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22 Aug 23 - 12:28 PM (#4179646) Subject: Folk Songs of the Woods From: GUEST,Biancalif Hi all Suggestions for woodland/ tree themed folk songs please? Bonny Portmore is one of course, and Oak and Ash and Thorn. I suppose The Trees They Do Grow High might count, but after that I’m stuck. What have I missed? Thanks for any help you can give B |
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22 Aug 23 - 12:40 PM (#4179649) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: Lighter "Down in Yon Forest"? |
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22 Aug 23 - 01:12 PM (#4179653) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: gillymor The Ash Grove. Lovely melody. Ian Tyson's Summer Wages which is narrated by a logger, or someone who works in the industry. There's Gordon Lightfoot's Home from the Forest but the forest is used as a metaphor. |
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22 Aug 23 - 01:32 PM (#4179654) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: GUEST,RJM WHAT IS THE LIFE OF A MAN. O THE GOOD WOOD FRED ROOKE? BABES IN THE WOOD |
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22 Aug 23 - 03:40 PM (#4179671) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: Robert B. Waltz There are quite a few book of actual logging songs, e.g., Earl Clifton Beck, Songs of the Michigan Lumberjacks E. C. (Earl Clifton) Beck, Lore of the Lumber Camps William Main Doerflinger, Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman Edith Fowke, Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods Roland Palmer Gray, Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks Franz Rickaby (edited by Gretchen Dykstra and James P. Leary), Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era The Traditional Ballad Index currently has 204 songs with the keyword "logger." The most popular are, in descending order: The Jam on Gerry's Rock [Laws C1] Peter Amberley [Laws C27] The Logger's Alphabet Canaday-I-O, Michigan-I-O, Colley's Run I-O [Laws C17] The Shantyman's Life "The Jam on Gerry's Rock" is by far the most popular -- I have 67 citations, to 35 for "Peter Amberley." Steve Roud has 220 for "The Jam," 114 for "Peter Amberley." I highly recommend the tune sung by A. C. Hannah and collected by Franz Rickaby. One of the best tunes I know, for anything. A recording is here: https://mnheritagesongbook.net/the-songs/texts-and-additional-notes-on-printed-songs/the-jam-on-gerrys-rocks/ Obviously if you want happy stuff, the Sailor's Alphabet would suit better. :-) If there is a particular forest-y topic you are interested in, of course, we can try for something more specifix. |
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22 Aug 23 - 04:19 PM (#4179679) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: Susan of DT The keyword tree gets you 20 hits in the Digital Tradition |
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22 Aug 23 - 04:47 PM (#4179682) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: Halfmoon Charlie Not exactly "folk" but... The Girl In The Wood - Frankie Laine |
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22 Aug 23 - 06:14 PM (#4179688) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: GerryM Of Trees and Humankind, https://youtu.be/B91ZulUEthI In the Pines, https://youtu.be/2MkfTYPmLlA |
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26 Aug 23 - 11:30 PM (#4180056) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: GUEST,Julia L Woodsman spare that tree |
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26 Aug 23 - 11:30 PM (#4189663) Subject: RE: Folk Songs of the Woods From: GUEST,Julia L Woodsman spare that tree |