Meet On The Ledge

This was the second single released by the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention. Despite failing to chart, it became the band's signature tune. At their concerts it is often performed as the last song and a signal to fans that there will be no more encores.

Fairport Convention's Richard Thompson wrote the song when he was 17. He recalled penning the track in an interview with Mojo magazine March 2011: "The hardest thing about being a 17-year-old songwriter is that you're embarrassed - you're never going to write a song saying, 'These are my feelings, I love you.' So I was trying to find some semi-veiled language that conveyed something to somebody somehow but which didn't really say anything up front. It's a slightly naïve song, a little obscure. I don't even know what it means."

The song's title comes from a large, low hanging tree limb which Thompson, as a child, used to play on. He and his friends dubbed it "The Ledge."