Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 07:48 AM

It means anybody who doesn't think their whole life is someone else's fault....

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:24 AM

"It means anybody who doesn't think their whole life is someone else's fault...."

so... how come so many posh people need to spend ££££$$$ on therapy...???

...ooohh.. the sheer anguish of being so rich and so unloved and misunderstood....

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:33 AM

"how come so many posh people need to spend ££££$$$ on therapy...???"

I thought that was overpaid "celebrities" rather than "posh" people - they are rarely the same people.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:41 AM

Back of the net!

😜

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:48 AM

errrm..ahem.. wayward aristocrats in rehab.. shhhh...

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 09:58 AM

Don't worry, they're on tranks, you can practice to your heart's content PFR, you'll not wake them next door.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 10:03 AM

Anyway, the real toffs don't waste money on shrinks, they take a shotgun worth £50 000 and use cartridges costing £2 a pop to reduce pheasants raised at £20 a head to larder meat worth £1 a head.
And in between times they drown a few worms.
Whereas we take instruments costing £2 000 a go, and travel paying fares of £20 a head for a band of 3, to play in windy church halls and the upstairs of pubs for an audience of 3 paying £1 each. Each to our own...

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 10:31 AM

There's a lot of rehabs down here in the west country,
their bread 'n' butter intake business being druggies from all over the rest of the nation..

Coincidently, a fair few amateur singers & musos on the local scene now have plummy accents... ???

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:24 PM

I am too lazy to log out and comment as GUEST: Why wasn't I born black?

Nothing says conspicuous self-consciousness than a middle aged, middle class white woman from Virginia, trying to sing prison and work songs with attempted authenticity. I think I get away with it, because I am in the UK and they are too polite to point out the irony.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:20 PM

She was always writing poems,
Wishing she still had her teef
And I think she's very funny
But you don't share my belief.

No you'd rather have your daffies
Willie Wordsworth wrote about,
And this rhyme does fit the meter,
So please go and sing it out.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 11:12 PM

I hope that the Ron Shuttleworth who posted his song up there was Ron from Coventry Mummers, still going strong.
Chris Marden.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Musket
Date: 27 Nov 14 - 05:43 AM

Or as the late Tony Capstick would say,

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
That floats on high,
Along trees and river banks,
I trod upon a bloke's bare arse,
And heard a woman's voice say thanks.

Anyway, enough of the trials and tribulations of poor Justin. We need to define posh, and perhaps limericks can help us after all.

There was a young man of high station,
Found by a pious relation,
Making love in a ditch
To I won't say a bitch,
But a woman of no reputation.

(There, that's posh because posh people say someone has a reputation as a compliment. Where I come from, saying she has a reputation infers ten bob on the mantelpiece.)

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 28 Mar 15 - 03:19 PM

Gosh, I didn't realise that buying a lot of smoked salmon made you posh. I buy a lot of smoked salmon. I buy it from Aldi mind you. Does that make me posh?

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 15 - 03:46 PM

Richard Nixon said, "If the President does it, that means it's not illegal."
And I think he would add, "If they sell it at ALDI, that means it's not posh."

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 28 Mar 15 - 03:55 PM

Good, that means that even with the lobsters and the caviar I am not posh.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: LadyJean
Date: 28 Mar 15 - 06:40 PM

My mother, who was pretty posh, (My friends called her The Duchess.) taught me "Three Old Ladies Got Locked in a Lavatory", and a couple of similar classics.

One of the girls in my school was the daughter of an opera singer. The lady would inflict herself on us once a year in a special assembly that, generally ran through recess. She sang folk songs, but they sounded like opera, with high notes, trills and all the rest. It was hard to understand her, and generally not so great.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Nixon
Date: 28 Mar 15 - 11:01 PM

LadyJean: The best folk singer I ever heard was a woman who had trained as an opera singer. She had suffered a nervous breakdown and had given up on opera, and pursued a career as a visiting nurse instead. Her folk singing was very rich and soulful, and not a bit like any opera singing I've ever heard.

Dave: your ALDI must be a lot different than mine, if they sell caviar. Maybe I misquoted Nixon on that matter.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 12:22 AM

ALDI C[od roe]aviar

always read the small print on the back of the lable

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 12:23 AM

I suspect that the 'caviar' sold at Aldi will be of the lumpfish, rather than the true Beluga sturgeon, variety -- which is quite palatable, & not a bad imitation at that, flavour-wise. But not that posh!

≈M≈

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Musket
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 02:39 AM

I was in Azerbaijan a few years ago. If you saw the stinking oil film ridden almost barren cess pool called The Caspian Sea, you might think twice about Beluga.

Mind you. Street sellers in Baku always claim their wares are the very best Beluga and apparently the one outside our friend's apartment block used to supply The Kremlin. Presumably via the same Sony TV box he kept his stock in.....

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 02:42 AM

Not Cod, not Lumpfish, not Beluga either to be honest, but from a cross-breed of Amur and Kaluga sturgeon. Originally £9.99 a jar, but I got several at £4.99.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 06:32 AM

Sounds a good deal! Shall nip out to Aldi in Ely & get a jar!.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:04 AM

Too late I think MGM, these things come in for limited periods, and its all gone from ours. But it will probably be back, possibly next Christmas. Same with lobsters. Keep your eye on the weekly sales booklet they leave out, usually gives one week notice on their specials.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: GUEST,Pauline Lerner
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 10:08 PM

In some ways I could be considered posh. I have a PhD, but not in music, and I was trained as a classical violinist. I still love classical as well as folk music. I used to make pretty good money and live comfortably, but now I'm unemployed and broke. I may be posh. I can't carry a tune, so my fiddle is my voice. I play folk music pretty well. I've heard people who play better and people who play worse. I play in tune, keep the beat, love what I'm doing, and I'm certainly entitled to play.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Bert
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 12:34 AM

Of course, if you are not posh then you will be eating buckling and not caviar, because you know that buckling is far superior.

Subject: RE: Can Posh People Sing Folk Songs?
From: Musket
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 02:29 AM

Obviously, I delight in logging onto Mudcat where I can engage with the lower orders, followed by perambulating towards a folk club in a local hostelry where I can cohort with the proletariat over a glass of cheap beer.

Rather entertaining to hear aspirational banter regarding what is ours by right.







On a more honest note, the '80s me would think me posh. When my boys were young, I used to point out lambs in the fields and shout "Mint sauce!"

Now, with my granddaughter, I shout "Garlic and rosemary!"