Songbook

It’s Just a Song… or is it?

We have been writing songs together for more than 25 years, and our approach is fairly unusual, as it is always a joint endeavour.  Having successfully delivered several songwriting workshops at places such as Halsway Manor and Broadstairs Folk Week, we decided to write this book.

‘“It’s Just a Song… or is it?” is partly a description of how we write and what inspires us, and partly a songbook, putting together the chords and lyrics of 23 of our songs.

With a foreword by Dave Webber, internationally renown contemporary folk songwriter.

 Track Listing

1. Just a Song (Carter/Ironmonger)
2. Sketches by Boz (Carter/Ironmonger)
3. 50 years (Petrie)
4. My Backyard (Carter/Ironmonger)
5. Threadneedle Street (Carter/Ironmonger)
6. Montgomery (Carter/Ironmonger)
7. Not Enough Emilys (Carter/Ironmonger)
8. The Bitter End (Carter/Ironmonger)
9. Backstreet Boozer (Carter/Ironmonger)
10. El Fusilado (Ferguson/Watts/Abbott/Whalley)
11. Broken (Carter/Ironmonger)
12. Willy O' Winsbury (trad)

 Track Listing

1.  Pinch Me (Carter/Ironmonger)
2. Nail It Back Together (Broderick/Shepherd)
3. Too Late (Carter/Ironmonger)
4. Two Clicks (Carter/Ironmonger)
5. Nothing Rhymed (O’Sullivan)
6. Accident of Birth (O’Donoghue)
7. Mud (Carter/Ironmonger)
8. Friendly Fire (Carter/Ironmonger)
9. Charming Men (Carter/Ironmonger)
10. Little Ships (Carter/Ironmonger)
11. Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments (Thackeray)

 Track Listing

1. Food Banks & Ferraris (Carter/Ironmonger)
2. Desert Island Discs (Carter/Ironmonger)
3. Origin of Species (Smither)
4. Metal Work (Carter/Ironmonger)
5. Bad Attitude (West/Euliss)
6. Bagpipe Man (Carter/Ironmonger)
7. Murder on my Mind (Carter/Ironmonger)
8. Naked Rambler (Carter/Ironmonger)
9. The Logical Song (Hodgson)
10. Early Bird Rag (Carter/Ironmonger)
11. Normal (Carter/Ironmonger)
12. The Company I Keep (Carter/Ironmonger)

 Track Listing

1. The List (Carter/Ironmonger)
2. English Summer Day (Carter/Ironmonger)
3. A Stitch in Time (Waterson)
4. Catalogue Guitar Tango (Carter/Ironmonger)
5. The Ghost of Blue Bell Hill (Carter/Ironmonger)
6. No Ships (Carter/Ironmonger)
7. Ballad of Flying Isaac (Carter/Ironmonger)
8. Falling Down (Carter/Ironmonger)
9. Cash in Hand (Carter/Ironmonger)
10. Agent Rose (Carter/Ironmonger)
11. Dungeness (Carter/Ironmonger)
12. Canada-i-o (Traditional, arr. Nic Jones)
13. Raspberry Ripple Day (Carter/Ironmonger)
14. Père Lachaise (Carter/Ironmonger)
15. Sitting Pretty (Carter/Ironmonger)
16. Carpe Diem (Carter/Ironmonger)