im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s 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
You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three
The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep
I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]
The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English
One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome
The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep
We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:
* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland
* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It
* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)
* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution
* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow
oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!
genres include:
I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug
The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed
You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)
Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)
The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground
We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee
The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang)
When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left
The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow
Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!
I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:
I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)
I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant
I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It
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
Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise
Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome
The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)
Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor
Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol
behold mongolian folk music genres
I Went Out Riding and Noticed Mongolia
We Fought a Bunch of Guys (On Horseback)
Witness My Many Ungulates
(While On a Horse) I Met a Hot Girl Who Reminded Me of a Plant
On Three, Say What That Terrain Feature Looks Like to You (One, Two, Three, A Horse)
Witness My Many Ancestors’ Many Ungulates
I Also Enjoy Heavy Metal, Especially If It’s Made of Horseshoes
Oooorrrrweeeeuuurrrreeeeuuuuwwwwwrrrrrrrr (Is Tuvan for “Horse”)
You Might Not Know This About Me, But I Own a Horse
Yorkshire / Northern England speciality folk songs that I’ve gathered from growing up in working men’s clubs and shit:
We love you Mrs. Thatcher (ironic, song describes her death)
The IRA are alright (but we are bitter they couldn’t kill Mrs. Thatcher)
Coal not dole (we love mining, it’s our way of life. As is dying of lung disease far too young.)
Socialism means beating the shite out of fascists and getting away with it (but we never do, and now the police have brutalised us)
The police are cunts (Hillsborough version)
The police are cunts (Orgreave version)
The police are cunts (but my brother is one and the fact I am a striking miner has torn our family in two)
We love Nye Bevan (and get emotional about him when we are drunk)
My father was a communist (but with age he has shifted to the right and now I pretend he is dead whilst worrying I will go the same way)
The trade unions saved my job (and by extension my life, because now I won’t be killed in an preventable workplace accident)
My job killed me (in a preventable workplace accident)
I want to live long enough to see my children grow and prosper (but I won’t)
I love this girl but not as much as I love my city’s industrial past (that is long gone, and now I get emotional about it when I drink)
party like it’s the first age (and everyone you love is dead): the sequel fanmix to noldor best dor, the very serious fanmix I made and posted some time ago.
Did you think I’d lay down and die? Oh no not I I will survive
Party Like a Rockstar – Shop Boyz {general}
I’m on a money making mission But I party like a rockstar Flyin’ down 20 lookin’ good in my hot car
Hung Up – Madonna {fingon/maedhros}
Time goes by so slowly Time goes by so slowly Time goes by so slowly
Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen {beren/luthien}
Your stare was holdin’, Ripped jeans, skin was showin’ Hot night, wind was blowin’ Where do you think you’re going, baby?
Telephone (feat. Beyonce) – Lady Gaga {aredhel}
I don’t wanna think anymore I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor
We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift {the doom of mandos}
We are never ever ever getting back together, You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me But we are never ever ever ever getting back together
Take a Hint – Victorious {maeglin/idril}
Why am I always hit on by the boys I never like I can always see ‘em coming, from the left or from the right I don’t want to be a priss, I’m just try’na be polite
This Is Why I’m Hot – Mims {feanor}
I’m hot cause I’m fly (fly) You ain’t cause you’re not (not)
Breaking Free – High School Musical {the noldor}
We’re soarin’ Flyin’ There’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach
Survivor – Destiny’s Child{turin turambar}
I’m a survivor (What?) I’m not gon give up (What?) I’m not gon stop (What?)
This Is Our Night – Sakis Rouvas {the noldor}
This is our night, fly to the top baby Yes we can do it, just wait and see This is our night, time for a change baby Get rid of the old, take a hold, and be free
Can’t Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) – Macklemore{numenor}
Can we go back, this is the moment Tonight is the night, we’ll fight ‘til it’s over So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us
I’ll Be There For You – The Rembrandts {feanorians}
So no one told you life was gonna be this way Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A. It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year
I Knew You Were Trouble– Taylor Swift {finrod/curufin}
I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I’d never been Now I’m lying on the cold hard ground
Sexy and I Know It – lmfao {celegorm}
When I walk in the spot (yeah), this is what I see (ok) Everybody stops and they staring at me I got passion in my pants and I ain’t afraid to show it, show it, show it, show it
Maneater – Nelly Furtado{ungoliant}
She’s a Maneater, make you work hard Make you spend hard Make you want all, of her love
Lucky – Britney Spears {nienna}
She’s so lucky, she’s a star But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking If there’s nothing missing in my life Then why do these tears come at night
Reach – S Club 7 {eärendil}
Reach for the stars And when that rainbow’s shining over you That’s when your dreams will all come true
just moving along like everyone else 