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Thread #65103   Message #1188412
Posted By: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
19-May-04 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: What's your favourite Steeleye Span song?
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Steeleye Span song?
Ranger1:

Are we sure we aren't missing a preposition?

Oh, I missed a couple: 'Orfeo', 'Cam Ye O'er From France', 'Brian O'Lynn/The Hag With The Money', 'The Drunkard' (though NOT the crude, racist preamble to it), 'Padstow', 'Shaking of the Sheets', 'Old Maid in a Garrett', 'Lady Diamond'.

OK, playmates. Drift time. What are your Least favourite Steeleye numbers? Any entries from the first four albums will be disqualified.

I've already made a couple of suggestions, to which I would add 'Gamble Gold and Robin Hood', 'Hard Times of Old England', The Wee Wee Man' (go on, try playing it to your mates. I dare you.), most of 'Sails of Silver', and all the 'comedy' numbers from 'Now We Are Six' and 'Commoner's Crown'. I also find it very difficult to listen to the songs about infanticide these days, such as 'Little Sir Hugh, 'Long Lankin' and 'The Cruel Mother'- so I don't.