jeano
Posted : 1/22/2007 4:24:23 PM
When I was in a bluegrass band, playing weddings was one of my favorite funny things to do.
All the songs are about divorce, pain, losing love, drinking too much, not to mention the Polly and Willy songs (hint: NEVER go down the the river with Willy...)
for instance:
Fox on the Run
"She walks through the corn leading down by the river
Her hair shines like gold in the hot morning sun.
She took all the love that a poor boy could give her,
Then left me to die like a fox on the run."
And Celtic music isn't much better. Of course bluegrass is justn derivative Celtic music, anyway. So all the same things apply only MORE people die at the end of the songs.
One that really gets me every single time, is women who want me to sing "She Moved Through the Fair." It's about a DEAD GIRL bemoaning that she never saw her wedding day. But people hear "wedding day" in a song and hang onto that, and don't listen to the rest of the words! [8D]