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Thread #63612 Message #1034148
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Oct-03 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Up was I on my father's farm
Subject: Lyr Add: THE MERRY GREEN FIELDS OF THE LOWLAND
Related to "Merry Green Fields of the Lowland," "Old MacDonald had a Farm," etc.
D'Urfey, "Pills to Purge Melancholy," 1719, had the lines "Booing here, booing there,
Here a boo, there a boo, everywhere a boo.
Randolph collected a fine version of "The Merry Green Fields of the Lowland."
THE MERRY GREEN FIELDS OF THE LOWLAND
Old Massa had a very fine hog,
In the merry green fields of the lowland,
He turned him in to be seen
In the merry green fields of the lowland,
And it's oink here, and an oink there,
Naff-naff-naff and ev'rybody laugh as they go past
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
Old Massa had a very fine dog,
In the merry green fields of the lowland,
He turned him in to be seen
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
And it's bow-wow here and a bow-wow there
And here a bow, there a bow, here a bow-wow
Oink here and an oink there,
Naff-naff-naff and everybody laugh as they go past
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
Old Massa had a very fine turkey
In the merry green fields of the lowland,
He turned him in to be seen
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
And it's gibble-gobble here and a gibble-gobble there,
And here a gobble, there a gobble, here a gibble-gobble,
And it's bow-wow here and a bow-wow there,
And here a bow, there a bow, here a bow-wow,
And an oink here and an oink there,
Naff-naff-naff and everybody laugh as they go past
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
Old Massa had a very fine sheep
In the merry green fields of the lowland,
He turned him in to be seen
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
And it's blib-blab here and a blib-blab there,
Here a blab, there a blab, here a blib-blab,
And it's gibble-gobble here and a gibble-gobble there,
And here a gobble, there a gobble, here a gibble-gobble
And it's bow-wow here and a bow-wow there,
And here a bow, there a bow, here a bow-wow,
And an oink here and an oink there,
Naff-naff-naff and everybody laugh as they go past
In the merry green fields of the lowland.
Mr. Doney Hammontree, Arkansas, 1942, learned "about 1900."
Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs, vol. 3, pp. 211-212 with music (pretty close to "Old MacDonald").