minstrel: Fw: [Mid] Song lyrics for popular dances

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This came off the middle bridge.  Does anyone have any ideas?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Finnvarr de Taahe <finnvarr at ealdormere.sca.org>
To: Middlebridge <sca-middle at midrealm.org>; Calontir <Calontir at unl.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: [Mid] Song lyrics for popular dances


>At the recent Tournament and Feast of Seemings in Flaming Sky,
>Ealdormere, we found ourselves dancing the Maltese Bransle to our own
>sung music.  Of course we had no words but made do with "Da da DA da Da
>da DA da da..."
>
>My lady Ragni comes from Latvia where a lot of simple folk dances are
>done to sung music with lyrics that everyone knows.   It occurred to her
>that if popular SCA dances had lyrics, then dancing would be lots
>easier.   If you had the right number of people who knew the dance, then
>you'd have the music.
>
>Does anyone know if any such lyrics have been written?   Is anyone
>interested in writing them?   Does anyone have an idea of a good forum
>to discuss this in?
>
>Finnvarr
>
>--
>You will need a Task, Quest or Cause, for it ill behooves
>young and able Knights to sit idle or loiter palely.
>Fortunately there is always an abundance of wrong to right.
>    -- The Book of Weird
>
>
>From:  Finnvarr de Taahe <finnvarr at ealdormere.sca.org>
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