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Thread #99963 Message #1999347
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
17-Mar-07 - 05:04 AM
Thread Name: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Subject: RE: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Just re-read what I wrote and of course, its rubbish - still that's what mudcat's about - aplace where you can talk rubbish.
Of course Plains of Waterloo is a great human document. And its as much wish fulfilment as Somewhere Over the rainbow.
In those days . as now - people went off to the war and got ruined every which way. Life didn't supply the happy endings - so songs had to.
Rather like the New Deserter. In life the bloke got shot - in folksong, Prince albert comes up and saves him. And there is passion there. We should not be singing anything just because its dull and worthy and its tradtional.
And a lot of people - not just floorsingers - are doing just that.