Songs About Death

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: JennyO
Date: 18 May 03 - 10:05 AM

"The Burning Times" by Charlie Murphy is in the DT.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: Sooz
Date: 18 May 03 - 10:04 AM

PS. Will there be a repeat attempt at the record at the Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend at the beginning of June?

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: Sooz
Date: 18 May 03 - 10:03 AM

We had a great night doing a body count at our club but we abandoned ship when someone sang "Shoals of Herring" (10 million fishes was thought to be cheating).

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 May 03 - 09:58 AM

The best one I know is 'Jug of Punch'.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 May 03 - 09:00 AM

I know of the song, need little Roz to attend cos she knows the worms

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: JennyO
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:29 AM

I remember being involved a competition like this once, I think it was at a folk festival. There were two teams which took turns singing these songs, and someone kept score. I came up with a song which boosted our score enormously - The Burning Times, where "nine million European women died".

Jenny

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: sweetfire
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:17 AM

well, I sing a song by iris dement, the opening line is "my father died a year ago today" [NO TIME TO CRY], which can get put a downer on the fact that he'd be sitting right next to me!!!

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:00 AM

The more the merrier as it were !!!!

Subject: SONGS ABOUT DEATH
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:00 AM

As many of you will know, folk sesssions can frequently be morbid events with songs about death and destruction.
Some years ago Dave Mason, Landlord of the Dolphin in Robin Hoods Bay, and I decided to see how many people or things we could kill off in a one hour session and set a World Record during RHB Folk Festival first weekend in June.
All songs had to be genuine I.E. Nothing written specially to mention 56 billion suicicdes etc.
The first year saw about 16 million, current record is 104 million including the occupants of the Irish Rover. I am looking for genuine songs that kills off loads of things, could be fish or fowl or folk as long as something or someone gets the chop