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Thread #155357   Message #3654840
Posted By: Musket
29-Aug-14 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Can't stop now. Off to write a folk song..

In the wonderful words of Alexi Sayle;

"Oh, I am a computer programmer
I come from Milton Keynes"

I can't recall the rest of the verse but it ends with. "haricot beans." If we make up a few bits each in our own style to end it, Alexi will be the genesis of a true folk song.

Alternatively, anything accompanied with an acoustic guitar will do these days.



(To say it isn't folk according to some, the likes of Mumford &Son are doing quite nicely thank you out of what millions of people recognise as folk... We lemmings can't all fe wrong eh?)