Songs that should have been folk songs

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 06:27 PM

And that means anybody wearing a Grandad shirt, fisherman's smock or sticking his bloody finger in his ear. Or taking early retirement on full pension, and running a folk club that books the local folk radio dj.

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: Bert
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:37 PM

Hee Hee, I just listened to that song wld. So I might just steal it and ignore your warning. I'll tell folks that "I collected it".

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: Arkie
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 11:02 PM

Some of James Keelaghan's songs could be taken for folk songs. For Instance:

Hillcrest Mine
Small Rebellion
Fires of Calais
Jenny Bryce

Also David Massengill's Fairfax County.

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: GUEST,Larry
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 07:40 AM

I heard someone doing a really sweet version of

Anarchy in the UK

sometime back. She was a glaswegian accompanying herself on the guitar, can't remember her name though. But I think it fits the criteria.
Most of Springstein's back catalogue probably warrants consideration.

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: matt milton
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 09:31 AM

Whenever i listen to the brilliant album 'Germ Free Adolescents" by the punk band X Ray Spex, I always think their songs are crying out for a folk cover or two. They often have these really modal-sounding vocal liness, and their singer, Polly Styrene, does these little vocal ornamentations that sound unwittingly (I assume) like traditional southern Irish trills. A cover of "Germ Free Adolescents" or "The Day the world turned Dayglo" on bouzouki and guitar, or maybe squeezebox, would sound amazing...

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: Edgware
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 02:11 AM

Surprised that nobody has mentioned Lennon & McCartney as a source of ssongs that should have been folk music. Two examples that stick out are 'Hey Jude' & 'Yellow Submarine'

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: GUEST,Quokka
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:02 AM

'The Last Resort' by the Eagles - brilliant song, brilliant story. If I have time soon I'll post lyrics
Cheers
Quokka

Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 11:09 PM

Forgive me if these are repeats:
Wolverton Mountain ~ I recall this being so popular that there were two replies: I'm the Girl from Wolverton Mountain and, if I recall correctly, I'm the Man from Wolverton Mountain (from her father's viewpoint).
Lifeboat Mona ~ I've only heard The Dubliners' version.
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Running Bear by Johnny Preston
The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel
Judy Mae by Boomer Castleman
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Warrant
Swamp Witch by Jim Stafford
Wildfire by Michael Murphy
Timothy by The Buoys