Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his

Subject: With hishead tucked underneath his arm
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 03:40 PM

This is part of an old music hall song I believe. Does any know this or where I can find the words? Please.

"with his head tucked underneath his arm, he walks the bloody tower.

With his head tucked underneath his arm at the midnight hour" etc......

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With hsi head tucked underneath his
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 03:43 PM

Actually it's with HER head tucked underneath HER arm, and it's about Anne Boleyn (sp?), one-time wife of Henry VIII.

It's in the digitrad, blicky

Alex

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With hsi head tucked underneath his
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 03:46 PM

great song - really fun to sing in a crowd.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With hsi head tucked underneath his
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 03:47 PM

Never heard the melody. I've seen a bazillion versions in different books. Which version do you use, Mmario?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With hsi head tucked underneath his
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:20 PM

pretty much the one here

but not 'zactly

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: Dani
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:12 PM

Lani Herrmann (sp?) sang this at the FSGW Getaway last year and my skin was crawling...... It was past the witching hour and darn dark outside to walk to bed.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:30 PM

Has to be sung wiv da propa accent like, and tower pronounced taar, to rhyme with haar.

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: Bert
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:33 PM

Trouble is Squeaks Gal, there ain't any way ter write it proper 'cos yer keebord ain't got letters for allatha sahnds.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: GUEST,esmond
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 06:42 PM

The song is on 'The World of Stanley Holloway' if you can find it. On the sleevenotes he says what a difficult time he had with the BBC because it contained the word 'bloody'. He had ot persuade them it was a noun i.e. Bloody Tower and not an adjective!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 06:52 PM

trust the English to find themselves an expletive/adjective that makes it difficult to say things like "bloody tower".,....it was a silly tower where a lot of blood had been spilled, for Pete's sake!

(what's that you say? Americans do it too? Gay?..oh, yeah)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: roopoo
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 02:39 AM

My gran had the original 78 record of it, and when I was a kid I used to play it on her old wind-up gramophone. It's the B-side of "Albert and the Lion". (Bit of trivia for you)! The tune has always stayed in my head, but there's no way I can get it to you, I'm afraid, as I can't sing it for you. Anyway, I'm no singer. At least some of it (probably all of it) is in a minor key, and that's all I can help you with.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: reggie miles
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 09:09 AM

I've got a 78 of it around here somewhere where. That's what I used to work up a version. I think it was performed by Rudy Vallee and his Valley boys but I can't recall for certain just now. I love the backup vocals he had on his arrangement. It's kind of a seasonal ditty, good for gigs around late October here in the states.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: mkebenn
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 09:17 AM

As most songs, I learned this from KT3. Mike

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With his head tucked underneath his
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 04:01 PM

Thankyou you all, and you're quite right, it is about Anne Boleyn, but I only thought of it in the midle of a literacy lesson yesterday reading a poem to the brats about "The key to the Castle" There is a Ghost and I was making them jump, when the bit of the song came into my head.

Thanks once again!!

ps Liz, no probs wiv der accent, Ta.