Non-Renaissance Songs That Would Make Great Faire Songs

[ladyecho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfUpi0b-dU

I am stretched on your grave by Abney Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycXIYdFGsQ

Sleep Isabella by Abney Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQSxwzOngMU

Tonight Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLBgmbXBOb8

Travling Soilder by Dixie Chicks althought some words will need to be changed

I'm sure I know more but these were the first to pop up. . . .

[The Lady Mercedes]

And of course, there's The Byrds "The Renaissance Fair..."

I think that maybe I'm dreaming...

I smell cinnamon and spices
I hear music everywhere
All around kaleidoscope of color
I think that maybe I'm dreaming...

Maids pass gracefully in laughter
Wine coloured flowers in their hair
Last call from lands I've never been to
I think that maybe I'm dreaming...

Some flash on a soda of prism
Bright jewels on the ladies flashing
Eyes catch on a shiny prism

Hear ye the crying of the vendors
Fruit for sale wax candles for to burn
Fires flare soon it will be night fall
I think that maybe I'm dreaming...

Ah man you already took it...but yes this, or what about Lady Jane by the Rolling Stones? Oh, love the Abney Park stuff! Heard about them, but that was my 1st time actually hearing it...

[Lady Nicolette]

I actually have learned how to play "Lady Jane" on the harp...

[The Lady Mercedes]

wow, awesome!

[Poldugarian Warrior]

Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle

[The Lady Mercedes]

Not sure if this qualifies, but I just remembered Jeff Buckly did a version of the Corpus Christi Carol on the Grace album that is very lovely...

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Paul McCartney - Live and let perish

But in this ever changing village in which we live in / Makes you give in and cry / Say live and let perish

[The Lady Mercedes]

Enchant by Emilie Autumn is a good ren flair album... http://www.amazon.com/Enchant-Emilie-Autumn/dp/B0013SLT58/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1274948523&sr=1-1-spell

[Rapier Half-Wit]

This thread has inspired my daughter and myself to work up a list of songs from the recent decades, reworded (some more than others) and arrainged using traditional instruments. This is going to be good.

[Welsh Wench]

I can't believe this song was overlooked!

Kiss from a Rose
by Seal

There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
You became the light on the dark side of me
Love remains a drug that's the high and not the pill
But did you know, that when it snows
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen

Baby, I compare you to a kiss,
from a rose on the grey
Oooh, the more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah
And now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey

There is so much a man can tell you
So much he can say
You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain
Baby, to me you're like a grown addiction that I can't deny
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know, that when it snows
My eyes become large and the light that you shine
Can be seen

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Oooh, the more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey

I've been kissed by a rose on the grey
I've been kissed by a rose
I've been if I should fall, if it all
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey

There is so much a man can tell you
So much he can say
You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain
To me you're like a grown addiction that I can't deny
Now, won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know, that when it snows
My eyes become large
And the light that you shine can be seen

Baby, oh I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Oooh, the more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey

[Poldugarian Warrior]

You know it's funny, and i'm not much of a fan of contemporary easy listening, but Yes, that Seal song is quite nice.

[Cpt. Black Shadow]

Yo way yo. From Lex The Brunnen-G Battle Hymn.

[DonaCatalina]

"Kiss From A Rose"

There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh,
The more I get of you,
The stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the gray.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh, the more I get of you
The stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the gray,
I've been kissed by a rose on the gray,
I've been kissed by a rose
I've been kissed by a rose on the gray,
...And if I should fall along the way
I've been kissed by a rose
...been kissed by a rose on the gray.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain
My power, my pleasure, my pain.
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny, yeah
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh, the more I get of you
The stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the gray.
Yes I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray
Ooh, the more I get of you
The stranger it feels, yeah
And now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the gray
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the gray.

[Poldugarian Warrior]

 That country song "Good Time" by Alan jackson, just use some fiddle, guitar, mandolin, maybe a flute.

[The Lady Mercedes]

What about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot?