Joy's arrangements of the many traditional songs we sing make already great songs sound even better but she's also set some great poems to music to make them into really terrific songs. Some of these are listed below.
Rudyard Kipling

The Sea Wife
The Young British Soldier
Gethsemane
The Recall
The Oldest Song
Normans & Saxons
Sir Richard's Song

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields

Shakespeare (Possibly)

Come Live With Me
Marian's Nose

Cicely Fox-Smith

Roll 'Er Home
Rosario
Sea Voices
Casey's Concertina
A Dog's Life
Morning Watch
Bill's Enemy
Home For Christmas
The Wine of Life
The Packet Rat

Thomas Hood

Mary's Ghost



Joy's just set several Lancashire broadside ballads to music as well as poems by Les Barker and Banjo Paterson - it's hard to keep up with her!!!

After a trip to the Nelson exhibition area at The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in 2004, (well worth a visit if you haven't been), Joy was so moved by the experience, especially the clothes Nelson wore at Trafalgar, she couldn't rest until she'd written a song about the battle and Nelson's death there. She called the song "England Expects" and it's the title track of our first album.