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[taimatsu]

So I'm going to Reading Folk Club on Sunday with chaosdeathfish, and I intend to sing something if possible. I'd like to have three songs available to choose from, as I don't know how their system works (like whether people do one or more than one at a time). I have got some ideas but need more.

I'm going to want something that's not too long, not too short, not too bawdy, and for which I can describe how I learnt it/its origin. I don't want to sing something which is too closely associated with a specific band (so I'm not likely to do Man In Green by Show of Hands, for example).

SO, if you have sung with me at all, and there was something I sang which you thought worked especially well, please tell me. Or if you have any other related ideas.

Currently I am mulling over Let Her Go Down, How Will I Ever Be Simple Again, and Rocking The Cradle.

Edited to add: do feel free to suggest new songs I should learn - but obviously I can't sing those on Sunday, so if you can suggest something I *do* know as well, that would be handy. :)

I also want to make sure whatever I sing has some connection to actual traditional music - as in, it's a traditional song, has trad words or tune, or is written in a traditional style by a performer or group with strong trad links (e.g. Oysterband, Steeleye Span).

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[nannyo.livejournal.com]

do you know "foolish, incredibly foolish"? It's a fun staple, is slightly, but not overly bawdy, and is lovely to sing (well, I think so).

Your choices sound lovely too.
N.

[taimatsu]

I don't! Can I find it (words/music) online?

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

oooh, will have a look.
here are lyrics with chords, let's see if there's more.
INCREDIBLY FOOLISH

(E) C G / Am G7 / F C / G -

As I was a walking on a foggy day
There I met a man who unto to me did say
Won't you come along and walk along my way
I said I would

C G / Am G7 / F C / G C

Foolish, incredibly foolish
Foolish, incredibly foolish
Foolish, incredibly foolish
Dumb dumb dumb dumb

So we walked along together for awhile
I gave to him a glance, he gave to me a smile
I had visions of us walking down the isle
To organ and drum

CHORUS

Then he asked me if I'd stay with him the night
Modestly I said that it would not be right
He didn't ask again, he simply got me tight
fruit juice and rum

CHORUS

I awoke next morning, hammers in my head
Found my gallant lover, gallantly had fled
Didn't care to busy, wishing I were dead
Feeling so glum

CHORUS

I decided that next time I meet a boy
I will not say no, and temperance I'll employ
Think I'll stay awake and maybe I'll enjoy
All of the fun

Foolish, incredibly foolish
Foolish, incredibly foolish
Foolish, incredibly foolish
Fun fun fun fun
© Heather Wood 1977, Logo Songs

Recorded by Heather Wood and Pennie Harris on No Relation, Transatlantic TRA 342, 1977
by Bushnell's Basin Delegation, on the eponymous cassette BBD-8502, 1985
and by Wild Rose on The Bawdy Ladies' Book, 1986

Haven't had any luck with finding more than that though.

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

Into the fire - find and listen here (http://cyphertext.net/escapekey/songs.html).

I sang this at our local fg and it went down VERY well.

Or Persephone on the same site.

[taimatsu]

Mmm, someone's sung that to me and it's not bad, though I've never heard it accompanied and the implied harmonies sound a bit odd, if I remember rightly.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i think you should learn The Bonnie House Of Airlie in time for 13th, then you can play it for me :)

[chaosdeathfish.livejournal.com]

Yes! Rocking the Cradle! I love that song. And Into The Fire is lovely too, as ifimust just said.

Personally I'm probably going to just listen, as my bodhran skills are still quite lacking.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I went about twice and it's a very, very relaxed place. They kind of go round in a circle, so whether you'd sing one or two songs largely depends on how many people are there. :-) I say get two.

I love "How Will I Ever Be Simple Again", especially as sung by you. And "Rocking the Cradle"'s also one of my favourites. Don't knowthe other.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Secnded on the "how Will I Ever Be Simple Again"

Really looking forward to next weekend - are we planning on singing? I have Gold, and can pay the bard ;D

[taimatsu]

Of course there will be singing, though I won't have a working printer so may have trouble organising my words. I need to try to find my money physreps!

Bring along any songs you particularly want to sing or teach me. :)

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I'm printerless too till September, so words could be difficult...

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

How will I ever be simple again always cuts right into me. I say go for that.

[taimatsu]

I sang it! And I think it might have been the best I've ever done it - I often find it hard to sing it grammatically, with the right emphases and so on, but I think I got it this time :)

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Another one of my favourites of yours is "Why Walk When You Can Fly"