Steamport Southport Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Not so much as joke but I've just been reminded that SpynjBob Pantsgwâr is Welsh for SpongeBob SquarePants! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2023 The Blues singers' Epitaph I didn't wake up one mornin Regards Ian 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Proper folk music always starts "As I was out walking all in the month of May" and so on... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said: The Blues singers' Epitaph I didn't wake up one mornin Regards Ian Or Woke up this morning Found myself dead... Andi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIK Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Woke up this morning. Felt like I was going to die, then I saw St Peter, and he spat right in my eye. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Proper folk music always starts "As I was out walking all in the month of May" and so on... Which generally boils down to: Oh when I was one and twenty, I courted* girls a plenty, But now I'm twenty-two, I'm stuck with only you. *this is the tidied-up version for publication, you understand. 5 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 37 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Which generally boils down to: Oh when I was one and twenty, I courted* girls a plenty, But now I'm twenty-two, I'm stuck with only you. *this is the tidied-up version for publication, you understand. Because, And her dad spoke to my dad so we were wed in June* * It were a close run thing between the wedding and the stork... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Because, And her dad spoke to my dad so we were wed in June* * It were a close run thing between the wedding and the stork... Unlike C&W, English folk song relies on subtle understatement. One divines the singer's predicament and joins with him in lamenting the passing of the pleasures of youth. Description of the details of the wedding ceremony is unnecessary baggage. Edited January 1, 2023 by Compound2632 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 19 hours ago, Hroth said: Well, Classical Music can lay its hands on some cannon for the 1812 Overture, and Congreve rockets when performing the Music for the Royal Fireworks. You wouldn't want to annoy the Royal Liverpool Phil... Who's Phil? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibelroad Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 He’s thropics husband, as in Phil an’ thropic. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 20 hours ago, Dagworth said: That'll be us then, 68 of them :) Andi (I work for The Alarm) Tenpole Tudor had the swords of a thousand men, which always seemed a bit of a waste of time to me, just the swords and no men to wield them, a thousand men with swords would have been far more effective... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 18 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Not so much as joke but I've just been reminded that SpynjBob Pantsgwâr is Welsh for SpongeBob SquarePants! National Eisteddfod in Llanelli years ago, neuadd bwyd (food hall), everything in Welsh. Already familiar with 'scod a sclods (pysgod a sclodiau, fish'n'chips), but fell in love with the phonetic Welsh of 'Nwdls'! Noodles, but actually spelled in a Llanelli accent. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 20 hours ago, Dagworth said: That'll be us then, 68 of them :) Andi (I work for The Alarm) That rings a bell 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, Hibelroad said: He’s thropics husband, as in Phil an’ thropic. Ah, not 'Phil, Adele Phia's' husband, then, tx for clarifying that! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Unlike C&W, English folk song relies on subtle understatement. One divines the singer's predicament and joins with him in lamenting the passing of the pleasures of youth. Description of the details of the wedding ceremony is unnecessary baggage. Or are narrated from the girls' viewpoint, regretting the loss of virginity to some soldier who has of course deserted her (All Around My Hat, Let No Man Steal Away Your Time) As opposed to Scottish folk, I mean the Pictish stuff rather than the Gaelic jigs and reels. You have to have Illicit sex, death, gore, betrayal, murder, decomposed corpses as food (Twa Corbies) and if you can factor in the construction of a working harp from the victim's ribcage found on the beach by intinerant minstrels, so much the better (Cruel Sister). Mwa ha ha ha haaa! Lay the bent to the bonnie broom... Border Ballads are, logically enough, halfway houses, usually a 'justified' killing (Mattie Groves, the Ballad of Chevy Chase). Irish folk is sometimes downright chilling (She Moved Through The Fair, I Am Stretched On Your Grave), but just as good as English for sex euphemisms (Gathering Mushrooms). Edited January 1, 2023 by The Johnster 4 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Justified killing of Chevy Chase? I know some of his films were bad, but that's a bit over the top! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 To lower the tone back down again from all this high brow music critique, I here repeat an old classic.... 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hroth Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 5 hours ago, The Johnster said: a thousand men with swords would have been far more effective... But far less poetic... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 What singer's a biscuit? Lionel Rich Tea 2 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 16 hours ago, The Johnster said: Who's Phil? Phil and his harmonica. https://www.liverpoolphil.com/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 16 hours ago, The Johnster said: Or are narrated from the girls' viewpoint, regretting the loss of virginity to some soldier who has of course deserted her (All Around My Hat, Let No Man Steal Away Your Time) "A Bunch of Time" has the added sinister dimension in that, when the sailor took her virginity, he "gave to her a rose, a rose that never would decay." Was this a symbol of his love for her, or did he infect her with syphilis? Laugh a minute, folk music. So many folk songs can be summed up as "There was a young girl, and one day she died" or "there was a ship that went to sea and sank." Ten words is about enough. 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim123 Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2023 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Ah, but they are speaking English which we made up, so who is the most intelligent really? 🏴 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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