A Few of Joachim's Songs

The Fifteen Foot Oar

Gerald Whiffen sings along on this sad song of a dead lover composed in the 1870s by W.N. Allen of Wisconsin.

The Damsel of Nineteen Years Old

A man discovers his bride is 90 and not 19 when she takes herself apart after the wedding.
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The Girls of St. Mary's Bay

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The Badger Lake Waters

A man is lured into the water by the ghost of a former true lover in a speed boat.
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I'm The Man You Don't Meet Every Day

An Irish song about an unusually pleasant encounter.
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The Noble Man's Wedding

A man is invited to to his former lover's wedding and reproaches her in song.

The Annie Roberts

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The Three Cornered Cupboard

A bawdy and gruesome tale of a tailor who has his ears cut off for sleeping with a trooper's wife.
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