The Folk Music Thread

[Cogidubnus]

Hi Robert

Much appreciated but bearing in mind my occupation (and position as the black sheep of a railway family) I think the link below is more appropriate:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHbF0jAzMw

This however is one of my favourites from the many they produced (although the triple entendre has been cleaned up for an American audience):-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zi8n4HDQ

More on-topic, however, for this site, might be regarded the following piece of East End folk music:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtuj4lgJ9vw&feature=related

All the best

Dave

[Cogidubnus]

Brave New World

And this one's for all the northcountrymen among us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUql6PRW18Y&feature=related

God bless Tony Capstick - much missed...

All the best

Dave

[Beowulf]

When I went to school they used to teach us kind of historical songs, and to this day I still think of and love this song. It's a sea song, and this guy does it great:

Donkey Riding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAznmYIF74&feature=player_embedded

[Steve S]

Unless I've missed it,this far and no mention of Strawhead?.........

[Cogidubnus]

Donkey Riding

Hi Barbara

Yes I learned both that one, and "Oh you New York Girls" back in the 50s/60s - it wouldn't be allowed nowdays (not PC enough!)...Thanks for the reminder

Dave

[Beowulf]

Hi Barbara

Yes I learned both that one, and "Oh you New York Girls" back in the 50s/60s - it wouldn't be allowed nowdays (not PC enough!)...Thanks for the reminder

Dave

Lol, the donkey they rode was a steam engine. Btw, I'm from NY, and nope, I can't dance the Polka but the Irish Rovers sing it still.

I'm guessing it had different words back in the day? lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8esayGRE8&feature=related

[Cogidubnus]

New York Girls

Hi Barbara

Since we're going to discuss New York Girls, let's do it with a group I certainly WOULD pay good money to see...Bellowhead are bl**dy amazing...Are they a folk group? Well yes and no - I don't think they're that easily defined - see:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0Ff83spQw&feature=related

The energy is wonderful, and some of their stuff (vide the Christrmas Concert I posted elsewhere on this site) is simply out of this world!

And yes I bet there were alternative words and meanings... just as there were to Donkey Riding....

All the best

Dave

[Limehouse]

Enjoyed the last few posts!

We sang some strange stuff at primary school in the 60s, including Donkey Riding - and this one - which was practically revoluntionary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

I think the teachers must have changed some of the words though!

[Robert]

We had a school radio programme called Singing Together. The accompanying booklet had songs like Ho Ro My Nut Brown Maiden, The Vicar Of Bray, Polly Oliver...

[Limehouse]

We had a school radio programme called Singing Together. The accompanying booklet had songs like Ho Ro My Nut Brown Maiden, The Vicar Of Bray, Polly Oliver...

We used that book too! Do you remember a song about a girl who looked after geese and they escaped and she was called down from her bed to round them up? It's all a bit vague but I loved it at the time.

We also sang something like 'Boney was a Warrior' or simiar and @Far, far away, is my pearly Adriatic'

[Robert]

The only song I can remember like that is Paul's Little Hen, about a boy who lets his hen escape and it's eaten by a fox.

I remember Boney was a warrior, way-yay-ar, Boney was a warrior, Jean Francois. Boney he was sent away, way-yay-ar, sent to St Helena, Jean Francois.

We did various British folk songs, sea shanties etc plus songs from abroad. I quite enjoyed it on the whole.

I cannot say the same for the compulsory dancing - folk and ballroom - with which I was tortured.

[Limehouse]

Oh yes! I remember the 'way yay ar' well! I also shared your dislike of country dancing, when we were forced to dance with the boys from the boys' school.

It was at primary school that I first sang 'Where have all the flowers gone?' and thus was born a life-long love of folk-type music.

[Limehouse]

Just found this! My song about the goose girl!

This is so exciting!

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/displaysong.php?songid=513

[Robert]

I was at a mixed primary school, so I had to dance with girls from the start. The waltz, the valeta(?), the foxtrot....I seem to remember having to get changed before each dance lesson, but for the life of me I can't remember what I changed into.

I think I've found the geese song :

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/displaysong.php?songid=513

[Robert]

Well I'll be -

We seem to be on the same wavelength, Limehouse!