Drunkards barely twenty

[boojumlol]

I've gotten slightly obsessed with this Scottish drinking song, which I heard years ago at the National Folk Festival. Adorable lyrics, men singing a capella and men with Scottish accents! Be still, my heart.

ETA - I found a version I can embed, but it doesn't have the beautiful spoken introduction in the one I linked to.

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[dolorosa_12]

Oh wow, this is great!

I miss the Folk Festival. There's one in Cambridge, but it's much more expensive and it's more difficult to get tickets for it.

[boojumlol]

What folk festival do you go to in Australia? Sorry, we've probably discussed this before, but I can't remember...

[dolorosa_12]

I used to go to the National Folk Festival in Canberra quite a bit when I lived there. It was kind of what people in my highschool did. Some of my friends even camped out there, but I would just duck in and out over the course of the Festival and then go home to sleep.

One fantastic year, when I was doing street theatre for Amnesty International (which involved wearing white face masks and headdresses with candles on them) we even did a drumming workshop in full costume, much to the shock of the other participants...