For my new folk song class, one of our assignments is to keep a folk song journal. Our professor told us we could use any method we chose, and I'm rather partial to the blog. Here I can post sound clips, video, music scans, as well as my own reflections, and hopefully get songs from all of you readers!
Any songs you've learned from family, camp, holidays, life-spans (weddings, funerals, etc.), festivals, cultural experience, anything--please send me your title and, if you have time, the lyrics or even a recording of it! It will all be compiled for further research and enjoyment.
Let's keep our music and share it with others!
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Do sports teams count? I'm not sure what constitutes a "folk song" but if it is one written by regular folk which gets a lot of singing time, there are lots of rugby songs... the women's rugby team at Hamilton College sings this one at the beginning of every game - I hope this fits the assignment:
(to the tune of America, the Beautiful - at least I think that is the name of the song that begins "O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain...")
"Oh rugby gods, it's time to play/
to you we now do pray/
for beers to numb/
the pain to come/
for men* that we shall lay/
oh rugby gods, oh rugby gods/
please grant this one request/
to cream this team/
for we have seen/
BLUE RUGBY IS THE BEST"
* or "chicks" given one's preference...
I like your idea--creative. Here is my contribution. It is a song that we always sang growing up. On every family video, there is inevitably at least one kid singing it. It can be sung as a round. It is called "White Coral Bells." I loved it because (1) we had lilies of the valley growing along the side of our house and they had the most incredible smell that triggers memories of Spring (2) it had fairies in the song. Please excuse my obviously amateur voice.
ARTIST: Trad and Anon
TITLE: White Coral Bells
Lyrics
{Sung as a round}
White coral bells upon a slender stalk
Lilies-of-the valley line the garden walk
Oh don't you wish that you could hear them ring?
That will happen only when the fairies sing
That last post was from another contributor who e-mailed me. Thanks you-know-who-you-are!
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