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15 Aug 99 - 02:19 PM (#105228) Subject: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Art Thieme In keeping with our need to pick the ONE HUNDRED BEST of various things lately, please allow me to propose a new survey: For years I've seen ads for "The Greatest Symphony Themes Ever"--(only the well know parts) sold in sets for very little money from Readers Digest & other place. Years ago, radio station WFMT-FM in Chicago created an ad for a book called "Great Square Inches Of Art"---filled with only the best square inches from the great paintings of the world---a Botticelli cheek, a Rubens buttox, a Cezanne apple segment, a Grant Wood hayfork tyne tip, a square from a Monet water lilly, a Divinci genital, a square from a Dali watch, an actual replica of square from a Rodin bulging bicep suitable for use as a paperweight--etc., etc. My idea here is for us to see if we can agree on the hundred (or so) favorite/best single WORDS from any folksong in any language!! I would like to start with these words: dogies cuckoo Abulbul Ameer cataleptics sharpshootress exhautionized levee cuckoo long-haired-preachers (one word 'cause it's hyphenated) diddle (v.) juberju El-a-noy
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15 Aug 99 - 02:34 PM (#105231) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Margo How about "Fooba Wooba"! That is from a Burl Ives song, Fooba Wooba John. I found a very similar song at a renaissance site. Very interesting, but stupid! (I wonder how many youngsters will understand that last remark!) Margarita |
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15 Aug 99 - 03:01 PM (#105235) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Rick Fielding How about "silkie', it can be used to describe seals, thighs and hair. However I think that "bold" may be the most popular word of all. "Gutless, craven, cowardly, dimwit, and incontinent" rarely seem to come up at all - at least in my repertoire. Rick |
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15 Aug 99 - 03:29 PM (#105239) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: DonMeixner Lets don't forget: Bold Bonnie Dearie -oh Don |
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15 Aug 99 - 03:36 PM (#105241) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Rick Fielding Don. I didn't forget "bold". Rick |
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15 Aug 99 - 03:49 PM (#105245) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: DonMeixner Sorry Rick, I forgot to read however. Don |
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15 Aug 99 - 04:06 PM (#105252) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Llanfair This is a wind-up, isn't it? You can't be serious!!! This makes wrestling in jelly look like an olympic sport. AAAAAAh, of course, it's the silly season!!!!! Hwyl, Bron. |
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15 Aug 99 - 04:44 PM (#105259) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: emily rain kittypulullapulullapuleye (do we count diddle lines as words? i consider this the best diddle line ever.)
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15 Aug 99 - 08:59 PM (#105320) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: campfire I don't think its in a song, but the best word I ever learned on this SITE was "flunderblunking" - thanks to Rick Fielding. I forget where he said he got it, but I use it regularly now. campfire |
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15 Aug 99 - 09:23 PM (#105329) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Rick Fielding Actually "fire", I made it up, but I was a little worried about defining it as a "folk" or "contemporary acoustic" word, so I attributed it to John Jacob Niles. No royalties expected though. Enjoy it. Rick |
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15 Aug 99 - 09:26 PM (#105332) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Len N Art... I got to agree with you about exhaustionized and sharpshootress. I recall these two and cataleptics from a song, (Horse named Bill, or something like that), off of Jerry Garcia's and David Grisman's Not Just For Kids... Not having heard any other renditions of the song besides theirs, I have wondered if those three words were their contribution to the song or if that is the way it has been sung by others.... Are you able to enlighten me? Thanks Len |
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15 Aug 99 - 09:34 PM (#105336) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bill D "splatamalatamalingo"...since it was only sung and not written, I take the liberty of calling it one word..*grin*..heard Hedy West sing it as one version of "Wee Cooper 'o Fife"
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15 Aug 99 - 10:30 PM (#105360) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Art Thieme Len, "A Horse Named Bill" was included in Carl Sandburg's ___THE AMERICAN SONGBAG___ (1927) Harcourt, Brace, Jovanavich. It was on Bob Gibson's first LP for Riverside called __Offbeat Folksongs__ Art P.S.--- to you all: My absolute favorite word in all of American folk studies has to be, from the song "JOHN HENRY"--------"HAMMER !!! (Now that's a word to be reckoned with (I reckon).) There are so very many implications. And they have such a social conscience--indeed, such a presence that I can hardly stand it---man against the machine & all that crap. And the various virgins---er versions----can actually be numbered like those famous Children's Ballads are. There are so very many favorite words of mine within those scholarly holy pages collected in the fields (?)that I can barely contain myself------AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! ("I'll have what she's having.") I just wish you all knew what I know. Those were grand times drinking and carousing and acting like nutsos and hoping we'd turn into Woody. If we could only live through an actual dust storm. That's another great folk word: DUST Art |
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16 Aug 99 - 12:30 AM (#105397) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Pelrad I always liked "heave-a-pawl," from various shanties. Great verb. Oh, and "jakaijenut" from a song I once heard some Polish guys sing in French. To this day I don't know what they meant, but they were very earnest about it. :-) |
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16 Aug 99 - 12:45 AM (#105402) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: CarlZen skinamerinkadoodle (Little Beggerman) |
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16 Aug 99 - 01:23 AM (#105411) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Barbara "absquatulate" v.t. from some civil war era song I heard a long time ago; means to make off with the goods, as in "that feller absquatulated with all our tin". |
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16 Aug 99 - 05:38 AM (#105436) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Roger the zimmer Drink (What do you mean, I have a problem? OK I confess. My name is Roger and I have a kazoo, but I haven't played it for several weeks.... Oh, you mean THAT problem...) If the good Lord meant me to be teetotal he wouldn't have invented so many lovely drinks. |
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16 Aug 99 - 08:42 AM (#105455) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: slynes@aol.com |
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16 Aug 99 - 08:46 AM (#105458) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: slynes@aol.com LONG as in "Seven LONG years" - this can be applied to girls disguised as sailor boys 'til their tits pop out & they marry the captain, to years my true love spent in jail, americay or on the high seas and almost every other period of interest in a folk song. |
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16 Aug 99 - 09:43 AM (#105467) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bert Titifalafalay - from Look at that Now Nipperkin - The Barley Mow Dinga - The Curate and the Vicar Maggie - Maggie May Divoty (Sp) - Swansea Town Hiraeth - We'll keep a Welcome in The Hillside Westering - Westering Home' Billabong - Waltzing Matilda Upidee - Upidee stalwart - Tarpaulin Jacket Shenandoah - Shenandoah croonin', cromak & Tummel - from The Road to The Isles E-I-E-I-O - Old Macdonald Gloamin' - Roamin' in the gloamin' Bert.
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16 Aug 99 - 12:08 PM (#105514) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Art Thieme E-I-E-I-O That's from a polka, right? Actually the entire lyic to the song---that over and over and over...probably the title too. Roger---you have no problem. De nada! The guy who has a real problen is the one who attends TWELVE STEP GROUPS ANONYMOUS---for people addicted to 12 Step Groups. Just going to the meetings activates your compulsion. These are wonderful words. All of them. And they so rarely get any chance at all to showcase themselves as the very real individuals they truly are. Next year they're all going to the big Folk Alliance meeting in Tienamin Square. (But I heard that China won't allow any AGENTS into the country...) Another good old folk word, that I understand was anathema to Woody Guthrie (and many during the 60s) but was widely touted in a recent thread about Dr. Bronner is: SOAP |
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16 Aug 99 - 12:11 PM (#105515) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Charlie Baum a an the --Charlie Baum |
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16 Aug 99 - 04:42 PM (#105603) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bill D all of the above...but NOT 'folk' |
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16 Aug 99 - 05:02 PM (#105609) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: KathWestra This is truly a wacky thread. Must indeed be silly season.I'd just like to note, with gratitude, that the word "Milennium" DOESN'T appear in folksongs. Nice to know we're safe from it somewhere. Kathy |
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16 Aug 99 - 06:01 PM (#105628) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Art Thieme Kathy, Have you been here lurking all along?? It's great to be in touch. This thread got started because I took Carol's medication last night by mistake. And I've been roundly drummed out of other threads around here lately & needed somewhere to go and lurk/hide myself. Love to all there inside the beltway--outside too. Art |
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17 Aug 99 - 04:17 AM (#105755) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Canberra Chris 1. "Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! Nyaaagh! And that's the only song that he could sing." I don't remember any of the verses, that's the chorus. Anyone know the rest? 2. An entire Scottish song sung by Maddy Prior with Steeleye Span that is in 'English' but completely incomprehensible. You know the one. 3. A Song title by Adge Cutler and the Wurzels (West Country Zummerzet Straw & Smock Grunge Skiffle from the 60's), I don't have it to hand, that goes something like: "Thee Dursn't Cusn't Hasn't ... etc"
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17 Aug 99 - 09:08 AM (#105785) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Dani Ok Art - since no one else has bitten... What IS your best square inch?? And I respectfully submit the following: poor/po' ma/mah/mama gone Now let's start a thread on the best POP words (where you get to spell things like ramalamadingdong)
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17 Aug 99 - 10:08 AM (#105804) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: alison Hey Canberra... you aren't a Wiggles fan are you? They sing the whole of "I'll tell me ma" with nyaagh's..... and all the while little kids in green hats and Irish dance costumes dance around..........I don't watch them myself you understand........ my kids make me...... slainte alison |
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17 Aug 99 - 12:03 PM (#105841) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: KathWestra Hi Art -- Nope, I'm a Mudcat newbie (though a dyed-in-the-wool Old Folk Fart in the sense of the word that you understand and we won't talk about here). I HAVE been lurking around the discussion of definitions, and have no intention of contributing to that one. I'll just sing happily away in Silver Spring. Cheers, Kathy |
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17 Aug 99 - 12:14 PM (#105852) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Alice Ye as in come all ye
Yo as in yo ho ho
Yaw (you know, boat songs)
Ewe as in ca' the ewes
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17 Aug 99 - 01:06 PM (#105871) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Wally Macnow That should be yows as in ca' the yows as opposed to yowsa as in "yowsa that's my baby"
Ben Botkin listed "Steptodarearofdabuspleeze" in his Folklore of New York City. How 'bout "flimalimalee" or "casalomalee" from Larry Older's "Cambric Shirt" or "zit" from any number of French-Canadian song chrouses? |
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17 Aug 99 - 01:10 PM (#105872) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bert I'm going to add the best Mudcat word here, which is WELCOME, and dedicate it to KathWestra. Of course once you have been welcomed, you are no longer a newbie and are therefore obliged to jump into any discussion with both feet. Wellcome aboard. Bert. |
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17 Aug 99 - 01:13 PM (#105873) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: KathWestra Thanks, Bert. This is already becoming a threat to my work productivity! Kathy |
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17 Aug 99 - 01:49 PM (#105886) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Lonesome EJ I think the word "ramblin'" is THE quintessential folk music word. It appears almost nowhere else (Honey, I'm going to ramble down to the 7-11 and get some root beer?), it has the flavor of bygone days, and I like the definition- to leave home and wander aimlessly, although sunny weather and good humor are implied as conditions. Ramblin' conjures images of Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliot,and Steve Martin playing his banjo with an arrow through his head. Ramblin' is an obligation, a compulsion. " I'm bound to ramble." That's enough. I'm starting to ramble. LEJ |
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17 Aug 99 - 02:36 PM (#105903) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: KathWestra Wally -- Can't believe you didn't suggest "fod"! Kathy
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17 Aug 99 - 07:36 PM (#105993) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: emily rain i also like "pippin'" as in "a chicken when it's pippin'/it has no bone" |
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17 Aug 99 - 08:08 PM (#106001) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: bseed(charleskratz) Dammit, Leej, ya stole my word. I guess I have to go with "Blah," even though it's more of a country/western word:
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17 Aug 99 - 10:44 PM (#106031) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Alice Wally, ya you betcha, I know how to spell it, but yowe knowes, I just couldna help myself. -alice |
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17 Aug 99 - 10:52 PM (#106033) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Alice then there are:
fair young maid(s)
and of course...
Welcome aboard, Kathy. alice in montana
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18 Aug 99 - 02:53 AM (#106088) Subject: There Was an Old Piper ^^^ From: Sandy Paton Hey, Leej: Ya can't have all that "ramblin'" without it's word-mate: "gamblin'" - add "Freight-train" (or is that two words?). "Tracks" or its singular counterpart. For Chris: Seamus Ennis used to sing: There was an old piper, old and hoary, Who lived in the town of (?) Ballaboree. This old piper, he played before Moses, And this the only tune that he could play: Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Now, this old piper, old and hoary, Who lived in the town of Ballaboree, He died one day and he went down below, And this the only tune that he could play: Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! When the devil saw this old man, He said, "Put him down in the frying pan! For this is another old piper, I vow, Put him down with the others for to play! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! (The final note sung in a descending groan, like the old pipe running out of air.) Hey, y'all! Welcome Kath, the little gal we wicked folkies of the east rescued, lo, those many years ago, from a dreary life in Grand Rapids! Glad you're with us, dear heart! See you at the Getaway, where we might invite all of the mob to sing with us the above slur on the noble art of piping. Grandpa Paton (thanking his lucky stars that folk music isn't a youth-cult!)^^^ |
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18 Aug 99 - 04:24 AM (#106102) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Canberra Chris Alison - No I heard this song well before the Wiggles! But it would work with "I'll Tell me Ma". Sandy Paton - Thanks for the Seamus Ennis song. I have some of his recordings, but not that one. I didn't get it from him either, his would be an earlier form of the song I heard. |
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18 Aug 99 - 05:55 PM (#106322) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Wally Macnow I vote against "true love" but would substitute "false true love" |
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18 Aug 99 - 11:25 PM (#106400) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Art Thieme (SHEEPISHLY) Carol just reminded me that the ad on WFMT for the "great square inches of art" was NOT for a book with those excerpts. If you ordered that which they were selling, you got a sqare inch CUT FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS!! I'm sorry folks. When your memory goes, forget it. Art |
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18 Aug 99 - 11:44 PM (#106404) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: katlaughing hoss
fair
pawdnah (various spellings)
mingalay
LONE
lanky
bloomin'
whoopti-ti-o-ay
pappy
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mournful
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19 Aug 99 - 01:33 AM (#106419) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Jack (who is called Jack) I gotta cast a vote for WHUP! As in Take this hammer (WHUP!) carry it to he captain (WHUP!). or WHUP Jamboree, WHUP Jamboree. There just aint nuthin like a good WHUP! to get the juices flowing. |
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19 Aug 99 - 05:37 AM (#106452) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Roger the zimmer Not being one to encourage thread creep (NOT), I don't want to encourage Dani except to say (!) that there is one song that fits that suggestion: Who put the wop in the wopalopalop Who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong.... |
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19 Aug 99 - 02:40 PM (#106592) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: wildlone BACEN BACK YERE YOU, BACEN BACK THERE,IF YOU CASNT BACEN UP, BETTER BACEN BACK DOWN.hows that then. Okay i am just trying to mention that great DORSET folk group the YETTIES. good night all |
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20 Aug 99 - 08:03 AM (#106795) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bert There's two words that are the title of this song and I'm not sure which one I like best. The song is "Manura Manyah" |
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20 Aug 99 - 12:00 PM (#106886) Subject: Lyr Add: FOLK SINGER'S BLUES (Shel Silverstein) From: Dani Forgive me if y'all have heard this before, but I uncovered this gem following a lead on the Amusing Work Songs thread. In light of the current lists, it seemed appropriate: FOLK SINGER'S BLUES (Shel Silverstein) Well, I'd like to sing a song about the chain gang (Whap!) And swingin' twelve-pound hammers all the day, (Whap!) And how I'd like to kill my captain (Whap!) And how a black man works his life away, but... What do you do if you're young and white and Jewish? And you've never swung a hammer against a spike? And you've never called a water boy early in the morning And your only chain is the chain that's on your bike? Yes, Your only chain is the chain on your bike. Now I'd like to go a-walkin' up the highway Feelin' cold and wet and hungry all night long, Doin' some hard ramblin', hard gamblin', hard smamblin', hard blamblin' But always takin' time to write a song. But... What do you do if you're young and white and Jewish? And you never heard an old freight whistle blow? And you've never slept the night in a cold and empty boxcar And you take a subway everywhere you go? Oh, oh... You take the subway everywhere you go. Now I'd like to sing a song about the coalmine A-chippin' away in tunnel 22 And when I hear that timber crack, why I support it with my back Until my comrades all crawl safely through, but... What do you do if you're young and white and Jewish? And you've got to be in class at half-past nine And in spite of all your urgin', and your pleadin' and your cryin' Your mother says it's too dirty down in a mine, That what she says, Your mother says it's too dirty down in a mine. Well now, I'd like to sing about the Mississippi, Workin' on the levee all the day And when them cotton bolls get rotten You got a lotta rotten cotton And on Saturday you go and spend your pay, but What do you do if you're young and white and Jewish? And you've never loaded cotton on the dock? And you've never worked a day Or drunk up all your pay And the only levee you know is the Levy who lives on the block, Yes, The only levee you know is the Levy who lives on the block. |
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20 Aug 99 - 02:07 PM (#106932) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: JedMarum and dont forget the lovely, if sad word: drear and how did we miss: ain't and it's close cousin: cain't and what about expressions like: chilly wind/s apple blossoms travelin' shoes miner's grave |
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20 Aug 99 - 06:56 PM (#107011) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Frank Hamilton The pale amelita and the islips so blue. (eyes of deep blue) Any botanists out there know what a pale amelita is? Can't find it in any book anywhere. Frank |
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20 Aug 99 - 11:04 PM (#107072) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: katlaughing Frank, I am an amateur plant growing and lover, but a quick search only turned up this orchid: Amalia Hybrids I (b) grex. ('Vasaras Prieks' x L. cernuum) R:&N: V.P.Orehovs, c.1963. LYB 33: 81 (1970). NOT REGISTERED Pale lilac to intense violet, sometimes with dark brown spots; pollen dark brown. Fls 100-120mm wide, Turk's-cap shape, slightly scented. Stems 0.4-0.8m, with 3-5 fls. Late June-early July. Otherwise, do you think it might be Amelita Galli-Curci (1889-1963), a reknowned coloratura, born in Italy, who moved to the US? She looks pale in her pics and according to her bio, at one years old, was singing her mother's lullabies in perfect time and pitch. Here is a link to some audio clips and info: Amelita kat |
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21 Aug 99 - 12:46 AM (#107102) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Pelrad How about Hogeye yeller (the color) a-grievin', a-mournin', a-sighin', and a-leavin' on a similar note, a-tremble and a-quiver
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21 Aug 99 - 02:19 PM (#107229) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Mandochop Lets not forget: "mandalay" - from "Mandalay" "swagman", "mangrove", "jumbuck" - from "Waltzing Matilda" "toora-loora-loora-loo" and "toora-loora-loora-laddie" -from "Courtin in the Kitchen" "whack-fo-the-diddle" - from "Whack-Fo-The-Diddle" "abu" -from "O'donnel Abu" "ring-a-ding-a-rosie" - from "Rare Ould Times" "sport" - from "Tie me kangaroo down, sport" and also: "ye", "me" (instead of "my"), "de" (instead of "the"), and "rover" Rob
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21 Aug 99 - 06:42 PM (#107299) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: JerryO How about "skinamarinkadoodle" from "The Little Beggarman"? |
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22 Aug 99 - 02:51 AM (#107378) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: kathcart I believe that's amanita, Frank. Pale Amanita with the blue gills. No, wait... a blue gill- that's a catfish, eh? Well here's a puzzle. So what's a tipple roar? I'd like to nominate IE... that's a latin word that Ian Tyson (Katy & The Navajo Rug) stole from John Denver (Calypson), only no one knows cause he SECRETED AWAY the 2nd half. |
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22 Aug 99 - 09:34 PM (#107577) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: John Nolan My introduction to American Folk Music festivals (and the lack of drink, thereat, but that's another sad story)was when Barry Finn took me along to Sing into Spring at Tufts University in the mid-80s. Instead of swigging down beer between songs, the Greater Boston Folk Song Society had taken up Analyzing in a big way. At one workshop they managed to debate themselves into paralysis, over the meaning of "wan" which had cropped up in a song in connection with the water quality of an obscure stream or the pallor of a damsel's skin, or somesuch....I wandered off, in search of "wan" decent pint. Anyway, I nominate "wan" for a place in the Top 100, in honor of the linguistic boffins of GBFSS. |
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26 Aug 99 - 03:43 PM (#108753) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bert As Lonnie Donnegan sang... and if you see a dustman looking all pale and wan don't kick him in the dustbin 'cos it might be my old man. |
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27 Aug 99 - 07:56 AM (#108939) Subject: RE: BEST 100 FOLK WORDS EVER: From: Bat Goddess I'm really glad "fod" made it! But how about "desp'rous"? As in "John Hardy was a desp'rous little man." Linn the Bat Goddess |
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26 Feb 13 - 08:03 PM (#3484060) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST MAN ALIVE Y'ALL HAVE SOME STOMPIN GREAT FLOK TERMS HERE! THANKS FOR THE GIGGLES AND WIGGLES AND HONEST PREACHIN TO A YOUNG BODY LIVING WITH AN OLD SOUL :) |
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27 Feb 13 - 12:53 AM (#3484132) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: MGM·Lion --"An entire Scottish song sung by Maddy Prior with Steeleye Span that is in 'English' but completely incomprehensible"-- -- above .,., That must have contained somewhere that brave Scots word "braw" which no-one seemed to have mentioned all those 14 years back - or did I miss it somewhere? ~M~ |
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27 Feb 13 - 03:21 AM (#3484145) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Twankydillo! |
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27 Feb 13 - 03:51 AM (#3484154) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Mr Happy But how about "desp'rous"? As in "John Hardy was a desp'rous little man." A good example of a mis-hearing |
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27 Feb 13 - 03:52 AM (#3484155) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Mr Happy Tiddley winky winky winky Tiddley winky woo! |
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27 Feb 13 - 03:58 AM (#3484156) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: MGM·Lion To me whack fol de diddle i-doh To me whack fol de diddle day |
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27 Feb 13 - 04:02 AM (#3484161) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Will Fly Fallorum, dingdorum... |
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27 Feb 13 - 05:19 AM (#3484185) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: TheSnail How can this thread have reached 66 posts without mentioning "Twas"? |
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27 Feb 13 - 06:08 AM (#3484208) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: MGM·Lion Or, for that matter CUMAWLYEE |
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28 Feb 13 - 04:46 AM (#3484599) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST,JHW With so much stuff I might have missed MAY Though surely the folkies most sought after word is FREE |
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28 Feb 13 - 08:32 AM (#3484648) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST,Raggytash Has Rantypool been mentioned ? In Best O' Bunch by the Lancashire Dialect Poet Harvey Kershaw the opening line is: "This worlds just like a rantypool, it's nowt but ups and downs" I still don't know what a Rantypool is, I'm thinking it's some sort of fairground ride but don't know for sure. |
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28 Feb 13 - 09:35 AM (#3484664) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: kendall I think Art is "Having us on" |
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28 Feb 13 - 10:10 AM (#3484676) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Lighter What, no "schnitzelbank"? |
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28 Feb 13 - 01:05 PM (#3484736) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST,Ed Raggytash, A 'Rantypool' (also spelt Rantypole or Rantipowl) is defined in The English dialect dictionary as: 1. A see- saw; the game of see-saw 2. A termagant ; a romping, boisterous child ; a clumsy person. |
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28 Feb 13 - 02:12 PM (#3484768) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Lighter "Catawampus" is good too. |
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28 Feb 13 - 03:03 PM (#3484785) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: GUEST Have we not got to 100? |
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28 Feb 13 - 03:31 PM (#3484793) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: Q (Frank Staplin) Good meat, good drink, good God, let us eat. |
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28 Feb 13 - 03:58 PM (#3484796) Subject: RE: Best 100 folk words ever From: fat B****rd What about "azoy" ?. Y'know "Azoy roved out" etc. |