Tune Add: Kipper Family (+ Lyr corr)

03 Dec 00 - 10:03 AM (#350677)
Subject: Kipper Family (+ Lyr corr)
From: Snuffy

About ten years ago I became the accidental owner of a tape someone had made of 2 Kipper Family albums. But it was just the tape - no box, no liner, no notes, not even any titles. I now find that seven songs on the tape are in the DT with no tunes, so I have transcribed the tunes. At the same time I am taking the opportunity "correct" the words in the DT. These may have been transcribed from other recordings, broadcasts or live performances, and thus be "correct" anyway, but they are certainly different to what I have.

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920 DOVER STRAND
The song is a parody of Six Dukes Went A-Fishing, which is in the DT and the Penguin Book of English Folksongs. In the original the body was found at Dover, but here it should be Overstrand, two miles east of Cromer.
The other places in the song should be Northrepps, Southrepps and Knapton, which are all close to Overstrand (and Trunch).
In verse 2 it is Southrepps where he was born and Northrepps where he was known.
The recording has an additional verse after V2, which is very close to the original:
    I opened his bowels and pulled out his feet
    And I garnished him over with parsley so sweet.

X: 182
T:Overstrand
M:3/4
L:1/4
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
N:filename [DVRSTRND
K:C
G,|
CCD|EFG|FED|C2D|
E2D|E2D|E2F|G3-|G2G|
AAA|GFE|FED|C2G,|
C2D|E3-|E2F|EED|C2||

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1035 EVERY MAN
I think the real title might be "The Lightweight Dirge"

X: 178
T:Every Man
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/8=90
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
N:filename [EVRYMAN
K:BbDor %4 flats
B2|
B2B2A2|B4 B2|B2B2A2|B4 f2 |
f2f2e2|f4 ed|c2c2B2|c4(dc)|
B2B2A2|B2B2F2|B2B2A2|BB3F2 |
B2B2A2|B4 F2|B2B2A2|BB3z2||

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1062 FALL DEE RAY
Verse 3 is "mawther" - an East Anglian dialect word for a young woman. Definitely not "mother".
Verse 7 is "something that our bobby'd like to know". (Bobby = police officer), and "the dopes have got some hemp", not the ducks.
X: 177
T:Fall Dee Ray
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:100
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
R:Hornpipe
N:Filename [VILPIMP
K:Bb
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gfed|c2de|fedc|B2cd|
edcB|ABcA|B4-|Bee<d|
c4- |cdd<c|B4-|Bdd<c|
B2F2|G2A2|BBBB|B4|
b2-bg|f2-fd|cFAc|B4||

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2931 RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE
X: 174
T:Right Up The Middle
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
N:Filename [UPMIDDLE
K:G
d4|
B2c2 d2c2|B2A2 G2(GA)|B2A2 G2F2|F2E2-E2e2|
e2d2 c2B2|c2cB A2G2|F2G2 A2AG|F2D2 E2F2|
G2G2 F4 |EEEE D4 |G2GG ABA2|G4 ||

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3074 SATISFY ME
This is exactly as the recording, but there is another version (The Unlaid Maid) in the DT with 2 extra verses and a tune which is only a rough approximation.
X: 181
T:Satisfy Me
T:The Unlaid Maid
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=90
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
N:filenames [SATFYME, [UNLAID
K:C
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CG,C<E|GAG<E|D3E/F/|
GAGE|D<CzD|EDCA,|A,<G,zG,/G,/|
CEDC|G<G,D<E|C3z||
M:3/4
CDE|F3|F2G|E>FE|D2D|
CCC|DEF|E<FD|C2||

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3242 SOUTHRUPS WASSAIL SONG
The name of the village is Southrepps, which is in North Norfolk, about 1 mile east of the A149 Cromer to North Walsham road and three miles WNW of Trunch, the home of the Kipper family. The version in the DT has so many differences to the recording that it is easier to give that in whole, rather than point out each individual variation.

All on this pleasant morning from Southrepps come we
To ask a bag of sugar to sweeten our tea.
If you can't spare a bag, then cupfull will do.
And if you can't spare that, well, bugger you.

The master of this house in his rusty old chain
Will stamp and swear and curse and he'll bitterly complain.
He'll say he's most offended with his house we're bein' so bold,
And if he had his way, we'd be left out in the cold.

The mistress of this house with her stockings all torn
Will rant and rave and curse the very hour we were born.
And then she'll fall asleep and loudly she will snore.
And when her body is at peace we hope her soul's at war

The daughter of this house is a proper little whore,
She's had all the blokes round here, and plenty more.
And all her little children round the table do go
Until they all get dizzy and fall down on the floor.

This house and this arbour are in disrepair.
I'd live all in my pigsty as soon as I'd live there.
Your men and your maidens are rolling in the dew,
Unless they all take care, they'll go down with the flu.

Bad luck to this household, the season begun.
Where you had ten apples, may you have one.
Now we'll come no more nigh you until the next year,
And the last thing we'll do is to wish you good cheer.

X: 180
T:Southrepps Wassail
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:100
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
N:filename [SOUTHWAS
K:G
D|
GBBA|G2DD|CA,F,G,-|G,3D|
GBBA|G2DF|GFED-|D3D|
GBBA|G2DD|CCB,A,-|A,3D|
GBBA|G2D2-|D2CA,|G,3 |

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3512 THE TRUNCH WASSAIL SONG
Verse 3 should read:
Now the year has passed away, cast away your sins
There's lots of lovely new ones as another year begins

X: 179
T:The Trunch Wassail Song
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=100
C:Sugden and Nudds. Copyright Dambuster Music
S:The Kipper Family
R:Hornpipe
N:filename [TWASSAIL
K:C
GGFG|EDC2|_B,DCB,|C3z/G/|
GGFG|EDCC|_B,DCB,|C3-C/||
G/|
GGAA|(3GAG EE|FFDD|GFE2|
GG(3AGF|GGE2|F2G2|AF(3DED|C4||

I am also sending midis of these to Alan of Oz for the Mudcat Midis site.

Wassail! V

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21 Jan 06 - 05:43 AM (#1652656)
Subject: Tune for Norfolk and Good
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

I heard the song "Norfolk and Good" many years ago and recently found the lyrics again. I also wish to get the tune that went with it. Does anybody know where I can find this please - I have tried Googling and also share-ware but come up blank.

Many thanks.

Bern

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21 Jan 06 - 06:25 AM (#1652674)
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Kipper Family (+ Lyr corr)
From: Little Robyn

Just go to the thread above.

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