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27 Mar 08 - 08:47 AM (#2298645) Subject: happy trad songs From: goatfell is there any happy trad songs out there because they are nearly all about people and the sadness that surrounds them |
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27 Mar 08 - 08:52 AM (#2298649) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: GUEST,Volgadon Are there any? Of course! Searching for Lambs. Marrowbones (the conniving wife dies). Down Among the Heather. The Gallant Hussar (I think that's what iut's called, Eliza C performs it on Rough Music). |
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27 Mar 08 - 08:55 AM (#2298654) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Leadfingers Though Traditional and happy are NOT words that are normally together! |
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27 Mar 08 - 08:55 AM (#2298655) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Bryn Pugh Rigs of London Town Lord Bateman |
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27 Mar 08 - 10:08 AM (#2298706) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: IanC Actually, there are probably at least as many traditional happy songs as sad ones. It's just that people in the last 50 years or so seem to prefer to look at the sad ones. My favourite is "The Little Gypsy Girl". :-) Ian |
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27 Mar 08 - 10:27 AM (#2298719) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: davyr I haven't done a count-up, but I reckon a high percentage of the Copper Family's songs could be described as "happy": http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/index.html Bob Copper always maintained that the men he knew who worked on the land were generally happy in their work, even though most of us now would consider it unacceptably "hard labour". |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:10 AM (#2298762) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: GUEST,Volgadon The Fox. |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:17 AM (#2298763) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Willa Welcome sailor, John Reilly,Sovay(?), I Live not Where I Love |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:29 AM (#2298778) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: the lemonade lady Well if there are happy songs out there why don't people want to sing them? My lovely man Wolfy, isn't keen on coming to singarounds cos he says the songs a dreary and miserable. He's not a singer and is new to the folk world, so it's good to get some feedback from a member of the audience. To a certain extent he's right, and I agree that a slow folk song can sound dreary if it's not delivered properly. If you sit/stand there with your eyes closed (and not engaging with your audience) thus not 'telling' the story, then any song sounds miserable. My opinion, and I dare say I'll now need fire proof specs for the flames being spat at me with the next load of comments! Sal (about to go out for a walk in the sunshine) |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:31 AM (#2298781) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Adeleh Down the Moor (Peter Bellamy sings it) |
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27 Mar 08 - 01:58 PM (#2298889) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Snuffy Several score of "Broken Token" songs And don't forget The Wild Rover. |
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27 Mar 08 - 03:44 PM (#2298975) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: JWB Almost any double entendre song is happy: Maid of Australia, The Game of All Fours, Cruising 'Round Yarmouth. Drinking songs are pretty upbeat, too: When Jones' Ale Was New, Good Ale, Old Dun Cow, Little Brown Jug. While they can leave folks feeling down, sex and booze -- in the moment -- tend to be uplifting, so there are piles of songs that capture that part of the experience. Jerry |
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27 Mar 08 - 03:59 PM (#2298983) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: semi-submersible Star of the County Down Mairi's Wedding (Both always leave me smiling.) See also Cheerful Folk Songs thread. |
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27 Mar 08 - 04:00 PM (#2298984) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Herga Kitty Just as the tide was flowing, Come Write Me Down, Bold Fisherman, the Nightingale.. Kitty |
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27 Mar 08 - 07:37 PM (#2299186) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Gene Burton Bully in the Alley, Spencer the Rover, The Golden Vanity, (oh, go on, then) Whiskey in the Jar, (oh, gaawwd!) The Wild Rover, Broomfield Hill, Byker Hill, Seventeen Come Sunday, Catch Me if You Can, Thousands or More, Stars in my Crown, My Flower My Companion and Me....none of which are in my own current repertoire,'cos I like 'em SAD, DREARY and very, very LONG. I think this new-fangled notion that folk songs can be joyous and uplifting is a heresy and should be suppressed forthwith. Now, where's me tapirs..? |
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27 Mar 08 - 09:48 PM (#2299295) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Nick E Old Mac Donald? you know, that farm tune? B_I_N_G_O is that not trad? Row Row Row Your boat? Does a song get more Merily Merily Merily sung? Yankee Doodle Dandy? The wheels on the bus? No shortage I think, unless I dont ken trad |
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28 Mar 08 - 12:16 AM (#2299341) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Kent Davis "What Wondrous Love Is This?" "Alleluia" ("Ev'ry Day, Lord, Oh I Need You") "Love, Love" ("The Gospel in a Word is Love") "God Is so Good" "I'm Happy Today" detail.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1059705 "I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy" "Deep and Wide" "The B-I-B-L-E" "The Wise Man Built his House upon the Rock" "I'm in the Lord's Army" "If You're Happy and You Know It" thread.cfm?threadid=104255#2132416 Kent |
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28 Mar 08 - 04:56 AM (#2299398) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Bryn Pugh I wondered how long it would take the god-botherers to get in on the act. |
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28 Mar 08 - 10:27 AM (#2299555) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: GUEST,leeneia Ohhh, the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, the soda-water fountain, where the bluebird sings at the lemonade springs on the Big Rock Candy Mountain. |
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28 Mar 08 - 11:13 AM (#2299600) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: AllisonA(Animaterra) And don't forget "Pleasant and Delightful" |
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28 Mar 08 - 11:28 AM (#2299615) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Elmore William Taylor (sort of) |
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28 Mar 08 - 11:44 AM (#2299626) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Bryn Pugh Famous Flower of Serving Men - eventually Sophie the Female Highwayman (Sovay) |
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28 Mar 08 - 07:05 PM (#2300003) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Tootler Sovay irritates me intensely. She's jealous and mistrustful of her lover. If he has any sense, he should get out before it's too late. Oh dear, Now I'm taking the song too seriously Lovely Joan is another happy one. The girl not only outwits her would be seducer but gets a gold ring and a horse into the bargain. Highwayman Outwitted. |
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28 Mar 08 - 08:49 PM (#2300074) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Joe_F leeneia: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" was originally a satirical song about the trials of being a hobo's catamite. Burl Ives cleaned it up considerably. |
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28 Mar 08 - 10:45 PM (#2300144) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Kent Davis Bryn Pugh, Had I known any happy traditional Wiccan songs I would have posted them. Why don't you join in the fun and post a few for us? Kent |
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29 Mar 08 - 04:25 PM (#2300568) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: topical tom Perhaps not trad but surely happy. Mocking Bird Hill |
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29 Mar 08 - 10:52 PM (#2300804) Subject: RE: happy trad songs From: Kent Davis Here are some from Patrick Gainer's FOLK SONGS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS. "The Devil's Questions" (Child #1) "The Cherry Tree" (Child #54) "Get Up and Bar the Door" (Child #275) "The Farmer's Wife and the Devil" (Child #278) "The Wise Farmer" (Child # 283) "The Fair Maid in the Garden" "The Wealthy Squire" "The Barnyard Song" (I had a cat and my cat pleased me...) "Old Dan Tucker" "Cindy" "Sourwood Mountain" "Wade in the Water" "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Kent |