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19 May 98 - 02:08 PM (#28719) Subject: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: My son is getting married and I have been asked to play guitar and/or banjo(ouch) as part of the ceremony. Any ideas? |
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19 May 98 - 02:26 PM (#28723) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bert Just a few, some of which may or may not be appropriate The Cornish Nightingale Dear OL' Dutch I've got sixpence Two eyes of blue Begorrah Bert. |
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19 May 98 - 03:26 PM (#28729) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Tim O'K Rap, definitely a gangsta rap folksong would be great. two other folk type songs (but really, what is a folksong? ... kidding!) that are nice and tres appropriate: Patty Larkin's A Love That's Day to Day Shawn Colvin's version of This must be the place
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19 May 98 - 04:05 PM (#28731) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Jack (Who is called Jack) To emphasise the freindship aspects of marraige I would try Its a Pleasure to Know You (by Si Kahn I think). You can find it on "When Howie Met Sally - Sally Rogers and Howie Burnsten"
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19 May 98 - 07:01 PM (#28757) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: alison Hi, "Red is the rose", ... it should be in the database. Great chorus, easy tune, everyone can sing along. Slainte Alison |
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19 May 98 - 08:21 PM (#28765) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Gene Why a folksong? Why not one of Hank Snow's songs?
WITH THIS RING I THEE WED
MARRIAGE VOW
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19 May 98 - 08:56 PM (#28768) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Will You might try Mairi's Wedding, especially if one of the nuptial couple is a variant of Mairi/Mary/Marie/andsoforth. It's in the DT. |
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19 May 98 - 09:16 PM (#28776) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Pete M At our wedding service we had Maries Wedding and Searching for lambs. At the reception we had courtesy of my "Best man" Maid when you're young never wed an old man!!!!??! Pete M |
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19 May 98 - 09:29 PM (#28780) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Barbara Shaw We did a wedding one time where the bride requested the NRBQ tune "This Love is True." Since it was two vocalists with two guitars, it became instant folk, and made a beautiful song for a wedding ceremony. There's always "The Wedding Song" by Paul Stuckey and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Paul Simon. |
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19 May 98 - 09:45 PM (#28782) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Barbara Shaw Oh yeah, at our own wedding, we had friends do (among other things) "In My Life" by the Beatles. |
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19 May 98 - 09:48 PM (#28783) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Barbara (last time) Sorry about that. I wondered how people double posted, and now I know how to do it. Reload, and when some "unimportant" question pops up, say yes. . . |
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19 May 98 - 10:14 PM (#28785) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Nora Kate Wolf's Give Yourself to Love seems particularly appropriate at weddings. I have lyrics and chords if you want them -- I don't think it's in the database Nora |
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19 May 98 - 10:24 PM (#28789) Subject: Lyr Add: With This Ring I Thee Wed^^ From: Gene WITH THIS RING I THEE WED With This Ring I Thee Wed This little band of gold I hold With our hearts tied as one Your big bouquet may fade away
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19 May 98 - 11:12 PM (#28794) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Joe Offer Nora, when you search the database, you can sometimes have better luck if you choose a complete phrase that's contained in the song, and then enclose it in square brackets. If you put [give yourself to love] in the search box of the upper-right corner of the page, you'll find it. Nice song, isn't it? I find it's just a little too difficult for group singings, though. Chords are: C Am F C / - Am F G C G F C / - Am FG F - CHORUS: C Am FG C / - aM g - / C Am FG C - The song for weddings that comes to mind just now is Cole Porter's "True Love," from the movie "High Society." Not folk, I suppose, but I think it would sound nice with a single voice and a guitar. -Joe Offer- |
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20 May 98 - 12:23 AM (#28809) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: BK Recently did "Give Yourself to Love" and Paul's "There is Love" at a wedding; both were extremely well recieved, even though the crowd was not particularly folkie. I'd advise considering swapping the order of the last 2 verses of Kate's song... You might also consider the wedding song from "Fiddler on the Roof." I think it's called "Sunrise, Sunset?" It has the lines about "is this the little girl I carried," etc... Also how about "Turn Around?" Depends partly on the relationship of the performer to the persons getting married.. Cheers, & break a leg! BK |
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20 May 98 - 02:48 AM (#28819) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: rosebrook This song has become a source of agitation for me now. It reminds me of a song which I really like about two people getting married for the third time (not to each other three times, but like three time's a charm?). It's a waltz, and it's just really down-to-earth and folksie and touching....some of the lyrics are: .we'll hire us a band that plays nothing but our requests....Just me in my suit while I waltz you around, and you in your off-white dress...anybody know the name of this song? Rosebrook |
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20 May 98 - 08:04 AM (#28827) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bob Schwarer Give a listen to Tom Paxton's "Outward Bound". Bob S. |
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20 May 98 - 09:04 AM (#28828) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bert Kisses Sweeter than Wine |
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20 May 98 - 10:42 AM (#28836) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Big Mick You might consider "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story, done acoustically. Neil Diamond recorded it on one of his more obscure albums. Also, Babs Streisand. My Irish band was asked to play for a wedding, and the Bride asked us to do this song, so we arranged it using a guitar and whistle and it was beautiful. Also, Mairi's Wedding is a grand recessional. Listen to the Chieftains with Van Morrison's version on Irish Heartbeat (or is it Celtic Heartbeat?) Mick |
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20 May 98 - 01:32 PM (#28846) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bill D At my wedding 17 years ago, the processional was "Southwind" on dulcimer and concertina...sung at the ceremony were "Ned of the Hill" (the #2 version in the database) and "Chickens in the Garden".....and perhaps the highlight of the reception/party was "Will His Love be like His Rum" great fun....drank exotic beer and sang for hours! Have it all on tape... |
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20 May 98 - 08:03 PM (#28876) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: John Nolan If you don't mind weddings that finish up in a riot, there's The Tinkers' Wedding, of which a snatch goes: The bridegroom was wild Norman Scott Who thrice had tied the nuptial knot, And yince was sentenced tae be shot, For breach o' marshall order-o. His gleesome jo was Madge McKell, A speywife match for Nick himsel' Wi' glamor and cantrip, charm and spell, She frichted baith the borders-o. The tune is the same as The Day We Went to Rothsay-o, but this song came first, and dates back to the late 1700s. |
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20 May 98 - 08:50 PM (#28884) Subject: Lyr Add: Love Chooses You^^ From: Roger Himler It's not really folk, more like country, but with a folk heart: "Love Chooses You" by Laurie Lewis (maybe)
Love comes unbidden, can't be forbidden.
In the wink of an eye love looses an arrow,
CHO: I would also give a second vote for Wolf's "Give Yourself to Love" and Paxton's "Outward Bound." May the event be blessed!!! Roger in Baltimore |
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27 May 98 - 01:45 PM (#29449) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Art Thieme Woody Guthrie's "Philladelphia Lawyer" |
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28 May 98 - 12:06 PM (#29540) Subject: Lyr Add: THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (Ray Noble)^^ From: Jack (who is called Jack) Some folks suggested songs that drifted away from the "folk" spectrum. I'll suggest one other from the popular ballads. THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU. Not sure about the author. It's either Gershwin, Eubie Blake, Hoagie Carmichael, or some such. The very thought of you And I forget to do All those ordinary things that everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king Funny though it still seems to me, it's everything. The mere idea of you The longing here for you You'll never know how slow the moments go till I am near to you. I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above It's just the thought of you The very thought of you my love |
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28 May 98 - 08:39 PM (#29586) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: farris This one's a little upbeat, but at our wedding, the recessional was Hank Williams's "Baby, We're Really in Love." It kinda got people in a party mood before the reception. |
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28 May 98 - 11:36 PM (#29603) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Sir I mentioned in another thread that I played a 'pretty' version of "Crawdad Hole" on the piano as prelude music for the wedding of my niece. (and no one noticed what I was playing) "Froggy Went a Courtin'" might be fun at some point when you don't have to be too serious. "Longer" though not 'folk' is a pretty song for weddings and would sound very nice with a guitar accompaniment and would sound even better if you could find a woodwind instrument to take the trumpet solo that Dan Fogelberg had in his recording. |
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29 May 98 - 12:12 AM (#29606) Subject: Lyr Add: COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE? (Anne Murray)^^ From: Sheye Not folk...or is it?
COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE?
I'll always remember the song they were playing
CHORUS:
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29 May 98 - 05:31 AM (#29622) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: juergen.morath@arcor.net What about 'Leezy Lindsay'? |
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02 Jun 98 - 04:26 AM (#29848) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: AndreasW at a friend's wedding they played In a country churchyard (from Chris de Burgh) It's a lovely song and (as I think) very appropriate [did I get this word right?] Andreas |
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02 Jun 98 - 12:53 PM (#29877) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Mark Fry |
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02 Jun 98 - 11:33 PM (#29934) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: dick greenhaus Mark- Try a search on [Come write] You'll get the song, and a free parody as well. |
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03 Jun 98 - 10:34 AM (#29955) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Whippoorwill If you want to give some advice to the groom, how about Wee Cooper o' Fife? |
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04 Jun 98 - 02:51 AM (#30013) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Tom Note to Rosebrook--I think you're looking for Bill Morrissey's song "Off-White Dress." I've also heard Richard Thompson's "Dimming of the Day" sung at a wedding & thought it was a nice choice. And, you probably don't have to be in Texas to have that I-could-"Waltz Across Texas"-with-you feeling ("When you look at me with those stars in your eyes...") |
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04 Jun 98 - 10:22 AM (#30035) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: SlowAlan When I used to dance the Morris, at weddings we used to play an old Morris tune called "Getting Upstairs" It had a bastardised chorus : "Some like whiskey, some like tea, some like a little girl just like me(ritual half pint) such a gettin upstairs and playin on the fiddle such a getting upstairs you never did see" We also played "Haste to the Wedding", and "Marie's Wedding",and sang "Rocking the Cradle" with its chorus of "Oh dear, rue the day ever I married...how I wish I were single again". We also sang "Sorry the day I was married, sorry the day I was wed, oh if I for a moment had tarried when I to the altar was led..." As you see..marriage is ambivalent for Morrismen - it of course means good fertility, but can also mean the loss of a good dancer and drinking partner if the new wife is shrewish. |
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04 Jun 98 - 01:50 PM (#30052) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: aldus I would suggest "Wedding Song" by Bob Dylan. It is one of the lovliest songs ever. It is on the Planet Waves album. I have played it at Weddings several times and those who have never heard it beore find it a surprise that it is A Bob Dylan song. |
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04 Jun 98 - 04:40 PM (#30063) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: AnnieT A big ditto on "Give Yourself to Love" - my daughter sang it at our wedding (2nd time around!), I sang harmony. We also sang "Call and Answer" to each other, from DeDannon's "Jacket of Batteries" album. |
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05 Jun 98 - 12:45 AM (#30101) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: JVZ I have been waiting for years for someone to ask me to sing at a wedding so that I could sing Woody Guthrie's "It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song." Maybe that's why I never get asked. |
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05 Jun 98 - 09:25 PM (#30189) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: goya I was sure that the post by aldus was wrong 'till I checked the dylan data base at |
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06 Jun 98 - 03:31 AM (#30206) Subject: Lyr Add: The Riddle Song (variant)^^ From: JB3 Traditional folk songs tend to be more often about the loss of love than the finding of it. Lots of gloom and doom and very few happy endings. There are several Riddle Song versions that I know and I did sing this one at a friend's wedding:
I will give my love and apple without e'er a core
How can there be an apple without e'er a core, etc.
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08 Jun 98 - 12:21 AM (#30289) Subject: Lyr Add: ALONE IN THE BEDROOM . . .^^ From: Frank in the swamps Diggin' way back in the ol' memory here. This is from Wat Nichol, an album called "Wat a Night" it was popular in Scotland more than twenty years ago, and it's been that long since I heard it, if anyone over there can give us a correct version, it would be a great addition to the database... Alone in the bedroom the bride & the groom, Go to bed for the first time on their honeymoon. Says the wife, "One condition to which you'll be bound, If you want to sleep with me, 'twill cost you a pound. Not only tonight, but as long as we're wed, Put all thoughts of freedom right out of your head. Sure a pound in the hand brings a night of sheer bliss. If you don't pay the pound, there's not even a kiss." Now the guests they are happy with whisky and beer, While this couple they celebrate twenty-five years, And the wife calls the company to gather around, As she gives to her husband some three thousand pounds. "All the pounds that you gave me I put safely away, Intending to surprise you on this happy day." "Sure if I'd have known this was what you'd meant to do, I'd have made sure I gave all my business to you!" That's as well as I remember it. If you want to play it safe, I've found that "Ashoken Farewell" always goes over well at weddings. If we could just get Ken Burns to do a documentary on folk music. Frank i.t.s. |
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08 Jun 98 - 08:38 AM (#30302) Subject: Lyr Add: The November Wedding^^ From: mulley All the other messages seem to have some wonderful and very appropriate songs for weddings. Here is my favorite, It's called November wedding by Vin Garbutt and can be found on his CD (Called The By-pass Syndrome) He accompanies this lovely song with the tune The South Wind. Here are the words in case you can't find them anywhere. November Wedding. Dancing and singing and bringing in flowers in springtime, In Autumn for you love thoughts of the true love that I hold for you love, For I have no other it bothers me not that my lot is with you for a lifetime and long, O my love it grows stronger it knows no bounds,
Sounds on the south wind and whistling and wedding rings glistening on fingers,
Sorry this is only a rough outline from my head but the complete words should be available somewhere on the net. Let me know if this is any good. |
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02 Nov 98 - 12:38 PM (#43904) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Alice Refresh for request on thread titled "Special Occasion Songs" alice in montana |
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02 Nov 98 - 09:21 PM (#43948) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Liam's Brother All the above choices seem very good. My only advice is to stay away from F.J. Child nos. 17 and 53. All the best. |
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03 Nov 98 - 12:22 AM (#43977) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Lucia Plenty of folk songs but songs which went really well in the past were: SO HAPPY TOGETHER - This is an old pop, but is away from the usual mish mash, golly gosh and simply states what a really good marriage is all about. WIND BENEATH MY WINGS - Goes without saying - brilliant In the more traditional Irish vein there is: TAKE HER IN YOU ARMS - upbeat and to the point LAKES OF PONTCHARTRAIN - tissue job though , |
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03 Nov 98 - 06:07 AM (#43996) Subject: Lyr Add: STANDING AT THE ALTAR From: The Shambles This is probably not to be sung at a wedding and not to be taken too seriously but it is my latest baby and belongs to all of you at the Mudcat, for it was you who inspired it. It was one of those songs that appear to write themselves. It's out of my 'minimalist' period and has two chords, the 1st and 7th. The sub-title is... A Single Man's Second Thoughts. STANDING AT THE ALTAR I would like to say I love you but I just don't know I would like a love that flowers but this just won't grow I'm counting up the hours, they run so slow I would like to say I'll miss you but you just won't go CHORUS: I just can't seem to see the wood from the trees You won't find me at my best at moments like these It's not the ground that's shaking. It's just my knees I'm standing at the altar, Lord help me please I say that there's no water at the bottom of this well It maybe smells of roses but I've lost my sense of smell I would like to say it's special but I can't tell I would like to say it's heaven but it feels like hell. CHORUS I'm just try to tell you everything's gone wrong But you just carry on singing that same old song You don't know what you've got until it's gone I know what I got and I know it don't belong. CHORUS They say that a good woman may turn water into wine I think maybe somebody must have left the cork in mine All the things you're saying only come out as a whine But when you're far away, you will sound just fine. CHORUS |
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04 Nov 98 - 10:55 PM (#44288) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Pete Peterson Night before Betty Vornbrock (of Autumn Wind cases and gigbags) and Billy Cornette (of Reed island Farm, which grows the best Christmas trees in VA and I have seen the blue ribbon that proves it) got married we were singing them such wonderful songs as Beware O Take Care (Blind Alfred Reed) Look Before You Leap (Charlie Poole) No Place like Home for a Married Man (Martin and Hobbs) God Made Woman After Man (Blind Alfred Reed) The Man who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man (Parker and Woolbright) Sorry the Day I was Married (Johnstons?) The Baldheaded End of a Broom (Grandpa Jones) they got married anyway |
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05 Nov 98 - 02:24 PM (#44354) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: harpgirl Just so I can get next to Pete Peterson somehow, may I suggest "One I Love" by Jean Ritchie. If I ever get married again (my friends tell me definitely NOT TO) I would want that song... harpgirl |
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05 Nov 98 - 10:16 PM (#44412) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Anne One my favorite songs for a wedding "Since You've Asked." It can be found on Dan Folgelberg/Tim ? Twin sons of different mothers or better yet Judy Collins -- ...What I'll give you since you've asked is all my time together... ROSEBROOK: The song you're looking for is by Bill Morrissey, one of New England's best singer-songwriters. It's actually about a second marriage. He wrote it for his wife Ellen. He's also written a book, --EDSON-- which is set in New England and is loosely about music. Alot of references about music and guitars and the life of a former folk-singer. A good read. Anne in Hartford, CT |
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05 Nov 98 - 11:01 PM (#44415) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Ronda The Blackest Crow is a lovely song. Also, If I Were a Featherbed (John McCutcheon). I've done both for weddings. Both have verses that can be bittersweet, but thouse can be altered or left out. The blackest crow that ever flew would surely turn to white, if ever I prove false to you bright day would turn to night. Bright day would turn to night my love, the elements would mourn, if ever I prover false to you, the seas would rage and burn. (1st verse) If I were a featherbed, in your house so fine, I'd hold you in my arms each night and keep you warm in the wintertime. If I were an old wool rug sitting in your front hall, I'd tickl your feet and make you laugh if you stepped on me at all. (1st verse) |
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05 Nov 98 - 11:48 PM (#44416) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: John Nolan "She gaun tae be wad tae anither" (or its English equivalent is probably in the data base. Some people sing this verse, which would surely be a hit at any wedding: The clerk o' the parish, he gied a loud cry If ye've ony objections, then bring them by, And I thocht tae masel' guid objections hae I But I hadnae the will tae confront her. Then there's always: "They're burning down the house I was brung up in And they're yelling come on out and take your bride... etc., etc. |
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06 Nov 98 - 12:36 PM (#44467) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Alice There are some verses in the Irish Girl that would be good for a wedding, just leave out the sad verses (my love has gone and left me, etc).
The little shoes this maiden wore, they were the Spanish brand
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17 Aug 99 - 03:44 PM (#105925) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Lorne Brown At my daughter's wedding I sang "Simple Gifts" (and at several other weddings also). Lorne Brown |
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17 Aug 99 - 04:08 PM (#105937) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Don, Ohio Our dulcimer band has used these songs for weddings: HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU, THE WEDDING SONG, AMAZING GRACE, ICE CASTLES, PRECIOUS MEMORIES, TODAY, THE JOYS OF LOVE, SIMPLE GIFTS, HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING, and PEACE IS FLOWING LIKE A RIVER (with modified lyrics). There are also several we play for the recessionals which have no wedding appeal, but they sound good (without vocals): Hot Buttered Rum, Southwind, Black Mountain Rag. |
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18 Aug 99 - 07:24 AM (#106113) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Jane Bird On a slight tangent, I heard once, that the following Cotswold Morris dances are tranditionally danced at weddings, in this order: Haste to the Wedding Getting Up Stairs Hunt the Squirrel No one has yet suggested singing "Haste to the Wedding", have they? Well, I have now. Jane |
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18 Aug 99 - 04:32 PM (#106303) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Ian HP Home To Me Is Anywhere You Are by Tom Paxton, on his album Up & Up |
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21 Sep 99 - 12:55 PM (#116181) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Barbara Shaw Hi blank. So which ones did you use? |
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21 Sep 99 - 01:58 PM (#116202) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Ralf Weihrauch I would recommend Come Write me Down
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21 Sep 99 - 02:17 PM (#116205) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Nic H There was a lovely country waltz back in the 1950s sung by Patti Page called, I Came to Your Wedding.Some of the lyrics go..."Your mother was crying, your father was crying, and I was crying too, The tears kept on rolling because we were losing you." Anybody has any idea where this song can be found in printed or recorded form? |
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21 Sep 99 - 05:42 PM (#116222) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Guy Wolff HI , I have a close friend getting married next mounth ...I'm thinking of playing O'Carolin's"Give me your hand" on concertina or guitar as the procesional and O Carolin's Concherto for the resesional..."Haiste to the wedding" in there at the end as they head to the food.. "Brig Fair" is a must for me some where and I do love "Chickens in the Garden" too I love "Sorry the day I was Marreid" but that might wait for another night{ I'm supersticius}. Twards the end I may play The Coo Coo's nest if the room seems very loose {as it were ,sorry}. I think I will play Hoochy Coochy Man for the groom at his stag..{Coed I amagine with this enlightened couple} Ah True love, aint love grand ! Best X3 Guy
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22 Sep 99 - 05:01 PM (#116573) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Age I went through all of your replyies and I don't think anyone mentioned "Only Love" by John Prine. I have beenasked on several occasions to sing this one. Lyrics can be found quite easily on J.P. sites. |
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22 Sep 99 - 06:21 PM (#116598) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Frank Hamilton At my wedding Mary and I sang to each other. We sang "Little Turtle Dove" which is a lovely folk song. "Oh don't you see yon little turtle dove Flying from vine to vine Mournin' for it's own true love As I will mourn for mine. As I will mourn for my own true love Believe me when I say You are the darling of my heart Until my dying day." Judy Collin's "Since You've Asked" is a lovely song already suggested. We had bagpipers pipe in Mairi's Wedding and it synchronizes with the traditional "Here Comes The Bride" for the processional. It's not a folk song per se but the beautiful "hapa haole" Hawaiian Wedding Song has a lovely melody and great chords. "Oh How We Danced on the Night We Were Wed"...the "Anniversary Song" has a traditional Russian Jewish melody. Mazeltov, Frank Hamilton |
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23 Sep 99 - 12:47 PM (#116902) Subject: Lyr Add: Let It Be a Dance^^ From: Davey My partner and I learned this song about 6 or 7 years ago, and when we brought it to our song circle for the first time, immediately after singing it we were enthusiastically asked to sing it again, the first, and to my knowledge the only, time that has happened. Since then we have been asked to sing it many times, and had the pleasure of singing it at my daughter's wedding. The title now adorns my guitar strap (carved by Rick Fielding) Let It Be a Dance by Rick Maston (Methodist Minister from California, around 30 yrs ago.)
Let it be a dance we do HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 15-Jan-2001.
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23 Sep 99 - 12:51 PM (#116905) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Davey Oops... I cut and pasted that song from my word processor, and it looked OK before I submitted it.... Can anyone advise how to line it up neatly like so many others I've seen?? Davey (still getting used to this stuff) |
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23 Sep 99 - 01:22 PM (#116922) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: GeorgeH Ralf W: "Come write me down" IS "The Wedding Song" and I think Dick recommended it some way back . . .
But really I'd like to disagree with those who suggest "Sing
And on the same vein, John Nolan: were you trolling when you suggested "She gaun tae be wad tae anither"; for that's (in English)
I loved a lass, and I loved her so well
But now she's rewarded me well for my love
For she's gone to be wed to another
Which might not go down entirely well.
Two that haven't been mentioned (as far as I can see); "Roseville Fair" and "First time ever I saw your face"; they'd be high on my list.
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23 Sep 99 - 03:41 PM (#116985) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Sapper_RE VERY suprised no one has mentioned the following:- Come write me down ye powers above, The man who first created love, For I've a diamond in my eye, Wherein all my joys and sorrows lie, Wherein all my joys and sorrows lie. Recorded by the Copper Family several times, it was performed at a Morris Wedding I had the honour of attending some years back. Imagine:- a glorious summer day, a very beautiful bride, a typical English country church, the song being led by two very fine voiced singers and the very large congregation, including a large number of Morrismen, joining in the repeat of each last line. Talk about the tingle factor!!!! Bob |
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08 Oct 99 - 02:52 PM (#122135) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: dwo Sorry to be a bit behind-hand and revive this otherwise exhausted thread -- Sapper, do you recall the albums where this was recorded? What it's called on the recording? I've been asked to sing it at a wedding later this month, and while I have the lyrics and melody from the DT database, I'd like some performance ideas etc. Thanks. |
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18 Jul 00 - 10:12 AM (#259968) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: GUEST,Butch Hey, I've been sing The Wedding Song for sometime, but I'm was never quite sure if I had the lyric right. I'd love it is someone would pass along a correct print out. Thanks Butch mconley@mcs.net |
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18 Jul 00 - 11:38 AM (#260062) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Jim Dixon At my own wedding, I had a friend sing "Thanksgiving Eve" by Bob Franke. It's in DT. |
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18 Jul 00 - 11:54 AM (#260072) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bert It doesn't matter what you sing, as long as you don't get Spaw to make them a courting dulcimer. Told you I'd get you Spaw;-) Bert. |
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18 Jul 00 - 11:59 AM (#260075) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: catspaw49 Are you left handed Bert? Spaw |
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18 Jul 00 - 12:04 PM (#260079) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: Bert Nah, just heavy handed. |
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18 Jul 00 - 01:32 PM (#260155) Subject: RE: FOLKSONGS APPROPRIATE FOR A WEDDING From: GUEST,Bruce O. The Coppers' "Wedding Song" can be found on the Bodley Ballads website under the title "Second Thought Is Best" |
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18 Jul 00 - 04:02 PM (#260282) Subject: Lyr Add: ALL THAN IS (Garnet Rogers)^^ From: Clinton Hammond2 The single best song for a wedding i.m.o. is Garnet Roger's "All That Is" Who can tell when in love you'll finally fall {~` |
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29 May 09 - 12:12 PM (#2643658) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: Mrs Banjiman I want to revitalise this thread which is almost 10 years old! I'm singing at my brother's wedding in the summer. It is a registry ceremony so songs can't have any religious content (!) I'll be accompanying myself on guitar (or possibly accordion). Although the wedding is in England, I'm Scottish and so would be happy to do one or two Scottish ones. Dougie MacLean's "This Love will Carry" seems a reasonable starting point. Any other ideas? Mrs B |
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30 May 09 - 08:32 AM (#2644133) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: Valmai Goodyear Two beautiful traditional songs: Searching for Lambs The Bold Fisherman Valmai |
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30 May 09 - 02:43 PM (#2644285) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: PHJim How about Todd Snyder's JUST IN CASE: You oughta know by now this love of mine is real Honey words just can't describe the way I feel And even though we just met I'm so glad the date is set And years from now I would bet We'd be together still But just in case Just in case This morning I went by my lawyer's place I didn't think you would mind Here Honey sign this dotted line What's yours is yours And what is mine will always be mine Just in case Well you know I can't love you enough But I also can't afford to lose half of my stuff There's no doubt in my mind These ties that we're about to bind Will hold us both together any time it gets too tough But just in case Just in case This morning I swung by my lawyer's place I didn't think you would mind Here Dumplin' sign this dotted line What's yours is yours And what is mine will always be mine Just in case |
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30 May 09 - 03:09 PM (#2644306) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: Crowhugger At a friend's wedding I sang Don McLean's "Did You Know?" Did you know that love can grow Any place where people go? And I can tell from what I see That you have found a place with me. The sun is high, the day is new And I have found a place with you. Ev'ry place and ev'ry face Casts a spell and leaves a trace. With you in mind and with you near The myth is gone the past is clear And here, with scars of now and then, So you and I begin again. Bridge: Did you know I've been search? Did you know I've been blind? Did you know I've been touching Anything I could find? Did you know that here below, Moving where my feelings flow You live with me in time that's new Sus Did you know that love can grow Any place where people go? And I can tell by what I see |
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30 May 09 - 03:13 PM (#2644309) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: Crowhugger Let's try that las bit again, I must've twitched and clicked by mistake... -pended in a love that' true. And far beyond the fatal noise And bathed in all life's simple joys. Repeat bridge Repeat 1st verse. *** The song's hint of past problems suited this couple well and they loved the way the song is honest about the less-than-perfect realities of love. ~CH~ |
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30 May 09 - 03:24 PM (#2644317) Subject: RE: Folksongs Appropriate for a Wedding From: Don Firth Some years ago a woman friend asked me to sing at her wedding. She was a regular in the hoots and folk song sessions, so she had a pretty good idea of the songs I knew. So I asked her what she wanted me to sing. One of the songs was "Greensleeves." Taken aback a bit, I asked, "Janice, have you ever actually listened to the words of that song?" She looked at me a bit blankly, so I sang the song for her. She decided, "Uh . . . maybe not." Don Firth |