The Hard Times Waltz

First public performance of the Hard Times Waltz ( C) 2009

The video and the link to you tube you will see below is our first outing with our recession song at our Community Concert. We hope the topicality of these present words will soon be lost but updated versions will be written in due course as the national predicament changes.

As the banjo player I confess to fouling up some chords and losing track of the tune every so often. The best achievement was getting the audience to join in with the chorus. Getting the words right would help as well. Sian Bach Sean ( tamborine and vocals) on the other hand kept to the words and most of the melody in spite of having a cold and losing her voice somewhere around 800 feet above sea level before the descent into the valley for the performance. She also remembered to wear her hat while I was so verbose in the intro I forgot to make the final joke about my hat ( a black fedora), and then forgot to put it on. The joke was that I was aiming for the anarchist spiv look, so perhaps this alleged joke was best left out.

We hope you enjoy our efforts. Copyright for the words and music remains with the composers but if you want to use it let us know via a comment with your e-mail address and we will get back to you. As we sing to raise money for good causes we will happily give permission if you sing for charity. However, in the unlikely event of commercial exploitation for profit the usual copyright laws will apply as we have many good causes that we would like to give money to should this little effort be taken up by professional musicians or singers. These include feeding the hungry, educating the disadvantaged and trying to prolong the life of this poorly planet. We know this all seems rather presumptuous but we might as well ‘hedge or bets’ so to speak, and make sure any commercial exploitation is put to some good. Stranger things have happened. The words and music will be available when we have tidied them up. It is hoped that we will be able to write appropriately modified lyrics for other parts of the UK such as Wales and Cornwall. In the meantime more rehearsals are needed

The Community Concert raised £250 for the Acorns Children’s Hospice and£250 for the Village Hall Fund.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Gtvoutfrg