And Another Alphabet Quiz

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:31 AM

o.k., with that big hint: New mown hay

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: IanC
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:37 AM

Thanks, Wolfgang ... sadly V isn't in the DT though, so it might be harder to find (sometimes I'm guilty of assuming everybody knows the songs I know).

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: IanC
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:55 AM

Sorry ...

I think I've made an unwarranted assumption with V. Normally I spend quite a long time checking up on the clues for the quizzes I do. The song I was looking for was "Vive L'Amour" which is a standard version of "The Animals Went in Two by Two with the chorus from the French drinking son of the same name. It doesn't seem to be available on the web, so I'm forced to conclude that I may be the only one who knows it. I'm sure it was in some UK school song books in the '60s!

With apologies
Ian

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 05:32 AM

Ian: I've looked at the site for "The Animals went in 2 by 2" and this is sung (by some) in the UK to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again". It would need to be a very different version to scan to "Vive L'amour".

But Good Quiz anyway

CHEERS Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: DMcG
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 07:49 AM

I'll add my thanks as well. Good exercise for the little not-really-grey-at-all cells

Subject: RE: BS: And Another Alphabet Quiz
From: IanC
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 04:32 AM

Sorry, I've been ill for a couple of days, and before that couldn't get onto The Mudcat. Just thought I'd put in a final roundup so the answers are easy to find.

A - All Around My Hat
B - Byker Hill
C - The Cuckoo
D - Drink Old England Dry
E - Early One Morning
F - Four Drunken Maidens
G - Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
H - Hard Times of Old England
I - Irish Rover
J - John Barleycorn
K - The Keeper
L - Lyke Wake Dirge
M - Maids When You're Young
N - New Mown Hay
O - Oats and Beans and Barley
P - Prickly Bush
Q - The Quaker's Wife
R - Rosin The Beau
S - Skye Boat Song
T - Twa Corbies
U - Ups and Downs (Aylesbury Girl)
V - Vive L'Amour (not in DT)
W - Worried Man Blues
X - XXIV Tailors (Four and Twenty Tailors)
Y - Ye Banks and Braes
Z - Zulu Warrior (not in DT)

:-)
Ian