04 Dec 01 - 12:46 PM (#603456) Subject: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: GUEST,Guest: MichaelR I would appreciate help with the lyrics to "The Fox and the Hare" as recorded by Jimmy Crowley, the great Cork balladeer. That Cork nasal mushmouthedness is so thick that I can't make out the last verse! Thanks for any responses. MichaelR |
04 Dec 01 - 01:19 PM (#603472) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: Sorcha Posted in the Forum....Click here. |
04 Dec 01 - 01:20 PM (#603473) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: Sorcha (scroll up, it's in there. I forgot to do the shortcut thingie--but I remembered about the link!) |
04 Dec 01 - 04:55 PM (#603634) Subject: Lyr Add: THE FOX AND THE HARE From: nutty There is a slightly different version published in "Green Groves" songs collected by Fred Hamer - a sequal to "Garners Gay" which was published by the E.F.D.S.S in 1970 THE FOX AND THE HARE Six wives I've had and they're all dead CHORUS Oh' the first on the page was little Sally Sage Oh, the next to charm was a girl on our farm Oh, the next was a cook, a beauty with a hook She was eighteen stone , all muscle and bone Oh the next to claim was a jolly dame A rowley scene was a love for Jean The last I had, through drink went mad The song was collected from Harry Green of Essex If anyone would like a midi of this tune ....please let me know.
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04 Dec 01 - 05:00 PM (#603639) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: MMario Nutty - do you need to ask? Please! (but only if it's different from the one on the mudcat midi page |
04 Dec 01 - 05:55 PM (#603680) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: nutty MMario .... the tune is very different so I am sending you a Noteworthy file of it(to do with whatever you wish*BG*) |
04 Dec 01 - 05:59 PM (#603684) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: nutty E-mail on its way |
04 Dec 01 - 08:14 PM (#603824) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: GUEST,MichaelR Thanks everyone, I appreciate the help. BTW, I just discovered DT and Mudcat and I must say it's a great resource, and the threads are a kick. Particularly enjoyed the 'most influential folkie' thread. Cheers, MichaelR |
04 Dec 01 - 09:27 PM (#603874) Subject: Tune Add: THE FOX AND THE HARE From: MMario here's nutty's tune - NWC file sent to Joe.
MIDI file: foxhare.mid Timebase: 192 Name: THE FOX AND THE HARE This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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04 Dec 01 - 10:27 PM (#603921) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: Anglo Is the barline in the ABC file one beat off (shouldn't there be a one beat pickup)? Macuser who can't access MIDItext. |
05 Dec 01 - 08:42 AM (#604150) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: Snuffy The abc is machine generated, and can't handle pickup notes correctly. You usually have to re-bar it and also clean up the non-printable note lengths like the F7/2 at the end (which I think would be F4z2 or F6). Also you have to put in L:1/8 for it to print C2 as a quarter-note rather than a half-note. WassaiL! V |
05 Dec 01 - 12:28 PM (#604282) Subject: RE: Lyric request: The Fox and the Hare From: MMario Dunno guys - I can't read the bloody stuff. I have the Noteworthy file Nutty sent me if anyone wants it. |
05 Dec 01 - 07:22 PM (#604568) Subject: Lyr add: THE FOX AND THE HARE From: Susanne (skw) Michael, the following is what Jimmy Crowley sings, according to the CD booklet. As it differs from the Essex version posted above in quite a few places I think it's ok to post it. (And you're right about the accent. I doubt I'd have worked it out by ear alone!) THE FOX AND THE HARE (Trad) Chorus: The fox and the hare and the badger and the bear The birds in the greenwood tree All the pretty little rabbits, so engaging in their habits And they all having mates but me Good Christians all both great and small All you that feel inclined Your care bestowed on a fellow full of gold I'm almost out of my mind The wives I had they're all gone and dead My love has laboured in vain I have married, I have buried, and very nearly married And I'm sick from wives in the brain Now the first on my page was the little Sally Sage She once was a ladies' maid And she ran away one very dark day Wi' the fellow with the whitefish tray The next she was a hook she was a beauty and a cook And I'll tell you the reason why On her back she had a hump, on her leg she had a stump She had a little squint in the eye The next she was a charm, a little girl with a farm Well versed in harrows and ploughs She gathered a rig of lots of little pigs She squeezed new milk from the cows She was sixteen stone all muscle and bone She looked with an awful sneer Alas! she would be mine but she fell into decline She swallowed up a mouse in her beer The next one that came was a bright and jolly dame With a purse as long as my arm It was full of yellow gold, a beauty to behold For the heart of a miser's charm Her only sin was a love for gin It brought our hopes to wreck For she slipped on her heel on a piece of orange peel Fell down and she broke her neck To add to my score I had half a dozen more My list goes a long ways round Some crossed o'er the sea for a better chap than me While more of 'em were hanged and drowned The last one I had through drink she went mad In vain I tried to stop her Sorrow was my tale, I discovered one day She was slowly boiled to death in a coffer [1998:] On first hearing it sounds harmless enough. Closer study discovers misogyny and murder most airy! John O'Connell from Baile Mhuirne, Co. Cork gave me the song, originally an English folk song and published in The Oxford Book of Traditional Verse. (Jimmy Crowley, notes 'Uncorked!') |
06 Dec 01 - 04:48 PM (#605171) Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE FOX AND THE HARE From: Snuffy Here's a midi/abc I made last year from a version collected in the late 50's in Suffolk. The tune is not vastly different from Nutty's, but like much of the material sung by Emily Sparkes, the words are only fragments of a much larger song. Thanks for posting the rest of the words.
THE FOX AND THE HARE
O the fox and the hare MIDI file: FOXHARE.MID Timebase: 96 TimeSig: 4/4 24 8 This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X: 7 |