Now I'd like to turn to the folk song (Texts of songs ), which has become in recent years the particularly fashionable form of idiocy among the self-styled intellectual. We find that people who deplore the level of current popular songs -- although I admit they do seem to be recording almost anything these days. Have you heard Sesue Hayakawa's record of Remember Pearl Harbor? These same people who deplore the level of current popular songs and yet will sit around enthralled singing Jimmy crack corn and I don't care or Green Grow The Rushes, Oh! -- whatever that means. At any rate, for this elite I have here an ancient Irish ballad, which was written a few years ago, and which is replete with all the accoutrements of this art form. In particular, it has a sort of idiotic Texts of songs - ficd.ru, in this case rickety-tickety-tin you'll notice cropping up from time to time, running through, I might add, interminable verses. The large number of verses being a feature expressly designed to please the true devotees of the folk song (Texts of songs ) who seem to find
singing fifty verses of On Top Of Old Smokey is twice as enjoyable as singing twenty-five.
This type of song (Texts of songs ) also has what is known technically in music as a modal tune, which means -- for the benefit of any layman who may have wandered in this evening -- that I play a wrong note every now and then.
I, ah, I really should say that - I do not direct these remarks against the vast army of folk song (Texts of songs ) lovers, but merely against that peculiar hard core who seem to equate authenticity with artistic merit and illiteracy with charm.
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Oh, one more thing. One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song (Texts of songs ) for group singing. So if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song (Texts of songs ), I'd appreciate it if you would leave -- right now.
