Most over sung songs?

[asrune]

I travel between kingdoms often, and each and everyone of them as a list of songs that are over sung, beaten into the ground, heard at every circle, and groan inspiring no matter how well performed

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[kateryndraper]

Oddly enough, I almost never hear Greensleeves in the SCA, and I've been active in bardic activities for over 20 years (in the Oaken Region of the Middle Kingdom.) I contantly hear complaints about how often it's performed, though.

The Scottsman would top my list of most over-sung songs.

[children_of_lir]

Hey, didn't we do this around this time back in '06? ;)

[bluestocking]

The link on the article doesn't work - might you have the list in another form?

[children_of_lir]

Yeah, it was a casualty of the GeoCities shutdown. >:|

I've been exploring alternatives - the Wayback Machine, old files (even used to have the results in pie-chart and bar graph form!) - without success. There IS still a saved email folder with all the votes, they just need to be re-tallied.

The Bottom Five, while split by two and three-way ties in places, probably surprised no one.

[elenbarathi]

The Scotsman
Whistling Gypsy Rover
Yo Ho

[diana_terrill]

The way I heard the end of the verse was a little different than what you have. In place of the "High-low, Low-High," there is a repeat instead, of the last line of the nursery rhyme, i.e., "and on this farm he had a cow," followed with "and threw it out the window."

It's a fun campfire song, people could follow along for the most part and really join in at the chorus. Kids especially would enjoy it, I think.

And for the most part, I have heard it done with nursery rhymes, such as "Jack Sprat," "Jack & Jill," etc. For example:

Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown, and they threw him out the window.
The window, the window, the second story window.
Jack fell down and broke his crown, and they threw him out the window.

:)