LJ Booth (a brilliant songwriter/ singer / guitarist out of Wisconsin) wrote the perfect Folk Rap song. Using the back of his guitar to provide a drumbeat he sings (or raps). Folk Rap (LJ Booth) Gimme that guitar; I'll show you how to use it. I play a funky thing they call folk music. KingstonTrio, Serendipity, Peter, Paul and Mary, just to name three. They sing about the dead and the big Grand Canyon, they made a lot of money on "Prairie Home Companion". Anglo Saxon, protestant white, at a hootenanny, hootenanny Saturday night. Talkin' folk rap, can you dig it? Folk rap,Mm! get down! Folk rap! Cool war's ragin' Johnny has to go. Would you let me go with you says "No, Johnny, No Johnny, Uh, Uh No!" If you miss the train I'm on you know that I am gone. You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles. But I'm one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen hundred miles from my home. Take away eight hundred miles and I'm five hundred miles from my home. Good God y'all! Michael row the boat ashore, Alelue, Allelue, Michael row the boat ashore Allelujah! If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, I'd hammer on your face! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea Frolicked in the Autumn in a land called Honalee. Little Jackie Paper he loved that rascal Puff but Jackie split the scene and Puff got in a huff, Doin' folk rap! Can you dig it? Folk rap! Hmm! Get Down!Folk rap! Ooh! Bobby Dylan, now, Folk rap! yeah, Kumbayah
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