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You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy dirt…
I really like this song for some reason that I cannot fathom. It is just one of those songs that provide the feeling of warmth, comfort, and coziness when you are listening to it. The tune can get stuck in your head and gosh, the metaphor and allusion in the lyrics!! If you have not listened to it yet, go to Youtube or any music streaming service…
I've gotta hand it to NSLU's international marketing team, they managed to take a concept as cute and innocent as "The Princess is in danger! Wait — Luigi's gonna save her this time?! 😱" and turn it into one of the most genuinely unsettling pieces of media to come out of the franchise.
This doesn't read as "Luigi's filling in for Mario this time around!", this reads as "Luigi finally snaps and murders his brother in cold blood, forcing Peach to watch before turning the blade on her as well." It's beautiful.
i remember seeing a bunch of mlp characters in socks when i was younger so now i have decided to continue the tradition by doing that but with country bear jamboree :) im feeling a little too silly today
Hi! Can I ask you about the history of the Wagoner's Lad? I'm a fan of Peter & Gordon their song Pretty Mary, but only today, while listening to some Peggy Seeger, I realised that it's a different pov adaptation of that ballad!
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"Pretty Mary"
Peter & Gordon, 1964
Like you said, "Pretty Mary" is a gender-bent version of the Traditional song "The Wagoner's Lad", which was first documented in 1907 by Cecil Sharp. Here's the fun part- if you are familiar with folk song collector Cecil Sharp and American folk songs, you might expect that it was first collected somewhere in the UK or perhaps Ireland if it was spicy. However, the song was first collected in Appalachia! Despite focusing on English folk songs, Cecil Sharp also collected and recorded folk songs in the Appalachia.
It was first published in "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians" in 1917. and was first recorded in 1926 by Kelly Harrell as "My horses ain't Hungry".
Another Interesting part of this song is that many of its verses have ended up in the song "On Top of Old Smokey", another song collected by Cecil Sharp in Appalachia in 1916.
This makes it hard to tell the two songs apart, as they've become tangled up with each other. Both songs even contain the same Roud folk song number: 414. "On Top of Old Smokey" was first recorded in 1925 by George Reneau. Old Smokey probably refers to the Great Smoky Mountain range that exists between Tenessee and North Carolina.
This Song, throughout its history, has been adapted and recorded over and over again, here's just a few examples.
Pretty Nancy by Jean Ritchie 1970s (?)
The Wagoner's Lad by the Kossoy Sisters 1956
My Horses Ain't Hungry by Mike Seeger 1977
On Top of Old Smokey by Gene Autry 1952
Fare You Well Polly by Pete Seeger, 1954
Rye Whiskey by Woody Guthrie 1940
Goodbye Old Paint by Colter Wall 2021
and there are many many many more.
Thanks for the recommendation! I hope this was helpful
I'm making a separate post bc I kind of sent myself down a rabbit hole. I wanna clarify that I am a Big Hozier Fan and that most country music is a different lyrical ballpark entirely bc of the nature of the genre. (If I had to describe it I'd say it's more literal and storytelling than the whole, like, in-the-woods poetry thing hozier's got going on.)
Anyway I tried to find some that have the same kind of poetry to them or at least aren't about dirt roads and, like, alcoholism. (this is very hard to do there are so many songs about drowning your sorrows in alcohol. I think maybe that's a bad thing but what do I know about songwriting)
Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange
Ryan Bingham - Wolves
Deana Carter - Strawberry Wine
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Brooks and Dunn - Neon Moon
Uncle Lucius - Keep The Wolves Away
Juice Newton - Angel of the Morning
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
The Band Perry - All Your Life
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
Josh Turner - Would You Go With Me
I also have a few that I think just have generally clever lyrics that you probably won't enjoy very much if you don't like country music:
Relationship status: Been with my Partner 27 years.
Favourite colour: Black
Song stuck in my head: Fishin’ in the Dark/Down in the Boondocks by Home Free. I am obsessed with these guys atm
Last song i listened to: When She Says Baby by Jason Aldean (tried to get the Home Free earworm out of my head. Didn’t work)
3 favourite foods: Cheese, macaroni cheese and Lychees
Last thing i googled: best and worst tourist attractions in Oklahoma
Dream trip: Currently planning a tour of the best and worst things to see in the US. From East to West. This all started as a joke with the Big Blue Bug in Rhode Island and getting more serious lol. See above answer.
Anything i want right now: Hah the instant money to pay for the above trip, better mental health and someone to make a nice cup of Darjeeling (my other half would make me one but I did say a nice cup. No one tell him I said that or I’ll never get any made for me again🤫)
Tagging: @colonelshepparrrrd @lightthewaybackhome @cassiope25 and anyone else who wants to do this. I’ve lost track of who does and doesn’t like these so no pressure.
HI K!!!! It’s a super good surprise to see you in my ask box hehehe 💜
SO!! Anyways 👏🏻
🔐 — Something no one would guess about you.
That I’m 24 years old… Peoples always think that I’m 17/18, especially when I used to work at an Ice-Cream shop because it’s both a good and bad thing at the same time…
🍓 — Favorite food.
With favorite foods I go on periods, because they’re mostly Albanian foods and this time around it’s “Fërgës” super tasty guys, especially for peppers lovers like me sdjskdjskdjk
🍇 — A word your friends would use to describe you.
Selfless. This words got associated to me a lot since I turned 18 and some personal things happened to me, it started all from my mom actually, then went on with my brother, got passed to my best friend and slowly to everyone around us because of the whole situation. At some point it had gotten to a level that it didn’t seem anymore like a compliment at times but more like outsiders were pitying me so when I hear it now I get awkward… And sometimes uncomfortable too…
Thank you for playing this lil game with me K!! Hope and wish to hear more from you. We can talk anytime you want 🫶🏻💜