Wednesday, June 6, 2018


Verna, Judy, Lorna, Lynn, Louise, June, Lana, Thelma and  Heather met to play at the train station. 

We played: Go Lassie, Go, Six Days on the Road, Orphan Girl, Tonight You Belong to Me, Harvest Moon, Flowers on the Wall in C, Rox in the Box, Wagon Wheel, Walk Away, Grandpa was a Carpenter, Jolene, In the Good Old Summertime, Making Belieive,, Life is Like a Mountain Railway, Lie Down Beside Me, Jambalaya, Sentimental Journey, This Land is My Land, Don't Be Cruel, You Don't Know Me, and Someday You'll Want Me to Want You - twice as June picked it after we'd already played it once but we liked it so much we let her discover that a line in and played it again anyway. It was also a good opportunity to add Louise's instrumental the second time. We then played: Only You (which Lana will add to the drive as a scanned copy), Me and Bobby McGee, We're Going to be Friends, Saskatoon Moon, and our signature set ending song.

Here is a video of the Life is Like a Mountain Railroad by Jerry Lee Lewis. Who volunteers to do the piano part? :)

For those of you who can make it to the picnic and strum on Sunday, the picnic will start at Ryall Park at noon with playing to start around 1:00. Of course, people can strum before that.

We shared the following songs with the Winnipeg, Portage and Brandon groups:

Rox in the Box

Ukulele Lady in G

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms in G

Wagon Wheel

Brandon shared the following songs:

Day Dream Believer
Crocodile Walk
Jolene
Build Me Up Buttercup

Be sure to bring a lawn chair, stand if you have one, a copy of the Vancouver Circle book if you have one, your music - printed or electronic but remember we won't have internet unless you have data, big paper clips or clothes pins to hold your music, a picnic lunch, a hat, sunscreen (although we will be under the canopy), and, of course, a ukulele or two.