good songs for valentines day?

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 11:18 AM

I agree with Freddy
Well, I added the link but it was Leeneia & a guest that suggested Burns.

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 08:41 AM

Sorry meant to say that its Emmie who wrote the last post

Subject: Lyr Add: I WISH MY LOVE (from A.L. Lloyd)
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 08:39 AM

Thanks everyone for suggestions so far. I am going to be teaching a music workshop for students with SEN at Cecil Sharp House this week. I decided to do a valentines theme and had two songs I already knew that I thought I could work with. One was I wish my love was a cherry which is very sultry and yearning. I was aiming to just do two or three verses and have it in a sensory way i.e. have real fruit to taste and a rose to smell etc. Drawing out the sensory aspects of folk songs is great as I think the ideals of courtly love did influence some songs and entwined with that is that wonderful link with nature with such vivid descriptions of birds, plants, etc. I agree though with guest Jenneai that most of the love songs have some fateful twist in them. To link with the food theme I was also thinking of doing do you love an apple and also maybe Angelina Baker. I find this all very interesting though and shall be doing some more searches on the EFDSS database and through my folk songbooks. I agree with Freddy that Robbie Burns did some great love songs. I've been singing green grow the rashes o all weekend and love that particular one.
A.L. Lloyd sings I Wish My Love

I wish my love she was a cherry
A-growing on yon cherry tree
And I myself a bonnie blackbird
How I would peck that sweet cherry

I wish my love she was a red rose
A-growing on yon garden wall
And I myself a drop of dew
How on that red rose I would fall

I wish my love was in a little box
And I myself to carry the key
I'd go in to her whenever I'd a mind
And I'd bear my love good company

I wish my love she was a grey ewe
A-grazing by yonder riverside
And I myself a fine black ram
Oh on that ewe how I would ride

My love, she's bonnie, my love she's canny
And she's well favoured for to see
And the more I think on her my heart is set upon her
And under her apron I fain would be

I wish my love she was a bee-skip
And I myself a bumble-bee
That I might be a lodger within her
For she's sweeter than the honey or the honeycomb tea

(The verse A.L. Lloyd left out:)

I wish my love was a ripe turd
And smoking down in yon dykeside
And I myself was a shitten flea
I'd suck her up before she dried

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 08:15 AM

On the unwanted receiving end, hows about "Return To Sender"

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: OldNicKilby
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 05:51 AM

My favourite is Kathy Cowan's song "If from the deep deep floor of Ocean.   Up to th top roof of the top most sky " " With a bit of luck I will sing it tonight

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,Peter C
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 12:06 PM

JHW - would also be great for St George's Day on April 23rd (Although as this is a Sunday this year, he may be 'translated' to the Monday)

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: JHW
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 10:59 AM

For a happy ending how about Jock o' Hazeldean

Red, Red, Rose is a good one. Already done it on 25th Jan and its OK for June too.

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 10:06 AM

Emmie, I wonder what you've found? It would be good if you can get back with any you find suitable or adaptable to a traditional style.



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I noticed this page with a lot of valentine links
http://kocian.ipnodns.ru/valentine-songs.html#  though I can't get the links to work.
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A BBC page with Burns links on love
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/themes/love/
& YT clips of some songs https://youtu.be/MmQydPSMoKg 
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Quite a few pages in the vwml http://www.vwml.org/search?qtext=valentine%27s%20day&ts=1486910300078&collectionfilter=... 

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,Peter C
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:52 AM

Plaisir d'amour (Martini)

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 06:35 AM

Rabbie Burns was the boy for this!

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 01:10 AM

Hello, Emmie. I've been thinking about your request for 24 hours now.

There just aren't many old songs about true love in the abstract. I would say that there are far more old songs about love gone wrong than about successful loves.

And the songs that are about happy true love tend to be individualized. For example: Annie Laurie. Annie is a certain person and she lives in a certain place - Maxwellton. Other examples:

Rose of Tralee
Rose of Allandale
Bonnie Eloise, the Pride of the Mohawk Vale

See what I mean? I think that generalized love songs which can apply to anybody are a modern phenomenon.

Meanwhile, Valentine's Day is only 3 days away. If you are doing a show, I think your best bet would be to visit your public library and get lyrics, chords and music from books in one step.

One possible source - love songs of Robert Burns, such as "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose."

Another idea is Tin Pan Alley songs from approx 1890 to 1920. They would be public domain, and you can probably find tunes you know already. such as Bicycle Built for Two, The Band Played On, Smile Awhile, And Let the Rest of the World Go By.

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: JHW
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 03:58 PM

Last Valentine's day, bright Phoebus shone clear,
We had not been a hunting for the space of one year.
I mounted Black Clover, that horse of great fame,
For to hear the horn blow and the words "Tally ho!"

Tally ho! Tally ho!
Hark, Forward! Who says "Tally ho!?"

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,Mg
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 02:48 PM

Feb 14 important day in newfoundland. Ocean ranger went down. Many received valentines after. Some songs about it.

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 09:46 AM

The Forebitter 'Princess Royal' , as I collected it back in the sixties has a first line "On the fourteenth day of February we sailed from the land in the bold Princess Royal bound for Newfoundland"

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 09:07 AM

Lovely suggestions but I mean traditional folk ones, preferably British or appalacian

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 06:46 AM

I just noticed this other thread asking for alternatives.
Someone calls them Black Valentines.
thread.cfm?threadid=127211

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Feb 17 - 05:54 AM

No, unless Shakespeare is trad(see the last one below).

For more modern ones ...

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - Betty Driver
https://open.spotify.com/track/295XP2Fqer90WriOBszWJm

A Fine Spring Morning - Blossom Dearie
https://open.spotify.com/track/089C08TkBfGWFcCVt1obAk

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl
http://open.spotify.com/track/7z7fty8FffHCOI3zm3R3Ei

I Walk A Little Faster - Blossom Dearie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NcF2BbMXSclvxDHD7dcIw

Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine's Day (Ophelia, Hamlet) - Elisabeth Karsten
https://open.spotify.com/track/5l5P3amRrXC9uWcMekP3FA




I haven't time today to do all the clickies but they're on this Spotify play list ... mixed with some others I categorised as 'divorce'. They mix together quite nicely ;-)
http://open.spotify.com/user/headey/playlist/443Vgjku0hitrVa3Z03eRE




& if I get time I'll add some others from this thread onto that Spotify list.

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: leeneia
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 08:39 PM

My Funny Valentine
True Love (from the movie High Society)
A Very Precious Love (sung by Gene Kelly)
I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins
My White Knight from the Music Man

and for a negative viewpoint

Falling in Love with Love

Subject: RE: good songs for valentines day?
From: oldhippie
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 06:40 PM

funny - Good Enough For Now

Subject: good songs for valentines day?
From: GUEST,Emmie
Date: 10 Feb 17 - 04:58 PM

Hi Folk, got some recommendations for romantic or funny traditional songs for valentines day?