We Grow As We Go
Ballad by Simon Oak about the slow process of starting to believe in yourself as a real artist. Ask Simon if you want to know the melody. Lyrics Chorus: We grow as we go When we fall, we just get up We get better as…
Trad Singing
Voor wie denkt dat het niet echt is
Song in Dutch by Simon Oak about the problems of getting consensus between friends and family about what’s going on in the world and how serious the problems are today. Lyrics Voor wie denkt dat het niet echt is, het een ingebeeld gevecht is Voor…
Another Year Behind Us
Happy New Year song by Simon Oak, written at the start of 2023. Lyrics Chorus There it is, another year behind us Let’s forget the sadness, remember all the happiness Remember those we had to leave behind us Cheer up, I wish you Happy New…
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 another heap of hard work by Rachel Uí Fhaoláin, who collected no…
Hoog In Het Torentje
Train song in Dutch by Simon Oak, written for his children in 2002. It’s about a little boy secretly driving ghost trains from a train station’s tower. Just before he causes a bad train crash, an old train driver saves the trains and discovers the…
Autumn Praise
A new ballad by Simon Oak, inspired by the beauty of the Autumn trees in Germany this October. Lyrics When the leaves change their colours From Summer’s green to Autumn yellow Every shade of brown and red A pleasure to the eye And the first…
No Better Start Of The Day
Ballad by Simon Oak (Jan. 2023) describing an average Saturday of a traditional singing festival. To the tune of Simon’s Lofty Pheasant. Lyrics No better start of the day, the birds are singing, my alarm is ringing I hurl the damn thing away, and I…
The May Morning Dew in June
The monastery of Orval in Belgium is amazing and this was my little moment of meditation.
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 daughters in one week to the whooping cough. The story is based on Rosalie Priour/Hart’s biography, her only…
Just A Stone
Ballad by Simon Oak to remember the 2023 edition of the Traditional Singing Weekend in Inishowen. The stone is real and still on his desk in Holland. Lyrics There you are, just a stone Are you waiting for some company? On the sand, all alone…