Origins: she will have music wherever she goes

16 Feb 06 - 05:23 PM (#1670286)
Subject: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: GSilver

I think in the 1960s some group like the New Christy Minstrels had a rousing song with this line. Can anyone identify the recording? I know it originates from an English rhyme (was that about Lady Godiva?).

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16 Feb 06 - 05:57 PM (#1670333)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: Willa

This might be useful
http://www.kton.demon.co.uk/banbury.htm

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16 Feb 06 - 10:47 PM (#1670639)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: Gurney

Must be a posh person wrote that down. Most midlanders say

Ride a cock hoss, to Banbury Cross...

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16 Feb 06 - 11:40 PM (#1670693)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: Peace

SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC
From the film "She Shall Have Music" (1935)
(Al Goodhart / Al Hoffman / Maurice Sigler)

Jack Hylton & His Orch. (Film Soundtrack) - 1935
Jack Hylton & His Orch. (vocal: Sam Costa) - 1936
Lud Gluskin & His Orch. (vocal: Buddy Clark) - 1936
Louis Levy & His Orch. - 1936
Red Nichols - 1939
Ennis Hylton & Her Orch. (vocal: Jimmy Miller) - 1939
Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band (vocal: Johnny Desmond) - 1944


She shall have music wherever she goes
With plenty of rhythm to tickle her toes
Wherever she goes, she shall have music

She shall have songbirds to sing her to sleep
With plenty of dream birds to count up her sheep
Awake or asleep, she shall have music

And while she's dreaming
I'll write a dream song
And I'll be hoping that
It will be our theme song

She shall have church bells to ring out in rhyme
So we can go marching in honeymoon time
She shall have music wherever she goes


from

lyricsplayground.com/alpha/ songs/s/sheshallhavemusic.shtml

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17 Feb 06 - 03:55 AM (#1670864)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: Jeanie

Gurney: an even posher person would sing it like this:
"Ride a cock horse to Benbury crorse" !

- jeanie ;)

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17 Feb 06 - 11:05 PM (#1671665)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: GUEST,Julia

Then there's the one about the Irishman who goes to the southseas and marries a girl there

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
Elephants to ride upon, my little Irish rose
So come to your Nabob and next St Patrick's day
You'll be Mrs Mumbo jumbo jidjybo jay- O'Shea!

Not about Lady Godiva, I suspect

Julia

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I've Got Rings On My fingers - in the Digital Tradition

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18 Feb 06 - 03:41 AM (#1671737)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: Gurney

Jeanie, I've heard people like that. The say "Oh!"
and it has all five vowels in it. In alphabetical order, too.

It's a skipping chant, I think.
Never heard Glen Miller's version.

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18 Feb 06 - 07:47 PM (#1672433)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: GSilver

Don't know if it was the Glenn Miller song I heard on the radio in the 70s or 80s. Any further possibilities?

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20 Feb 06 - 01:26 AM (#1673515)
Subject: RE: Origins: she will have music wherever she goes
From: GSilver

I have now heard the music to both the English rhyme and the 1935 movie. Neither sounds like it. Need to research the repertoires of the big 60s folk groups.

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