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Thread #40486   Message #579487
Posted By: GUEST,BIABfsg
25-Oct-01 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: Help! I need some info as to folk songs
Subject: Help! I need some info as to folk songs
Dear members of Mudcat:

I am a graduate student who is doing a project for my dept. I am searching for some valuable info regarding folk songs. There are 100+ to search in my project and I am able to get some info for most of them. But there are a few songs that have no records in my liberary...Followed please find the song list

1. Who Is It? This is a Welsh Folk Song

2Norwegian Melody the melody is like this: /1231/1231/4-3-/222-/ /1231/1231/4-3-/231-/

3 Little Robin Red Breast

4 Sweetly Sings the Donkey melody is: /1712/3-3-/2123/1---/ /3234/5-5-/4345/1---/

5 Mary Ann /3-5-/1-3-/324-/----/ /2-44/7-2-/213-/----/ /3355/1-33/324-/----/ /2-44/7-2-/211-/----/

6 German song in 3/4 /3--/3--/323/5-4/ /2--/2--/254/3--/ /3--/3--/323/5-4/ /234/547/1--/--/

7 The Cuckoo Song - German Folk Song in 3/4 /53-/53-/212/3--/ /53-/53-/432/1--/

8 Icha Backa Icha backa soda cracker, Icha backa boo, Icha backa soda cracker, Out goes you!

/7711/7755/7711/7---/ /7711/7755/7-1-/7---/

9 Jolly Old St. Nick /3333/222-/1111/3----/ /6666/511-/2127/1----/

10 Calypso Song /123[33]/2-6-/712[22]/1-5-/ /123[33]/2-2-/7-27/1---/

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11 Rise, sugar, rise - American Folk Song /3[33]31/335-/[2222]22/224-/ /[3333]31/335-/5[55]23/1---/

12 Paw Paw Patch /1111/1[55]31/2222/7[22]75/ /1111/1[55]31/55[5554]/311-/

13 Lullaby 3/4 /533/32[23]/426/5-[34]/ /533/32[23]/477/1--/

14 Carnival Of Venice

If you know the proper song titles/writer(s) or lyrics regarding those songs, please help me out!

Respectfully yours,

BIABfsg