BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game

Subject: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 05:44 AM

At the Manchester Gathering last weekend, Dave the Gnome , at the Ducie Arms after a curry and much beer, introduced me to the White Cockade game, he sang the opening verses of the White cockade , and then switched to several othe sets of words that also fitted the tune here from the DT is the first 2 verses
WHITE COCKADE (THEY ADVANCED ME)
'Twas on a summer's morning as I rode o'er the moss,
I had no thought of enlisting, till some soldiers did me cross.
They kindly did invite me to a flowing bowl of grog
They advanced me (they advanced me)
They advanced me (they advanced me)
They advanced me some money, a shilling from the crown.

Oh yes, my love's enlisted and he wears a white cockade,
He is a handsome young man, a rash and roving blade.
He is a handsome young man, and he's gone to serve his king
Oh! my very (Oh! my very)
Oh! my very (Oh! my very)
Oh! my very heart is aching all for the love of him.


Dave followed these with the first verse of each of the following with wonderful choral support from the rest of the Mudcatters present
My old mans a dustman
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer
Pinball wizard
Yekllow submarine
Karma Chameleon
The more serious your demeanour and the more straight faced you are when singing each , increasingly outrageous, verse the better. I have found that Wild Rover fits rather well too..any other suggestions??

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 06:37 AM

I cannot claim full credit I'm afraid. I heard Fred Wedlock (I think) do it years ago. Good fun all the same.

Never managed to fit Bohemian Rhapsody to it though;-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 06:42 AM

Chap I knew used to sing Pinball Wizard to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 06:51 AM

I heard that Peter Bellamy would sing WC and append the verse:
Since my love has listed, I've found a new place to dwell,
It's down at the end of Lonely Street, and it's called Heartbreak Hotel.
The bell-hop's tears are flowing, and the dsk clerk's dressed in black,
And they have been so (they have been so) [x2]
They have been so long in Lonely Street they never can come back.

You can also do Blue Suede Shoes to the tune, and you don't need to double up the verses, and I think you might get away with Teddy Bear, but I've forgotten the verses.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 07:33 AM

Dave, I thought it had been around a while, but many thanks anyway for bringing it to my mind, It has whiled away some dull hours this week while waiting for things to do things at work.

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Whippet
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 07:34 AM

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 08:01 AM

Dylan's "One too many mornings" works well too.

So will those harmonically interchangeable tunes, Kevin Barry and The Sash.

And of course it works the other way. (A postumous Mudcat award to the first one to sing The Sash to the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in the Shankill.)

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Hilary
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 10:01 AM

Wonderful, wonderful. I shall definitely have to try it. . H

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 10:12 AM

For the more unenlightened among us (like me) who don't know the White Cockade tune, here's the midi.

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 07:16 PM

He was actually singing KORMA chameleon in honour of the amount of the stuff I'd shovelled away earlier in the evening.....

Rudolph also goes to 'Jerusalem', 'Adieu sweet lovely Nancy', 'The British Grenadiers' (sing 'the sash' to THAT tune!!) and 'Linden Lea' so presumably any of those would fit WC....

I daresay some jiggling would produce adequate results with the House of the Rising Sun.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 08:55 PM

And Nowell Sing We Clear does a fine Rudolph to the Sherburne version of While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night...
bring the absurdity around full circle!

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: GUEST,English Jon
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 09:00 AM

This kind of sillyness also works well with cotton mill girls:

ie: I'll tell me ma Waltzing matilda Space Oddity Byker Hill Purple Hills Bohemian Rhapsody Yellow submarine Cwm Rhondda

...ad nauseum. EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: GUEST,Les/ Manchester uk
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 02:10 PM

All brilliant.

It's true my love has listed to 45 degrees!

Sorry we missed the Manchester Mudacat

Les

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 06:33 PM

From trawling round a few threads it has been claimed that any of the following may be sung to the tune of any other, but I can't vouch for the accuracy of these claims:

1. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
2. Amazing Grace
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. Byker Hill
5. Calon Lan
6. From the Halls of Montezuma
7. The Holy Ground
8. House of the Rising Sun
9. Ilkley Moor
10. It's the Same the Whole World Over
11. Jerusalem
12. John Barleycorn
13. Land of Hope and Glory
14. Linden Lea
15. My Old Man's a Dustman
16. O Little town of Bethlehem
17. Pinball Wizard
18. Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer
19. Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
20. White Cockade
21. Wild Colonial Boy
22. Yellow Rose of Texas

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: BS: Dave the Gnomes White cockade game
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 06:35 PM

And 23. British Grenadiers