Subject: RE: Its why people dont go to folk clubs....
From: GUEST,Shimrod - PM
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 03:42 AM

Perhaps one reason people don't go to folk clubs these days is because of sea shanties.

"When Bert Lloyd and Ewan MacColl made all those seminal sea shanty records, back in the 1950/60s, few of their efforts were more than half a dozen verses long (partly due to the limitations of LPs, I suppose). Now would be shanty singers seem to need to dig out every verse possible - 250 verse shanties are not uncommon (I exaggerate slightly for dramatic effect).

"I thought I heard the old man say,
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Just 249 more pulls and then belay,
It's time for us to leave her!"

Sooooooo booooorrrring!!"
ah, dear old shimrod, does not like shanties, neither does he like people singing the teapot song with the actions,shimrod has a catholic taste in dislikes