16th season of the Ukulele contest

Hello Folks
If nobody minds I'll suggest a week for the 16th week
to be announced after I spruced myself up.



The Criteria

Pre 1950 Folk songs from the British Isles, England Ireland Scotland Wales.

No Pub songs or Bawdy double speak.
as my children will be helping to judge these videos

The RULES
1) One take. Doesn't have to be the first take but does have to be a single take with no dubs or cuts, etc. Must be a new video recorded for this contest - no recycling earlier videos. Don't forget the magic words spoken in the intro!
2) Uke must be front and centre
3) Enter by posting your video on youtube and then putting a post here in this thread with a link to the video.
4) Entry must be posted on youtube and entered here by midnight, Hawaiian time, Sunday night (i.e. when Sunday June 10th ends in Hawaii).
5) Must speak the magic words at the beginning of the video. The magic words are "16th season of the ukulele"
6) One entry per person - you can enter more times, but your last entry will be the one scored.

The Prize
One cool looking Mug from Canada with English Sweets
One cool looking Frisbee from Canada
maybe I should post a picture

Judging
Friends and family

Some Ideas
Ken Middleton's great website.
Traditional folk songs
Traditional songs of the British Isles


Playlist
This is the playlist

Thanks Loonie!
Great theme, but it sure is tough to stay away from the bawdy, or the violent, or death themed, or unplanned parenthood, or theft, or flagons of mead..what else is there in the old UK?
Still looking!

spruce away brother loon... :uhoh:

Thanks, ukuloonie.
And if anybody minded they shoulda stepped up and done it themselves already.

Just sayin

eugene ukulele said:

spruce away brother loon... :uhoh:

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Had to look at least presentable.

Mighty thanks Drew for picking up the flaming baton of the seasons, now to practice my "Hey nonnie,nonnies ! "

any hints to song lists or sources for songs with chords? my knowledge of older than me english folk songs is a bit lacking!
any help? all the one's i found seem to be bawdy! ah yes, a challenge!

cheers and good strumming!

thesillydave said:

any hints to song lists or sources for songs with chords? my knowledge of older than me english folk songs is a bit lacking!
any help? all the one's i found seem to be bawdy! ah yes, a challenge!

cheers and good strumming!

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I hope this helps a bit, i think i have my song

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songs-tab/songs-tab.html

Aye I saw that page Ukuleledaveey
you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see all the titles.
I've added two other links above also

thanks daveey! time to start my search! cheers!

peewee said:

Thanks Loonie!
Great theme, but it sure is tough to stay away from the bawdy, or the violent, or death themed, or unplanned parenthood, or theft, or flagons of mead..what else is there in the old UK?
Still looking!

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I remembered Ken middletons site he has some great celtic pieces.
because Celtic is still folk right?

thanks for taking the baton loonie,
I have a song, the Riddle Song. used to play it in the guitar. sounds nice on the uke

Cool Thats great
Thanks Strumsilly

I think I've got a song! Is the 19th century acceptable?

yep I was thinking anything before 195o

I don't know if I'll get an entry in this week, but I already feel like I've won. I started thinking about whether there were any Fairport Convention songs I could reasonably do. This got me thinking about their song "Sloth", which is too recent to be eligible. Long song short, over the past hour I've figured out the chords and learned to play it. So whatever happens, thanks Ukuloonie!

strumsilly said:

thanks for taking the baton loonie,
I have a song, the Riddle Song. used to play it in the guitar. sounds nice on the uke

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nice mate, lovely song, looking forward to your take on it

I am getting off to an early start on this one... sort of to celebrate the diamond jubilee :biglaugh:

The Stone of Scone (Scottish Gaelic: An Lia Fàil), also known as the Stone of Destiny
and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red
sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later
the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

Historically, the artifact was kept at the now-ruined Scone Abbey in Scone, near Perth,
Scotland. Other names by which it has sometimes been known include Jacob's Pillow Stone.
Legends place the origins in Biblical times and consider the stone to be the
Stone of Jacob taken by Jacob while in Haran (Genesis 28:10-22).
Others consider it to be the Tanist Stone.

On Christmas Day 1950, a group of four Scottish students (Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon,
Kay Matheson, and Alan Stuart) took the Stone from Westminster Abbey for return to Scotland.
In the process of removing it from the Abbey the stone broke into two pieces.

A major search for the stone had been ordered by the British Government,
but this proved unsuccessful. Perhaps assuming that the Church would not return
it to England, the stone's custodians left it on the altar of Arbroath Abbey,
on 11 April 1951, in the safekeeping of the Church of Scotland.

Once the London police were informed of its whereabouts, the Stone was returned
to Westminster. Afterwards, rumours circulated that copies had been made of the Stone,
and that the returned Stone was not in fact the original.

Thanks for this wee song and story,
My children's grandmother was from Scotland,
so I was able to tell them this story.
I always like your choice of stories and songs.
Thanks Wee ginga Yin.

ukuloonie said:

Thanks for this wee song and story,
My children's grandmother was from Scotland,
so I was able to tell them this story.
I always like your choice of stories and songs.
Thanks Wee ginga Yin.

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Well what with the "diamond jubilee" fever sweeping the UK
I had to put the republican point of view across.

Though I must say I did enjoy the

Ukulele Orchesta of Great Britain's Coronation Calypso