Folk shrubbery

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:37 AM

I'll never find another yew

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:36 AM

Maybe it's big gorse I'm a Londoner

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:30 AM

I miss a lot. It gives me the hebe jebes

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:25 AM

"Maybe I'm thinking outside the wrong box."

Haha, it's taken me 24 hours to get that one, Malcolm!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:21 AM

Has anyone mentioned the bitter withy? One of the strangest songs about!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 04:45 AM

Keeping to the non-punny ones:
Green Grows the Laurel / Green Grow the Lilacs.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:53 PM

Bury me beneath the willow
'neath the weeping willow tree

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:24 PM

Is David Boughie folk?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 06:22 PM

Buddleia can you spare a dime?

Stop me somebody...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:48 PM

Hewin' MacColl?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:46 PM

Four Men and a Dogwood approve of this thread...

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:37 PM

Beech Bois?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:35 PM

Does stuff sung by the Treeorchy Malus Voice Choir count?

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: GUEST,toubabdoc
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:14 PM

And all planted by the Knights of Nie!

(I like this onw much better than the thread I started.)

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 04:25 PM

Ni! Ni!

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 04:23 PM

And from the sub genre Folk Shrubbery Rock there's Eight Miles Hydrangea.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Nick
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:59 PM

Steve, you may be right. I can think of at least tree

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:46 PM

Also The Furze Field.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:45 PM

We haven't had Bird in the Bush yet.

Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:02 PM

Some of these suggestions are simply not folk. They're just poplar music.

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.

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: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 01:19 PM

Of the one you missed

Barbara Alium

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: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 12:45 PM

Barberry Allen

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: 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: 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: 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: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 10:59 AM

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

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

Atishoo atishoo we hawthorn down!

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: GUEST,Mark
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 06:53 AM

Have we had the Prickle-Eye Bush yet?

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: 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: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:15 AM

Famous Flower of Serving Men

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

Sweet Rose of Allandale

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: 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 - 09:08 PM

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

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

O Rowan Tree (nice plump red berries!)

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: 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: 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: 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 - 07:09 PM

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