I'm a proper folkie now!

Subject: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,*Laura* (still can't log on properly)
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:14 PM

I'd just like to say - I am now officially a proper real folkie!

I realise this because I decided, if I'm going to sing folk music - I've got to have at least one incest song.
I've got all the murder and lost love and all that - so tonight I've had the old 'Bare Bones' out and I'm learning the nice and cheerful 'Sheath and Knife'.

So, in my book anyway, I am now a full, proper and real folkie with a full set of long and miserable songs concerning (I quote a Tony Rose obit. here - 'love, death, murder, rape and incest') :0) Excellent!

xLx

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:15 PM

But, do you have a beard????

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:17 PM

Damn - I knew I was missing something.....

well - I can work on it! :0)

xLx

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:21 PM

If ya get enough face-lifts, you'll have a beard eventually...

(Sorry Phillis...)

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:22 PM

Do you hate all corporations, forms of capitalism, most religions, and pray to the ACLU every night?

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:24 PM

Laura, by being born into Tony Rose's family, you were automatically an honorary folkie.
Robyn

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:25 PM

"I'm a proper folkie now!"

That sounds like the first line of a song...

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:27 PM

A beard...and a large bald spot...and a pot belly...or is that only for guys..........

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:29 PM

It sounds like the first line in that Pull-ups commercial:

"I'm a big girl now."

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 05:41 PM

Ahh maybe Robyn -
but now I've earnt my stripes. hehe.

xLx

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:33 PM

I'm a proper folkie now, I am,
A proper folkie now.
I've a broken token handy,
Though I've lost my spotted cow.
'Twas on an April morning,
As the birds they sang so sweet,
I met a brisk young ploughboy.
He was good enough to eat.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:44 PM

As Sir Arnold Bax said (though he denied it and it is also credited to many others of a later vintage)

You should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing. But he wasn't a folkie.

So it's learn "Lord of the Dance" and you won't get back to being a normal person - ever.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Suffet
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:46 PM

SHE'S A PROPER FOLKIE NOW
Tune: The Devil's Nine Questions. (traditional)
New words: Stephen L. Suffet ©2005

Come and listen to my tale,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And pour a tankard of warm ale.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Laura was a maiden gay,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
Until a folkie led her astray.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

He plucked her flower from the stem,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And turned her into one of them.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Now she drinks dark porter beer,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And sticks her finger in her ear.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Before she utters just one note,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
Seven times she clears her throat.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

She sings no jazz, nor pop, nor soul,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And never any rock and roll.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

But only ballads, ancient rhymes,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
Handed down from distant times.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Like the story of Lord Arnold's wife,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And the bloody way she lost her life.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Matty Groves she took to bed,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
The very next morning both were dead.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Yes, those are the songs that Laura sings,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
No hardcore rap, no nasty things,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Like all the young kids sing today,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
Just gory songs from a bygone day.
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

So maidens all take warning from me,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
And shun the folkie's comapny,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Or just like our Laura dear,
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!
You'll stick your finger in your ear!
Oh, she's a proper folkie now!

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:48 PM

McGrath - Loving it!

hahaha.

xLx

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:59 PM

double posted - Suffet - loving it again!

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 07:07 PM

13 verses! Wow, much more and you could rival Matty Groves.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 07:08 PM

Laura - having been converted from Jazz to folk forty years ago all I can see is 'Never mind ' !!!

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:48 PM

What do I mean >?? SEE ?? I think I meant to say 'SAY'

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Pauline L
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:46 AM

How can you be proper when singing about incest? It's so improper.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:21 AM

Take two Pils and see me in the morning!

LTS

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 06:03 AM

Lenny Bruce used to do this routine about a man who gets discovered by his wife in bed with a chicken (apparently theres a law against sex with a chicken in New York State).

the wife says, how could you....with a chicken!
the man says, okay I was in bed with the chicken, but all the time its YOU I was thinking of........

You know that's one sexual tabu, I've never heard a folk song about. all these pretty ploughboys ...its funny I bet there was alot of it going on, but they kept quiet about it. all except the pheasant plucker's son.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 07:38 AM

From The Ball of Keerymuir:

The village shepherd he was there,
But he never made a peep,
He had no need for lassies,
For he had his flock of sheep.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 07:42 AM

Or is it The Ball of Kerrymuir? I'm not sure which spelling is right. Same ball, same shepherd, same sheep, either way!

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:45 AM

There is another equirement to be a proper folkie...an IQ over 100.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: kendall
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:16 PM

You don't need to be a good speller!

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,Folk junkie
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 06:12 PM

One thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned as obligatory is possession of a tankard - pewter or otherwise. Finally got mine about five years ago - just waiting for winter to get an arran sweater..... oh, and maybe I'll start using the finger in the ear technique which all my non-folkie friends seem to think is a necessity??

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Muttley
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 04:31 AM

An Australian Bush Poet has a song he wrote called "I'm a Folkie"
I'm a Folkie; A f-f-f-f-folkie etc

Been a few years since I heard him sing it and that's the only line I recall.

The guy I'm talking about is called Jim Haynes: Does abrilliant rendition of "I Lobster and NeverFlounder" about a fisherman who lost his girlfriend - lots of puns on words using piscatory terms instead of the correct ones.

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: *Laura*
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 07:12 AM

And as well as now being a proper folkie - I can log in again!
Today is a good day. :0)

xLx

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: Severn
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 08:12 AM

Though most of us folkies have IQs over 100, please don't require it of "The Folk". We'll have nothing left but a bunch of damn singer-songwriters. We need both the effite and the Tripple-E Feet to make it all work. And in the end, a lot of the folk prove smarter than we are, on occaision. When we are able to work book learning and common sense as an even trade off, it all works out.

As Will Rogers said, "Everybody is ignorant, only on differert subjects."

Subject: RE: I'm a proper folkie now!
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:09 PM

Janice: I believe it is Kirriemuir; at any rate, there is such a place.

As to sheep, in America we have "The Pioneers":

Great joy they reap from tupping sheep

In sundry bogs & ditches --

Nor care a damn if it's a ram,

Those hardy sons of bitches!

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

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