“Wallflower” (2023) - Rachel Sumner
Sweet Ailsa’s giving stick and pokes 
To anyone who asks
Someone else is holding court
A top a beer box stack
A top a beer box stack

She’s singing from her toes 
Of ships and sailor’s woes 
Of ships and sailor’s woes 

Fiddle bows get rosined up
While Jimmy picks a tune
Chairs are scarce but Emma put
A pallet down for you
A pallet down for you

Sittin' knee-to-knee
With strangers sawin' strings
With strangers sawin' strings

Careful not to knock a glass
Bold Archie bolts upright
Belts out a brash and crass refrain
The room joins the reprise
The room joins the reprise

He's singing ‘bout the lads
The cheeky night they had
The cheeky night they had

Tim catapults into a poem
About a pheasant plucker:
Such risky rhymes, he must have been
A really pleasant fellow
A really pleasant fellow

Will or won't he slip?
Tongue-twister tightrope trick
Tongue-twister tightrope trick

The revelries and joy are bright
In this here dim-lit room
When song and throng are right, even
We wallflowers will bloom
We wallflowers will bloom