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There's a folk song about Moreton Bay that details some of the horrible things Logan did. Here's a pretty recent rendition by a couple of British folk musicians

There's a folk song about Moreton Bay that details some of the horrible things Logan did. Here's a pretty recent rendition by a couple of British folk musicians (apologies to any Australians who know of good Aussie versions): https://saulrosejamesdelarre.bandcamp.com/track/moreton-bay https://saulrosejamesdelarre.bandcamp.com/track/moreton-bay. Although lyrics change over time, folk songs are often a good record of events as they were usually created by less literate people and you get the working man's viewpoint essentially by word-of-mouth.

lawless123 9y ago
There is an Irish one.(actually this seems to ahve been written in the 1970s) The Fields of Athenry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fields_of_Athenry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fields_of_Athenry Though it's been co-opted and changed into a sports song by some football clubs.
Mediterraneo10 9y ago
> Although lyrics change over time, folk songs are often a good record of events On the other hand, these songs could be disingenuous romanticizing of criminal lifestyles. Just look at the narcocorrido genre in Mexico -- two centuries from now, do you think it would be reasonable for people to examine then and think that their subjects were decent, hardworking folk being unnecessarily hassled by The Man?
- robotmay 9y ago
  Haha, there's certainly a bit of that going on. For quite a long time a lot of events were written down and communicated via Broadside Ballads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadside_(music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadside_(music). Broadside Ballads often described events and people and were usually written to be sung to common tunes that the public might know. A lot of the ballads became folk songs over time and the lyrics/stories/tunes changed, but they're often still traceable back to their roots. So where a ballad might describe an event pretty plainly, the songs derived from it will most likely embellish and romanticise it. The Bodleian Library in Oxford has an online collection of Broadside Ballads that is very well maintained: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. I found the following whilst seeing if there was anything related to Moreton Bay, and although it only shares the namesake, this is quite a good example of how the ballads were written: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/11164.gif http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/.... A good example is the quite famous folk song Scarborough Fair, which is one of a number of variations descended from a ballad called The Elfin Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elfin_Knight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elfin_Knight. My knowledge is mostly limited to English and related folk music, so I'm not sure if there's anything similar elsewhere, but it's certainly an interesting subject and it can be pretty fun to take a song and see if you can find out the original story :)

lawless123 9y ago

There is an Irish one.(actually this seems to ahve been written in the 1970s) The Fields of Athenry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fields_of_Athenry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fields_of_Athenry Though it's been co-opted and changed into a sports song by some football clubs.

Mediterraneo10 9y ago

> Although lyrics change over time, folk songs are often a good record of events On the other hand, these songs could be disingenuous romanticizing of criminal lifestyles. Just look at the narcocorrido genre in Mexico -- two centuries from now, do you think it would be reasonable for people to examine then and think that their subjects were decent, hardworking folk being unnecessarily hassled by The Man?

robotmay 9y ago
Haha, there's certainly a bit of that going on. For quite a long time a lot of events were written down and communicated via Broadside Ballads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadside_(music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadside_(music). Broadside Ballads often described events and people and were usually written to be sung to common tunes that the public might know. A lot of the ballads became folk songs over time and the lyrics/stories/tunes changed, but they're often still traceable back to their roots. So where a ballad might describe an event pretty plainly, the songs derived from it will most likely embellish and romanticise it. The Bodleian Library in Oxford has an online collection of Broadside Ballads that is very well maintained: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. I found the following whilst seeing if there was anything related to Moreton Bay, and although it only shares the namesake, this is quite a good example of how the ballads were written: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/11164.gif http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/.... A good example is the quite famous folk song Scarborough Fair, which is one of a number of variations descended from a ballad called The Elfin Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elfin_Knight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elfin_Knight. My knowledge is mostly limited to English and related folk music, so I'm not sure if there's anything similar elsewhere, but it's certainly an interesting subject and it can be pretty fun to take a song and see if you can find out the original story :)