The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3662884
Posted By: Musket
23-Sep-14 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Most use braces in my experience Jim..

Mind you, I am beginning to see why they do it. One's beer gut means one's jeans tend to slip under it, causing one to continually pull them up. Give it thirty years and I will be wearing them, singing Harvey Andrews songs with my finger in my ear, saying it has been sung in our village since Cromwell shagged a wench behind the hayloft.

Jack. Obliged. I never knew Peter Bellamy covered it, despite seeing him umpteen times at festivals till his untimely death. He was more into his folk opera and Kipling when I saw him most.