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Lyr Req: Rabbiter's Song (Stan Wakefield)
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Tune Req: The Rabbiter's Song (Stan Wakefield) (27)
Lyr Add: The Rabbit Trapper's Song (7)
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Lyr Req: Rabbiter's Song (Stan Wakefield) Related threads: Tune Req: The Rabbiter's Song (Stan Wakefield) (27) Lyr Add: The Rabbit Trapper's Song (7) Lyr Add: Australian songs about rabbits (4) |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 17 May 07 - 10:20 PM Am looking for the words to his "Rabbiter's Song" and any other good songs he found or wrote. One verse was in the little magazine SINGABOUT 1962--published the Bush Music Club in Sydney. ...Now I'm wondering if I got this from Stewie---or was it from Greg Hildabrand---or maybe Bob Bolton!? My memory isn't what it was due to MS. But I do wonder about this song.-------- I am enjoying these little magazines. A fascinating window into "Oztrylya." Also, in the article it says several times that he was "a battler." What does that name refer to? Art |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield From: Bob Bolton Date: 17 May 07 - 11:38 PM G'day Art, I'll dig out the Rabbiter's Song for you when I get home ... and a few others you might enjoy. I'll see what I republished in Singabout - Selected Reprints (1985...?) ... and glean back through my personal song sheets. Singabout survives as a 4-page "music / song / poetry / folklore section, under my editorship, in the centre of the Bush Music Club's Mulga Wire - the 2-monthly magazine that deals with the week-to-week activities of the Club. Stan died in the early '60s ... and his widow Janet was Secretary of the BMC when I first came along, around 1962. Janet died in 1995, but I'm still in occasional contact with their son Brian, who lives about 2 kilometres away - and was digging through his father's papers for unpublished songs ... often dashed off for some organisation or event. Stan was an English immigrant to Australia before WW 2 - and worked down in the Murrimbidgee Irrigation area (among other places) during the Great Depression and the WW 2 years. I guess that he would have identified himself with "the battlers" ... those who had to battle for a decent living ... and his songs would have lightened the lot of many of his fellows. Regards, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefild From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 18 May 07 - 12:03 AM Bob, Thank you for that! And if you did send me those 3 old copies of "Singabout", thanks for those too. There is a fascinating letter to the editor on the back of the booklet from Pete Seeger telling you folks not to be too "safe" and to print songs that shake up and even offend people out of their complacency. That's vintage PETE. --- A great man. (This was Volume 4--Number 4 1962 The editor is John Meredith. Art |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefild From: katlaughing Date: 18 May 07 - 12:46 AM Keep going, you two! This is the best kind of stuff Mudcat has to offer! luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefild From: Bob Bolton Date: 18 May 07 - 02:14 AM G'day Art, I doubt that I sent you 3 separate copies of the Singabout magazine ... I would have been more likely to send a copy of Singabout - Selected Reprints. This I have reorganised, with the songs set in more of a standard "songbook" format: (Title / music & chords / lyrics / short notes ...) rather than their original spread (often) across 2 pages ... with lyrics on one side and music, often, on the other ... and brief collecting notes as and where they fall. I have some full (and 'broken') sets of the original issues - but I'm hanging onto them as a resource - and a possible core for a National Library collection. I'll send you some Stan Wakefield songs directly ... but also post them to mudcat, if they aren't already in the DT. Regards, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: Bob Bolton Date: 18 May 07 - 02:37 AM Aaaarrrghhh! Well, actually ... er, when I did a search on it ... I found I had posted the words - just on 7 years back: Rabbiter's Song and the link picks up another related song, as collected by (inter alia) ... and modified ... by Dave de Hugard. I will look around for a few more of Stan's songs. Regards, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: Bob Bolton Date: 18 May 07 - 02:38 AM Oh yes ... There's the nub of the problem... it has not yet burrowed into the DT... Regard(les)s, Bob |
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Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: WALLABY LIZ (Stan Wakefield) From: Bob Bolton Date: 19 May 07 - 01:42 AM G'day again Art, Here's another of Stan Wakefield's that you might enjoy. It was written from a 'local legend' he picked (up in the 1930s... ?) but he says legend was unkind to her - so he gave the song a happier ending! Apart from a ripping yarn, from the days and ways of our horseriding past ... and unconventional courtship ... the song lets us bamboozle 'outsiders' (to the 'insiders' of this day and place, this meant those who lived a soft life, on the [relatively] green and mild east coast of Australia ... not the 'red heart' of the inside territory). BTW: Don't try to find all the places mentioned anywhere near each other on the map! The first version here - in 6/8 time and the key of D - is my transcription (down one semitone) from the Eb version that Southern Music set in their publication Songs of Australia (Bush Music Club Series No. 2) in 1966. The second - in 4/4 time the key of C - is what was published in Singabout Magazine in 1957 (presumably transcribed by John Meredith). Although the two versions sound remarkably similar, I think the 4/4 version is closer to what I sing ... but then - I didn't learn it from the published Eb piano setting! Wallaby Liz Words & music: StanWakefield Did you ever hear tell of Wallaby Liz? Catch me, kiss me Mister — She'd snatch your hat and away she'd ride Across the hills, and many had tried; But never a bushman kissed her, Never a bushman kissed her. Chorus: Dorrigo, Dubbo and Wingadee, Yarra, Benalla and Bungaree, Tooleybuc and Talbragar, Mittagong, Merriwa, Mugeriebar. Her father worked a timber mill In Ferntree Gully hiding. She kept the house, and fed-the cats, And, on the sly, collected hats- A tribute to her riding, A tribute to her riding. (Chorus) A stranger chanced to ride that way, And Wallaby Liz, to greet him, She snatched his hat and away she ran But he was a wild Monaro man, And never a track could beat him, Never a track could beat him. (Chorus) He cracked his whip and the chase was on The dogwood went, a-crashing: They roused a flock of cockatoos, And scattered a mob of kangaroos That up the spur went dashing, Up the spur went dashing. (Chorus) The nimble blood mare jumped the creek, And Wallaby Liz, astride her Knew that this would be her final race, For the man who rode with an easy grace Was galloping close beside her, He was galloping close beside her. (Chorus) Then laughing Elizabeth drew the rein: "Do you think you've won your hat, sir?" And now I've told you all I can, She lost the race and won her man, So that was the end of that, sir, That was the end of that, sir. (Chorus) Music (in 6/8) to "Wallaby Liz-D" from Songs of Australia, Southern Music, 1966 - but transposed down one semitone … Music to "Wallaby Liz-C" (in 4/4) from Singabout magazine, vol 2, #3, p. 6, Bush Music Club, 1966. MIDItext (no longer supported by Mudcat … but some can still run Alan of Australia's program … and the text string does include an ABC format version of each tune…): Wallaby Liz-D Click to play Wallaby Liz-D.mid
Click to play Wallaby Liz-C.mid
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 May 07 - 10:34 AM Art, I sent you those Singabout magazines last year. sandra |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: katlaughing Date: 19 May 07 - 10:43 AM Bob, remember when you add lyrics and tunes, it is helpful if you change the Subject to "LYR ADD" and the name of the song and author, which will then make it easier for miners of the threads to find it and add it to the DT. I have done that for the song you posted to this thread and also to the Rabbiter's song in the thread for which you provided a link.:-) LOVE this thread! kat |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: Bob Bolton Date: 19 May 07 - 11:26 AM G'day Kat, Errr... I thought that: Lyr Add: Wallaby Liz by Stan Wakefield was how I headed the lyric / tune post ... but I won't testify to that under oath! (Now did I take tonight's Gingko Biloba tablets ... and why am I taking them, anyway?) Regard(les)s, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: katlaughing Date: 19 May 07 - 12:10 PM I don't remember, Bob.**bg** (Actually, I think it read "LYR ADD -another Stan Wakefield song.) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 19 May 07 - 03:26 PM Thanks Bob!! I just posted to the OTHER Rabbiters Song thread thinking I was posting to this thread. If you want to see that check there. But it's only a 'thread creep' response to something Sorcha said SEVEN YEARS AGO! (I thought Sorcha's post was from today.)So it has nothing to do with Wakefield and his Rabbiters Song at all... I'll try to do better! Art |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Wakefield-Rabbiter's Song, etc. From: Joe Offer Date: 20 May 07 - 10:15 PM I just posted MIDI files from Bob Bolton, related to the lyrics he posted above. Thanks, Bob and MMario. -Joe Offer- Click to play Wallaby Liz-D.mid
Click to play Wallaby Liz-C.mid
Bob's explanatory e-mail to MMario (Leo):
I just posted another song to Art Thieme's request for words to an Australian song: Stan Wakefield's "The Rabbiter's Song". I had found a thread from nearly 7 years back where I gave the words Art was seeking .. but they haven't made it into the DT. Anyway, I thought he might enjoy this song, also by Stan Wakefield - a combination of an unconventional wooing ... and a tongue-twister chorus of Australian placenames. It turned out that I had both a version transcribed in 4/4 and in C (from the Bush Music Club's Singabout Magazine in 1957) .. as well as a later music book published for the Bush Music Club through a music house, and they transcribe it in 6/8 ... and Eb! I took the Eb down to D on the presumption that pitches of voices tend to be a tad lower these days ... and no folkie plays in Eb ... unless by capoing up one fret from D! (Errrr... 3 frets up from C... ?) Regards, Bob |
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