Here's another list of things I learnt this year

[venta]

Well, there were further thoughts from a small folk festival, only I haven't had time to write them down. First I was busy thinking them, then driving down, then at work, then broadmeadow and I went to a peculiarly imaginative quiz last night, run by a friend of his.

They may get written up at some point. Or maybe not. However, to be going on with:

Things I learnt from listening to folk songs[*] this weekend:

• Any broken-down race horse running at fantastically long odds will come in first.


• Women can't be trusted.


• Men can't be trusted either.


• Things used to be better.


• Things will be better tomorrow.


• Seven (long) years is enough to render the love of your life unrecognisable.


• Gentlemen: if you meet a woman who is crying on account of her love being lost at sea/killed in battle/otherwise missing, the correct course of action is immediately to propose marriage. This may result in felicitous domestic bliss, or the lady spontaneously committing suicide.


• Cocaine's for horses but it ain't for men.


• Black socks never get dirty.


• It's difficult to catch an excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.


• A shark in the garden pond will cure your wife of reading Dennis Wheatley novels.


• Seemingly blameless activities like hunting for black hares, catching birds, or sitting side by side in assorted forms of agricultural transport can result in pregnancy.


• Bosses are bastards.


• You can't break the faith of a Tolpuddle man.

[*] Where a "folk song" is defined as something I heard someone sing in a place notionally called a folk club.

In other news, thanks to my lovely parents and the lovely DaveT (who renovated it for me), I'm now the proud owner of an English concertina. Yay :)

Now all I have to do is learn to play it, of course.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, only five of them were specific songs, the rest were general rules from several songs.

Any further gems of advice welcome.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

It's a very long story. Fair warning.

Do you really want me to?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Are Raries involved ?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Tha's the one.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't know they were birds.

Besides, I think you've rather missed the point. That's a bad joke based on a pun from a song; I was after things which genuinely appeared in the lyrics of songs.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Wasn't so much missed as deliberately sidestepped...