You're not a Folksinger unless......

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 05:17 PM

The Lumberman's Alphabet

A is for axes that you may all know;
And B is for boys that make them all go;
C is for choppers so early begun
And D is for danger we often stand in.

CHORUS :

'Tis merry, 'tis merry, 'tis merry are we
No mortal on earth, so happy as we.
A derry, Lo derry, Ring derry dum.
Give us shantymen's grog and there'll nothing go wrong.

E is the echo that through the woods rang:
F is the foreman, head one of our gang;
G is the grindstone so merrily goes round
And H is the handle, so smoothly 'tis worn.

I is the Iron that mark-ed the pine;
J is the Jov-al that's never behind;
K is the keen edge our axes we keep
And L is the lice that over us creep.

M is the moss we patch-ed the cracks
And N is the needle we patch-ed our pants;
O is the owl that hooteth at night
And P is the pine that always falls right.

Q is the quarrel we never allow;
R is the river we float our logs down
S is the sleds so stout and so strong
And T is the teams that go jog 'em along.

U is the use we put our teams to;
V is the valley we draw our logs through;
W is the woods we leave in the spring
And this is all I am going to sing.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:52 PM

Dink's song.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:51 PM

Something that starts with "As I walked out..."

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:48 PM

This is supposed to be a fun thread.

I was hoping that people would submit the 'one song' that they sing better than anyone else.

LH, you brought up some good points. Wouldn't the world be a better place if more singers copied Louis Armstrong instead of Bob Dylan?

BTING, I suppose it is really 'what is folk music' but I was hoping for that one song from each of us rather than a general discussion. So what is your answer to?

you are not a folksinger unless you can sing....

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Tunesmith
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:39 PM

Back in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan was one of only one hundred and fifty-three protest-singers active in the States.
Or was that one hundred and fifty-four protest-singers!

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: BTNG
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:29 PM

Hawk if you want to find out how Dylan reacted, on several occasions, to his being called a folk singer, read Colin Irwin's Legendary Sessions: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:13 PM

I have sung Matty Groves, so I guess I'm a folksinger. ;-)

I also sing Bob Dylan's songs frequently, and I find much enjoyment in annoying people who object to that practice, but I don't try to sound like him, vocally speaking. What for? We already have Bob to do that, just like we already have Neil Young to sound like Neil Young and Louis Armstrong to sound like Louis Armstrong. I have my own voice to work with, after all, so why not use that? I will occasionally mimic some of Bob's typical phrasings and accent just for fun (as Joan Baez does too on occasion), but I mostly prefer to sing in my own natural voice.

I believe that the thing that pisses people off about Dylan is...

- He's done way better than they did.
- He's a lot more famous than they are. And better paid.
- More people like him than like them.
- He's probably more talented than they are too (although that's not a certainty).

or...

- They just don't get what he's doing or saying, period. Incomprehension does not make for good listening.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: BTNG
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:10 PM

I don't need to apologise for my observation

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:06 PM

.....you foresee another batch of unpleasant rants - which have nothing to do with the subject - between the usual suspects.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: BTNG
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 04:00 PM

you finally workout that this thread is yet another variation on the never ending What is Folk Music debate

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 03:59 PM

Sad but true Bert.

But please - just don't sing any Bob Dylan!

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Elmore
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 03:57 PM

Sing through your nose,Murder good prose,And sound precisely like Dylan.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 02:47 PM

Yes, but there are so few folksingers around nowadays that the distinction is rarely made and the term is commonly used to include folksong singers.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 02:22 PM

you know the difference between a folksinger and a folksong singer.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 01:45 PM

LOL john.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: johncharles
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 01:27 PM

...it costs you more to get to the gig than they pay you.
john

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 01:21 PM

Ah yes! Good Soldier. A great folk song to the tune of Colonel Bogey.

Bollocks, and the same to you
Bollocks they make a very fine stew...

Do you have any more lyrics GSS?

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 01:15 PM

bollocks

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 12:37 PM

...you can sing The Famous Flower of Serving Men. Or, for the more contemporarly minded, Sad eyed Lady of the Lowlands:-)

DtG

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 12:20 PM

Uh Oh! Deckman. I'd better start learning. My song list is about five hundred and they are not all folk songs. (And I wouldn't sing some of those without swatting up.)

And True Pete, True. But let us not discourage those who are just learning. It does take a lot of practice to be a singer.

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 12:06 PM

At least 1,000 folksongs from memory!

Subject: RE: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 11:52 AM

You are not a folksinger unless you CAN sing.

PS. Actually, thinking about it...LOL.

Subject: You're not a Folksinger unless......
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 11:47 AM

A dear friend of mine Marti Rogers Here's Her Website says that 'you are not a folksinger unless you can sing Matty Groves'.

I will not dispute that, as she sings much better than I do, but Would counter it with 'you are not a folksinger unless you can sing The Old Sow Song'.

So, just for fun, what would you say?

you are not a folksinger unless you can sing....