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Yeah… my sinuses and my mouth are still in communication. Deep joy. Dentist has advised me not to do aggravate it by singing I'm afraid. Definitely no Friday night #folkSong streams for the next few weeks.

“On Ilkley Moor baht’ at” - because of a random thread this morning I looked this up and for the first time in 40+ years finally learned the true meaning. “Without a hat”. Now it all makes sense.

#yorkshire #folksong #ilkleymoor #songlyrics

Welcomed sleep and greeted Sunday with Death Bell Knellin'
by Shane Parish. released on Death Cry Records in 2020.

Shane writes

"Second collection of highlights from my 147 song album, Fireside Book of Folk Songs.

The artwork is a drawing I made of my daughter while she was playing in the grass at the park with a giant stick when she was four years old."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adi21zpp5hE

#shaneparish #folkmusic #folksong #soloacousticguitar #2020inmusic

Death Bell Knellin' by Shane Parish LP cover

Yeah… no #folkSong stream again tonight. Another Friday of no spoons again, I'm afraid.

"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz, also known as "La Bomba". The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime", and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. "#LaBamba" has been #covered by numerous other artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0

"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJX3TztAhTk

I use #LoopyPro for my #folkSong streams and the most recent push for development has been adding MIDI loops to version 2. Frankly, I hadn't really cared because I don't play any MIDI instruments. Then today, while I was working on a new setup, I realised that I can use those MIDI loops and oneshots to "play" Loopy Pro and… oh boy, the things that lets me do!

Right now I'm making a layout that lets Loopy emulate the Ed Sheeran Loopers Looper X board it's making the job almost easy.

Why "Wayfaring Stranger"? Why now?
#FolkSong #BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2025/why-wayfaring-stranger-why-now/

Why "Wayfaring Stranger"? Why now? #FolkSong #BeBetter muz4now.com/2025/why-way...

Why "Wayfaring Stranger"? Why ...

Su Free Zone Magazine la mia recensione dell'album appena uscito di Marco Pandolfi, armonicista di culto della scena italiana e molto di più.
#blues #music #musica #folksong #songwriter #MarcoPandolfi #bluesharp #armonica #chitarra #GetCloser

https://freezonemagazine.com/articoli/marco-pandolfi-get-closer/

Woody Guthrie (1912 – 1967)
This machine kills fascists ist ein Spruch, den Woody Guthrie Anfang der 1940er Jahre auf seiner Gitarre anbrachte.
#woodieguthrie #antifaschismus #faschisten #fascist #folksong #cartoon #cartoons #songwriter

Woody Guthrie mit Gitarre, welche den Aufdruck „This machine kills fascists“ trägt. Woodie war ein linker Songwriter. Sein wohl bekanntestes Lied war „This Land Is Your Land".

Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)

From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wrqZPUBJqJwC&pg=PA53&dq=%22we%27ll%20gang%20nae%20mair%20a%20roving%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRzY_714rwAhX7VBUIHafXBksQuwUwBnoECAEQBw&fbclid=IwAR2y-nlehZgaooF6HbjkRUv65obO875dbi6w41K_0-PijVyX3SZiNiJSAMY#v=onepage&q&f=false

#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #folksong

The Jolly Beggar

Said to have been composed by King James, on a frolic of his own.
(Footnote: This Prince (whose character Dr. Percy thinks for wit and libertinism bears a great resemblance to that of his gay successor Charles II, was noted for strolling about his dominions in disguise, and for his frequent gallantries with country girls. It is of the present ballad that Mr. Walpole has remarked, there is something very ludicrous in the young woman’s distress when she thought her first favours had been thrown away upon a beggar.)

There was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was boun’,
And he took up his quarters into a land’art town,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving,
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er sae bright!

He wad neither ly in barn, nor yet wad he in byre,
But in ahint the ha’ door, or else afore the fire,
And we’ll gang nae mair, &c.

The beggar’s bed was made at e’en wi’ good clean straw and hay,
And in ahint the ha’ door, and there the beggar lay.
And we’ll gang nae mair, &c.

The late Joe Aitken sings “Yellow on the Broom” at Cromar Folk Club

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDpbtft1bn8

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #travellers

Betsy Whyte’s autobiography – “a beautiful book, shining with honesty, a classic” – is a fascinating insight into the life & customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, & is available as an ebook from Birlinn

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https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-yellow-on-the-broom-2/

#Scottish #literature #culture #song #folksong #history #20thcentury #travellers

When the yellow’s on the broom, when the yellow’s on the broom,
Oh, I’ll tak’ ye on the road again when the yellow’s on the broom…

—Adam McNaughtan, “Yellow on the Broom”

The song was inspired by Betsy Whyte’s 1979 autobiography THE YELLOW ON THE BROOM: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

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#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #travellers

Yellow on the Broom
Adam McNaughtan

Well, I ken ye dinna like it, lass, tae winter here in toun
For the scaldies they all cry us, aye, and they try to bring us doon,
And it’s hard to raise three bairnies in a single flea-box room,
And I’ll tak’ ye on the road again when the yellow’s on the broom.

When the yellow’s on the broom, when the yellow’s on the broom,
Oh, I’ll tak’ ye on the road again when the yellow’s on the broom.

Oh, the scaldies cry us ‘tinker dirt’ and they sconce oor bairns at school,
But who cares what a scaldy says for a scaldy’s but a fool.
They never hear the yarlin’s sang nor see the flax in bloom,
For they’re aye cooped up in hooses when the yellow’s on the broom.

When the yellow’s on the broom, when the yellow’s on the broom,
For they’re aye cooped up in hooses when the yellow’s on the broom.

Nae sales for pegs and baskets noo, so just to stay alive
We’ve had tae work at scaldy jobs frae nine o’clock ’til five.
But we caa nae man oor master, for we own the warld’s room,
And we’ll bid farewell to Brechin, when the yellow’s on the broom.

When the yellow’s on the broom, when the yellow’s on the broom,
And we’ll bid farewell to Brechin, when the yellow’s on the broom.

I’m weary for the springtime, when we’ll tak’ the road aince mair
Tae the plantin’ and the pearlin’, aye, and the berry fields o Blair,
There we’ll meet wi all our kinfolk, frae a’ the country roon’,
When the ganaboot folk tak’ the road, and the yellow’s on the broom.

Common or Scotch Broom – a shrub with stiff dark green stems and a profusion of bright yellow flowers

Given that it is the anniversary of the Spithead mutiny today, I probably ought also to share this #FolkSong
https://youtu.be/wZMmGGMpUhU

#WorkingClassHistory #WorkersRightsAreHumanRights

@lydiaschoch

Yes, it is weird.

Have you heard this #JohnKirkpatrick #folksong ?

https://youtu.be/oj3_YJaAg-s

I little folk song about Untied Health. I love these. Catchy.

https://youtu.be/_TBH9EZcLpo?si=f2cALd5YjxTWwszo

#resistance #folksong #unitedhealth #universalhealthcare #ushealthsystem #healthinsurance #antifascism #anticapitalism

Sharing this (justly) furious verse from Ewan Robertson's song of c. 1880s about the Highland Clearances, telling Patrick Sellar to burn in hell.

Sellar, a factor (property manager) for the aristocratic Sutherland family, oversaw the forced eviction of tenants to make way for sheep, which could make landowners more money.

From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic as sung by Andrew Stewart; English John MacInnes; Scots Hamish Henderson.

#FolkSong #Scotland #ScottishHistory #WorkingClassHistory

Black text on a white backgrounds, reads:

Gaelic:
Ach nis, a Shellar, fhuair thu bàs
’S ma fhuair thu ceartas fhuair thu blàths
An tcine leis ’n a loisg thu càch
Gum faigh thu fhéin gu leòr dheth

English:
But now, Sellar, you are dead
And if justice has been done you are warm!
The fire with which you burnt others
May you yourself have enough of it.

Scots:
Sellar, daith has ye in his grip;
Ye needna think he’ll let ye slip.
Justice ye’ve earned, and, by the Book,
A warm assize ye winna jouk.
The fires ye lit tae gut Strathnaver
Ye’ll feel them noo—and roast forever.

[From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic verse as sung by Andrew Stewart; English trans. John MacInnes; Scots trans. Hamish Henderson.]

Cold Vocal Comping – Scratchy, Shaky Good Sounds #recording #FolkSong

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