Click on the Play button to hear the song. This is the testical cancer song, Hold them Right!. The words are shown below. We are in the process of making a CD of Edwin’s songs to aid teaching. To be kept informed as soon as further material becomes available, please fill in the form at the foot of this page.

Trying to explain to someone how you might check your testicles for lumps is always a bit embarrassing for all concerned and usually a topic of hilarity and mirth among groups of men who would attend a learning session on this subject. Nobody could actually show someone how to do it with the real ‘things’ and nurses and teachers have to rely on synthetic testicles that are passed round for everyone to have a feel.

This song is to aid a session on the topic by going through what you have to do through song. It is aimed at all men whether they have a learning disability or not and written a bit ‘tongue in cheek’ alongside a light and catchy tune. Listening to this song should allow a man to understand the importance of checking yourself properly without anybody directing that information towards them personally, so making the situation a little less embarrassing. The song could possibly be used at the end of a learning session to review the information. It could even be played in doctors’ waiting rooms so men could hear and take in the information. The words were evaluated by Stuart Whittle and Martin Jones, both nurses who specialise in mens’ health issues from the Arfon Community Learning Disability team who intend to use the song within their workshops. Stuart, alongside Mai Rees (Community LDS Health Team, Wrexham) runs a Sexuality and Relationships course within the school of Nursing and Midwifery at Bangor University, North Wales, and it was on that course that the song (and the whole idea of writing these songs) originated. Helping out with his ukulele is Phil Lee Jones of the band, Gwibdaith Hen Fran.

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