Anyone like Folk Music ?

[Yoga Face]

Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair

This English folk song dates back to late medieval times, when the seaside resort of Scarborough was an important venue for tradesmen from all over England

Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Tracing of sparrow on snowcrested brown)
Without no seams nor needle work
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Washes the grave with silvery tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strands
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
(War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

 

[GotGusto]

From the American Reconstruction era.

Think of how a song like this would have resonated in the South at that time. This song, without any drums or distorted guitars, is just as hardcore as any thrash metal or gangsta rap song I've ever heard.

 

[Romostar]

I don't know if I'm hijacking this thread, but I have to share this Nickel Creek instrumental. They are part bluegrass, country and folk. Incredible musicians. Sorry the video isn't any better, but it's the best I could find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMppJzbYe8

 

[Yoga Face]

I don't know if I'm hijacking this thread, but I have to share this Nickel Creek instrumental. They are part bluegrass, country and folk. Incredible musicians. Sorry the video isn't any better, but it's the best I could find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMppJzbYe8

Use the inert video button next time

It is the one on the right

Bluegrass would be considered folk

All music is when you get down to it as it is all played by " folks"

 

[Eraser Head]

Great Canadian poet

 

[Eraser Head]

Mysterious lyrics

 

[Yoga Face]

Pirate music

 

[Yoga Face]

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[WoodPeckr]

Don McLean - American Pie

 

[WoodPeckr]

Richie Havens Nobody Left to Crown

 

[WoodPeckr]

Ritchie Havens "What About Me"

 

[WoodPeckr]

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping

 

[WoodPeckr]

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite, Judy Blue Eyes

 

[Yoga Face]

Modern folk music ??

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
and a Black Crow snuck through
a hole in the sky
so I spent all my buttons on an
old pack mule
and I made me a ladder from
a pawn shop marimba
and I leaned it up against
a dandelion tree

And I filled me a sachel
full of old pig corn
and I beat me a billy
from an old French horn
and I kicked that mule
to the top of the tree
and I blew me a hole
'bout the size of a kickdrum
and I cut me a switch
from a long branch elbow

Chorus
I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin'
Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
whittle you into kindlin'
Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six

Well I slept in the holler
of a dry creek bed
and I tore out the buckets
from a red Corvette, tore out the buckets from a red Corvette
Lionel and Dave and the Butcher made three
you got to meet me by the knuckles of the skinnybone tree
with the strings of a Washburn
stretched like a clothes line
you know me and that mule scrambled right through the hole

Repeat Chorus

Now I hold him prisoner
in a Washburn jail
that stapped on the back
of my old kick mule
strapped it on the back of my old kick mule
I bang on the strings just
to drive him crazy
I strum it loud just to rattle his cage
strum it loud just to rattle his cage

Repeat Chorus

 

[shai]

Hi

I'll take Ian & Sylvia's version.

To say nothing about
their song "4 Strong Winds"

 

[Yoga Face]

Hi

I'll take Ian & Sylvia's version.

To say nothing about
their song "4 Strong Winds"

I have had a few drinks with Sylvia at Mariposa

Their version of what ??? 16 shells ??? Is that not a Waits original ??? They did a version ????

 

[GotGusto]

Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver

 

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