Folk Song Follies

[taimatsu]

Over the last few years I have occasionally had a conversation with various musical buddies which invokes the idea of the List Of Things Not To Do If You Find Yourself Stuck In A Folk Song. I have just tried to Google to see if such a thing is extant on the web, and either it's not of my Google-fu sucks.

SO, here's your chance, boys and girls: clearly this list must be compiled and put on my lovely shiny tidy new website (which you can see from the 'Lucy's Home Page' link on my journal).

I'll start you off:

Sensible Advice Should You Find Yourself Stuck In A Folk Song

- Make detailed enquiries into the family background of anyone who wants to sleep with or marry you.
- Take a life-jacket on any sea-voyage.
- Avoid cross-dressing.
- If you can't avoid cross-dressing, avoid flirting with anyone at all while in the garb of the opposite sex.


Any more?

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

It's not a noble death to kill yourself to warn your criminal boyfriend of the nearby presence of the law.

Well, if you've got a pub full of drunk soldiers who've stolen all the beer without paying, and stolen several kisses as well, and it's likely that you're going to be gang-raped and then possibly hanged as an accomplice to a notorious highwayman who said soldiers are lying in ambush for, I'd say shooting yourself to get it over with whilst simulatneously warning your love that Bad Things Are Afoot isn't the worst option.