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23 Dec 09 - 10:23 AM (#2794987) Subject: Happy, joyful song suggestions From: Stower A friend and audience member pointed out to me after a recent gig that nearly everything I sang was about something miserable. I honestly hadn't registered this. Then I recalled what I had sung about: overwork, an honour killing, dying for love, begging, a hanging song, unrequited love, lost love, etc. I tend to pepper my sets with 'happy' tunes, so it's not all relentless doom, but then I got to thinking ... I sing mainly English traditional: where are the happy, even joyful songs? I do sing Limadie (I didn't do it that night) with the 'disapproving parents' verse missed out, just so it is a 100% happy love song. Could Mudcatters suggest any other traditional or 'in the tradition' songs that are simply celebrating something joyful? Preferably but not exclusively English, as that is what I tend to do (simply because it suits my style best), but anything will be considered. Must go and look up some happy Copper family nature songs ... |
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23 Dec 09 - 12:44 PM (#2795089) Subject: RE: Happy, joyful song suggestions From: Bert Here's just a few. Begone Dull Care Lincolnshire Poacher The Gnat The Cornish Nightingale The Country Vicar |
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23 Dec 09 - 11:27 PM (#2795392) Subject: RE: Happy, joyful song suggestions From: GUEST,leeneia Mockingbird Hill. When I sing it, I change 'tra la la twiddle ee dee dee to whistling because twiddle ee dee dee sounds so silly. |
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24 Dec 09 - 06:40 AM (#2795520) Subject: RE: Happy, joyful song suggestions From: Stower Bert, I can't find The Gnat in the DT. Is that another title for DT's The Hermit, or a different song? And the Cornish Nightingale: where might I find it? Cheers Stower |
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24 Dec 09 - 06:52 AM (#2795527) Subject: RE: Happy, joyful song suggestions From: MGM·Lion Various songs end with true love consummated in marriage, e.g. Come Write Me Down; or prospect of LTR like The Magdalene Green··· |