spencer
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Edited Feb 05, 2017, 00:31
'Real' archaeology songs?
Feb 05, 2017, 00:29
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Ie archaeo subject matter or site namechecks not puns etc. Four from me: Traffic - Roll Right Stones (sic): truly great ..... Roy Harper - The Lord's Prayer (inspired r i g h t l y by V. Gordon Childe's What Happened In History) ditto ..... Roy Harper - Commune .....and Spinal Tap - Japanese Tourist Attraction (natch): nobody knows who they were... : D Mixtape time. Any more? Got to be some Drude...
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Sin Agog
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Edited Feb 05, 2017, 01:02
Re: 'Real' archaeology songs?
Feb 05, 2017, 00:58
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This long song-poem by Robin Williamson seems to have captured with words the faerie wisp all of you fine fellows have spent most of your lives chasing:
Five Denials on Merlin's Grave
"Long before we ever took the names
of English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish
and long before the tower of Babel fell and language cracked
there was interchange and colloquy and conversation upon this world
and standing stones remain to bear it testimony
from China to the Americas, and from India to Ireland, patterning."
"let us sing the skill of the master builders
long ago
for it was no peasantry clodding after scrawny cows
who raised the hollow hills and henge stones
but calm and cunning wizards worked these wonders
continuing the snail line, dod flat at ring stand
ruling scribing and pegging out in granite
the windings of the dragon track
that writhes unhewn
in sward and marsh and moss and meadowland
that twines in stellar gravity among the eaves of the cubic sky
serpent bird of Hy Brassail"
(Lyrics: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Robin-Williamson/Five-Denials-on-Merlin-s-Grave)
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spencer
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Re: 'Real' archaeology songs?
Feb 05, 2017, 04:01
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Oh, if such fine, cerebral words were universally acclaimed here. But, fess up time: a fitting wording for a t-shirt of a fair few male TMA'ers would most likely read 'Drink! Fek! Arse! Stones! (guilty). The superior sex is, it really needn't be said, I know, very probably above such things. But I cannot prove it.
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tjj
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Edited Feb 05, 2017, 20:32
Re: 'Real' archaeology songs?
Feb 05, 2017, 19:33
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Nick Harper at Devil's Den - reciting 'A Wiltshire Tale' while changing a guitar string.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCT7vwBBdw
PS: I was there :)
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