songster

He had been described as "the songster of tennis lawns and cathedral cloisters".

He was a mellowed songster who sang effortlessly with intimate words, praising and imploring the women he loved and at times consoling himself.

The proudest songster of them all was James Joyce.

The club quickly became an heir apparent to the Village’s old coffeehouses, which were peopled by poets and folk songsters in the 1950s and ’60s.

“I went home and got my rhyming dictionary out,” he said, “and the cumulative play on words and Wonky tale began. Being an entertainer and songster, I thought it would make a hilarious song.”