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Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His DigiTrad: THE CRAFTY BOY THE CRAFTY FARMER THE HIGHWAYMAN OUTWITTED (The Rich Farmer of Chesterfield) WELL SOLD THE COW Related thread: DTStudy: Well Sold the Cow/Crafty Farmer-Child 283 (34) |
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Subject: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His Rent From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 04 Sep 00 - 05:28 PM There's a wondereful Child Ballad whose title I'll approximate as "The Old Farmer Going to Pay His Rent." It starts like this: I'm goin' to sing ye a song I hope it'll bring ye content. It's all about an old farmer Who was goin' to pay his rent. He's apprehended by a highwayman, but turns the tables and steals the highwayman's horse and money. I know part of this, and thought I had it on a CD, but no. I need from after the highwayman's demand to the end. Anybody? Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE CRAFTY FARMER (from Ewan MacColl)^^^ From: Bud Savoie Date: 04 Sep 00 - 08:47 PM I'm gaun to sing ye a sang, And I hope it'll gie ye content At's a' aboot an auld fairmer Gaun awa' tae pay his rent
CHORUS: Sing fa la la la la la
As he was a ridin' alang
Whaur are ye gaun, kind sir?
A doited auld carle am I
But my landlord's no been at hame,
"Ye shouldna hae told me this,
The auld man winked his e'e.
The robber he got off his horse
The auld man pit his fit in the stirrup
As the fairmer wa ridin' hame
And when that he got hame
When they opened the robber's bags,
And aye she danced aroond |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: MMario Date: 04 Sep 00 - 08:57 PM tune? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: GUEST Date: 04 Sep 00 - 09:13 PM Child #283, alrady in DT. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Sep 00 - 03:38 PM I feel stupid not to have looked for this in the DT. It's there, along with the tune, although the timing and bounciness of Ewan McColl's version isn't in the MIDI. This is clearly related to "The Crafty Boy", also in the DT. No tune given for it, though. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: GUEST,Dave Ruch Date: 07 Dec 04 - 09:57 AM Catskill (NY) singer Harry Siemsen sings a version of it called "The Spotted Cow" on the Folkways LP called "Folk Songs of the Catskills", or something similar. I use his tune with the text from the Stevens-Douglass manuscript of 1841-1856, which calls the song "The Kennebec Bite" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: Snuffy Date: 07 Dec 04 - 05:55 PM Quite a few "Highwayman Outwitted" songs in the DT and forum. Often it's the farmer's daughter (or son) who turns the tables. Laws has it as #L2 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: beetle cat Date: 07 Dec 04 - 06:02 PM Hah, wonderful, but I expected one about a scholar of child ballads who is having trouble paying the rent. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ChildBallad Farmer Going to Pay His From: Nerd Date: 08 Dec 04 - 01:52 PM Yes, Beetle Cat, as a ballad scholar I assure you that your interpretation rings true as well! |
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