Old-Time Folk Musician Song - Lin Parker, 2019
Modern Major- General Song - 1879 Comic Opera G&S Pirates of Penzance
I am the very model of ... an old-time folk musi.ci.an
I can't recall the words or key ... to try to play the folksong in
I started with Doc Watson back ... in nineteen hundred sixty four
'Deep River Blues' is what I got ... I 'let it rain’, I 'let it pour'
Travis pickin' try at Libba's ... 'Freight Train going so fast'
Is now a distant mem'ry a ... laid-to-rest-thing of the past
And Jesse Fuller's blues about ... my baby down by Frisco Bay
She sailed on ocean liner and ... here I wait for brand-new day
...Ballads with so many verses . nearly catatonical
...Put folks to sleep with music not . tuneful or euphonical
...With my arthritic fingers now . a new-age geriatrican
...I am the very model of an old-time folk musi.ci.an
>> With his arthritic fingers now .. this new-age geriatrican
>> He is the very model of an old-time folk musi.ci.an
I sing a song of my uncles ... Bill and Nort to name a few
I'll 'hush my mug, just for a jug ... of that good old mountain dew'
And those songs that Dylan croaked ... with his unique nasal twang
Plus covered folk songs that ... Peter, Paul, and Mary sang
Those love songs full of tragedy ... and drowning by the riverside
Leave listeners a'wondering ... and very very mystified
I took a walk with my love ... Ohio by the riverbank
I pushed her in — watched her drown ... she bubbled down — then she sank
...Poor Charlie on the MTA ... Tom Dooley hung his head down low
...On my guitar I picked away ... and tried to play five-string banjo
...A house they call "The Rising Sun"? ... learned and played and overdone
...By this the very model of an old-time folk musici-un
>> A house they call "The Rising Sun"? .. learned and played and overdone
>> He is the very model of an old-time folk musici-un
My guitar was gently weeping ... hibernating set aside
Strings got rusty, frets were dusty ... muscle memory atrophied
Then in the year of twenty-ten ... a tuneful idea struck a chord
A coffeehouse was a' born ... a virtu'l music smorgasbord
With fingertips a'toughening ... and six new strings almost in tune
I practiced songs both old and new: ... 'Kiss My Butt' my best lampoon?
I plagarized — I parodized ... in true . folk song . tradition
I tried to rhyme in these lines ... of folk song compositions
...And so it's gone for fifty years ... a'singin' and a'pickerin'
...I s'pose I'll just keep ramblin' on ... 'til ticker stops a'tickerin'
...I won't recall the words or key ... to try to play the folksong in
…’Cause I'm the very model of an old-time folk musician
>> He won't recall the words or key .. to try to play the folksong in
>> 'Cause he's the very model of an old-time folk musi.ci.an