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Thread #48931   Message #942017
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
28-Apr-03 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
1463 CALICODR  GIRL WITH A CALICO DRESS  By J. H. Tenney. Sheet music at American Memory (Library of Congress):

Girl with a Calico Dress.


1650 HASHSCOR  HASH MY FATHER SCORED  This is a duplicate of  THE HASH MY FATHER SCORED, and should probably be deleted. The tune is, of course, The Sash My Father Wore; there is a link to a midi in the latter file.   


1734 HLLGRENM  THE HILLS OF GREENMORE
The S. Span/Terry Woods recording. Pretty well the same tune as the one posted by Belfast for the Gaughan recording,  Granemore Hare. A cross-reference should do. The third DT text, 1735 HILLGRE2  HILLS OF GREENMORE (2), was transcribed from a Dervish record and I can't at the moment recall whether or not they used the same tune.


1940 HARLMDOV  I'VE BEEN TO HARLEM
An American variant of an English drinking game. No source named in the DT file, but the text is very close to a (presumably) well-known set which was used on the BBC Schools radio programme Singing Together back in the 1960s. Midi made from notation in Sing Together! 100 Songs for Unison Singing, William Appleby and Frederick Fowler, OUP 1967, where it appeared as Turn the Glasses Over. No source is named there, either; it's described simply as "American Singing Game". The text was as follows:

I've been to Harlem, I've been to Dover,
I've traveled this wide world all over,
Over, over, three times over,
Drink what you have to drink and turn the glasses over.
Sailing east, sailing west
Sailing over the ocean,
Better watch out when the boat begins to rock,
Or you'll lose your girl in the ocean.

I've set the DT words to the tune, though. In two places, with modifications to make it fit: in line six, o'er has been changed to over to give it the required two syllables, and in bar 12 the second half-note has been split into a dotted quarter and an eighth, with the latter lowered from A to G (the pitch of the following two eighths) to accommodate the additional You'd in line 7.