Meet on the Ledge

Richard Thompson wrote the song, and Fairport recorded it for What We Did on Our Holidays in 1968. It was the band's second single. The title comes from a low-hanging tree limb that Thompson played on as a child and that he and his friends called the Ledge. Speaking to Mojo in 2011, he said, "I don't even know what it means." He added that some hear the ledge as code for the afterlife, and that he sang the song at his own mother's funeral, as her will asked.

At concerts, including Cropredy, it is often the last song and a signal that there will be no more encores. A 2004 listeners poll for BBC Radio 2 placed it at number 17 in its Sold On Song Top 100. Fairport re-recorded it in 1987 for In Real Time: Live '87 and issued it as a single for their 20th anniversary. Thompson recorded it again in 1984 as a bonus track on Small Town Romance.