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Australian Christmas Carols In Mudcat MIDIs: Six White Boomers |
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Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: alison Date: 16 Dec 98 - 08:57 PM Hi Barbara, Yes "Dawn" get's two notes. "sing" and -"ing" get one note each. and yes "Or" is the seventh so that the bar (tonic note) starts with "ran" 3 notes on "Christmas". hope that helps. slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Barbara Date: 16 Dec 98 - 01:17 PM Couple questions for you folk that know these songs. I've been trying to fit words and tune together for The Carol of the Birds. Which word in the last line of the verse gets two (or more) notes? I guessed "dawn", and maybe the "-ing" of "singing" And where does the chorus start? On the seventh of the scale, so that the measure starts with the tonic (C) and the second syllable of "Or- RAN- a!"? Or is it "OR- an- a!"? Nice song, tho it sneaks right in there and prints itself on my frontal lobes where I can't pry it off day or night. Blessings, Barbara |
Subject: Tune Add: SIX WHITE BOOMERS From: alison Date: 15 Dec 98 - 06:21 AM Here's six white boomers Slainte alison
MIDI file: SIXWHITE.MID Timebase: 480 Name: Six white boomers This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Jerry Friedman Date: 14 Dec 98 - 01:34 PM Thank you! |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Bob Bolton Date: 13 Dec 98 - 07:53 PM G'day Art, Jerry and all, There was quite a good tune to the Paterson poem that won the "New Tune to old Poem" section in the Bush Music Club Song and Verse contest, some years back. I will look it up and post it. Of course, it isn't really a carol, is it, but it is bloody good Christmas song. Terminology: A Paddy Melon is a Bennet's or Red-necked Wallaby (Wallabia Rufogrisius. Wallabys are a smaller sub-group of Kangaroos and the name Paddymelon is a rough English approximation of the Dharug (Sydney region Aboriginal) name. Just to confuse everyone, the name paddy melon is also used for an introduced pest - a sort of inedible melon vine from South Africa. Orana is also from an Aboriginal language and means "morning" - in which sense it is used for the geographical region around Dubbo, in New South Wales' central region, or "welcome", which is the way that John Wheeler uses it in The Carol of the Birds. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 13 Dec 98 - 07:45 PM This is pretty good. You Aussies certainly beat out Canadians when it comes to Christmas tunes. We have only The Huron Carol (which is not technically "Canadian" because it was written by an early French missionary in the Wyandotte language, and translated into English) and First Christmas, by Stan Rogers, which is too depressing to sing around the Christmas tree. Although generally we have more snow and fir trees than most nations our Christmas songs are generally recycled English carols and 1940's Hollywood covers. I'd be happy to have someone start a new thread and prove me wrong. |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Musicman Date: 12 Dec 98 - 01:18 AM I see you've got the Six white Boomers listed here. I was just asked about that one today! Does anybody 'ave a midi version. I need to learn the song, so midi or noteworthy or fax would be appreciated. I have no idea how the songs goes. Call me direct....pevenden@vancouver.quik.com |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Art Thieme Date: 11 Dec 98 - 01:58 AM I've been told that a paddy melon is a cross between an Irishman and a cantelope. But, the truth is that an Irishman CAN elope---if his gal goes with him! ;-) But seriously folks---I believe a paddy melon is a smallish kangaroo---right? (Funny, you don't look smallish!!) Art |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Jerry Friedman Date: 10 Dec 98 - 12:09 PM Thanks, Art! After your ending, could the guidwife still have a Darling Pea? Incidentally, there are by actual count 5,271,009 tunes that fit those words. I recommend "O God, Our Help in Ages Past". What's "orana"? What's a "paddy-melon"? The cranes are dancing here, too, Alison. O.k., they will be in a couple months. They'd be confused if we called them brolgas, though. |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Dec 98 - 01:42 AM The above posted poem, by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, truly does beg to be given a tune... from the book "Collected Verse of A.B. Paterson---Angus & Robertson publisher And thanks to Dale Rose for pointing me to this 'cause he knew I'd probably have my book packed in an unmarked box as I'd told him we were striving to get moved!! Deductive reasoning rivalling Holmes'! Thanks Mr. Rose!!
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH (Paterson) From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Dec 98 - 01:21 AM SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall,
"Rin doon, rin doon, my little son Jack, and bid the stranger stay,
"Nay noo, nay noo," said the dour guidwife, "But ye should let him be,
"Wi a drovers tales, and a drover's thirst tae swiggle the hail nicht through,
"Guidwife, he's never a drover chap for their swags are neat and thin,
"Guidwife, guidwife, be nae sae dour---for the wheat stands ripe and tall
"There is grass to spare and the stock are fat, where they whiles are gaunt and thin,
"Ye can set him a chair at table side and gie him a bite tae eat,
"But the native cats hae taen fowls--they havena left a leg,
"Rin doon, rin doon, my little son Jack, "to whaur the emus bide,
"But speak them fair and speak them saft lest they kick ye a fearful jolt,
So little son Jack ran blithely down with the rusty nails in hand,
And there he has gathered the new-laid egg---'twould feed 3 men or 4,
"A waste o' food," said the dour guidwife, as she took the egg with a frown,
"Gang oot, gang oot, my little son Jack---wi your twa-three doggies sma,
So little son Jack he raced and he ran and he was bare o' the feet,
"Sit doon, sit doon," my bonny wee man; "to the best that the hoose can do,
"'Tis well, 'tis well", said the bonny wee man, "I have eaten the wide world's meat,
"But the night draws on to Christmas Day and I must rise and go,
"And it's there I must load my sledges up with the reindeers four-in-hand,
"Tae the Esquimaux," said the dour guidwife---"ye suit my husband well,
Then out with a laugh went the bonny wee man--to his old horse grazing nigh, (PATERSON'S ENDING:)
When the children woke on the Christmas morn, they chattered with might and main, (THIS IS HOW I'D PREFER IT TO END:)
When the children woke on the Christmas morn they chattered with might and tact,--- Art Thieme |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: CHRIST WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM From: Bob Bolton Date: 08 Dec 98 - 08:19 PM G’day all you Aussie carollers, My records would suggest that I have already posted (17 September 1998?) the words and ABC of Sally Sloane’s Australian-collected version of the carol Christ was Born in Bethlehem, but it hasn’t made it to the DT, so here it is again.
CHRIST WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
Folk Songs of Australia and the men & women who sang them, J Meredith & H Anderson, Ure Smith, North Sydney, 1967, vol 1, p189.
MIDI file: christwb.mid Timebase: 240 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
Notes:
In their book, Meredith & Anderson note that: "Other versions have appeared in print in the United States of America, first in Botsford’s Folk Songs of Many Peoples, where it is simply noted as a ‘Kentucky song’, and more recently in E.K. Wells’s book, The Ballad Tree. Miss Wells collected her version in the Kentucky mountains and includes the lines sung by Sally Sloane in a slightly different form to a somewhat different tune."
Wheeler & James Carols: I have the three books "Five Australian Carols; First (Second and Third) Set" by John Wheeler and William G. James. The carols are printed with the four choir parts plus piano accompaniment. The books contain, respectively: FIRST SET: (1948) The Three Drovers (D) The Silver Stars are in the Sky (Eb) Christmas Day (C) Carol of the Birds (Eb) Christmas Bush for His Adorning (D) SECOND SET: (1954) The Day that Christ was Born on (Ab) Christmas Night (G) The Little Town where Christ was Born(Eb) Sing Gloria (Ab) Noel-Time (G) THIRD SET: (1961) The Christmas Tree (A) Our Lady of December (Ab) Golden Day (Eb) Country Carol (The Oxen) (Ab) MerryChristmas (F) Of these, I have MusicTime files (with the words) for: The Three Drovers (D) The Silver Stars are in the Sky (D) Christmas Day (C) Carol of the Birds (D) Christmas Bush for His Adorning (D) Sing Gloria (G - Am) MerryChristmas (D) These are the carols that have proved the most popular. I notice that this includes all five of the first set and only one each from the second and third sets. I have tended to place them in more proletarian and/or singable keys. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: Lyr Add: SIX WHITE BOOMERS From: alison Date: 08 Dec 98 - 06:06 PM hi Bert, You asked for it.....
SIX WHITE BOOMERS
Intro: (spoken slowly:)
It was Christmas in Australia,
Right inside the bag of toys, little Joey hopped,
(boom-uh, boom-uh, boom-uh boom-uh,
CHORUS: (between each verse)
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Pretty soon old Santa began to feel the heat,
When Joey said to Santa, "Santa, what about the toys,
Soon the sleigh was flashing past, right over Blavel Bar,
Well that the bestest Christmas treat that Joey ever had, Slainte alison |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (Australian) From: alison Date: 08 Dec 98 - 06:02 PM hi, Here's the Aussie version of the Twelve Days of Christmas. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (Aussie)
On the (1st, 2nd, 3rd. etc) day of Christmas my true love sent to me Slainte alison
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Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Bert Date: 08 Dec 98 - 09:54 AM You're right Webby, Rolf Harris did one about 'Six white boomers, Snow white boomers' Unfortunately I never did learn it. Bert. |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Webby Date: 08 Dec 98 - 07:08 AM Hi john, Can we send Rolf Harris back!!!. I'm sure he's has a few carols for you |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Bob Bolton Date: 07 Dec 98 - 05:43 PM G'day all, I was at a practice of the Bush Music Club Concert Party last night where we went through about 8 of the 15 Wheeler & James Australian Christmas Carols. These were written in the late 1940s by two blokes from the New South Wales Dept of Education to give the kids Christmas songs that related to the world they knew ... almost as short of snow, ivy and misteltoe as Palestine! The season may be different (and most scholars don't go for the Roman church's appropriation of the Bacchanalia / Winter Solstice Festival date for Christmas anyway) but the most of the Australian Outback is very like biblical Palestine and it is those resemblances that are emphasised. These carols are in styles drawn firmly from what little of the British carol tradition survived the Puritan era and have a nice traditional musical base without deep northern forest trimmings. Interestingly, I had an expatriate Pom who got very shirty about the Aussie carols "... we had no right to change Christmas traditions ..." - "... this was just ... animism; that's what it is!...". He didn't like my observation that animism is exactly what the British carols graft onto the Christmas story. The year before last, I came across a bundle of CDs of the Adelaide Singers and the South Australian Symphony Orchestra doing the full arrangements of the Wheeler and James set ... and very impressive it sounds! Unfortunately, I have passed all of them on to interested singers. At the more traditional end, there was a collected carol from Sally Sloane, of Lithgow, NSW, ... a version of Christ was born in Bethlehem, rather similar to a version collected in rural America. I think I fielded a query on this but I'm not sure if I have posted the words and music. It is not in the current DT, so I might post it tomorrow, just in case. It is not a bad version ... one of last night's crowd complained that we did not have it in the sheet music handed out. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Australian Christmas Carols From: Art Thieme Date: 07 Dec 98 - 05:28 PM One of my all-time absolute favorite poems of any season has to be Adrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson's grand work called "SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH" !!! It simply BEGS to be given a tune!! I'll post it one o' these days soon, as I want to use it, printed out, as an Christmas card. Art |
Subject: Lyr Add: CHRISTMAS IN THE ALICE (Greg Hastings) From: Ted from Australia Date: 07 Dec 98 - 07:57 AM CHRISTMAS IN THE ALICE (Greg Hastings) key c
Christmas in the Alice is like no other place I know
Dressed up like a polar bear isn't very wise
He always seems to make it and he's full of Christmas cheer
Now someone once asked him if he'd ever lived in fear
And then there was this rumour, or so I've heard it said
So if you should spend Christmas out in Alice Springs
Through all the dust the flies the heat and every thing it brings |
Subject: Lyr/Chords/Tune Add: THE CAROL OF THE BIRDS From: alison Date: 07 Dec 98 - 05:34 AM Here's one you mentioned above. THE CAROL OF THE BIRDS
(C )Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
Friar birds sip the nectar of flowers
MIDI file: CAROLBIR.MID Timebase: 480 Name: This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
I've got Emu up a gum tree somewhere I'll look it up. Slainte alison |
Subject: Lyr Add: AUSTRALIAN JINGLE BELLS From: alison Date: 07 Dec 98 - 05:29 AM Hi John, Here's a few..... I'll do them separately. AUSTRALIAN JINGLE BELLS
Chorus,
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute.
Engine's getting hot, we dodge the kangaroo,
Come the afternoon, Grandpa has a doze,
Slainte alison |
Subject: Australian Christmas Carols From: John in Brisbane Date: 07 Dec 98 - 02:11 AM I find it pretty chunderous listening to Australians singing songs like "I'll Keep You Warm This Christmas" and "White Christmas" .... when it's hot enough to eat Christmas pud at room temperature at this time of year.
I don't expect anyone in the Northern hemisphere to sing Aussie carols, except in the privacy of their own homes. The ones that I'm thinking of are usually sung by school kids here, but are great songs in their own right.
I'll post here next week, but the ones I'm thinking of are:
The Three Drovers Any Aussies care to embellish please?
Regards |
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