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Thread #141288   Message #3250686
Posted By: MGM·Lion
05-Nov-11 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ricky-do-dum-da / The Overgate
Subject: RE: Lyrics required - Ricky-do-dum-da
Jeaannie Robertson actually sang the chorus of that one, IIRC, as

To me roving eye
Fol-a-diddle-die
To me roveing fol-de-daddy
To me roving eye.

But there are, of course, probably variants with the ricky-doo-dum chorus. I recall a sleevenote somewhere ~ in one of MacColl's or Lloyd's records ~ referring to a variant of one of the songs as sung to "the Ricky-doo-dah tune", by which he obviously means The Keach In The Creel, which he expects to be familiar to all his readers/listeners with that chorus.

~Michael~