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Steen Comer (dba mediapathic)

@jappel Ah, an excuse to share my Preliminary Taxonomy of British Isles Folk Music:

- As I walked out something happened
- our ship is pretty great
- unhealthy fixation on class distinctions
- I was a terrible person and now I'm about to be hanged
- I was an awesome person and now I'm about to be hanged
- it sucks to be in the place I'm from
- it sucks to be away from the place I'm from
- They left and I'm sad / wait they're back / oh they were actually a ghost
- why is there blood everywhere?

23 Dec 2022 at 0:45 | Wall-to-wall | Open on wandering.shop
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Per Ahlberg

@mediapathic @jappel If the last category contains "William", you could perhaps expand / specify it as:

- You know why there is blood everywhere? Mum put me up to it.

23 Dec 2022 at 8:25 | Open on sciencemastodon.com
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@PerAhlberg @mediapathic @jappel you forgot Edward. Although it can be mum it wasn't me, or it's your fault.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward

23 Dec 2022 at 23:41 | Open on chaos.social
Steen Comer (dba mediapathic)

@onepict ooh, I particularly like the Lankum version of that one.

24 Dec 2022 at 1:01 | Open on wandering.shop
Solomon Foster

@onepict @PerAhlberg @mediapathic @jappel The versions I know, the question of interest is what's / whose blood is it? Both Edward and "Son oh Son".

26 Dec 2022 at 2:13 | Open on wandering.shop
Per Ahlberg

@colomon @onepict @mediapathic @jappel Same thing in 'Sven i Rosengård'; the protagonist says he's been in the stable, and initially he claims that his clothes are bloody because he's been kicked by his horse, but then he fesses up that actually he's murdered his brother. 'Ebbe Skammelson' is a narrative, not a question-and-answer lyric, so the killings are presented in gruesome detail.

26 Dec 2022 at 8:07 | Open on sciencemastodon.com
SamuelJohnson

@mediapathic @jappel Calling an island British that isn't is one way to get some blood up.

23 Dec 2022 at 10:16 | Open on mstdn.social
Steen Comer (dba mediapathic)

@samueljohnson @jappel as an ugly American I assume I am wrong about all matters of geography.

23 Dec 2022 at 10:26 | Open on wandering.shop
Kevin Sours

@mediapathic @jappel
Our ship is a catastrophe is also kinda popular.

23 Dec 2022 at 15:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Jeff Fecke
Steen Comer (dba mediapathic)

@jkfecke arguably Jerusalem is neither British nor Island nor Folk. I know, I know, but Britain is defined in terms of Jerusalem, not the other way around.

23 Dec 2022 at 21:32 | Open on wandering.shop
Rachel Palmer

@mediapathic @jappel don’t forget I loved you from afar and now you’re dead.

23 Dec 2022 at 20:18 | Open on ohai.social
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MattJohns

@mediapathic @jappel
#SWMBO Added: (I/my man) has been seized by the press gang.

24 Dec 2022 at 7:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Mia
Kat K 🐾🐾

@mediapathic @jappel This also works for American Country & Western music. Just replace ‘ship’ with ‘Ford Pickup truck’.

26 Dec 2022 at 11:41 | Open on mastodon.world
John Spiers

@mediapathic @jappel you forgot this one:
I killed my girlfriend by accident because I thought she was a swan.

26 Dec 2022 at 12:00 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Steen Comer (dba mediapathic)

@squeezyjohn I feel that comes under the "about to be hanged" category, at least in the example I'm familiar with (and why did Old Uncle tell him it was cool to do that??)

26 Dec 2022 at 14:04 | Open on wandering.shop
Solomon Foster

@mediapathic @squeezyjohn If you broaden it out a bit, "Crazy Man Michael" is clearly an example, and there's no hanging in there at all.

26 Dec 2022 at 14:39 | Open on wandering.shop
Solomon Foster

@mediapathic @squeezyjohn And that just made me think of selkie songs, which don't seem to fit well in any of your categories?

26 Dec 2022 at 14:41 | Open on wandering.shop
kevpritchard

@mediapathic @jappel
Nice list- how about the category’Let’s get drunk’?

27 Dec 2022 at 9:50 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
George Kelly

@mediapathic @jappel Thank you for this, I needed it a week ago when I'd finished reading Richard Thompson's "Beeswing" and gone on a miniature Fairport Convention listening jag.

28 Dec 2022 at 18:39 | Open on social.lol
BillStewart415

@mediapathic @jappel Or occasionally, "that girl/guy is really cute" or "my ex is a cheater" or "bye, loser, I'm heading off with the hot gypsy/fae/soldier"

28 Dec 2022 at 19:47 | Open on infosec.exchange
HighlandLawyer

@mediapathic @jappel You missed:
- Let's have sex
- We had sex & now he* has buggered off

* Theoretically it could be she, but it never is.

28 Dec 2022 at 20:34 | Open on mastodon.social
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