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⌈ Secret Post #2635 ⌋

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[Casshern (film)]

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[cosplay, Anthony Misiano]

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03. http://i.imgur.com/4s3vCwo.png
[link for nudity/etc. naked mpreg snape with boobs.]

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[link for nudity (OP requested it; not really sexual though. probably would've been ok, considering the one below ↓)]

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[Josh Radnor]

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10. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]

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11. [SPOILERS for Grimm]

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12. [SPOILERS for Twisted]

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13. [WARNING for ephebophilia]

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14. [WARNING for suicide]

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What the subject says! Old traditional songs with murky origins or precursors that you love.

Greensleeves will forever be my favorite.

Yes indeed.

Yesssss.

The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass is so fucking great ;_;

+ The Rose Rose song (You know, "rose rose rose red/will I ever see thee wed")

+ The Whistling Gypsy/Gypsy Rover

+ Scarborough Fair

+ Haul on the Bowling & Haul Away Joe (not sure if based on actual folk songs or not though, sorry OP!)

+ The Highwayman (I think it was a poem, first, but it's been sung before, so...?)
+ Does John Denver count, or is he too modern/country-y?

Edited ( forgot one. |D) 2014-03-21 23:34 (UTC)

The Highwayman is one of my favorite poems! It was written by Alfred Noyes, in case anyone's curious. (And the song you're referring to is probably the one by Loreena McKennitt.)

I love John Denver to bits, but I think OP was talking more about old traditional songs -- y'know, stuff that no one really knows who wrote it.

Re: Favorite folksongs

loracarol - 2014-03-21 23:42 (UTC) - Expand

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Loch Lomond

Auld Lang Syne

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

The Girl I Left Behind

The Female Highwayman

Turkey in the Straw

The Arkansas Traveler

My Darling Clementine

Oh Suzanna

Greensleeves

(I'm sort of a fanatic about traditional songs. Always collecting more.)

Way too many too list, but I especially love Scottish and Irish ones -- such as Loch Lomond and The Fields Of Athenry.

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Not sure if it counts, but I'm posting this anyway because it never fails to make me choke up.

I like "The Long Black Veil" and "Rye Whiskey", which is evidently properly called "Way up on Clinch Mountain."

I couldn't possible list all my favorites, but I wanted to mention that listening to American folk songs are the only thing that make me feel "patriotic" in the sense of having an intense exclusive affection for my home country over others. That kind of organic evidence of real people's lives in this place throughout history is 100000000x more effective than any number of bullshit smug jingoistic speeches and parades.

ALL OF THEM. Haha, but really, I spent around three years listening to like 60% folk/folk rock. I put Child Ballad numbers in the notes space on iTunes, where applicable. You have no idea how hard it is for me to pick just a few.

The False Knight on the Road (Child 3)

The Lowlands of Holland

Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58)

The Dalesman's Litany, although this dates to around 1900.

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen and There Is A Balm In Gilead and other songs like that

Pretty much anything that Steeleye Span or Pentangle sings?

The Trees Grow High is probably my very favorite song, though.

If I Were A Blackbird
Rising Of The Moon
The Parting Glass
Mairi's Wedding (it's a lot of fun)

Not exactly a folk song but a poem by Yeats but still a beautiful song:
Down by the Salley Gardens

Non-English:

Tri Martolod
Es ist ein Schnitter, heißt der Tod

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I don't think I have any...:( Are their any Australian folk songs? I didn't think Waltzing Matilda or The Man from Snowy River or anything like that were old enough to count?

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Ar Lan y Môr

The Scotsman is an old drinking song, right? I know the Irish Rovers recorded it but I didn't think they wrote it....

Also The Fox, recorded by Nickel Creek but a traditional song.

cliche maybe, but Danny Boy

For me, it depends on the time and the mood I'm in, but I sometimes like to hum "Aci Aci, buka pintu" whenever I like to scare myself. It's about a a girl, Aci, who is left in a house alone at night. I really like to hum the middle verse of all.

Nana Nana, cepat pulang
Aci takut tinggal seorang
B'lakang rumah ada Jembalang
mata sepet hidungnya belang

Nana, Nana, please come home quick
Aci is afraid of being all alone
Behind the house, there is a frightening creature
With thin eyes and a striped nose

Scarborough Fair. The Maid of Culmore. Danny Boy.

Scarborough Fair actually taught me a new word: "sea-strand" (beach).

St. James Infirmary is likely the quintessential American folk song: Sex, death, drinking, and gambling.