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Thread #63100 Message #1024822
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
25-Sep-03 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: UK attitudes to folk music
Subject: RE: UK attitudes to folk music
What would help would be if schools made a point of telling pupils why these songs are so obscene, and how they were striuctly forbidden from singing them.
At school assembly the head, red with fury and embarassment, would tell the school that there had been complaints from members of the public about pupils singing "The Keeper" and "Whip Jamboree" at the back of the bus.
That's the way to get street cred for the songs.
I say "Whip Jamboree", because I was clearing up some stuff in the attack, and found a BBC song book for schools from way way back, and it had "Whip Jamboree" in it, a fairly raw version.