1. Thackray/Brassens evening on 21 November 2009
(News/News Archive)

... an open mike session. Again priced £5 (unless you have a ticket for the Saturday session when it will be free admission on the production of that ticket.) Click here to download a PDF of the weekend's ...

2. The Shepherdess
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

There are two versions of lyrics for this song, both with the same music. Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab The Shepherdess She was a simple, shabby little shepherdess ...

3. The Kirkstall Road Girl
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Now that she’s the queen, the Aphrodite of the socialite magazines, though her photo’s à la mode, we knew her before down the Kirkstall ...

4. Slowly Our Eyes
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Slowly, our eyes to each other’s are smiling and slowly together our smiles harmonise. I’ll hide my eyes in your eyes, in your ...

5. My Roly Poly Girl
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab I’ve gone and lost my sweetheart and I don’t know where to look : oh, she was big and she was bonny, and stap me vittles, she could ...

6. Little Thomas Haverley
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Little Thomas Haverley, born upon a Tuesday : your daddy has got you a cherry tree to plant for you. Though the snow, and though ...

7. Freda
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab I used to lead a tranquil life, unobtrusive and retired, I used to do as I pleased, my little sky was blue and clear. I used to ...

8. My Pipe, My Boots And My Lord
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Bring me me pipe, call for me wife, pass my boots and I’ll be satisfied, with me pipe in me mouth, wife in me arms and me boot up ...

9. Family Grave
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab I’ve got uncles and aunties and cousins and nephews and sisters-in-law. Our family swarms with them; it teems; they are thicker ...

10. Uncle Arthur
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Uncle Arthur rose to local fame When they opened up a chic boutique along Pink Lane. Since he poked his nose inside the trendy window ...

11. On The Shelf/I’ve Been Left On The Shelf
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

There are two versions of lyrics for this song, both with the same music. Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab On The Shelf She's been left on the shelf, but don't ...

12. The Vicar's Missus
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Your Worship… I want to kiss a vicar’s missus, Your worship, I appeal to you. I want to kiss a vicar’s missus - Any old vicar’s ...

13. Famous People
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab You are unwise to think we love you. You are unwise to imagine you are dear. You are unwise, you always were, How could you fail ...

14. The Cenotaph
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click to download guitar tab Eileen Barrowclough Betty Nelson Susan Haverley Kitty Whittaker Celia Woodhead, poor Cecilia Dorothy Townend, he was good to ...

15. Tortoise
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab There was a man who when he won stuff on the stalls in village fairs Would always choose the tortoise, not the goldfish, not the ...

16. To Do With You
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab There may be better-cooking, better-looking women, Better-slung and better at buns than you. And if I were a man for simple things, ...

17. The Singer
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab My darling is a dancer and nightly we go Stepping it out together lightly, toe to toe. My darling is a singing bird, a neat Jenny-wren ...

18. The Prisoner
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Young foreign soldier, evening approaches. The prisoner will come from his dark cell and kill you. Prisoners go dangerous if chained ...

19. The Poor Sod
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Working another man's field, His only colleague the crawling beetle, His only neighbour the moorside and the stone wall. Blind ...

20. The Policeman's Jig
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Here's a jolly jig that we've all heard before, Frequently performed by the extraor-dinary Dancing bastions of the law. They call it ...

21. The Lodger
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab My landlady had three lovely daughters. They used to come and make my bed each day. They used to come and clean my living quarters, ...

22. The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab I, the under-mentioned, by this document Do declare my true intentions, my last will, my testament. When I turn up my toes, when ...

23. The Kiss
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab She kissed me like a child; fresh and peckish, like a child; She was wild as little strawberries. But though she kissed me as a ...

24. The Hole
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab After work on Friday I was waiting for a bus. Me mouth was dropping open and my gaze was vacuous. And in the British worker's classic ...

25. The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab She was a widow in Bridlington, she was, was the widow of Brid, Small and bonny at forty-two, With eyes of very unsettling blue, And ...

26. The Grave-digger
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab I am a grave-digger, a digger of graves. I know my clay. I know in my water, I know in my blood, I know in my bones That you will never ...

27. The Girl with the Fragile Eyes
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Like all the clothes that she wears She's only there for the curious stares In the late afternoon; Pretty little animal, She ...

28. The Girl in the Window
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab Poor frozen creature, never-endingly posing in the window, Speechless and featureless, ever ready to fall. Never-endingly beguiling, ...

29. The Castleford Ladies' Magic Circle
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab The Castleford Ladies' Magical Circle meets tonight, In an upstairs aspidistra'd room that's lit by candlelight, Where Elizabeth Jones ...

30. The Bull
(Songs/Lyrics and Guitar Tabs)

Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click here to download guitar tab On my farm, the bull is the king of the yard; He's big and bad and fast, he's strong he's . . . hard. All my other animals would readily ...