Today’s rhyme, “Before her Old Grandmother” made little sense to me and I’m pretty sure I misunderstood it completely… frankly I think it’s another orphaned song verse.
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I’ll post my final batch of folklife sketches in a bit but I had to show this one by itself because I was really psyched while doing it. The band performing Chaotic Noise Marching Corps had a great anarchic energy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Well here’s the last of the this year’s Folklife sketches. It all went pretty well though by the end of the day it was getting a little too crowded for me to stay in my zone… fortunately the brass bands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s rhyme “If You’ve a Mole Above Your Chin” is another one that seems to lead itself to very quick cartoons… otherwise you have nothing to work with… After that the only difficult part of this sketch was trying to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I pretty much went with the annotation for my approach to today’s rhyme “Hey ding, a ding, what shall I sing?” because taking it straight made no sense at all. Apparently it refers to traveling singers performing for a meal…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s rhyme, The Tailor’s Courtship, had me stumped until I figured all it was was the tailor’s fantasy of his love and nothing more. It was amusing that the narrator is describing everything in terms of his profession. After that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I don’t have much to say about today’s rhyme, “The Old Man With Five Hens”, unless it was somehow a riddle since no matter how I looked at it there seemed to be more names than the stated number of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I wasn’t particularly inspired by today’s rhyme “ Rock a Cradle Empty” except for finding some whimsy in the politics of marriage that probably never occurred to whoever wrote this. It just occurred to me how grammar changes over time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s rhyme, A Man Went Hunting in Reigate, is the first limerick I’ve done in this challenge and certainly one of the more entertaining ones. Once again the biggest challenge was looking up the correct way to hold a rifle… I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s interesting that while it’s traditional to dress up animals in clothes in these poems, today’s rhyme, Pussy Cat Mole Jumped Over a Coal, is the first one I’ve come across where it’s mandatory. Not getting into my inability to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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