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gwendolyngrace ([personal profile] gwendolyngrace) wrote2004-05-20 02:10 pm

Yeah, Yeah, Twice in one day

I know, but...

this is so funny! Though if you don't know anything about Child Ballads, maybe not so much. But there are some that I think many people could recognize even without knowledge of the folk ballad traditions.

http://www.ouphrontis.com/writings/etiquette.html

[identity profile] mincot.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!! I especially loved the "Old Bangum" letter; my mother used to sing that to me when I was a child. And the Two Sisters variant is priceless. Hard to find good harp materials, humph. Tell that one to the palumbo growers and the violin bow-makers!