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21 Sep 13 - 07:21 PM (#3560217) Subject: songs with knitting in them From: Emmie I'm looking for some traditional songs that relate to knitting for a special event that involves teaching people folk songs at a group knitting get together! ( kind of hard to describe) With n initial google search we've managed to find some wartime knitting songs but it would be great to find some traditional ones if possible. |
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21 Sep 13 - 07:38 PM (#3560221) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Susan of DT Use the lyric search. I put in knit* and got 25 hits. Wool got more than that. |
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22 Sep 13 - 01:33 AM (#3560253) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Artful Codger There's the Otis Redding song "Knitting on the Dock of the Bay". |
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22 Sep 13 - 01:34 AM (#3560254) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Artful Codger And the cowboy song "When It's Knit-Time in Nevada". (I'll get my Stetson.) |
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22 Sep 13 - 03:11 AM (#3560258) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Long Firm Freddie Bill Oddie recorded The Knitting Song and it's on YouTube here: The Knitting Song Enjoy! LFF |
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22 Sep 13 - 04:04 AM (#3560262) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Tradsinger There's a music hall song we sing here "All the girls are busy knitting jumpers". Tradsinger |
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22 Sep 13 - 05:50 AM (#3560270) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: David C. Carter The ghost of Bell Starr,she hands down her wits To Jezabel the nun,who violently knits A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits At the head of The Chamber Of Commerce. Tombstone Blues Bob Dylan |
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22 Sep 13 - 06:57 AM (#3560281) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,mick henry oxford The spinning wheel |
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22 Sep 13 - 07:30 AM (#3560286) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: VirginiaTam Sally Ironmonger - Mother's Sitting Knitting |
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22 Sep 13 - 07:32 AM (#3560288) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: MMario Ghost Knitters in the sky? |
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23 Sep 13 - 04:25 AM (#3560537) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Sandra in Sydney trad songs about knitting - check out the related threads |
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23 Sep 13 - 08:14 AM (#3560579) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,HughM There's a song by Mike Donald called "The Terrible Knitters of Dent" (terrible meaning fearful and respected, and Dent being a village near the Settle-to-Carlisle railway). I think it's on his L.P. "Songs of the Broad Acres". |
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23 Sep 13 - 09:59 AM (#3560612) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,John Foxen Harry Lauder's "Wee deoch an doris" has the line: If you can say, "It's a braw bricht moonlicht knit", Then yer a'richt, ye ken. |
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23 Sep 13 - 10:58 AM (#3560629) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Mr Red Not traditional BUT it has all the hallmarks of the tradition. a Shanty Boy meets girl tune is fairly trad. The Knittershanty though the mp3 can be found at the bottom of the page here |
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23 Sep 13 - 11:02 AM (#3560630) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Leadfingers Not 'Trad' , but Mister Red has 'Knittershanty' |
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23 Sep 13 - 11:29 AM (#3560635) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Mr Red echo |
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23 Sep 13 - 11:41 AM (#3560639) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Leadfingers Great Minds mate !! |
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23 Sep 13 - 08:11 PM (#3560651) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,Knitwit Jamie's On the Stormy Sea |
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24 Sep 13 - 05:25 PM (#3560959) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,CupOfTea, no cookies Not trad, and only one verse refers to knitting, but there's a wonderful silly song by Jan Harmon "Deepest Africa" which Hot Soup recorded on what I BELIEVE is their first album: Soup Happens. That's not the only gem - the whole album is a treat, but Deepest Africa lists a number of critters the singer has taught to do various things (sing, dance, knit, fly) The verse in question: I was in deepest Africa, yes I was, yes I was I was in Deepest Africa teaching gnus to gnit. Now each stitch that gnu gnit He would throw a fit like a big gnit-wit I was in deepest Africa teaching a gnu to gnit. (Spoken: Gnit one, pearl two, Gnit one, pearl two) Joanne in Cleveland |
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24 Sep 13 - 06:20 PM (#3560973) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Jim Dixon Would you believe there's already a thread, started in 2001, called Lyr Req: Knitting Songs? Here are a few songs that have already been posted, in various threads: Knitting and Crochet Knitting, from Arthur Askey The Knitters, by C. Fox Smith Ghost Knitters by the Road, (a parody) Mother's Sitting Knitting Little Mittens for the Navy |
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28 Sep 13 - 06:11 PM (#3562337) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Emmie thanks everyone...will check out some of these ideas |
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28 Sep 13 - 07:43 PM (#3562362) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Jack Campin A fiddle tune from Shetland, "Auld Swaara": http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/89974 The title means a woollen singlet, which was always hand-knitted. I've often heard the tune played as a lament, the idea being that the distinctive pattern of the vest was used to identify the bodies of drowned fishermen. |
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29 Sep 13 - 05:20 AM (#3562423) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: Acorn4 Knitting and Crochet |
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29 Sep 13 - 09:06 AM (#3562468) Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them From: GUEST,Sue Allan The 'Terrible Knitters of Dent' mentioned above, used to sing the song Tarry Wool when they were knitting, according to an old lady in Dent who I spoke to some twenty-odd years ago. |
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29 Sep 13 - 04:15 PM (#3562580) Subject: ADD: Davy Cross (Paul Davenport) From: Paul Davenport I've written three as part of a song cycle. Here's the words to the pne that's so far been recorded. The story is true by the way. Perhaps I should say that 'gansey' is a woollen sweater with a pattern knitted into it that is peculiar to a particular location, and often a particular family. DAVY CROSS (Paul Davenport) The Widow Cross had but one son And indeed he was his mother's pride and joy So she knitted him a gansey Cable stitched both fine and fancy And it looked like royal robes upon the boy Chorus: How we knew his bright blue eyes How we knew his golden hair And that gansey that his mother made Was fine beyond compare Tall and bright was Davy Cross With a shining face that never bore a frown And the lasses smiled and sighed At his strong and manly stride On a Friday when the fishing fleet left town Chorus: For they knew &c At the dance on Saturday The lasses fairly swooned to dance with him As he held them in his arms How they fluttered at his charms And their hearts beat faster at his boyish grin Chorus: For they knew &c Then one dark October day There came a storm which drove us to the lee And our fishing fleet was tossed Yet but one single craft was lost Leaving Widow Cross a-gazing out to sea Chorus: Well she knew &c When just ten weeks were passed and gone They finally brought us news about the loss Seemed a body had been found Of a sailor lost and drowned And in our hearts we knew 'twas Davy Cross Chorus: For we knew &c Reprise: But it wasn't sky-blue eyes Nor that hair as pale as foam It was the gansey that his mother made That brought young Davy home P. Davenport © Nov 2009 Recorded on 'Spring Tide Rising' 2011 Paul & Liz Davenport http://www.hallamtrads.co.uk |