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Thread #147952   Message #4215161
Posted By: Lighter
11-Jan-25 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: Randy Dandy O
Subject: RE: Randy Dandy O
Gardner and Chickering's "Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan" includes a version of "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife," collected in 1934,with refrains of "Hi randy dandy O" and "Whack fallee falladee O!" Unfortunately they give no tune.

Joyce, "Ulysses" (1922):

"With a high ro! and a randy ro! and my galloping tearing tandy O!"

Charles Martin Newell, "The Voyage of the Fleetwing" (1886):

"A dandy mate and a bully crew,
    High randy dandy Oh."


Elias Howe, "Caledonia Collection" (1860) contains a tune in 6/8 called "Hey Randy Dandy O." I hear some slight resemblance to the tune of the chantey.

"The Hampshire Syren; or Songster's Miscellany" (1794):

                   RANDY DANDY O!
                A favourite Scotch song.

(Words only. A song about drink with no further resemblance to the chantey.)