Folk shrubbery

Subject: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:00 PM

I'm not one for copycat threads but after reading snobbery as shrubbery I couldn't resist it.

What should we have in our folk shrubbery?

I'll start with Broom (of the Cowdenknowes)

Next!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Reinhard
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:05 PM

Sweet Blooming Lavender

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:19 PM

I could roll off a list of Irish tunes but I'll suggest 'The Old Bush' for now.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:22 PM

Blooming heather
Thyme - bunch of
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:32 PM

Bushes and Briars

Green Brooms

Bonny Banks of Roses

What about those mystical songs where the young woman "had her back to the thorn," murdered her babies then spent seven years in hell? Nothing like a bit of light-hearted life-affirming folkie entertainment!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:40 PM

Leaving of Liverpool?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 02:50 PM

Well if you're going to be silly I'm claiming the Connought Hydrangea :-)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: DMcG
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 03:03 PM

'Candlemas Eve'

(Down with the rosemary and bay,
Down with the mistletoe,
Instead of holly, now upraise
The greener box for show ... Etc etc)

Kipling's poem "Our fathers of old" as sung by Bellamy.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 03:26 PM

How about Ambletown (Home Dearie Home? - the oak and the ash and the bonny rowan tree....

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 04:12 PM

Not really folk, but an "old" song, I always loved Wattle I Do.

Wattle I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?
When I'm alone with only dreams of you that won't come true
Wattle I do?

In case you are unaware, the Oz native shrub called wattle is an acacia.

When the wattle blooms in August I annoy my Hubby by singing Wattle I Do.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 04:40 PM

tum-ble-ing tumbleweeds?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Michael
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 04:46 PM

"Sing Oak and ash and Thorn good sirs"

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 05:49 PM

Sweet William

LFF

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Joe G
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 05:49 PM

The Bold Priveteer

I'm here all week (I'm afraid) ;-)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 05:56 PM

The Gooseberry Bush
And I suppose Roger Bush, bass player for the Kentucky Colonels and Country Gazette, among others, would qualify.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:05 PM

Is Kate Bush allowed in this thread? I hear she's fed up of going on the road, or in her words, she's secateurs...

Geddit? Bush? Secateurs?

I'll get me coat...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Joe G
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:08 PM

Please do. ;-) That was pretty good to be fair :-)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:13 PM

In that case, I'll raise you the unfortunate rake.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:21 PM

Michael Hedges, of course.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:25 PM

Dylan: Lay Lady Lay... (think about it....)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:30 PM

Here I go again... Non evergreen shrubbery at this time of year just says Twiggy to me

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:50 PM

Too skinny. Her twin sisters, Holly and Ivy, have a nice bit of cover...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 07:09 PM

...and nice plump red berries....God forgive me....

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:22 PM

Well, I don't get the Leaving of Liverpool one, or the Bob Dylan one.

A hint or two might help.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:26 PM

The Dylan one was meant to be referring to the ancient country skill of laying hedges, Helen!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:29 PM

I wasn't sure I got the Leaving of Liverpool either. Unless "leaving" meant something to do with covering with leaves....

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:57 PM

Indeed. I think Liverpool covered in leaves is a nice thought. A lorra laurel leaves perhaps?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:01 PM

O Rowan Tree (nice plump red berries!)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:07 PM

Worryingly, I'm beginning to love these plump red berry allusions. Can't quite put my finger on it...er, them...er...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:07 PM

Worryingly, I'm beginning to love these plump red berry allusions. Can't quite put my finger on it...er, them...er...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:08 PM

In fact I'm so shaky about it that I seem to have hit the send button twice...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:45 PM

All right, I would never, ever, ever have gotten the reference to laying hedges. Come on! LOL

Leave-ing. Ok, I get it.

Steve, you are getting berry agitated.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:49 PM

I can't wait for the darling buds of May...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Michael
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 04:59 AM

Sweet Rose of Allandale

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:15 AM

Famous Flower of Serving Men

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:20 AM

Thyme, Sweet Thyme,
The holly and the thyme
The rosemary and the willow tree
Around my heart entwine
Sweet Thyme (Mudcat)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 06:07 AM

Heather on the Moor- Paul Brady w/Andy

I guess Hedge and Donna would qualify.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 06:53 AM

Have we had the Prickle-Eye Bush yet?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:24 AM

I thought the Dylan one might have lead to leylandii!

Maybe I'm thinking outside the wrong box.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Michael
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:26 AM

Atishoo atishoo we hawthorn down!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 10:59 AM

Oh azalea, you're breaking my heart...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 11:28 AM

Yebbut that's Simon and Garfunkle and it's not folk ;-)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 12:14 PM

Dave, I see you are pioneering this years BIG BIG thing.

It’s the 2020 ‘Be Your Own Troll’

Why rely on others when you know more than anyone else the things most likely to irritate the bejasus out of you? Cut out the middle(wo)man and crack on with the ultimate in self satisfaction.

In association with Be Your Own Victim.com

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 12:17 PM

Start your own threads and no need whatsoever to rely on others taking part!!

In beta testing, some of the participants have managed to create upwards of 500 posts in a single thread without any outside involvement and, so far, with no obvious signs of mental damage.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 12:31 PM

That's it, everyone, git yer ya - yas out here.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 12:45 PM

Barberry Allen

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 01:17 PM

What about the country set version.

Burberry Allen.

Nick - :-D

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 01:19 PM

Of the one you missed

Barbara Alium

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 01:27 PM

Brings to mind that old sea chantey High Bayberry.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 02:07 PM

The Cherry Tree Carol
Let No Man Steal Away Your Thyme
Blackthorn Stick
Rose of Tralee
Lorelei - The Pogues [laurel lie]
Ash Grove
Wind That Shakes the Barley
Salley Gardens
and on that note, Willow Gang to the Highlands Leezie Lindsay


Alternative title to Steve's suggestion: Abelia You're Breaking My Heart
Anything sung by Bonnie Abelia?

Does Harvest Home count?

Another tune came into my head and jumped straight out again. It will make itself heard as soon as I hit the Submit button.