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Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of

Jerry Rasmussen 04 Jan 04 - 04:50 PM
Cluin 04 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM
khandu 04 Jan 04 - 05:15 PM
Deckman 04 Jan 04 - 05:35 PM
Snuffy 04 Jan 04 - 07:52 PM
Walking Eagle 04 Jan 04 - 08:00 PM
Amos 04 Jan 04 - 08:23 PM
Bill D 04 Jan 04 - 08:53 PM
Leadfingers 04 Jan 04 - 09:18 PM
Peace 04 Jan 04 - 09:31 PM
Little Hawk 04 Jan 04 - 10:07 PM
Phil Cooper 04 Jan 04 - 10:09 PM
Jerry Rasmussen 04 Jan 04 - 10:15 PM
SINSULL 04 Jan 04 - 10:27 PM
Ebbie 04 Jan 04 - 11:47 PM
mg 05 Jan 04 - 12:42 AM
Dave Hanson 05 Jan 04 - 06:10 AM
Jerry Rasmussen 05 Jan 04 - 07:31 AM
GUEST,James 05 Jan 04 - 09:34 AM
GUEST,James 05 Jan 04 - 09:38 AM
Merritt 05 Jan 04 - 09:48 AM
MAG 05 Jan 04 - 12:36 PM
Tinker 05 Jan 04 - 04:40 PM
GUEST,Martin Gibson 05 Jan 04 - 05:38 PM
John Hardly 05 Jan 04 - 06:21 PM
SINSULL 05 Jan 04 - 08:20 PM
Jerry Rasmussen 05 Jan 04 - 08:30 PM
Ebbie 05 Jan 04 - 09:29 PM
GUEST,Ron Davies 05 Jan 04 - 10:35 PM
GUEST,johnfitz.com 05 Jan 04 - 11:23 PM
DonMeixner 06 Jan 04 - 12:03 AM
Seamus Kennedy 06 Jan 04 - 02:10 AM
Dave Hanson 06 Jan 04 - 04:26 AM
clueless don 06 Jan 04 - 12:16 PM
kendall 06 Jan 04 - 12:26 PM
GUEST,Strollin' Johnny 06 Jan 04 - 12:57 PM
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Nancy King 06 Jan 04 - 10:14 PM
Bill D 06 Jan 04 - 10:34 PM
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Subject: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:50 PM

In response to the most recent posting Big Mick made to "Good Songs You're Sick Of," How about songs you've sung a million times, and look forward to singing a million more times? Maybe everyone else runs screaming from the room, but you never tire of them? I realize this must be a variant on 18 other threads, but Hey...

Repetition is traditional.

Here are some songs I've been singing for 40 years, and they still feel fresh to me:

Lady Margaret
Mary Of The Wild Moor
Down On Penny's Farm
Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn
Old Man At The Mill
Days Of 49
Farmer's Curst Wife

Jerry

Add songs you still SING, please..


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM

First song I figured out on the guitar as a kid and still sing occasionally...

Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain


Though I figured it out my own way, slightly different than the original and prefer to sing it that way.

When I think of it now, a kid about 10 singing lines like "the women all were fast" and "cold and drunk as I can be"... didn't mean much to me then. They were just words. Strange how prophetic they were actually.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: khandu
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 05:15 PM

Carefree Highway-Gordon Lightfoot
We Used to Know- Jethro Tull
Dinny the Piper- Andy M Stewart
The Thrill is Gone- BB King
Handful of Songs- Jerry Rasmussen

& 1000's more!

k


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 05:35 PM

"Days of 49",
"Mary of the Wild Moor",

Me too Jerry! Bob(deckman)Nelson


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 07:52 PM

Wild Rover
Black Velvet Band
Home Boys Home
The Keeper
Lily The Pink
Serafina
Johnny Come Down To Hilo
New York Girls (Can't You Dance The Polka)
My Old Man's A Dustman
Lili Marlene

and a million more


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:00 PM

The Mary Ellen Carter>
The Roseville Fair>
My Home's Across the BlueRidge Mtn.>
Hoboe Lulliby>
Goodnight Irene>

And about a jillion others.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:23 PM

Days of 49 is on my list, too, as are:

The Blue Mountain Lake
I Remember Loving You
John Henry
The Midnight Special
Tenbrucks
Stewball
Duncan& Brady
Motherless Child
Wade in the Water
Keep your Hand on the Plow
The Strawberry Roan
Get Along, Li'l Dogies
Sweet Baby james
Rising of the Moon
Rolling in My Sweet baby's Arms
Old Joe Clark
A Man of Constant Sorrow
West Virginia
Polly, Pretty Polly
The Unreconstructed Rebel
The Battle of Bull Run
Hullabaloo Belay
Oh, You New York Girls
The Eddystone Light
....


and about two hundred others that the jukebox won't report on at the moment....:>)


And yes, some of them are corny and overworked, but there's always some one young enough at heart not to be tired of it!


A


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:53 PM

Good Peanuts
I've Rambled This Country Both Earlye and Late
Storms Are on the Ocean
Wreck of the Old 97
The Twa Corbies
Lord Randall
The Goodnight, Loving Trail
Stern Old Batchelor
Jimmy Cracked Corn
Baltimore Fire

and just a few more....


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:18 PM

Snuffy - I never realised how many of my gigs you've been at. But what about Streets of London and Dont Think Twice ?


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:31 PM

Maggie
Wild Mountain Thyme
One Too Many Mornings
Love Minus Zero
Mail Myself to You


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:07 PM

Most of Bob Dylan's. Particularly...

Just Like A Woman
Dark Eyes
To Ramona
Visions of Johanna
She Belongs To Me
Ring Them Bells
Jokerman
I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
Changing of the Guards
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Desolation Row


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:09 PM

Pretty Susan
Rosemary's Sister
Death of Young Andrew
Spencer the Rover
Little Heathy Hill (it's a tune,but I never get tired of playing it)
Poor Ditching Boy
Master of the Sheepfold (learned from Art).


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:15 PM

12 posts and over one hundred songs, and very little duplication. Lots of good songs that we never get tired of... and this is just the tip of the iceberg..

I must say, Deckman, you have impeccable taste..

Jerry


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 10:27 PM

Shenandoah and all its variations
The Lightening Express
Hard Times (Come Again No More)
A Bird In A Gilded Cage


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 11:47 PM

Somehow I never get tired of 'Angel Band', sung southern style. (northern style lacks soul, or something)


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: mg
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 12:42 AM

Hm..I was just trying to remember Mary of the Wild Moor..I always scramble the verses...at this folk club in Newfoundland we had first this angelic sounding woman from Quebec sing her version, and then this quite scruffy southern American sing his..it was quite a contrast...

well, shall I add to the list..
Green grow the lilacs
Greenland whales
Old Kentucky Home
Bonnie Annie Laurie
America the Beautiful
Erie Canal
Paddy works on the railway

mg


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 06:10 AM

I think sinsull has included ' Lightning Express ' as a joke, it's the most awful bloody song I've ever heard in my life, in fact just thinking about it now, I think I'll log off and go and kill myself.
eric


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 07:31 AM

I know Mary of the Wild Moor from the Blue Sky Boys, and I'm with you, Ebbie on Angel Band. I can't imagine ever tiring of that song. I do it with my gospel quartet, and even though the other three guys are black, we do it white southern style. Two of the guys grew up in the south and listened to the Grand Ole Opry and white church music as well as the gospel sung in black Baptist churches. The Third is from Jamaica and has his own reggae band. Wonder what it would sound like as a reggae song?

Jerry


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,James
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:34 AM

Reynardine, American Stranger, Old Dog Blue, Pull Down Lads, The Boony Swans,Raglan Road, Geordie, Sprinhill Mine Diasaster, Wedding Song(the Bob Dylan one), Coast of Malabar, Foggy Dew, Black eyed dog, Army Dreamers, Bold Dockerty, Grace Darling, Oh England, my Lionheart, The Plains of Waterloo..and loads more.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,James
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:38 AM

I forgot one of my all time favpurites..Gentle Annie


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Merritt
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:48 AM

Either I lack discernment or have consistently great taste. When I look over my songlist I have a hard time finding a song that I don't really enjoy singing. I stopped playing & singing for about 20 years so some folks here have more history to base their selection on. Anyway, here's 20+ songs grabbed off a list of 200+ tunes that I do solo:

Any Old Time – J. Rodgers
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself – 1934
Southbound Train – G. Nash
St. James Infirmary –
Magdalena – D. O'Keefe
The Blackbird – Trad
Stormy Weather – Arlen/Koehler; 1943
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues – D. O'Keefe
River – Joni Mitchell
Goodnight, My Someone – by Meredith Wilson; 1956
Simple Man – Graham Nash
Song for the Asking – Paul Simon
Save The Last Dance For Me – Drifters; 1960
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe – Mercer/Warren 1945
Mother Nature's Son – Beatles
All I Know – Jimmy Webb
Careless Love – trad;
Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff
Birds – Neil Young
Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison
Kansas City Blues – Jim Jackson; 1928
Across The Universe - Lennon
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – Dylan
My Dear Companion – Jean Ritchie
Whispering Pines – The Band

- Merritt


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: MAG
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 12:36 PM

Jerry, you're responsible for "Handful of Songs"? good 'un -- it's on my "to learn" list.

I still do
Strangest Dream
Changes


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Tinker
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 04:40 PM

SINSULL I think it's time to formalize the Mudcat Sirens... we seem to be luring the gentlemen this week....

House of the Rising Sun
Holy Ground
Trees They Do Grow High
Circle Game


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 05:38 PM

MTA by the Kingston Trio


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 06:21 PM

I wanna sit and listen to Merrit's CD collection! Hey, wait, I already have it!


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 08:20 PM

I learned Lightening Express when I was 11 from the Everly Bros. "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" album. Then heard the Blue Sky Boys and multiple others do it. I love it. Would you like to borrow a knife Eric? Of course, you could always go out and lie down on the railroad tracks.

I do love the MTA as done by the KT. Also their version of Ruby Red.

Add
The Golden Vanity
Roll Alabama Roll
Old Shep (Need a sharpening stone, Eric?)


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 08:30 PM

The Streamline Cannonball is another great train song.. not well known

Jerry


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:29 PM

The Streamline Cannonball is a song I learned from my parents before I knew I was learning songs, Jerry R. We had a farm and one of my earliest memories is of my dad singing as he walked from one spot to another. And of my mother singing at the kitchen stove as she got breakfast. I just realized I'm a lucky woman!

Jerry, I'll be PMing you- I got to hear a CD of yours and I'd love a copy of my own. I spent my teen years in the south and that's the music I still resonate to.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Ron Davies
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 10:35 PM

Sound Sound Your Instruments of Joy--need harmonies
Malpas Wassail--need harmonies
Anchored in Love--as duet
Arthur McBride
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Parting Glass
My First Shipwreck at Sea
Amelia Earhart
Town I Loved So Well
Teardrops In the Snow
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
8 More Miles To Louisville
Cool Water
Farther Along
Yard Sale
Streets of Baltimore
Lili Marlen (auf Deutsch)
D- Day Dodgers (same tune, of course)
Hofbrauehaus
Angels Rejoiced
The Good Old Way
Sentimental Journey
West Virginia, My Home
Give Me the Leavin's


What really makes a lot of these songs, esp. the UK songs, sound great to me is to sing them in harmony in a group. I can and do sing any of these solo (e.g. walking to and from the subway every day) (in Takoma Park MD, well-known folk ghetto, hence a pretty tolerant area).
But I love to sing harmonies myself, and to sing one of the Watersons'
songs, for instance, in a group that knows how to make their sort of soaring and swooping harmonies, is one of the best experiences of my life.

I can't imagine ever getting tired of any of these (just to scratch the surface), most of which I've sung over 10 years. In fact, there are very few songs I am thoroughly tired of. (Admittedly I don't have to sing Wild Rover every other night). The only 2 I can think of are "Waltzing With Bears' and "Little Drummer Boy". And I had a 4-part harmony group which did door-to-door caroling this season, took requests, and was asked to do "Drummer Boy". We did, in harmony, with all the verses, though we had no music for it, and it sounded surprisingly good. Even "Drummer Boy" in the right circumstances is OK.


Perhaps one of the reasons I don't get tired of songs is that I listen to all kinds of music all the time, including hot jazz, early rock, classical, blues and bluegrass. Right now I'm listening to a lot of 1930's calypsoes--really sophisticated, politically aware, and informative lyrics, with a great sense of humor--and a window on another world (obtained at CAMSCO, by the way) The 5 CD's on my CD player right now are Roosevelt in Trinidad; Complete Wind Sonatas (1 of 2) --Handel; Marty Robbins/Johnny Horton; Washington Phillips--I Am Born To Preach The Gospel; and Calypso Carnival 1936-1941.

Sorry for the thread creep


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,johnfitz.com
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 11:23 PM

I love doing almost anything anybody sincerely requests, but if the hockey game is winning the battle, I'll sing:
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Wild Mountain Thyme
The Dutchman
Tupelo Honey
I Saw the Light
Ghost Riders
Mary Mac
Angel from Montgomery
Froggie went courtin'
No Woman no Cry
Hope I don't fall in love with you
Dark as a dungeon
Barrett's Privateers
Tomorrow is a long time
Don't laugh at me (with my daughter)


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: DonMeixner
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:03 AM

Begin the Beguine

I'll Be Seeing You

Buttermilk Hill

Rompin' Rovin' Days (Thanks Bruce)

Can't Help But Wonder

Butchie's Tune

Brave Wolfe

Short Grasses

Livin' On The River

Little River

and about 1,000 others.

Don


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 02:10 AM

La Vie En Rose
Wabash Cannonball
Mariú
Blue Yodel No. 9
Waltz Across Texas
Non Piú Andrai
Isle Of Innisfree
Tennessee Waltz
Tennessee Stud
Bheir Mí ó
Lovesick Blues
Oró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
Only Our Rivers Run Free
If I were Free
Hear My Song
He's In The Jailhouse Now
The Errant Apprentice
The Shearin's Not For You.

And one or two thousand others.

Seamus


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 04:26 AM

Boring doggy dirge SINSULL.
eric


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: clueless don
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:16 PM

A song I have never gotten tired of is a Henry Clay Work song called "Come Home, Father" ("Father, dear father, come home with me now, the clock in the steeple strikes one ...".) I used to sing it at Folklore Society of Greater Washington open sings (in a previous life.) Quite maudlin, but it strikes a chord with me.

Don


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:26 PM

PHEOBE SNOW.

Don't knock Old Shep. If not for the family dog, I wouldn't be here.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 12:57 PM

Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bobby Z)
Lies (Stan The Man)
Dark-Eyed Molly (Archie Fisher)
Anything by Elvis, but especially Girl of My Best Friend, Blue Christmas and Are You Lonesome Tonight (ah, memories of Sue Pearson!)
Margarita and Gift Of A Brand New Day (Harvey Andrews - a true genius)
Rainy Day People (Gordon Lightfoot)
The Lorry Ride (sorry, I forget her name)
The Bergen and Old Bones (Jez Lowe)
Fair Annie (Trad)
Most of John Connolly's songs but particularly Charlie In The Garden and The Grimsby Lads
Polly On The Shore (Trad)
Polly On THe Shore (Lester Simpson)
Canadee-i-o (the Nic Jones version)
Joe Peel (Peter Bond)

Oh and dozens of others too numerous to mention.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 09:25 PM

William Kidd
You Are My Sunshine
Silver Threads and Golden Needles


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Nancy King
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 10:14 PM

A lot of good stuff here, folks. Here are a few of my faves:

I Think of You, by Bruce Phillips
Old Flames, by Dolly Parton
Lake George, by Terasina Huxtable
Times Are Gettin' Hard, by Lee Hays
The Butcher Boy
The Ballad of Charles Guiteau
Delia's Gone
Woody Knows Nothin'
Who Will Sing for Me

and in the Gospel vein:

Anchored in Love
In the Garden
Marching to Zion
When They Ring the Golden Bells
Just a Closer Walk With Thee

and more....

Nancy


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 10:34 PM

yes, Seamus...I forgot Bheir Mí ó...I used to sing my son to sleep with that...he's 21 now..


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Jim Krause
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 11:42 PM

Well it has been quite a while since I've posted. Here are just a few off the top of my head
Barbara Allen
Lord Bateman
Henry, My Son
Penny's Farm (I use this one a lot in my banjo classes)

A bunch of my songs like
    I'm a Rovin' Cowboy
    Road to Santa Fe
    Anna On My Mind
    Tiger on My Couch
    When We Rise
   
Songs by Bill Staines
    Roseville Fair
    Lovers and Losers
    Flowers in the Snow
More Traditional songs
   In Good Old Colony Days
   One Morning in May (The Nightengale)
   The Minstrel Boy
   Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore
   The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls
   Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
   
That's enough for one post.
Jim


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 05:09 AM

' They Don't Write Them Like That Anymore '
eric


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 05:22 AM

Not so many songs as tunes.

Loads of standards Cole Porter, Gershwin etc
Work Song (Adderley)
The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan)
Now's The Time (Parker)
Loads of Leadbelly (Just to keep the Mudcat Police at bay)
Blood Red Roses
Poor Old Horse


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 08:36 AM

Forgot 'The Rose Of Allendale'
JB


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Kim C
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 01:57 PM

Night Rider's Lament


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 02:08 PM

oh...one that never ceases to amaze me how everyone responds to it...

"The Housewife's Lament"


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 02:10 PM

Oh, Lordy...well, here are some, but there are about 23.5456 x 10^24 others.

Queen Elinor's Confession
Down in the valley
Red River valley
Wreck of old '97
Casey Jones and the variants (and esp. the variant that starts "Casey Jones was a son of a bitch....")
Roll me over in the clover
Green grow the lilacs
McDonald on the heights
Mary Ellen Carter
John Birch Society
Springhill mine disaster
Crabs walk sidewise
Sweet Survivor
There but for fortune
Outside of small circle of friends
I got a letter from LBJ
Draft dodger rag
Darcy Farrow
Outlawed Rapparee
Brennan on the moor
How can I keep from singing
Silent Night
Yankee Doodle
Roll, Alamaba, Roll
Mary L. Mackay
Willie McBride
And the band played waltzing Matilda
South Side Irish

...and a lot that have been mentioned above.

Ever notice how these sorts of songs seen ever fresh, which most rock music fades?


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 06:14 PM

I should also mention

The Idiot
The Giant
Northwest Passage
and pret' near everything by Stan Rogers.

Also, from Schooner Fare

Mad Jack
Day of the Clipper
Portland Head
and lots of others.


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 05:11 AM

The Idiot Song by Neil Innes, beautiful.
eric


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 06:46 AM

I remember loving you (U. Phillips)
Faded roses of December (U. Phillips
Last thing on my mind (Tom Paxton)
Phil Brown (Dave Mallett)
Duna (Gordon Bok)
anything sung by Seamus Kennedy or Rick Fielding
Fire down below sung by Jeri Corlew
A bad half hour (Tom Russell)
Lock Keeper (Stan Rogers)


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 07:44 AM

Kendall, my favourite of all lines is in Lock-Keeper:-

"She wears bougainvillea blossoms,
You pluck 'em from her hair and toss them in the tide
Sweep her in your arms and carry her inside.
Her sighs catch on your shoulder,
Her moonlit eyes grow bold and wiser through her tears,
How could you stand to leave her for a year?"

Wish I could write like that.
Johnny


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,stumd3@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 11:29 AM

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME
WAITING FOR A TRAIN
LOUIS COLLINS
YOUNG BUT DAILY GROWING
HARD TIMES
JIM JONES
RANK STRANGER
THE FIELDS HAVE TURNED BROWN
KENTUCKY WALTZ
TO LIVE'S TO FLY
ANGEL FLYING TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND
I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD
HOUSE OF GOLD
MY LOVE FOR YOU HAS TURNED TO HATE
HEY PORTER
POOR VALLEY


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 07:44 PM

Johnnie, join the club! All it takes is an outstanding line, and I'll learn a whole song for it. Such as:

...we drifted on home through the public bars,
we were ten times less by one...


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 08:27 AM

Kendall, humour me - where's that from?


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 08:55 AM

Peggy Gordon- Trad
She moved through the Fair- Padraic Colum
Sparehand- our own Linda Kelly
Dancing at Whitsun- John Austin Marshall
Louise-Paul Siebell
Lowlands - Trad
Westlin' Winds - Burns
Man of War- Steve Knightly
Sally Free and Easy- Tawney
Time to Be Sleeping- our own Jim MacClean


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Subject: RE: Songs You've Never Gotten Sick Of
From: GUEST,MAG stuck in Portland
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:48 PM

I can't name the song, (10xless by 1) but it's on a Gordon Bok recording -- the one of work songs.


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