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Thread #80082   Message #3548117
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Aug-13 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Light Dragoon - a bit missing?
Subject: RE: Light Dragoon - a bit missing?
I used to sing Light Dragoon around the Cambridge folk clubs in 1970s, in a longer version than the Mike Waterson one, but which I am sure I learnt from another record around at the time. Anyone know whose it might have been? My memory not what it was.

Also, another, related one in the 17-Come-Sunday variant, to a tune similar to the one used as the first movement March of Vaughan Williams's Englih Folk Song Suite [1923], though I have a feeling this one was Irish. In this one "She came down to let him in, But her mother chanced to hear her". The mother bursts in on the young couple, then

She seized her by the hair of the head
And out of the room she brought her
And with the butt of a hazel twig
She was the well-paid daughter

[chorus] And she had
Toodle-i-di, toodle-i-di, toodle-i-di-dah
And a toodle-i-di-dah, and a toodl-i-di-dah
And she landed.

Also from a record, I think. Mrs Makem, perhaps? Does that variant ring any bells with anyone?

~Michael~