Simon Oak

  • Simon Oak added the event Singing Session #46 6 months, 2 weeks ago

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    In The Singing Of Songs – Book 2 After a unique book with no number, one that was absolutely begging for more, there always has to be a number Two. So here it is, Book 2! It is the result of […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    I Used To Have A Heart Unfinished protest song by Simon Oak. Yesterday, 15 Dec. 2025, the ‘Proud’ US Army mass murdered eight more innocent people at sea by destroying their boats. […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Home Boys Home – Covid 19 Edition Song by Simon Oak, based on the famous traditional, to remember the Covid 19 pandemic. End of April 2020, we were very keen on keeping safe distances, […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Ballad Of Elizabeth Hart Ballad by Simon Oak about the emigration of an Irish family from Wexford to Texas in 1834. Before Elizabeth left Ireland, she lost three of her six […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago

    The Ocean Between UsA US-mocking version of Dominic Behan’s The Sea Around Us, written by Simon Oak in the first week of Donald Trumps second term as president. The first […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 7 years, 8 months ago

    Alexander Nix Protest song Simon Oak wrote in May 2018, about Cambridge Analytica’s shameless rigging of elections, like the US Presidential elections and the UK’s EU […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 8 years, 6 months ago

    Song, made in August 2017 by Simon Oak, based on an existing joke found on the internet. Thanks to Martin Donohoe for posting the joke. Source unknown. Melody and verses 1, 2, 3 and 5 by Simon Oak.Photo: Holger […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 8 years, 6 months ago

    Song in Dutch by Simon Oak about the Dutch government’s failure to deliver high speed train in time and within budget. The news and the song date back to June 2013. The song mentions Eurlings, the then Minister of […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 8 years, 9 months ago

    My friend Francis Devine, from Dublin, gave me the following poem, inspired by this photo of the morning scene behind my house. Thank you so much, Francis!, Poplar stands, enormous skiesGhosts of engineering Du […]

  • Simon Oak commented on the post, Nick Cave's Mercy Seat in a piano loop 8 years, 10 months ago

    You’re welcome, Lynton, good luck and have fun!

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 10 years, 5 months ago

    This new tune was named after my guess of the time when there will be just a few human languages left in the world. As human contact gets easier, more and more people speak the a few common languages. Let’s not […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 10 years, 5 months ago

    In August 2013 after hearing Nick Cave’s awesome song “The Mercy Seat” I spontaneously jumped behind the piano and tried to reproduce the chorus tune, which lead to this video. Because I have no ambition for […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 10 years, 7 months ago

    Tribute song in Dutch to my dad for his birthday. I still miss him, although he died so many years ago. Quick home recording, June 2014. LyricsIk moest je al vaak missenMaar opeens was het voorgoed’t is niet be […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 11 years, 6 months ago

    Here’s the Ballad Of Charlie McCoy. This is our first Cripple Oak studio recording.Last September (2014) I was at the impressive ancient Celtic site of Glendalough, co. Wicklow. Looking for old undocumented I […]

  • Simon Oak wrote a new post 11 years, 7 months ago

    Today (1 Dec. 2014) there was bad news again: another big poultry farm near my place had to kill all it’s feathered live stock.Earlier this week I wrote a song about this subject. Yesterday I was triggered by a ne […]