{"id":144846,"date":"2015-07-20T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/dduane-ursulavernon-ellenkushner\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:15:24","slug":"dduane-ursulavernon-ellenkushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/dduane-ursulavernon-ellenkushner\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dduane.tumblr.com\/post\/124427828296\/ursulavernon-ellenkushner\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">dduane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ursulavernon.tumblr.com\/post\/124299862698\/ellenkushner-shredsandpatches-junkybowels\" target=\"_blank\">ursulavernon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ellenkushner.tumblr.com\/post\/124292181311\/shredsandpatches-junkybowels-plaidadder\" target=\"_blank\">ellenkushner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shredsandpatches.tumblr.com\/post\/114423619578\/junkybowels-plaidadder-argonauticae\" target=\"_blank\">shredsandpatches<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/junkybowels.tumblr.com\/post\/114420528834\/plaidadder-argonauticae-argonauticae-im-putting\" target=\"_blank\">junkybowels<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plaidadder.tumblr.com\/post\/113321714624\/argonauticae-argonauticae-im-putting-together-a\" target=\"_blank\">plaidadder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/argonauticae.tumblr.com\/post\/113292226665\/argonauticae-im-putting-together-a-couple-of\" target=\"_blank\">argonauticae<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/argonauticae.tumblr.com\/post\/113249521530\/im-putting-together-a-couple-of-scottish-folk\" target=\"_blank\">argonauticae<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p>im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that\u2019s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>scottish trad music genres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone I Love Is Dead<\/li>\n<li>The English Have Stolen All My Sheep<\/li>\n<li>You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three<\/li>\n<li>The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep<\/li>\n<li>I Love You A Lot But You\u2019ve Left Me And It\u2019s Raining [fiddle solo]<\/li>\n<li>The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English<\/li>\n<li>One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome<\/li>\n<li>The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It<\/p>\n<p>* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won\u2019t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)<\/p>\n<p>* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They\u2019ve Stopped Listening Now Let\u2019s Talk About Revolution<\/p>\n<p>* Something In Irish, I Think It\u2019s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>oooo can I add to this? don\u2019t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!<\/p>\n<p>genres include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn\u2019t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She\u2019s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She\u2019s Dyin\u2019 (Gather Round)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won\u2019t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn\u2019t Fix The Levee\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When The Rebels Come A-Marchin\u2019 I\u2019m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin\u2019 I\u2019m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that old standby \u201cThe Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)<\/li>\n<li>I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)<\/li>\n<li>I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)<\/li>\n<li>I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents\u2019 House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)<\/li>\n<li>I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I\u2019m Pregnant<\/li>\n<li>I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It<\/li>\n<li>I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis<\/li>\n<li>Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let\u2019s Get Married, I\u2019m Glad You Said No Because I\u2019m Really Him In Disguise<\/li>\n<li>Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome<\/li>\n<li>The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)<\/li>\n<li>Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor<\/li>\n<li>Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OH GOD HELP ME I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I CANNOT BREATHE<\/p>\n<p>(plus I know every variant of each and every one of these songs and I\u2019ll send you the links if you want)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeez, you guys left off <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Am A Gambler Who Will Come To No Good End\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuckoos Are Extremely Interesting Birds, But Alas I Am A Gambler Who Will Come To No Good End (Cuckoo Solo)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Was A Cowboy And Then Everyone Died So I Came Home\u201d <\/p>\n<p>and that old favorite, \u201cMy Boyfriend Left Me So I Dressed Up As A Man And Shot His Cheating Ass.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There is also a peculiar Southern variant that seems to be \u201cMy Horse Is Extremely Fast And Also Sexy And Then I Met A Woman On An Equally Sexy Horse And Married Her.\u201d That one worries me a little.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>attn <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mFg5BsoLuF_mnUTVT66gDew\" target=\"_blank\">petermorwood<\/a> (\u201dahem, somebody left this bonny black hare running around loose in here\u2026\u201d) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dduane: ursulavernon: ellenkushner: shredsandpatches: junkybowels: plaidadder: argonauticae: argonauticae: im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that\u2019s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever scottish trad music genres: Everyone I Love Is Dead The English Have Stolen All My Sheep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/dduane-ursulavernon-ellenkushner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> 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