LL-L: "Songs" LOWLANDS-L, 28.JAN.2000 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: "Songs"

> From: Richard L Turner [fr.andreas at juno.com]
> Subject: LL-L: "Songs" LOWLANDS-L, 26.JAN.2000 (10) [Ap/E]
>
> It does if one accepts the tradition that it's an English folk-song that
> spread to Scotland and America. Another thing that makes sense to me is
> the "burden." It brings, at least to my eye, the picture of the witnesses
> of the unlikely events in the song... a man with his declining equine in
> a flimsy boat floating by downstream. If he hadn't seen it, who would
> tell?

Mm-hmmmm! The "burden" comes across with me as a string of emotional effects
rather than images:

Cuddy alane, cuddy alane (galloping)
Cuddy alane an I! (dramatic, heroic galloping)
Kickmaleerie (it's all just trivial...)
Cowdin doun (...so don't get over-excited)

That's not what those words mean, it's just how they feel!

> Well, probably. The trick is not to open the mouth very wide, make all
> the vowels middle-vowels, and sing from your heart through your nose.
> Good vocal training has spoiled many a folk-singer.

Yes, this seems to work! It also tends to hide the fact that my accent isn't
perfect!

Sandy
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