#folksongs

[nj-phang-al]

2025/01/30

“Tshu-ah-jit-chau, tshu-ah-ngī-chau, chau-chau hòng-tshông, tshîm mòi lôi nam-jau.” -- “Shíp-chau-ko”, Hak-ka mîn-jâu.

「初啊一朝， 初啊二朝， 朝朝䟘床， 尋妹來攬腰。」 ——《十朝歌》，客家民謠。

"The first and second mornings of month, after waking up, I find my girl and hold her round the waist." -- "Song of ten mornings", Hakka folk song.

[knittingwithhighlighters]

Out of context thought of the day

I can't think straight, because my head is too full of sea shanties.

[nathanael-lloyd]

Name that folksong pt 3/choose your fate

you & your lover drown when your dad tries to marry you off to a rich guy

Get burned at the stake by your family for falling in love w/ an Englishman

Die after being poisoned by your Mother-in-Law

Hang for murdering your gf after her spirit tells her mother in a dream

your gf's ghost saves you testifies in court that she died in a hunting accident

Your bro kills your love after he won your hand in marriage in a duel w/ others

Had a kid w/ a selkie then marry a whaler who kills your child and his father

Flee the country after conspiring with your mother to kill your father

a king marries you & kills your mom bc she had your kid & 1st husband killed

your 3 dead sons come to tell you to stop crying so they can be dead in peace

Voting ended onJun 5, 2023

folksong names will be posted once the poll is over

[awhitewiltedlily]

This punjabi folk song is 💓

Ve mahiya tere vekhan nu,

chuk charkha gali de vich panwa,

Ve loka paane main kat di,

tang teriya yaad de panwa.

Oh Beloved, to get your glimpse,

I have placed the charkha in the lane outside,

People may think I am spinning the threads of cotton,

But I am truly spinning the thread of your memories.

vasan ni de rahe saure peke,

mainu tere pain pulekhe,

ve hoon mainu das mahiya,

tere baaju kidhar main jayiyaan.

our relatives don't let me rest at ease,

But I keep getting the feeling that you've come.

Oh darling, I ask you this,

If I don't go to you then were do I go!

✨

[gwydionmisha]

Peter, Paul, and Mary - Polly Von

[enclure]

Theres  like a specific video of this woman singing a small like folksong concert or something in celtic/gaelic/nordic/idk and its like on a cliffside overlooking a lake and i want to watch it so bad but i cant remember the singer or the song or the language and I cant find it :’)

[katherinehillierillustration]

A little thing for Inktober day 1 - with the theme of ‘ring’.

This has always been one of my favourite nursery rhymes, especially after I was taught it was about the black plague, though that theory only emerged in the 1950s and has since been debunked. 

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I’m getting a little better with the Autoharp so I recorded a favourite folk song as best as I could.