Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04

Subject: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:56 PM

We've a singaround on Monday 24 May. The theme is the weather. One of my favourite songs of all time is Fire and Rain (James Taylor). Whoever sings it can have a pint on me.

Blue clicky to follow, but key in Waltham Abbey Folk Club on google and details will come up.

Simon

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Ed.
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:01 PM

Waltham Abbey Folk Club, even though James Taylor isn't folk *grin*

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: BanjoRay
Date: 20 May 04 - 09:13 PM

Well he ain't a horse.
Ray

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: harlowpoet
Date: 21 May 04 - 03:44 AM

He headlined the Cambridge Folk Festival a couple of years back, if my memory serves right.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: breezy
Date: 21 May 04 - 04:54 AM

steady up poet, stay calm, there's material here.

send for Keith Snodon, he's a regular at St Albans and gives us a mean J T

but tonight its Cockersdale

bye

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 21 May 04 - 06:18 AM

Cheers for the blue clicky Ed

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 21 May 04 - 06:23 AM

Have you got any songs which go 17,15,13,11,09,07,05,03,01, 18,16,14,12,10,08,06,04,02,00 in the chorus? Cos on Monday we will have. With Hamish Currie.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Dreadnought
Date: 21 May 04 - 08:07 AM

Look I don't want to get all pedantic here but for goodness sake they're called LINKS.

Not "Blue Clickies" or "Spidery Bonbons" or anything else. Links.

And they're called that on account of how they LINK pages together. Hence the expression LINK.

Blue clickies my arse.

Is it knocking off time yet?

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Ross
Date: 21 May 04 - 10:02 AM

We call them 'Mustard ram raiders' in Bedfordshire

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 21 May 04 - 10:49 AM

And some people just can't cut the mustard

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Dreadnought
Date: 21 May 04 - 11:29 AM

Or "Yellow tangy boom" as it's known on Mudcat...

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 21 May 04 - 06:22 PM

Soon you'll get people saying the Beatles weren't folk.

Anyone gonna sing Here comes the sun then?

I'm sure Dreadnought might be up for it, but don't forget the stringy plucky thingy, my friend

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Lanfranc
Date: 21 May 04 - 07:19 PM

I could offer "Rain" by Lennon & McCartney, "Four Strong Winds" by Ian & Sylvia Tyson, "Rain on the Roof" by John Sebastian, "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, "Chilly Winds" as sung by Johnny Cash, and possibly "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan, and maybe "Fire and Rain" if nobody else gets there first.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows ..." (Bob Dylan)

Alan

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Ross
Date: 22 May 04 - 05:08 AM

Jimi Hendrix sounds pretty folky on the axis bold as love LP

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 22 May 04 - 05:51 AM

Ross I am following your footsteps, you seem to be just one step ahead of me today.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 22 May 04 - 05:53 AM

My personal definition of a folk song means it has to be able to hold up accoustically. That said I wouldn't describe something like Raining in My Heart as a folk song, for example. Its too poppish.

I'd call the Sun Has Got Its hat on a folk song, though I wouldn't buy a CD, if it was on there.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,Jim in Yorkshire
Date: 22 May 04 - 01:54 PM

Went along two summers ago, and it was a good club. It made the course in London, worthwhile..

Glad to see it still seems to be going on strong.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 22 May 04 - 06:01 PM

Jim, glad you enjoed ut.

Here's the next limerick from the club publicity dept.

On Monday, we'll get it together
And find songs to sing, of the weather
Though, that's not a rule
And it's magic, if you'll
Find a distant link, keeping it clever

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 24 May 04 - 09:01 AM

Time for a little light refreshment I suppose.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: Leraud
Date: 24 May 04 - 09:06 AM

Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot
we weather the weather
whatever the weather
whether we like it or not

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 24 May 04 - 09:35 AM

Its only an optional theme. If you haven't got one about the weather, snow big deal

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 24 May 04 - 09:38 AM

Ohhhh, Hail hail that one was awful.

Subject: RE: Waltham Abbey (UK) folk club 24/5/04
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 24 May 04 - 11:22 AM

Thanks for your thunderous applause