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Describe the atmosphere and live music at a local pub, restaurant, festival, church or temple, club night.... inspire other people to check it out!
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FOLK TALES
Every tradition has songs which tell fabulous stories - tales of murders, mischief, scandals - ancient or new. Tell us one of your favourites.
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Track
1 The Ant and the Grasshopper
2 Alu Jon Jonki Jon
3 Fair Sally
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Contributor
RICHARD FRENCH
OLIVER OGUNTADE
JIM
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Track: The Ant and the Grasshopper
Artist: Martin Carthy
Music: British Folk
Chosen by: Richard French (Plymouth)
 听听Listen to clip from 'The Ant and the Grasshopper', album: 'Right of Passage' (Topic Records, UK)
On the surface, it tells a colourful, dramatic story; behind this, there's a moral; behind that, a dramatic illustration of just how different two people can be.
'The Ant
Was diligent
Never spent
Anything lightly
Laboured Wisely
These lines trickle merrily off the tongue. Here, the Ant sounds like a sensible sort of fellow (if a bit boring) but he turns out to be a bit of a self-righteous #$@&*^%.
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