Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I have often been asked to show some videos of me playing along with friends, so at our weekly practice session, along with fiddler, Robin and melodeon player, Kevin, the three of us being known collectively as "The Three Grumpy Old Men", I videoed sets of tunes from our repertoire. We perform together from time to time at local care homes and at "Sight Matters" (formerly: Manx Blind Welfare) as well as playing along with others on a Monday evening at the George Hotel in Castletown.
Two Grumpy Old Men
With Kevin our melodeon player busy at work, fiddle player Robin and myself recorded some more sets of tunes this week.
Set 29 consists of two Polkas:
1 Davey, Davey Knick Knack
2 Rochdale Coconut Dance
I have often been asked to show some videos of me playing along with friends, so at our weekly practice session, along with fiddler, Robin and melodeon player, Kevin, the three of us being known collectively as "The Three Grumpy Old Men", I videoed sets of tunes from our repertoire. We perform together from time to time at local care homes and at "Sight Matters" (formerly: Manx Blind Welfare) as well as playing along with others on a Monday evening at the George Hotel in Castletown.
Two Grumpy Old Men
With Kevin our melodeon player busy at work, fiddle player Robin and myself recorded some more sets of tunes this week.
Set 29 consists of two Polkas:
1 Davey, Davey Knick Knack
2 Rochdale Coconut Dance





![Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)
In Joe Offers collection, this song had only the following footnotes:
Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1974, BBC Publications
Notes:
None supplied in the pamphlet.
However, in a discussion on the song the following was added:
According to Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root, The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, vol. 1, p. 491), this edition (at the Levy Collection) is the earliest known copy.
Title: Fosters Melodies No.29. Some Folks.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster
Publication: New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Square, 1855.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus (and instrumental interlude)
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do
First Line of Chorus: Long live the Merry merry heart that laughs by night and day
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Wakelam & Bro.
I have chosen to sing the chorus after each verse, though in Fosters original it was only sung after the first verse, then after the 3rd and 5th verses. Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w9fkLj8jyI0/mqdefault.jpg)




