Adding to the dulcimer repertoire. Contains POLL!

[kniteracy]

I'm trying to add some more songs with the mountain dulcimer to my repertoire. Songs that I have done in the past with this instrument include The Shirt of Lace, (assuming I can find the chords) and The Scarlet Tide, which I first heard in the film Cold Mountain.

So, I'm trying to figure out which one (or two, or three, or half-dozen) songs I should work on next with the dulcimer.

And so, here's a poll!

[Poll #967319]

Comments

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

I vote for both "Beggars to God" and "Everything Possible." I'm personally tired of the latter, but I agree it deserves to be better known around the world even if it needs a rest here.

I'm not sure why, but I've always actively disliked "Big Rock Candy Mountain." It certainly is far more overused than any of the others you cite, but I didn't care for it even before that was true.

To my shame, I don't know any of the others you mentioned.

If you don't already do them, how about "The Water Is Wide" or "Oh Shennandoah" (the loveliest of all American folk melodies, IMHO)?

[telynor.livejournal.com]

If you don't already do them, how about "The Water Is Wide" or "Oh Shennandoah" (the loveliest of all American folk melodies, IMHO)?

You are 100% right. Thank you so much for this suggestion! Neither one is in my repertoire: I used to live in the Southeast US and found that they were in everybody's repertoire, so I kept them out of mine. Now that I live in England, they're not as common, plus people expect that sort of thing. And they are beautiful, beautiful melodies. Thank you very much. :)

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I look forward to hearing them on your next visit over here.

BTW, I don't think I've mentioned my name: I'm Crystal Paul. I gave you the little bag with a frog on it a few years ago.

[telynor.livejournal.com]

Ah! I wondered who that was. :) And I'd have remembered you without the reference to the bag, although I have carried that little bag with me ever since.