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Thread #146646   Message #3395801
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
27-Aug-12 - 06:17 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Song suggestions wanted for 'folk' play
Subject: RE: Folklore: Song suggestions wanted for 'folk' play
...but as far as songs go, could you be a bit more specific about your themes?

I mean, what do you mean by "non-myth" of the Green Man?! Or "the natural work"? How does "world-weariness" come into things?

Talk of "natural work" and "magic" makes me think of songs such as "John Barleycorn" and "Herrings Heads", in that they both describe man's symbiotic relationship with nature/the universe in terms that are simultaneously magical but day-to-day and work-related. They are magical but indefatigably worldly and materialist. Look up the words to those two and you'll probably see what I mean. The celebrate the infinite plasticity of the imagination at the same time as they celebrate manual labour and the natural world.