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If you've done this before, just say so & we'll quit, but.........

Bearing in mind that a large proportion of them are hanged, drowned, transported, stabbed etc, what character in a FC song would you like to be / identify with, and why ???

I'd like to be the guy who got the girl from "The Hiring fair", 'cos she sounds a babe & a right forward minx!

What? And miss out on being the officer in "The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter"? Why ration yourself so? ;D

Ah. but he got married . Too much like John Prescott there.................................

Now, that Jack O'Rion was a bit of a lad - and he knew how to send out a " don't mess with my lady" signal...............

Matty Groves. But only up to the bit where he lies down and takes a little sleep.

I'd like to be .....ooh no, I couldnt possibly say it :o :-X Just think of the 14th of May ;)

At the dawn of the day.................................oh you hussy !

But presumably not the bit with the limp ramrod. Oo-er missus.

Come on now children behave.  it's pre-watershed.

And the Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter needn't bother posting just now.............................where's her head at anyway??

As the officer in the aforesaid song I couldn't possibly comment  ;)

In a small place just up-river from Reading I believe. Nice town. Expensive property though  :-\

Cheers

Nick

ROFLMAO Nick!

Can I be the girl from the Hiring Fair please????

 ;D ;D ;D

can i be the girl who goes out hunting with her dog and her gun and the one golden glove......
dont know the name of the song.......not the hiring fair is it, just to make me look (even) more stupid....... :P

her eyes, her lips, her dark brown hair, the curves beneath her dress..............................but the carrying water & the driving cows from t'byre comes first !

I'll be the Lusty Smith from Two Magicians  :o

Crazy Man Michael!

Isn't it obvious? :P

At this very moment in time, stuck in an overheated, noisy and stuffy office in Cardiff, I'd quite like to be "the girl on the nutbrown mare" of Willow Creek fame  (or have I misheard it and it's 'the girl with the nutbrown hair ... )

ill settle for that gadgy with his nut brown bowl

Groove.. it's called the Golden Glove...

Greglin..  that's fine..I used to work with cows.. love them  ;D !

Gower Flower... you tart!!!!

 ;D ;D

thanks amyjen, thought it may be but didnt want commit  a fatal FC faux pas! :-\

I'll be the girl in the Naked Highwayman  :o :P ;D

Issy  {:-)

Righto boys,

Form an orderly queue here for auditions to be the Highway man.

 ;D

by heaven - we are a shallow lot - mere pleasure seekers.  Nobody want to die gloriously, serve your country or promote the selfless following of an idyllic but platonic and doomed love ??

Where are you Anji when we need you ???????????

Here I am.

 :) I'll be the girl on the shore looking riverwards at her owntruelove's mighty dredger.

It's a great song, full of derringdo, more true love, alluvial deposits, and saucy eyebrows.

And no uncomfortable love-positions  ::) ;D

I'm on verse three....I'll have it finished by the weekend  ;)

You're welcome to contribute to the chorus.   :)

a-dredgin' we shall go
with a ho and a hey and hi nonny no..............


Actually I think I'l be the Deserter, 'cos you get the King's shilling, the uniform, the foreign travel - and then you leg it when it gets dangerous and you might get shot..................and you get off in the end as well ! Good Old prince Albert................

In this weather? You must be joking.

Paul

I would love to be without worries, so can I be the birds in the evening sky from WKWTTG?

Deep Keith
(Like Deep Heat, but less effective)

I'd like to be as clever, inciteful and brilliant as Tom Paine,

unfortunately I'm more likely to just tell someone where to stick it in the style of Big William.

Jackdaw  :)

I'd like to be the girl who
Woke up this Chelsea morning :)  I like toast, sunshine and oranges (tho we could leave out the honey) ;)

mic

Crikey

Is that three song nominations in this thread actually penned by the wonderful and shamefully underrated Steve Tilston?

Here here..   VERY wonderful indeed..  and his versions are always the best I think..

Issy

Nobdoy want to be the "Three Drunken Maidens" then ? - or has that to wait until August ::) ::)

Thanks Issy

Steve's original version of Slipjigs and Reels would be on my desert island list and is a very severe test for any guitarist.  I know - I've tried!

His latest album, Of Many Hands, his interpretations of British and American traditional songs, is brilliant, and his slowed down version of the Leaving of Liverpool will melt your heart.

David

You may have some difficulty finding three Greglin. But they WILL probably be under the influence ;)

is that trouble finding three drunkards or three maidens GF!

What do YOU think, Abby? ;) :-X ::)

I doubt if you could find ANY maidens over the age of consent...

 ;D ;D

And yes Steve T is a wonderful writer... 8)

Obviously, 'Michael' from Dangerous could have been written about me but I'm also a bit of a tinkerer so I think I'll be Mr Lacey.

I suppose I could be Tam Lin with my borders ancestry......    Or Sir Patrick Spens, given my Fife ancestry......

Disappear in a faery hill or sink a ship, it isn't a great choice.

Or I could stick with Crazy man Michael.

In that case, I shall be the Fairy Queen.  (I thought you'd never ask, David).  I fancy the idea of keeping a young man shackled for seven years - so what if he looks like a goblin?
Not you, David - the enchanted Tam Lin, I mean.

At the point where he becomes a naked knight, I might have to wrap Janet's kirtle green around her neck though.  [;-)

Time for my medication.  Coming, Matron.

Karen

Jings crivvens help ma boab!!  :o

I'm just going for a wee lie down in a darkened room..........

Ignore her, David.  You can come out now.  ::)

Tonight Boardsters, I should like to be the chairman into the Public Enquiry into the Mishandling of the Execution of John Lee alias 'Babbacombe' Lee.  It's not looking good for Charles Clarke, frankly - yet another banana skin for the Home Secretary, I fear, and I may have to sack him. 

Peel

Sir Patrick Spens was a very fine seaman.....

I think so YES

I think I'd like to be the Sloth

Or the Lobster

Or maybe a bit of both

The Loathly Slobster

or the Slobby Loathster

 ;D

Oh Jude, where's your sense of adventure? :-\

You'd be amazed what one or all of those creatures can get up to........

Bags I *not* to be poor Will...

Wouldn't mind being the daughter dear getting a home visit from Doctor Monk  :o ;) ;D

Can I be --WILL TIMMS --? Without too much blood being  spent.

Home appointments can be made through the surgery

I'd like to be the sailor home from the sea in Claudy Banks.  You have your excitement and adventure and come home to find that your true love is still true and live happily ever after. 

Ahhh!

Will

Or alternatively I'd like to be the train driver in Travelling By Steam...

Will

Nice touch of the Jabberwockies there Jude!  Maybe a Slithey Tove here and there?

The young sportsman in the bonny black hare ;)

On that basis - so was the watch officer on the Titanic...............

First Officer Paddy Spens .......................

In Peggys Pub ;D ;D ;D ;D or down by the Danube!  ;D

I would coose to be the Love from My Love Is In America.  :)  ::)  :-*

but not the bookie in galway farmer...

I just had a thought -- :P--- I could be Kate Adies long distant relative ---an early war correspondant . [;-)
Or James Reynolds`es  ------Oh thats Kate Rusby`s baby.  [;-)

aneka rusby?!

i think not, mr. so called pastie.

I'd like to be the guy dealing with......me.......no Suzanne......no me.......no Suz...... ???

Hey, would somebody tell that broad to put down her dog-gone mirror?

tonight, peggy i'd like to be.........
                    under the sea, in an octopuses garden in the shade.       idle hands.......

And still not a Drunken Maiden in sight...................................we only need 3

okay I'll be one..... :-[

Good for you - you do realise that you've gotta eat a truckload of food as well - and do a runner when the bill comes around?? Sounds like my local on a Saturday night.............................

Next?? We need Bouncing Sally...............................

London Danny for me, it would be nice to be charming etc etc.

off to see my lass - she lives in hexhamshire, you know.........................

I'd like to have the luck of John Lee.  But I guess having my usual luck I'd have died of fright the first time and saved everyone the embarassment.

Drunken maiden reporting for duty!

.. and I always thought that there Janet was a plucky lass.

Tying that kirtle green a bit above her knee was incredibly daring.

Ok - drunken maiden in shortened kirtles is in...............................where are your jolly sisters ?????

Here! ;) ;D

...and here!!!
 ;D ;D

The loveliest girl at the fair. who got stuck at the top

of the big wheel.   (i forgot that bit)

Stuck at the top .................................is much more mysterious.

Don't want to be Mr Jones cos he empties the trash

But I'd quite like to be there at that million dollar bash

.........but he's such a hard card...........

 :D

I'd like to be The Lady who Vanishes.  OK, too easy, I am...

How's about the girl the lighthouse keeper wants to be Close To.  Mmmm.  That'll do me.

He He He.... say, I love that painting on the myspace space.... very cool! Maybe I'm the only one on here who doesn't know but who painted it? When? Fantastic image!

Me? I'm well 'ard!   ;D

Painted in Nov 1967 by one of the friends of Fairport, Nick Davey, who also designed an early poster in Fairportfolio.

he is now a Professor of Philosophy.
 ;D


Sorry can't think how to drag that back on topic. Just call it a hiccup..... ::)