A Norfolk word - Strook
We heard it from singer Walter Pardon

J C:   Were they fuss about how the songs were sung Walter, the speed and things, if they heard somebody singing, they were fussy about it?
W P:      Oh my, yeah, they’d have, what they called the right strook.
J C:   Right?
W P:    Strook, S, T, R, double O, K; was always called strook
J C: And that was the speed, was it?
W P:    Yeah, it was always sung fairly steady; well, a lot of them now, they are in too much of a hurry to get through a song; the same with playing, you see, fast as possible, no one’d keep up.
Well, I remember Dick playing a step-dance tune at Cromer.
Two of them step dancers say, “we can’t dance to that, we can’t get the steps in”, that was right.
They step out that tune like that (demonstrates), they hit out a note.
That is right, they never did go very.... there, never did play a hornpipe all that quick, not as quick as all that.
They said again, they must play.... “you must play the right strook”.
Well, that used be said about anybody who was very slow, I think I put that in the book, “Only two strooks, slow and stop”, someone who was slow, you know.
That’s an old Norfolk expression, strook, yes, that was an old expression used, died out now, I know I heard that a good many times, strook.

Blás - from Clare singer, Tom Lenihan meaning relish, taste, feeling

J C What’s the word you used Tom, this afternoon; ‘blás*’ what…?
T L The blás, that’s what the old people used to use; if you didn’t put the blás in the song.
The same as that now the…..as we’ll say ‘Michael Hayes’, ‘The Fox Chase’:

(sung at his usual speed)
I am a bold and undaunted fox that never was before on tramp,
My rent, rates and taxes I was willing for to pay,
I lived as happy as King Saul, and loved my neighbours great and small,
I had no animosity for either friend nor foe.

You have to draw out the words and put the blás in the song. If you had the same as the Swedish couple:

(sung too fast) Now I am a bold and undaunted fox that never was before on tramp.
The blás isn’t in that, in any bit of it. You see now, the blás is the drawing out of the words and the music of it.

Jim Carroll