part of the problem so you should be able to download the audio files by selecting the 3-dot menu on the audio player if using Chrome or Edge. If using Firefox, right-clicking on the audio player should reveal an option to ‘Save the Audio as’. (30 Mar 22) Thanks to Ben Walker a pristine recording of The Rosemary by Jon Raven has been added (26 Nov 21) Chords Added : The Rosemary (20 Nov 21) Chords Added : They’re Coming Back to the Water (20 Nov 21) Chords Added : I Know That I’ll Be Back Again (20 Nov 21) Song Added : In the Wake of Heroes by Phil Clayton (10 Oct 21) Song Added : BCN Song by Phil Clayton (10 Oct 21) Song Added : The Lions of Stourbridge by Phil Clayton (9 Oct 21) Song Added : Claytons of Oldbury by Phil Clayton (9 Oct 21) Song Added : Working the BCN by Phil Clayton (9 Oct 21) Song Added : Waiting for the Day by Phil Clayton (9 Oct 21) Song Added : The Euphrates Packet by Phil Clayton (5 Oct 21) The Search Box in the Song Menu page now uses the DuckDuckGo search engine which doesn’t collect or share any of your personal information. Song Added : Golden Boys by Phil Clayton (4 Oct 21) Song Added : Merchants of Brummagem by Phil Clayton (3 Oct 21) Video added of ‘Birmingham Lads . . and Friends’ a DVD about the BCN released in 2019. (3 Oct 2021) New reference section ‘Broadsides’ created (14 Sep 21) CD description pages updated (29 Aug 21) Audio-Visual pages updated (28 Aug 21) Conversion of the song pages has been completed. I’d be pleased to to hear of any errors that have crept in or suggestions for improvement. (26 Aug 21) Conversion of the song pages (in alphabetical order) to a new format with a mobile friendly version has begun and they are being uploaded letter by letter. Though not the best way to make changes this enables checking of the site on a variety of devices. If you have any problems or suggestions for inprovement I would be pleased to hear from you. (19 Aug 21) A new Song Menu has been introduced. This needs some adjustments which are being undertaken (15 Aug 21) Song Added : The Coal Boats are Coming by Janul (24 Jul 21) Song Added : Gearbox Windy Handle by Janul (23 Jul 21) Song Added : Working Boat by Janul (21 Jul 21) Song Added : Everyone Needs a Boat by Stan Cullimore (20 Jul 21) The audio-visual section has been brought up-to-date and some faulty links hopefully remedied. (12 Jul 21) The song pages have been modified so that you can move easily backwards and forward alphabetically through them. This should be a major improvement to navigation through the site. If you spot any link that doesn’t work please let me know. (10 Jul 21) Song Added : The Narrowboat Song (9 Jul 21) Video Added : Push Boys Push (6 Jul 21) Recording Added : In Steam by Buz Collins (27 Jun 21) Sleeve Notes of The Bold Navigators (1975 lp) added (14 Jun 21) Song Added : Heading to the Water by Martin Vogwell (9 Jun 21) Song Added : This topical song has the longest title of any on this site by far! The Interview for the Post of Chief Executive Officer for the Canal & River Trust by Arthur Marshall (9 Jun 21) New song pages have now all been created. Searching may bring up the old pages (with narrowboat logo). At the moment the content of old and new pages is the same but I will only be updating and adding to the new style pages which are accessed through the Song Menu page. (3 Jun 21) This site is now using a SSL certificate and the web address is https://www.waterwaysongs.info. If you use http://www.waterwaysongs.info it should redirect automatically but just take a fraction longer. (2 Jun 21) The song pages are all being re-created using Xara software. This is happening in alphabetical order and will take a considerable time to complete. The new pages will exist alongside the old ones for the time being. The new versions be identified by the brown coloured song lyrics and new circular logo rather than the original blue lyrics and narrowboat logo. Please let me know if you spot any errors - I’m starting to make quite a few. (Started April 2021 - still working on it June 2021) Audio Added : The Navvy Boy by The Murphy Beds (21 May 21) Video Added : The Navvie Man by The Vogwells (20 May 21) Videos Added : Navigator by The Pogues and by Kris Drever & Anna Massie (20 May 21)