Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Guy Fawkes- full lyrics from Johnson From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 10 Dec 00 - 05:02 PM If you are interested at all in Dickens relationship to the gunpowder plot and his writings on it go here Clickit right here! CB |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Guy Fawkes- NEW!INFORMATION DICKENS From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 10 Dec 00 - 05:01 PM The Center for Fawkesian Pursuits has found the following information concerning the relation of Charles Dickens to this song-
From: Glimpses of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens the Younger "Another favorite song of ours---and I thnk my father enjoyed them all even more than we did --was one that was concerned with the history of Guy Fawkes: "Guy Fawkes, that prince of sinisters, who once blew up the House of Lords, the King, and all his ministers." The beginning of each verse contained some startling statement of this kind, which was afterwards modified and eplained away in what we considered a most artful and humorous manner. I forgot exactly what happened to interfere with the final stage of Guy Fawke's nefarious project, but in another verse it was stated that Guy "crossing over Vauxhall Bridge, that way came into London. That is, he would have come that way to perpetuate hi guilt, sir. But a little thing prevented him--the bridge it wasn't built, sir," and also that when they wanted to arrest him "they straightway sent to Bow Street for that brave old runner Townshend. That is they would have sent for him, for he was no starter at, but Townsend wasn't living theen, he wasn't born till artere that." To each verse there was a chorus of the good old-fashioned sort, with an "oh, ah. o, ri fol de riddy oddy, bow wow wow" refrain, and a great part of the point of the joke lay in the delivery of the introductory monosyllables; the first "oh" being given, as it were, with incredulity, or a tone of inquiry; the second "ah" strongly affirmatively, and the last "oh" with an air as of one who has found conviction not without difficulty....."-pp 525-526 |
Subject: Tune Add: GUY FAWKES From: *Conrad Bladey Peasant-Inactive Date: 05 Oct 00 - 07:30 AM This ballad appears in several forms in the Bodliean collection of broadsides. For the most part all the verses are present. This is the version with the most verses. Unfortunately, because it is so funny, the last verse is often ommitted. There is no date given but it appears to be firmly within the mid 19th century if not earlier. The version with the last line must have been written after the birth of a queen's son. Victoria? Click for tune
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Subject: Lyr Add: GUY FAWKES From: *Conrad Bladey Peasant-Inactive Date: 04 Oct 00 - 10:52 PM GUY FAWKES I sing a doleful tragedy—Guy Fawkes, the Prince of Sinisters, Chorus- Bow, wow, wow He straightway came from Lambeth side, and wish'd the State was undone, Then searching through the dreary vaults, with portable gas-light, sirs, And when they caught him int the fact, so very near the Crown's end, So then they put poor Guy to death, for ages to remember, Then bless her Gracious Majesty, and bless her Royal Son, sirs— |
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