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Thread #91497   Message #1742194
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-May-06 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
Subject: RE: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
In fact there has always been an enormous amount of interchange between the various traditions within the British Isles, with songs cropping up in variants in the various nations and regions. After all, the version of the Wild Rover generally sung and regarded as quintessentially Irish actually hails from Norfolk.

The same goes for tunes and musical styles.

And that's also true between both sides of the Atlantic.

If you sing in your own voice, and give the song its head, it's going to reflect whatever tradition you bring to it, often including one from your own roots that you may not have been aware was there.
In fact there has always been a enormous amount of interchange between the various traditions within the British Isles, with songs cropping up in variants in the various nations and regions. After all, the version of the Wild Rover generally sung and regarded as quintessentially Irish actually hails from Norfolk.

The same goes for tunes and musical styles.

And that's also true between both sides of the Atlantic.

If you sing in your own voice, and give the song its head, it's going to reflect whatever tradition you bring to it, often including one from your own roots that you may not have been aware was there.
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Here you are They�re moving father's grave - don't just hunt for songs by titles, because they change and so do the other words. Try a few phrases that stick in the mind and you normally find the song quite quickly. (I tried with "they're shifting his remains" and it came up first time.)