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Thread #126263 Message #2803768
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
05-Jan-10 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: songs about birds
Subject: RE: songs about birds
'Turkey in the straw' or 'Cuckoo waltz' for the musos?
Artisan's recording of 'What's the use of wings' is good, 'Galway Shawl' mentions linnets, 'Twa Corbies' by Steeleye Span is another good one.... Coope, Boyes and Simpson's recordings of 'She's like a swallow', 'Wild Goose Shanty' and 'Pleasant and delightful' are worth a spin, what with those larks being melodious all over the place...
'Hear the nightingale sing' is the chorus to a song I can't quite place at the moment... where the soldier sits down beside her and gets out a one string fiddle...
Jim Causleys' 'The carnal and the crane' - although it could have your listeners wondering if their radios have broken - it's very low and slow. Steeleye and Vaughan-Williams have both recorded/composed music about larks in the morning/clear air/ascending... Steeleye went one further with 'Fly up my cock'....
Rod Shearman's 'Song of the Sea' mentions gulls and is a beautiful piece...