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11 Jul 02 - 06:24 PM (#746807) Subject: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,Louise Anyone know the words to an old Minnesota lumberjack song sung to "Beautiful Ohio"? [something,something,something]little porcupine, I can see you hiding in dat Norvay pine. I get my sot-gun, and den I soot you down, [something] little porcupine. My father used to sing this to me, playing his Swedish accent. Anybody remember hearing this? Louise |
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12 Jul 02 - 10:15 AM (#747134) Subject: RE: Porcupine Song From: MMario refresh |
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12 Jul 02 - 10:24 AM (#747140) Subject: RE: Porcupine Song From: Mrrzy Not this one, but I remember It vas vinter in the valley green and the vind blew 'gainst the vindowpanes and the vomen in the vaudeville wrote philosophy on the vestibule... My little brother Heinrich by the window stood inside outlooking he saw a tree there standing and on the tree a peach there hanging. He leaned the window out - he FELL the window out - his head upon the rocks there lay. Peachless. and so on. Also in fake Swedish. Very entertaining ditty from a friend from Michigan. |
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12 Jul 02 - 03:44 PM (#747336) Subject: RE: Porcupine Song From: Mrrzy Also by same friend, the large dark aardvark song. I'll check the trad... |
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28 Jan 11 - 04:59 PM (#3084303) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,Patrick This is a very old thread, BUT... When I was a kid, we used to sing "Itsy Bitsy Porcupine" to the tune of Beautiful Ohio, and it went something like this: Itsy Bitsy, Itsy Bitsy Porcupine, What you doing way up in a Northern Pine? I'll take my shotgun and shoot you down, Itsy Bitsy, Itsy Bitsy Porcupine. |
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28 Jan 11 - 06:13 PM (#3084350) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: ClaireBear Mrrzy (8 years too late), I believe it's "rode velocipedes in the vestibule" not "wrote philosophy on the vestibules" -- but that's a great mondegreen! C |
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08 Jun 12 - 09:28 PM (#3361125) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST My father used to sing me to sleep with this song. His grandfather sang it to him. We lived in Michigans UP and it's sung with a Finnish accent. "peeka-seeka peeka-seeka porcupine" :) I googled this wondering if anyone else knew of this tune |
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14 Nov 12 - 01:12 PM (#3436523) Subject: it vas vinter in the valley green From: GUEST,Guest - LE I learned this version Michigan in the 60's at summer camp . . . I think it still has a few more lines. Does anyone know them? It vas vinter in the valleygreen and the vind blew against the vindowpane The vomen in the vaudeville wrote philosophy in the vestibule. Copenhagen was taken hoorah hoorah Copenhagen vas taken hoorah hoorah And all the shtrange people stood up in the shteeple and shpit on the people below Aah, aah, vomen Aah, aah men Acht deliber august September October No vonder ve are sober ve and got no beer My little brother Heindrich by the vindow stood Inside, outlooking He saw a tree there standing He leaned the vindow out He fell the vindow out His head upon the rocks there lay Peach-less. He died he did He died of broken rib he did He died he did he died of broken rib. We're the boys from bowling green Bowling green Bowling green We're the boys from bowling green, Boooys, don't bowl on the green The green is for the king The king is for the queen The queen is for the prince. Prince what prince? Finger prints, nah Foot prints, nah Here Prince! The moral of our story is to be able to distinguish the difference between asthma Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh And passion Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah |
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13 Feb 13 - 11:30 PM (#3479389) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,James Peek-a seek-a peek-a seek-a porcupine I can see you hiding in the Norrrrway pine I take my shoot gun and shoot you down BANG! peek-a seek-a porcupine I don't know if there are other verses, but my father sang this to us when we were kids as well here in Northern Minnesota |
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14 Feb 13 - 04:29 AM (#3479430) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Nigel Parsons Not to be confused with Holly the hedgehog Cheers! |
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14 Feb 13 - 08:41 PM (#3479807) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Joe_F "Write philosophy" is a wonderful mondegreen for "ride velocipedes". %^) |
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10 Jun 13 - 02:40 AM (#3524660) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,Guest C I remember the song as well. However, I remember the lyrics being something like: Peek-and seek-a porcupine, Peek-and seek-a porcupine, What cha doin hiding in an old growth pine? I'll get my shotgun and shoot you down. Peek-and seek-a porcupine, Peek-and seek-a porcupine. |
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10 Jun 13 - 07:02 PM (#3525006) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST "I will try to do this as phonetically as possible. This is a Finnglish song my dad used to sing to me about the porcupine when I was a little girl. Maybe others know it, or know how to spell it. Pikki sikka, pikki sikka, porcanpine Yersi bouda, yersi bouda, allatime Porcanpine. A rough translation would be, I think: Piney pig, piney pig, porcupine Chews wood, chews wood, all the time Porcupine. " I found that on a message board at http://www.pasty.com/discus/messages/713/1118.html There are a few other posts that |
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10 Jun 13 - 07:02 PM (#3525007) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST speak about the song. |
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14 Jun 13 - 02:32 PM (#3526458) Subject: Lyr Add: IN DE VINTER TIME (from Carl Sandburg) From: Jim Dixon From The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927), page 334: IN DE VINTER TIME This is sung by superincumbent cucumbers in Iowa and elsewhere. We have it from students and faculty members of Cornell College. The tempo is mazurka and came with Polish and Czeko-Slovak emigration to the Corn Belt. Lively. Tempo di mazurka - Arr. A. G. W. In de vinter, in de vintortime, Ven de vin' blows on de vindow-pane. An' de vimmen, in de vaud'vil Ride de velocipede in de vestibule, All, vimmens! Ah, mens! |
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14 Jun 13 - 02:39 PM (#3526461) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Jim Dixon There's another thread that ought to be linked to this one: Lyr Req: In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg) |
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14 Jun 13 - 10:11 PM (#3526586) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: JWB In the Finnish-American community in Oxford County, Maine, the pikki sikka song was known, as well. Very similar lyrics to Guest C's 6/10/13 post. The tune, which I still have in my head, is rather like a Gay Nineties ditty. |
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15 Aug 13 - 10:35 PM (#3549678) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST "Piikkisika, piikkisika porcupine Hiding way up there beneat' da nor'dern pine I take-a my shotgun and shoot-a him down Piikkisika porcupine" This is a song my great-grandfather and father sang; we are located in the UP of Michigan. My understanding is that it is a finnish song made popular in our area by the finnish immigrants who worked as loggers. Piikkisika means porcupine in finnish. |
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15 Aug 13 - 10:37 PM (#3549679) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST Louise, "Piikkisika" is the word you are missing, and it means Porcupine in Finnish. Pronounced "Peek-e-seek-a" |
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18 Mar 14 - 01:57 PM (#3610646) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,b'fo Yea, I remember this song. My grandpa used to sing it all the time! |
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19 Mar 14 - 11:38 AM (#3610895) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,leeneia Reading these posts made me realize that I have the vaguest idea of what a porcupine is like. So I found a youtube video of one. It's most interesting. And I thought my cat was a talker! You'll have to copy and paste. I couldn't get my computer to make a link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGz8jcbJjRw |
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20 Mar 14 - 01:32 PM (#3611211) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Cool Beans Nigel Parsons, thanks for "Holly the Hedgehog." I'd never heard of it, instantly fell in love with it. |
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08 Jul 15 - 01:46 PM (#3722071) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST My grandfather (born in Finland, raised in U.P. of Michigan, used to sing me the song
I can see you hiding in the Nothern Pine. If you don't come out, I'll shoot you down "Piikkisika Pikkisika, porcupine of course in his thick Finnish accent it sounded more like "I'll suit you town" |
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13 May 16 - 10:15 PM (#3790184) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,Tolkupois Piiika-Sikka, Piiika-Sikka, por-cue-pine! I see you, behind that norrr-vay pine! I take my sot gun and soot you down! Piiika-sikka, por-cue-pine! That's how I recall it being sung. |
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14 May 16 - 09:50 AM (#3790233) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST I grew up in Northern Wisconsin and my grandparents would sing it to us as kids. My dad taught it to my kids when they were were 4-5 years old. The version we learned was: Peek-a-seek-a, Peek-a-seek-a, porcupine What are you doing in that northern pine I'll get my shoot-gun and shoot you in the behind! Peek-a-seek-a, Peek-a-seek-a, porcupine |
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14 May 16 - 01:00 PM (#3790270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Cool Beans I've recorded "Holly the Hedgehog." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8WSnCkevT8 |
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14 Aug 16 - 06:38 PM (#3805131) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: keberoxu I had a hard time finding a thread home for this song lyric. It's a hedgehog, not a porcupine. But it didn't really belong on the Terry Pratchett thread series. It probably is still under copyright, I will try to acknowledge that. LE HÉRISSON [lyrics: Madeleine Ley(1901-1981), from Belgium] [music, for girl's voices, by Francis Poulenc] Quand papa trouve un hérisson Il la porte a la maison On lui donne du lait tiè Dans la fond d'une assiette Il ne veut pas se dérouler lors qu'il entend parler Mais si nous quittons la cuisine Il montre sa tête maligne Et si je me tais un instant Je l'entends boire doucement © Madeleine Ley Paris: Stock, 1930 |
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14 Aug 16 - 07:15 PM (#3805137) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Joe Offer I thought it unusual that leeneia says she has only the vaguest idea what a porcupine is like. I thought porcupines were common. But then again, maybe not. I recall seeing a porcupine in the wild only once in my life - at Boy Scout camp in Northern Wisconsin in about 1965. I've seen lots in captivity, though. We don't have hedgehogs in the Americas, and I've never seen one in the wild. Wikipedia says that while they are spiny, they are not related to porcupines (but both are rodents). -Joe- |
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29 Sep 16 - 12:33 AM (#3811837) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST I remember the song and the tune. Can somebody sing it on YouTube? I'd love to hear it again. |
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23 Aug 17 - 03:54 PM (#3873355) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST Hi, and yes I've heard it before, but in a different way. My way went, 'Peeka-seeka Peeka-seeka, Porcupine. I see you hiding behind the big Jack Pine. I go get my shot-gun and shoot you dead. Peeka-seeka Porcupine!'. I guess it's a song with many different ways to sing it. I also know you pronounce the words with the S like soot. My grandpa sings this song so I guess I just sing it all the time. |
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28 Aug 17 - 05:51 AM (#3874005) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST Seeka seeka porcupine. I see you hiding in the norwood pine I get my sit gun and shot you down seeka seeka seeka porcupine |
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01 Nov 17 - 11:57 PM (#3886313) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,GUEST I first heard this around the campfire at our cabin in northern Minnesota over 40 years ago, sung by my father and our neighbor, his oldest friend. Neither of them was Finnish, but these songs do get around. We also occasionally saw porcupines in our neck of the woods, one of which was shot after chewing the cedar siding on the cabin! |
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03 Nov 18 - 10:22 PM (#3959967) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,GUEST I heard this one when I was a kid. One of my friend's dad was a Boy Scout camp counselor in Minnesota. He sang it something like: Icky-sicky, icky-sicky porcupine, (pronounced it por-cun-pine) I can see you sitting on that big yack(?) pine I'll get my shotgun and shoot you down. Icky-sicky, icky-sicky porcupine, |
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06 Mar 19 - 01:13 PM (#3980572) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,Amy The answer to this question is "piikkisika," the Finnish word for porcupine. It is pronounced "peeka seek a" like others have said. |
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07 Mar 19 - 02:52 PM (#3980802) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Here in North America, porcupines have natural predators. I wonder what the case is in Finland? Does Finland have what we call 'fishers' ? |
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09 Apr 19 - 05:03 PM (#3986651) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,guest My friend's father used to sing it like this in a thick Norwegian accent: Beeky-Seeky, Beeky-Seeky Porcupine, Now I see you hiding in the Nor-vich pine. If you don't go a-vay, I vill shoot you down - Beeky-Seeky Porcupine. |
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09 Apr 20 - 10:04 AM (#4044862) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST This is a very old post. Here's what we used to sing - Icky sticky icky sticky porcupine, I can see you hiding 'hind that Norway pine, I get my shotgun and shoot you down, Icky sticky porcupine. |
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17 Jul 20 - 07:59 PM (#4064654) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: GUEST,DCJ Minnesota Boy Scout Troop 302 variation, circa 1970's: Icky picky icky picky porc-u-pine, I can see you sitting in that big Jackpine, I'll take my shotgun and shoot you down, Icky picky porcupine. |
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20 Jul 20 - 05:18 PM (#4065151) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Mrrzy So I am not the only one with philosophy rather than velocipedes... Are you sure we have the mondegreen? Vilosophy, the song pronounces. |
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20 Jul 20 - 05:20 PM (#4065152) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song From: Mrrzy And I never realized no hedgehogs in the new world. Wild! We had one in Abidjan for a few days but it drove our basset hounds crazy so we had to let it go. Cute little ball of soft spikes. |