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Dream it achieve it hip hop harry1/22/2024 Due to their popularity many of these songs are geographically widespread and may appear in many versions with all kinds of variation in words and melody. The The Full English Folk Chorus Songs Pack is available from the PDF tab at the top of this panel, and contains some well-known chorus songs to provide some starting points for social singing from The Full English digital archive. You can hear (and join in with) chorus songs in many folk clubs, singarounds, concerts and festivals. This can be simple unison or improvised harmonies of varying levels of complexity. These are often led by one singer (in a pub, for example) with the community joining in with the repeated chorus, refrain or burden. One type of song that has remained popular across English speaking traditions is the chorus song. The Farmer's Boy is in The Full English Folk Chorus Songs Pack. This was once the closing song of The National Folk Festival, England, where all the attendees would join in the choruses to bring the festival to a close. Many songs echo these sentiments and it is an old fashioned British equivalent of the ‘American Dream’ model – that anyone can achieve their modest dreams by hard work and persistence. It appears as a 19 th Century broadside called the Lucky Farmer Boy which was collected by both Cecil Sharp and Frank Kidson and appears to have caught the ear of the general population, turning up a number of times with singers around the country. To Be A Farmer’s Boy (Or The Farmer’s Boy) evokes a hugely sentimental image of a rural past, where hard work on a farm is every bit as heroic as the career of a story book knight, with the wandering child growing up to get the farm and the girl as a result of his steadfast nature and hard work. You can download both packs from the PDF tab at the top of the panel, and listen to an Audio download from the audio tab at the top of this panel. To Be A Farmer’s Boy (Or The Farmer’s Boy ) is in The Full English Chorus Songs Pack, and the Seven Songs of Harvest pack for primary schools.
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