The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37571   Message #809309
Posted By: Abby Sale
23-Oct-02 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: All Around My Hat
Subject: RE: Origins? All around my hat
Malcolm (especially)

I was "always" familiar with this song but never sang it. The Steeleye version was so strong, it drove all previous memory out of my head and the original never returned. (Actually, it doesn't take all that much to do so.) Good as the Steeleye version is, it was never satisfied with the (amalgamated) text.

1) What was the text I "always" had in mind. This would have been one familiar to Cambridge and/or G. Village folkies in the late 50's.

2) What is the "cockney parody" (if you still believe that to be the earliest recorded)? Would that be essentially ALL AROUND MY HAT (I will wear the Green Willow) ?

3) What, if any, old-but-complete & evolved" text is given in Chappell? (Or other early, evolved text.)

4) Is the Chappell tune essentially the same as the well-known one?

Seems silly I can't answer these myself but there you are!