Mercury Prize nominated Sam Lee LIVE Bannas Lonely Shore Nan Connors GOLDMARK FRONT ROOM YouTube

This is a song which I'd love you to sing along with. It's because it's a kind of to and fro. It's not a song as a whole song. It's really one of those ones that is a reminiscence that we just pour out this melody, this little verse, and you sing a bit, and then I'll sing a bit, and then you sing a bit. We just kind of go backwards and forwards. It's best done imagining you're kind of leaning on a bar with a glass of whiskey, or you're sitting on the shore of some beautiful place that you've been to many times in your life and are very connected to. It's that sort of a journey. And it comes from a wonderful woman called Nan Connors who I really adore spending time with. Brought her over to London once even to sing and step dance. Even though she was in her early 80s, she would still get up and dance. She had this, and she kind of didn't really know what it was. She just kind of came out with these verses. We call it Banner's Lonely Shore or Sweet Girl Macree. It's also one of those songs that has never been recorded before, so you are some of the first people to ever get to sing it. So it's a real joy taking a song like this and kind of piecing it together and giving it new life. So here goes. I'm going to teach you your part. We'll do it just line by line and then give it a go. So it goes like this. Oh, sweet girl Macree It's great. I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore Should we do that all together? Oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore To watch those small boats sailing As they come in But oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore And all the village on Sunday Hill All those days are gone Sure we'd watch those small boats sailing As they come in the shore But oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore And all those good old friends I used to know All those days are gone Sure we'd watch those ships when sailing We'd watch them from on the shore But oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore And all those birds that fly in the sky Yes, we'd know They'd fly off the ships when sailing Sure they'd leave them the shore But oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore And oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's Lonely Shore As they come in But oh, sweet girl I would love to be Sweet girl Macree I would love to be Down on Banner's But oh, sweet girl Macree I would love to be