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Last update October 2025

 

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RECENT PAGE HISTORY:

October 2025 - Added all samples to new collection "Stories Of Dormouse, And Hatter, And Hare"

February 2025 / May 2025 - Added full samples to earlier collections "Going Gentle" and "Time To Kill"

October 2024 / December 2024 - Added full samples to earlier collections "Edges" and "Faces And Places"

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RECENT STUFF .....

Songs from collections completed after 2000 (individual songs may be a liitle older)
33. From the collection: Stories Of Dormouse, And Hatter, And Hare COMPLETE!
     
1 "Off With The Fairies" Added October 2025
2 "A Line Of Footprints" Added October 2025
3 "So Here's A Thought, Said Alce" Added October 2025
4 "Can Of Worms" Added October 2025
5 "Dormouse" Added October 2025
6 "The Ballad Of Two Plus Two" Added October 2025
7 "Hot Pursuit" Added October 2025
8 "In The Sand" Added October 2025
9 "Into Love" Added October 2025
10 "So Where Were You" Added October 2025
11 "Colours In The Sky" Added October 2025
12 "Of Hatter And Hare" Added October 2025
13 "Just One More Thing, Said Alice" Added October 2025
14 "Noworryland" Added October 2025
15 "Who's That On The Stage?" Added October 2025
16 "The Cat WIth Just A Grin" Added October 2025

32. From the collection: Do Not Press This Button COMPLETE!
     
1 "Somebody Said" Added September 2024
2 "The Waves That Break The Sea" Added September 2024
3 "Goodbyes And Hellos Part 1" Added September 2024
4 "The Morning After A Bad Dream" Added September 2024
5 "Our Time" Added September 2024
6 "Tender" Added September 2024
7 "Damsel In Even Less Distress" Added September 2024
8 "Falling Out" Added September 2024
9 "Do Not Press This Button" Added September 2024
10 "Table Seven" Added September 2024
11 "Sweet Piano" Added September 2024
12 "Love And Sweet Romance" Added September 2024
13 "Goodbyes And Hellos Part 2" Added September 2024
14 "Way Fallen Lovers" Added September 2024
15 "The Good Old Days" Added September 2024
16 "Still" Added September 2024

  31. From the collection: Pantomime! (Oh Yes, It Is!) COMPLETE!
     
1 "Moonlight" Added October 2023
2 "A Better Way" Added October 2023
3 "The Fourth Wall" Added October 2023
4 "Sad Avaline" Added October 2023
5 "Have You Seen My Buddies?" Added October 2023
6 "Georgie" Added October 2023
7 "Little Girls In Teddy Bear Dungarees" Added October 2023
8 "Tongue-Tied" Added October 2023
9 "What I Once Called Home" Added October 2023
10 "The Duckboards Of Your Trench" Added October 2023
11 "The King Of Rubble" Added October 2023
12 "Every Love" Added October 2023
13 "Yesterday, Today" Added October 2023
14 "Pantomime! (Oh Yes, it Is!)" Added October 2023

  30. From the collection: Perfect Strangers COMPLETE!
     
1 "Morning Light" Added March 2023
2 "The Far Side Of Your Dreams" Added October 2023
3 "Where This Leads" Added October 2023
4 "Any Old Sad Song" Added October 2023
5 "Whisper" Added October 2023
6 "The Folly And The Wisdom" Added October 2023
7 "A Perfect Stranger" Added March 2023
8 "Dee Bee" Added October 2023
9 "Same Time Next Week" Added October 2023
10 "In The Air" Added October 2023
11 "Lover For A Day" Added October 2023
12 "The Passion Here Tonight" Added October 2023
13 "A Fortnight In Hell" Added October 2023
14 "Boo Hoo!" Added October 2023
15 "Spin Me Round" Added October 2023

  29. From the collection: Beyond The Half Life COMPLETE!
     
1 "Every Heart Still Warming" Added September 2022
2 "The Many Ways" Added October 2022
3 "Get Better" Added December 2023
4 "What Was, And What Could Have Been" Added December 2023
5 "Passion In The Sun" Added December 2023
6 "In The Blink Of An Eye" Added December 2023
7 "Amelia (When All Is Sad And Done)" Added December 2023
8 "An Urgent Upgrade" Added December 2023
9 "Candle" Added December 2023
10 "An Almost Empty Glass" Added December 2023
11 "The Slopes Where She Scattered His Ashes" Added December 2023
12 "A Thousand Dreams" Added December 2023
13 "The Park Beside The River" Added February 2023
14 "Hey Daisy" Added February 2023

  28. From the collection: Hey Presto! COMPLETE!
     
1 "Hey Presto!" Added October 2022
2 "Dance With Your Hat Off" Added December 2023
3 "All The Things" Added February 2023
4 "Hold Tight" Added December 2023
5 "And Down They Fall" Added December 2023
6 "Did You Ever Wonder?" Added December 2023
7 "Nobody We Murdered" Added February 2023
8 "Flimsy Castles" Added October 2022
9 "Excuses And Lies" Added December 2023
10 "So Here We Are" Added December 2023
11 "Almost" Added December 2023
12 "Grumblings And Rumblings" Added December 2023
13 "Another Fine Mess" Added December 2023
14 "Hold On (To Those You Really Love)" Added December 2023
15 "Epilogues" Added December 2023

  27. From the collection: The Owl And The Deep Blue Pussycat COMPLETE!
     
1 "Enough" Added March 2023
2 "Over The Hills And Far Away" Added December 2023
3 "Who'd Have Thought? Part 1" Added December 2023
4 "The Things We Never Quite Say" Added December 2023
5 "He Is There" Added December 2023
6 "Your Scowling Mask" Added December 2023
7 "Paradise Mislaid" Added December 2023
8 "In The Shadows Of Each Other" Added December 2023
9 "Déjà Vu, Again" Added December 2023
10 "Torches" Added October 2022
11 "The Turning Of The Tide" Added October 2022
12 "What We Know Is Real" Added December 2023
13 "Who'd Have Thought? Part 2" Added December 2023
14 "The Owl And The Deep Blue Pussycat" Added December 2023
15 "Out Of Your Nightmares" Added March 2023
16 "Quiet Of The Evening" Added December 2023

  26. From the collection: The Girl Who Once Was Everything And Other Sad Stories COMPLETE!
     
1 "A Ticking Clock Part 1 (The Heart That Holds)" Added August 2023
2 "And Who Knows Which?" Added October 2022
3 "Sidney" Added OCtober 2022
4 "Memories, Perhaps Part 1 (A Long Lost time And Place)" Added August 2023
5 "Presence and Absence" Added August 2023
6 "in Search Of Things Forgotten" Added August 2023
7 "The Love" Added August 2023
8 "A Ticking Clock Part 2 (The Ticking Time)" Added August 2023
9 "A Momentary Hope" Added August 2023
10 "Day By Day" Added August 2023
11 "Nobody Knows" Added August 2023
12 "Resolutions" Added August 2023
13 "The Girl Who Once Was Everything" Added August 2023
14 "Memories, Perhaps Part 2 (Who We Really Are)" Added August 2023
15 "Celebrate" Added August 2023
16 "Mysterious Ways" Added August 2023

  25. From the collection: An Ordinary Bench COMPLETE!
     
1 "Night Is Drawing Near" Added July 2023
2 "A Lifetime Is A Long Time" Added October 2022
3 "Undressing" Added July 2023
4 "Spoilers" Added July 2023
5 "Some Sort Of Love Song, Probably" Added November 2022
6 "Little Dreams" Added July 2023
7 "The River Flows" Added November 2022
8 "Men In Beige" Added July 2023
9 "The Time Tonight" Added October 2022
10 "An Ordinary Bench" Added November 2022
11 "Together" Added July 2023
12 "Futures" Added July 2023
13 "Bushel" Added July 2023
14 "Somewhere Down The Road" Added November 2022

  24. From the collection: Smartarse COMPLETE!
     
1 "Words" Added June 2024
2 "Floundering" Added June 2024
3 "Solo Rider" Added June 2024
4 "Like Thunder Away" Added June 2024
5 "The Worst Of Times" Added June 2024
6 "The Monkey On Your Back" Added June 2024
7 "Several Million Miles" Added June 2024
8 "A Short Intermission" Added June 2024
9 "Smartarse" Added June 2024
10 "Splattered" Added June 2024
11 "One Step Away" Added June 2024
12 "I Blew It Tonight" Added June 2024
13 "How, Then, Shall I Love Thee?" Added June 2024
14 "A Moment Of Clarity" Added November 2022
15 "When It's You" Added June 2024

  23. From the collection: The Lamppost And The Dog COMPLETE!
     
1 "Gone Fishing" Added June 2024
2 "The Lamppost And The Dog" Added November 2022
3 "Gone, All Gone" Added November 2022
4 "Lucky Guy" Added June 2024
5 "Sellotape" Added June 2024
6 "The Fear And The Dread" Added June 2024
7 "The Way We Once Were" Added June 2024
8 "Maybe You Don't Love Me Anymore" Added June 2024
9 "Inside You" Added June 2024
10 "Evening Falls" Added June 2024
11 "Who I Thought You Were" Added June 2024
12 "So Many Different Colours" Added June 2024
13 "The Way Things Are, Tonight" Added June 2024
14 "Another Day, Another Night" Added June 2024
15 "Let's Waltz" Added June 2024

  22. From the collection: Naked Emperors COMPLETE!
     
1 "Let's Take A Little Walk" Added May 2024
2 "The Half Pint Glass Song" Added May 2024
3 "Ctrl-Alt-Del" Added May 2024
4 "I Like Yours The Best ....." Added May 2024
5 "Complete" Added May 2024
6 "Liquid Sorrow" Added May 2024
7 "All That's Left" Added May 2024
8 "Out There" Added May 2024
9 "Living In The Me" Added May 2024
10 "Wanton Boys And Gods" Added May 2024
11 "..... Whereas You Prefer Mine" Added May 2024
12 "The Difference" Added May 2024
13 "Naked Emperors" Added November 2022
14 "Glass To Glass" Added May 2024

  21.From the collection: Autumn COMPLETE!
     
1 "The Evening's Nearly Over" Added November 2022
2 "Greater Than The Parts" Added July 2023
3 "Do You Remember? Part 1" Added November 2022
4 "Life's Too Short" Added July 2023
5 "When Boy Meets Girl" Added July 2023
6 "Willing Spirits" Added July 2023
7 "Penny" Added November 2022
8 "Do You Remember? Part 2" Added July 2023
9 "When The Rains Came" Added November 2022
10 "She's There" Added July 2023
11 "What Remains" Added July 2023
12 "Do You Remember? Part 3" Added November 2022
13 "Next To Me" Added November 2022
14 "This Mortal Coil" Added November 2022
15 "Days We Spent In Autumn" Added November 2022
16 "That Burning Flame" Added November 2022

  20. From the collection: Lucy And The Rainbow COMPLETE!
     
1 "A Clown In Empty Boots" Added November 2022
2 "Lucy And The Rainbow" Added November 2022
3 "In The Meadow" Added November 2023
4 "No-one Saw" Added November 2023
5 "Where Did Larry Go?" Added November 2023
6 "Stacey" Added November 2023
7 "Rust" Added November 2023
8 "The Circles Of Our Lives" Added November 2023
9 "The 60s Are Gone - Long Live The 70s" Added November 2023
10 "In Your Own Way" Added November 2023
11 "Maybe, Just Maybe" Added November 2023
12 "Who You Are" Added November 2023
13 "The Last Of The Twilight" Added November 2023
14 "Spirit Of The Age" Added November 2023

  19.From the collection: A Place To The North COMPLETE!
     
1 "The Clifftop's Edge" Added November 2023
2 "The Voices" Added November 2023
3 "Strange Skies" Added November 2023
4 "Gentleness And Kindness" Added November 2023
5 "The Stars Of Time" Added November 2023
6 "The Endarkenment" Added November 2023
7 "Remnants" Added November 2023
8 "The Arc Of Descent" Added November 2023
9 "Christopher" Added November 2023
10 "Round And Round And Round" Added November 2023
11 "With Gods On Our Side" Added November 2023
12 "Sirens" Added November 2022
13 "The Way You Wear Your Hat" Added November 2022
15 "Thank You" Added November 2023

  18. From the collection: Jules And Anna COMPLETE!
1 "Just Outside The Door" Added June 2023
2 "Understood" Added June 2023
3 "The Loudness In The Silence" Added June 2023
4 "Waving" Added June 2023
5 "Miep" Added June 2023
6 "Something Subtle" Added June 2023
7 "Perhaps They'll Come" Added June 2023
8 "Don't Let These Moments Pass By" Added June 2023
9 "Whisper Tomorrow" Added June 2023
10 "A Night Like This" Added June 2023
11 "Stories Of The Days" Added June 2023
12 "Good At Heart?" Added June 2023
13 "Here's To Those" Added June 2023
14 "How I Used To Love You" Added June 2023
15 "Jules And Anna" Added November 2022
16 "So Little Time Apart" Added November 2022

  17. From the collection: There Dances Emily COMPLETE!
     
1 "There Dances Emily" Added November 2022
2 "Shall We?" Added December 2023
3 "Imagine You Are Beautiful" Added December 2023
4 "The One She Dreams Of" Added December 2023
5 "If Only" Added December 2023
6 "Things Will Take Their Course" Added November 2022
7 "A Shrug Of The Shoulders" Added December 2023
8 "Until" Added December 2023
9 "One Hell Of A Party" Added December 2023
10 "One Dance" Added November 2022
11 "I Might Have Had The Moon" Added December 2023
12 "Falling Away From The Past" Added November 2022
13 "Take Heart" Added December 2023
14 "So I Can Be Beside You" Added November 2022
15 "Every Soul Turning" Added November 2022

16. From the collection: Faces And Places COMPLETE!
     
1 "Long Long Journey (Part 1)" Added December 2024
2 "Before The Days Went By" Added December 2024
3 "The Light Travels Of Canoes" Added December 2024
4 "Whatsmyname" Added December 2024
5 "And Then There Was You" Added December 2024
6 "When A Boy Becomes A Man" Added December 2024
7 "Open Road" Added December 2024
8 "Safe Harbour" Added December 2024
9 "A Large Hotel Bed" Added December 2024
10 "Long Long Journey (Part 2)" Added December 2024
11 "Crimes Of Fashion" Added December 2024
12 "Great Escapes" Added December 2024
13 "Alibis" Added December 2024
14 "Sapphire" Added December 2024
15 "Faces And Places" Added December 2024
16 "Winter" Added December 2024
17 "May Your Days (A Song For Anne)" Added December 2024
18 "Where You'll Find Me" Added December 2024

15. From the collection: Edges COMPLETE!
     
1 "Edges Of The Mist" Added October 2024
2 "Chip Chip Chipper" Added October 2024
3 "Adult Education" Added October 2024
4 "To The Dawn" Added October 2024
5 "Burble" Added October 2024
6 "Waiting" Added October 2024
7 "Edges Part 1 - Doorways To The Night" Added October 2024
8 "Night Flights" Added October 2024
9 "Edges Part 2 - Every Beauty" Added October 2024
10 "Mirror Man" Added October 2024
11 "Edges Part 3 - The Shape Of Home" Added October 2024
12 "The Water's Edge" Added October 2024
13 "Edges Part 4 - Truths Of Morning" Added October 2024
14 "Dragons" Added October 2024
15 "Hullo Baloo" Added October 2024
11 "Secret Rush Hour Lover" Added October 2024

14. From the collection: Going Gentle COMPLETE!
     
1 "Blackbird (And I Miss You Tonight Part 1)" Added February 2025
2 "After The Service" Added February 2025
3 "Tired" Added February 2025
4 "The First Snow" Added February 2025
5 "One Blink" Added February 2025
6 "Do Not Go Gentle" * Added February 2025
7 "You'll Think Of Me" Added February 2025
8 "Christmas (And I Miss You Tonight Part 2)" ** Added February 2025
9 "Time Will Pass" Added February 2025
10 "Shadows On The Wall" Added February 2025
11 "May You Find Rest" Added February 2025
12 "For Being You" Added February 2025
13 "All We Ever Knew" Added February 2025
14 "How It Would End" Added February 2025
15 "One More Year" Added February 2025
16 "The Faintest Corner Of Your Smile" Added February 2025
     
  * NOTE 1 - "Do Not Go Gentle" - words: Dylan Thomas  
  ** NOTE 2 - "Silent Night" intro - music: Franz Gruber  

  13. From the collection: Time To Kill COMPLETE!
     
1 "Instant Dreams" Added May 2025
2 "Sleep On" Added May 2025
3 "I Can't Believe" Added May 2025
4 "A Bright Tuesday Morning" Added May 2025
5 "Easy Answers" Added May 2025
6 "And Still They Come" Added May 2025
7 "The Time That You Kill (Part 1)" Added May 2025
8 "404" Added May 2025
9 "The Lies, The Lies" Added May 2025
10 "The Time That You Kill (Part 2)" Added May 2025
11 "You Won't See Me Coming" Added May 2025
12 "The Weeds That Take Root In The Cracks" Added May 2025
13 "Island Of The City" Added May 2025
14 "The Laugh Of A Child" Added May 2025
15 "Ballad Of An Unnamed Baddie" Added May 2025

  12. From the collection: The Untogether COMPLETE!
     
1 "The Untogether" Added June 2024
2 "Nothing" Added June 2024
3 "Adieu" Added June 2024
4 "Be Brave" Added June 2024
5 "Please Say You Do" Added June 2024
6 "Damsel In No Distress" Added June 2024
7 "Something Stinks" Added June 2024
8 "I Never Saw It Coming" Added June 2024
9 "The Redness Of The Sky" Added June 2024
10 "Say Nothing" Added June 2024
11 "In The By And By" Added June 2024
12 "Nothing But The Echoes" Added June 2024
13 "As Good As It Gets" Added June 2024
14 "Things That Never Happened" Added June 2024
15 "Adieu, Encore" Added June 2024
16 "Forty Days" Added June 2024

  11. From the collection: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous COMPLETE!
     
1 "Old Haunts" Added March 2024
2 "The Lady And The Poet" Added March 2024
3 "For What It Was" Added March 2024
4 "Sweet Love Songs" Added March 2024
5 "How Could You Spurn Me?" Added March 2024
6 "A Hundred Words" Added March 2024
7 "Erotomaniac" Added March 2024
8 "The Fat Lady" Added March 2024
9 "Now That You're Gone" Added March 2024
10 "Remember Me!" Added March 2024
11 "The News Of You" Added March 2024
12 "A Wish Upon The Wind" Added March 2024
13 "The Lady And Her Husband" Added March 2024
14 "Echoes Of....." Added March 2024
15 "The Rest Of Our Lives" Added March 2024
16 "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous" Added March 2024
17 "Mackerel Sky" Added March 2024

(More post-millennium stuff will appear soon ....)

..... AND SOME OLDER STUFF

Songs from very early collections - all collections in this section were completed between circa 1975 and 2000
  10. From the collection: Writing, She Murdered 7 songs - more soon
     
4 "Swansong (A Song About Swans)" Added February 2024
5 "Where Are They Now?" Added February 2024
6 "Fifi" Added February 2024
7 "The Life That Goes On" Added February 2024
10 "Writing, She Murdered" Added February 2024
12 "Lust And Desire" Added February 2024
14 "Poet's Farm" Added February 2024

  9. From the collection: Dragons 3 songs - more soon
     
5 "In The Embers" Added October 2023
14 "Treasure" Added October 2023
15 "I Am The One" Added October 2023

  8. From the collection: Travellers' Tales 3 songs - more soon
     
2 "Love Stories" Added March 2023
6 "Storyteller" Added March 2023
8 "The Rain That Falls In Summer" Added March 2023

  7. From the collection: The Night Life 4 songs - more soon
     
7 "The English Horizon" Added November 2022
11 "Twinkle" Added November 2022
12 "Adam, With Voices" Added November 2022
13 "Children Of The Other World" Added November 2022

  6. From the collection: Two Slices In The Toaster COMING SOON
     
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  5. From the collection: Gobsmacked COMING SOON
     
  Audio samples will appear here soon  

  4. From the collection: Reason For Reason COMING SOON
     
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  3. From the collection: The Fall And Rise Of An Empire COMING SOON
     
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  2. From the collection: The Seven Veils 3 songs - more soon
     
7 "Soliloquy" Added April 2024
8 "No Regrets?" Added April 2024
9 "Not Mad?" Added April 2024

  1. From the collection: The Light That Shines For Some 4 songs - more soon
     
3 "Sometimes A Little Girl" Added March 2024
5 "Coming Of The Gasman" Added March 2024
12 "Thanks" Added March 2024
14 "You Have Been" Added March 2024

(More older stuff will appear soon ....)

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