The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158176   Message #3738467
Posted By: Mo the caller
20-Sep-15 - 07:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles
Subject: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles
Last night at a concert by Cataleya I heard a suite by Paul Patterson, Westerly Winds.
I'd never heard of him, but it turned out to be based on West Country folk songs.
All easily recognised except I don't know the 'official' words to the first, I was (silently)singing along
"Tomatoes are soft and they don't hurt the skin
But this one was hard, it was packed in a tin"

The weblink says it's called Farmer Giles. I couldn't find it here except a mention as a cod-rustic music hall song in the thread about Buttercup Joe. Any offers?

The audience were mostly of a generation that sang these songs at school, and heard them on the Wireless, so we found it hard to keep quiet.