Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)

Subject: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 08 Apr 26 - 10:27 AM

I tried to find a YouTube version of Anne Feeney's "Too Many Daves" (the Doctor Seuss rhyme set to the tune of The Rakes of Kildare). I have it on cassette. Here is what is claimed to be a YouTube of it.

https://youtu.be/-X90_vyqu2o

It's actually fiddle music, maybe Hungarian.

What happened and where can I find the real thing?

Subject: ADD: Too Many Daves (Dr. Seuss)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Apr 26 - 07:25 PM

Here's the text:

Too Many Daves
(Dr. Seuss)

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.

from "The Sneetches and Other Stories" (New York: Random House, 1961)

https://allpoetry.com/poem/11575842-Too-Many-Daves-by-Theodor-Seuss-Geisel

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 08 Apr 26 - 09:07 PM

What happened and where can I find the real thing?

Part 1: Just a guess but, original self release playing loose and fast with the Dr. Seuss copyrights and CD-Baby being CD-Baby.

Part 2: A lot of the "usual" sources claim to have the whole album for download/streaming but I'm not a subscriber. It will have to sneak by all the usual publisher/manager bots anywho.

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: cnd
Date: 08 Apr 26 - 09:19 PM

Jack, is this the recording you're searching for?

https://youtu.be/gSId1MoZE-U?t=1331

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 03:11 AM

FWIW, he air is the Limerick rake, not the ones from Kildare.

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 09:00 AM

Two names for the same tune. Anne is the only person I know who's used the Limerick title.

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 09:15 AM

The Limerick Rake and the Rakes of Kildare are not the same tune, Jack. But carry on.

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 10:40 AM

The tune she sings on the cassette is exactly the one I know as The Rakes of Kildare.

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 11:21 AM

It's only a name and it doesn't matter a lot but I still think you may be mixing up your rakes.


T: The Limerick Rake
R: waltz
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
|:E2|E2 G2 F2|E2 D2 E2|G2 A2 B2|e4 ee|d2 B2 B2|A2 F2 G2|A2 F2 E2|D4 D2|
E2 G2 F2|E2 D2 E2|G2 A2 B2|e4 e2|d2 B2 G2|A2 F2 D2|E2 E4|E4 B2|
B2 e2 e2|e2 f2 e2|d3 B ^c2|d4 d2|e2 d2 B2|A2 F2 G2|A2 F2 E2|D4 DD|
E2 G2 F2|E2 D2 E2|G3 A B2|e4 ee|d2 B2 G2|A2 F2 D2|E2 E4|E4:|


X: 1
T: The Rakes Of Kildare
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Ador
|:EAA AGA|Bcd e2f|g2g efg|dBA G2D|
EAA AGA|Bcd e2f|gfe dBG|ABA A3:|
aea aea|aea b2a|g2g efg|dBA G3|
[1 aea aea|aea b2a|gfe dBG|ABA A3:|
[2 EAA AGA|Bcd e2f|gfe dBG|ABA A3||

The latter also in G as a vehicle for several songs, the Galbally farmer, Thanks god, we are surrounded by water etc

Subject: RE: Too Many Daves (Anne Feeney/Dr. Seuss)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 09 Apr 26 - 03:34 PM

Pardon the interruption...

cnd: Thanx!

Righty then, as you were professors... oy.