[SCA-AE] OT: SCA "Bad Song" Survey

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I love that song!
Isolda 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: oeric.lestrange at gmail.com
To: discussion at aethelmearc.org
Sent: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SCA-AE] OT: SCA "Bad Song" Survey


> Someone recently asked a group of us: 
> 
> "What are, in your humble opinion, the most overplayed/ oversung songs 
> that you hear CONSTANTLY around the SCA campfires and just have to roll 
> your eyes at when they start?" 
> 
> Well, now. :) That would be telling, wouldn't it? 
> 
> Response to the question was surprisingly limp. So I offered to take 
> it to the streets, and am doing so now: "If there's one song that 
> you'd rather eat arsenic than hear sung/played at a bardic circle 
> again, EVER, what is it?" 
 
Greetings! 
 
The SCA song I hear that is overplayed worse than "You Light Up My Life" by 
Debbie Boone is an AEthelmearc song by THL Gwendolyn the Graceful. I don't 
remember the title of it, but goes something like "Scarlet -- follow the 
banner of Scarlet..." 
 
The song goes on and on and on and on -- and drags worse than a funeral 
dirge -- and yet it is often used during opening ceremonies at Pennsic for 
AEthelmearc to march in. (A march is typically in 4/4 time and "Scarlet" is 
in 6/8 time which makes it very hard to walk to.) 
 
Oeric 
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