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Thread #102174 Message #2091754
Posted By: Don Firth
01-Jul-07 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Worst Folk Song Ever?
Subject: RE: Worst Folk Song Ever?
Songs like the "hole in the bucket" and "in the bottom of the sea" are a sort of format. "The House that Jack Built." Each new verse builds on the previous verse. A well-known example is "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
The first time around, they can be pretty funny, but they can get awfully tedious awfully quickly.
There is a group of guys who get together once a year to sing at a local Christmas pageant, and the highlight of their program is "The Twelve Days of Christmas," which they rewrite every year, changing "lords a-leaping" and "swans a-swimming" to topical stuff. New every year. And always hilarious!