Shivery Songs?

Subject: Shivery Songs?
From: rea
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 01:58 AM

October's been getting to me, and I can't get the Skip Rope Song (Jesse Winchester) out of my head, 'cept when I'm singing Twa Corbies.

Anyone have any other good gloomy songs which give you (or the listener) the shivers?

And does anyone else remember that story? About the boy who went to get the shivers... aka the boy who wanted to learn what fear was.

-rea

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: Nerd
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 02:28 AM

I always found "The Griesly Bride" pretty spooky. Also, versions of "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" ("Pretty Polly") in which the murdered girl comes back and rips her murderer in three pieces. Dorman Ralph sings a great one in which, after she does this, she exchanges very polite small talk with the ship's captain before departing.

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 06:51 AM

Unquiet Grave

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 10:41 AM

Death of Young Andrew

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: Fran
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 12:07 PM

widdecombe Fair, the Steve Knightley version

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: open mike
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 01:08 PM

i htought you meant shivaree...like what the wedding party
does to newly weds after the "reception":

Shivaree is the most common American regional form of charivari, a French word meaning "a noisy mock serenade for newlyweds" and probably deriving in turn from a Late Latin word meaning "headache." The term, most likely borrowed from French traders and settlers along the Mississippi River, was well established in the United States by 1805; an account dating from that year describes a shivaree in New Orleans: "The house is mobbed by thousands of the people of the town, vociferating and shouting with loud acclaim…. [M]any [are] in disguises and masks; and all have some kind of discordant and noisy music, such as old kettles, and shovels, and tongs…. All civil authority and rule seems laid aside" (John F. Watson). The word shivaree is especially common along and west of the Mississippi River. Its use thus forms a dialect boundary running north-south, dividing western usage from eastern. This is unusual in that most dialect boundaries run east-west, dividing the country into northern and southern dialect regions. Some regional equivalents are belling, used in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan; horning, from upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania, and western New England; and serenade, a term used chiefly in the South Atlantic states.


also:
SHIVAREE
Pronunciation:   `shivu'ree
Definition:   [n] a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
Synonyms:   belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: open mike
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 01:38 PM

as far as shivers go Gillian Welch does a tune
called Caleb Meyer about a moonshiner who
assaults a woman, and whose ghost now wears chains.

Subject: RE: Shivery Songs?
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 02:41 PM

Try www.theshivershow.com...where you will find samples of the Shivers singing(aka our very own mudcatter Fortunato and autoharpist partner))