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Origin: Away, Away with Rum, by Gum
DigiTrad:
AWAY WITH RUM
AWAY WITH RUM (5)(SONG OF THE TEMPERANCE UNION)
AWAY WITH RUM (more verses)
DEMON FRUITCAKE
THE NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON
THE SONG OF THE TEMPERANCE UNION
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 02 Mar 08 - 04:13 PM Again, Randolph's source claimed she learned it around 1900. Sure wish he had drawn her out on the subject. Randolph always did informative headnotes to each song where he had anything to go on, citing previous publication, etc., but in this case no more info is given. I'm convinced this was either a parody of a hymn, or an original satirical song, composed either in England or in the US, c. 1890-1900. There's a good chance it may have been intended as a parody of Harrigan and Braham's "Salvation Army", but there's no real paper trail and intervening versions 1900-1940 are entirely missing. No documentation to prove the 1900 timing, either apart from that remark of hers. Also we have no good sources for anything but the first verse previous to the 1950s. Yet I doubt Brigger or anyone he knew wrote additional verses. Frustrating! Best bet: It may yet turn up in one of those folios of comic songs that were so popular in both Britain and America around the turn of the century. Or on an obscure 78 rpm record maybe. Music hall origin is possible, given the Harrigan-Braham tie. Can anyone knowledgeable about the British, American (or Canadian, Australian, etc.) music hall suggest a research route? Bob |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 02 Mar 08 - 01:19 PM Thanks Frank. I think we have a good trail going back to the early 50's. the song seems to consolidate to its present form by then. The interesting bit is where it came from before WW2. Perhaps Barbara Dane could help. I tried her website but couldn't find an e-mail address. She is busy celebrating 80 years of life so she sure has some experience to draw on. Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Stringsinger Date: 02 Mar 08 - 01:15 PM The song was popular in the folk coffee houses and clubs in the Fifties. The Limelighters did a version of it. Bud and Travis and many others at the time. Barbara Dane did her version of it and I think so did the Chad Mitchell Trio. There were many rewrites from the early Temperance Union song. Frank Hamilton |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 02 Mar 08 - 01:05 PM Vectis, "I was told it dated from the 1920's" Any source for this? Cheers and thanks Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: vectis Date: 02 Mar 08 - 12:01 PM I've been singing this one for over 30 years but have no idea of the true origins. I was told it dated from the 1920's but that new verses got added all the time. The reference to cookies rather than biscuits suggests that it is American in origin. AWAY WITH RUM CHORUS Away!Away! With rum, by gum. With rum by gum, with rum by gum. Away! Away! With rum by gum, That's the song of the Salvation Army We are coming! We are coming our brave little band On the right side of temperance we come for to stand We don't smoke tobacco for this we do think, That the people who do so are liable to drink Oh! We never eat cookies 'cos cookies have yeast And a bite from a cookie turns a man to a beast. Oh! Can you imagine a sorrier sight, Than a man eating cookies until he gets tight? Oh! We never eat fruit cake 'cos fruit contains rum,& a bite from a cake turns a man to a bum. Oh! Can you imagine a sadder disgrace, Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face? Oh! We never send clothes to be dry cleaned or pressed, 'Cos ether and alcohol are used in the quest. There's nothing so sorry or sad I suppose, Than a man getting drunk from the smell of his clothes Oh! We do not go hiking 'cos it gives you sore feet, 'Tho surgical spirit will cure it a treat. Because it gets through the skin by osmosis, And you end up with ten drunk little toeses Oh! We never use 'Brylcreem' as it's got bay rum, And too many rubbings turn a fellow quite numb. And now here's a thought that should have you in fits, Just imagine those millions of paralytic nits... |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 02 Mar 08 - 11:24 AM But, Barbara: http://www.barbaradane.net/ Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 02 Mar 08 - 11:22 AM Frank O'Reilly used to do it with the Union Folk, Where was this then, Flash? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Flash Company Date: 02 Mar 08 - 10:14 AM First saw this printed in 'Sing Out' circa 1963, no mention of authorship, although they said 'popularized by Barbara Dane'. Frank O'Reilly used to do it with the Union Folk, usually in a different key to what the band were playing in! We don't allow massage, stiff muscles to cure, Those alcohol rubs turn a man to a boor, Oh can you imagine the terrible fate, Of a man being massaged 'til he can't stand up straight! Sung with (un)suitable gestures it usually brings the house down. FC |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 02 Mar 08 - 06:11 AM Thanks Bob, you have confirmed what I thought. I am still reading all the posts and trying to come to some conclusions. As with many of these songs the origin may well be lost but it looks like it was brought to life by a burst of creativity in the 50's and well sung from then on Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 02 Mar 08 - 01:13 AM Les, yes, I have (access to) a copy locally. I've already put in this thread nearly everything that's to be gained from looking at the song in Randolph Vol 2. But here goes. The song is nothing but a single verse on page 414 of Volume 2. It reads, in full: TEMPERANCE SONG Sung by Miss Rose O'Neill, Day, Mo., Sept 2, 1941. Learned about forty years ago. We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we loyally stand, We don't use terbacker, for this is what we think, Them that does use it most always does drink. That's all: just that single verse. No chorus. You now have the complete Randolph entry, except for the tune. Does that answer your question? Bob |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 01 Mar 08 - 05:15 PM Thanks Charlotte, I wondered if anybody had a copy they could look in. Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive) Date: 01 Mar 08 - 04:58 PM RANDOLPH, VANCE (COLLECTED AND EDITED BY). Ozark Folksongs (Four Volumes). Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980. Hardcover. Complete in four volumes. Volume I: British Ballads and Songs, Volume II: Songs of the South and West, Volume III: Humorous and Play-Party Songs, Volume IV: Religious Songs and Other Items. Introduction by W. K. McNeil. Second, revised edition. Firs t printing thus. Volumes I and IV are fine in very near fine (slight sun fading to title portion of spine) dust jackets. Volumes II and III are fine in fine dust jackets. A clean, bright, and attractive set. ISBN: 0826202977, 0826202985,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket . Offered for US$ 350.00 by: Grendel Books I'm sure there must be a Dover Edition of this set. Charlotte (the view from Ma and Pa's piano stool) |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 01 Mar 08 - 02:32 PM I am just trying to pull this thread together. Can anyone throw new light? Does anyone have a copy of Randolph's Ozark Folksongs Volume 2? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 09:17 AM From the sublime to the silly: Hand Sanitizer Found to Pose Abuse Risk Associated Press | February 1, 2007 BALTIMORE — Prison officials and poison control centers can add a new substance to their list of intoxicants — hand sanitizer. A usually calm 49-year-old prisoner prompted a call to the Maryland Poison Control Center after guards found him red-eyed, combative and "lecturing everyone about life." Other inmates and staff reported the unidentified prisoner had been drinking from a gallon container of hand sanitizer, which is more than 70 percent alcohol, or over 140 proof, the center's director wrote in an article appearing in the February issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. That call was one of about a half dozen the Maryland Poison Control Center has received involving hand sanitizers, said Dr. Suzanne Doyon, the poison center's director and co-author of the article. Doyon wrote the article along with Dr. Christopher Welsh, assistant professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, to raise awareness of the potential for abuse of hand sanitizers. While the hand sanitizer contains other chemicals in smaller amounts, it is primarily the same type of alcohol found in liquor, and acts on the body in the same way, said Doyon. "I don't think a lot of people realize these are ethanol containing, or alcohol containing. They are really no different than a really concentrated liquor," Doyon said. .... Well I just couldn't resist adding this: We never use hand sanitizer, it's an ethanol punch, And prisoners take it for breakfast and lunch, Have you ever seen any vision so vile Than a man with clean fingers and a dim goofy smile? Have you ever seen a more disgusting scene Than a sanitized drunk with his hands bright and clean? Bob |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 09:06 AM Okay, all I had to do was check the Fiddlers Companion website. "Kinloch of Kinloch" isn't noticeably the "Away With Rum" tune -- given that the writeup says "'Blow the Wind Southerly' is a song based on the 'Kinloch' tune." "Blow The Wind Southerly" (not the shanty "Blow Ye Winds Southerly," which is a different kettle of fish) is a 19th century English pop song but though the scansion matches, the "Away With Rum" tune differs substantially. Where to from here, brave little band? Bob |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:39 AM I think the verses may be a parody of a hymn -- just a guess. The tune as a whole sounds hymn-like, and the phrase "we're coming, we're coming, our brave little band" especially so. The only occurrence of "we're coming, we're coming" I've been able to turn up occurs in the following 1844 anti-slavery hymn. The meter scans right -- but I can't find the melody "Kinloch of Kinloch" in my (admittedly limited} tune sources. Can anyone help? There's a slim chance it might be the tune to "Away With Rum!" WE'RE COMING! WE'RE COMING. AIR--Kinloch of Kinloch. From Geo. W. Clark, The Liberty Minstrel, 1844 (an anti-slavery songbook). We're coming, we're coming, the fearless and free, Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea! True sons of brave sires who battled of yore, When England's proud lion ran wild on our shore! We're coming, we're coming, from mountain and glen, With hearts to do battle for freedom again; Oppression is trembling as trembled before The slavery which fled from our fathers of yore. We're coming, we're coming, with banners unfurled, Our motto is FREEDOM, our country the world; Our watchword is LIBERTY--tyrants beware! For the liberty army will bring you despair! We're coming, we're coming, we'll come from afar, Our standard we'll nail to humanity's car; With shoutings we'll raise it, in triumph to wave, A trophy of conquest, or shroud for the brave. Then arouse ye, brave hearts, to the rescue come on! The man-stealing army we'll surely put down; They are crushing their millions, but soon they must yield, For _freemen_ have _risen_ and taken the field. Then arouse ye! arouse ye! the fearless and free, Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea; Let the north, west, and east, to the sea-beaten shore, _Resound_ with a _liberty triumph_ once more. (By the way, Dave Braham's tune to "Salvation Army" is a modest rework of an Irish dance tune ... can't think of the title, but anyone who wants can check the Levy Collection sheet music for "Salvation Army" and see if you can identify it. It partly resembles the Brigger tune for "Away With Rum" but there are lots of differences too.) |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:38 AM Harrigan and Braham may have originated at least the refrain in an 1882 vaudeville song ... though the verses are different: SALVATION ARMY Words by Edward Harrigan, music by Dave Braham, 1882 Oh, Cleveland and Folger they went out to fight, And Cleveland hit Folger with all his might, The winner he lives in Buffalo, And the loser's joined the Salvation Army, oh! CHO Away, away with rum and gum! Here we come, hear the drum! A reg'lar proper lum tum-tum, As we join'd the army, oh! I'll give you a pointer that's on the square, The guy in the middle's a millionaire, He does this for fun, 'cause he's stuck on the show, And he follows the Salvation Army, oh! Ol' Jonahy he lived away down in a whale, In a little back room very close to the tail, Don't give it away, for he's out on bail, And he sings in the Salvation Army, oh! Spinola he started a rousing big scheme To heat up the city and county by steam, He's block'd up the streets I would have you to know, And he'll blockade the Salvation Army, oh! |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:19 AM Seeing the more modern versions of "Away With Rum" in the DT, which feature many newly written verses, I thought it might be useful to put in Brigger's core version as I remember it. These were the only verses I ever heard sung in the 50s, either by Brigger or others. AWAY WITH RUM As sung by Brigger, 1955. He sang all the verses straight through if I recall correctly, using the chorus only at the end. We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we now take our stand, We don't use tobacco because we do think That the people who use it are likely to drink, We never eat fruit cake, it's chock full of rum, And the least little bite turns a man to a bum! Have you ever seen a more pitiful sight Than a man eating fruit cake until he gets tight? Have you ever seen a more public disgrace Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face? CHO Away, away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum Away, away with rum by gum, that's the song of the Salvation Army. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:17 AM Bob, thanks so much such a fine seam of information.It's clear that this song has had a life of its own for a long time. I had a good time in New England, Summer of 1970, working at Camp Greylock in the Berkshire Hills. Tried my best to leave "Nobody likes me everybody hates me just 'cause I eat worms" with all who attended Greylock. we sang in some local bars and had a good day at Fox Hollow Festival, Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:06 AM "Away With Rum" was in wide circulation among college outing clubs in the early (I think) and certainly mid-1950s. I first heard it from "Brigger" -- Bill Briggs, then itinerant around the Dartmouth campus. He never told me where he got it, but Brigger had many strange sources, including a wide acquaintance of singers the country over, plus chapbooks and 1940s phonograph records. He and I included "Away With Rum" as part of our 1957 edition of "Crud 'N Corruption," a mimeographed collection of folk and novelty songs handed out among college singers in and around New England, so the full version was informally in print at least by then. Brigger's source could not have been Rose O'Neill's 1941 version as sung in Randolph, Vol II, p 414. She sang only the first verse, and her tune was different from Brigger's. What's notable about Ms O'Neill's version, which she called "Temperance Song," is that she says she learned it about 40 years ago. That would put the song's time of origin around 1900. Which means that the earliest occurrence as given in the Trad Ballad Index is 40 years after the fact -- and only covers the first verse of some half dozen or more. (Funny thing, I could have sworn it was printed in Dick and Beth Best's IOCA Song Fest. But I checked my copy and it isn't there (so much for memory cells). The Brigger version in "Crud 'N Corruption" may thus have been the first printing -- but of course that wasn't published, just informally circulated as a songbook to "chubbers.")* *Hikers, campers, skiers, climbers, road bums. The original must have been either a serious temperance song or a satirical one, probably professionally composed and published, between, say, 1890 and 1905. That would put it in the heyday of the Temperance Movement that achieved Prohibition in 1919 with the Volstead Act. Fascinating ... I had no clue this song had such a mysterious background till I started looking into it. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 22 Feb 08 - 05:38 AM It's a bit like some wild child that has run away from home. It's been charging around the world having a great time! I think I will join it |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Joe_F Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:50 PM The filkers, who must have added a thousand stanzas by now, have: We don't travel by rail -- they put club cars on trains. It's like giving the devil the keys to your brains. Oh, is there a sorrier tale you can tell Than to leave from South Station and end up in hell? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Scotus Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:46 PM I definitely remember Hamish Imlach singing this in the mid to late 60s. He used the biscuits verse for sure. Jack |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rowan Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:48 PM Rapaire's chorus and the first two of the three verses he gives were word for word as sung in Oz in the 60s. Sorry Les, if I gave you the impression I had ignored the 1941 date but I thought you'd be interested in the possibility of tracking transformations as well as origins and, obviously, didn't make that quite clear. None of the versions above or in the DT include one from Oz in the early 60s where, before metrication, the standard sized glass for a beer was 7 fl.ozs. Oh we don't eat trifle 'cos trifle has sherry and one bit of trifle will make a man merry; oh can you imagine the day comes to pass they start serving trifle in a seven ounce glass There may be others but, it was a long time ago and my books are in storage. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: r.padgett Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:56 PM These I certainly heard in English version from Mike Harding and the one about alcohol rubbed on "tutsies" = toes/feet being absorbed by osmosis from MH himself Ray |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rapparee Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:37 AM I believe (I'm at work) that the CMT sang it as: We never eat cookies because they have yeast And one little bite turns a man to a beast Can you imagine a sadder disgrace Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face? Also We never eat fruitcake because it has rum And one little bite turns a man to a bum Can you imagine a sorrier sight Than a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight? At some point I also ran across We don't approve back rubs, we think they're a crime We'll alway oppose them in song and in rhyme We just can't approve back rubs, they're much worse than gin When you think of the alcohol absorbed through your skin. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:29 AM Could be, he had a great collection of funny songs. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: pavane Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:27 AM Do I recall Diz Disley singing it, in the 60's? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: pavane Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:20 AM Same as already posted: (Only one word different from yours) Away, away with rum, by gum With rum, by gum, with rum, by gum Away, away with rum, by gum That's the song of the Salvation Army I have remembered the whole verse now: We never eat biscuits, cos biscuits have yeast And one little bite turns a man to a beast Can you imagine the shame and disgrace To be found in the gutter with crumbs on your face |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:14 AM Excellent pavane, do you recall the chorus? Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: pavane Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:47 AM My mother knew it from her youth, so 1930's to 40's, I expect. Slightly different, e.g. CAN YOU IMAGINE the shame and disgrace To be found in the gutter with crumbs on your face |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:44 AM At the risk of repeating things endlessly: "We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we loyally stand, We don't use terbacker, for this is what we think, Them that does use it most always does drink. Sung by Miss Rose O'Neill - Day, Missouri, Sept 2, 1941. Learned about forty years ago." This fits Away, away rather well and on the face of it takes us back to the turn of the Century! I suspect the move from Temperance to Salvation could be when the song came to the UK. We don't know much about the Temperance Union but we sure the Sally Army |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rapparee Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:24 AM Joe points out that the Mitchell Trio recorded it in 1961, so it had to be around prior to that. I suspect that the group was changed from "Salvation Army" to "Temperance Union" to avoid annoying the SA. The WCTU was (and is) considered fairly toothless, although I wouldn't want to annoy them either. Being bashed by little old ladies with parasols and handbags isn't my idea of a good time. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rowan Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:43 PM The 'North Atlantic Squadron' MIDI is the tune for both verse and chorus of that song, and is pretty much the same as the chorus for 'Away with Rum'. Joe's contention that the song must come from the "North Atlantic Squadron" series of songs has a fair amount going for it; it wouldn't be the first song with different tunes for the verse and chorus where the tune for the chorus became subsequently attached to a later song. 1963/4 seems to be the earliest date anyone on this thread has yet put to 'Away with Rum' under its various names. The earliest date I can remember singing it (I picked it up aurally rather than from texts) was in the early 60s ('61-'64) during parties at Melbourne Uni. While is had only about seven verses (at that time and in that place) it rapidly acquired extra home-grown verses that melded with other versions at universities around Oz. But the temperance organisation in the chorus in Oz (within my hearing) was always the Salvation Army. But I can't yet shed any light on earlier transformations/origins. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Snuffy Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:13 PM Are you dry? Are you dry? Or are you bound for hell where you will fry? We are the little troupe Who will make the brewers droop When they hear our battle cry Are you dry? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 20 Feb 08 - 01:18 PM Thanks Joe, "We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we loyally stand, We don't use terbacker, for this is what we think, Them that does use it most always does drink. Sung by Miss Rose O'Neill - Day, Missouri, Sept 2, 1941. Learned about forty years ago." This is definitely the forbearer, does it ring a bell with anyone else? |
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Subject: ADD Version: Temperance Song (from Randolph) From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Feb 08 - 01:15 PM Never say "die," Les. I'm still of the opinion that the song must come from the "North Atlantic Squadron" series of songs. I don't think we've found the missing link to trace the origins of this song, though. The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded the song as I know it in 1961 on their Mighty Day on Campus album, and Theodore Bikel recorded a version with what sounds like a Brooklyn accent on A Folksinger's Choice in 1964. It was published in Sing Out! Reprints in 1963. Dick Greenhaus remembers "Demon Fruitcake" from the late 1940's, so that takes it back a good bit. Googling for "Demon Fruitcake" brings up lots of entries, but I think they all come from the Digital Tradition, with its spelling "immagine" (an occasional spellling error can have advantages). Thern there's this from Randolph's Ozark Folksongs (Volume 2, #317): Temperance Song We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band, On the right side of temperance we loyally stand, We don't use terbacker, for this is what we think, Them that does use it most always does drink. Sung by Miss Rose O'Neill - Day, Missouri, Sept 2, 1941. Learned about forty years ago. That fragment is all Randolph got. Frustrating, eh? Click to play-Joe-At St. Francis Seminary and School of Pastoral Ministry (my Alma Mater) we used to chant this at the end of "Rum By Gum":
Rooty toot, toot. We are the boys from the Institute. We don't smoke and we don't chew; And we don't go with girls that do. (Our class won the Bible.) |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 20 Feb 08 - 11:12 AM Looks we have a hit a brick wall on this one? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Feb 08 - 12:43 AM Hmmmm. "South Asian Army"? I like that.... I learned it as "song of the Temperance Union." In my experience, modern Sally Anns (Salvation Army representatives) spend more time feeding the homeless, rather than combatting Demon Rum. I guess I'd never played the tune from the Digital Tradition. It isn't the tune I know at all. I've transcribed the tune from Sing Out! (except that I raised "think" a third on "because we do think"). The chorus is the way Bikel sings it - I learned the Chad Mitchell Trio version, but long before I ever heard the Chad Mitchell recording. Click to play (joeweb)-Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Susan of DT Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:05 PM Rapaire - that is Salvation Army, another temperance charity organization, still around. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rapparee Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:13 PM By the way, it's listed in the Songbook as Rum by Gum. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rapparee Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:12 PM According to the The Mitchell Trio Songbook (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964), p. 80: The was originally English. When it came here it was a parody satirizing the South Asian Army. People didn't think the South Asian Army deserved quite that bad, so the changed the focus to the Temperance Union. I can't find any indication as to who did the notes to the songs, but it was probably one of the Trio. The "Temperance Union" mentioned in the song probably refers to the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) which still exists and is active today. I can't find anything on the "South Asian Army", which simply means I can't find anything and not that it's a bad reference. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: r.padgett Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:48 AM I am covered in dust and cobwebs and not been able to trace the Sing Out volume which contains this, I have about 5!! so far I have only "Folk Singers Word Book" which contains 3 verses! and has no notes, largely I believe based on Sing Out! So best of luck in the provenace dept Ray |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:41 AM Thanks Repair. I have found lots of verses perhaps as many as 40, some I understand and some I don't. It is clearly a living tradition, but it would be good to know who set it on it's way Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Rapparee Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:22 AM It was recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio and is printed in the "Chad Mitchell Trio Songbook." I'll try to remember to check and post the lyrics from that when I get home from work. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: r.padgett Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:30 AM AP is probably a figment of MH and DB's vivid imagination at the time! Will have a look at Sing Out! Ray |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Les in Chorlton Date: 15 Feb 08 - 06:53 AM Ray, do Reprints give any origin and what, prey, is the relationship between AP and DB? |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: r.padgett Date: 15 Feb 08 - 04:55 AM Heard Mike Harding sing this many times and I have it in "Reprints from Singout" bought many years ago Barnsley is 70 miles from the sea but Gawber Lighthouse and Pogmoor [Poggie] pier are well known here Arthur Parrot ~ well know to Dave Burland I believe! Ray |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Uke Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:56 PM Just a wee comment on the MIDIS for Away with Rum and North Atlantic Squadron. Joe, to my ears these don't really sound the same. Either that, or I'm getting mixed up with all the MIDIs. The 'Away with Rum' MIDI is the tune for the verses only. For me, it bears something of a resemblance to the verse tune for 'Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild, Wild Women'. The 'North Atlantic Squadron' MIDI is the tune for both verse and chorus of that song, and is pretty much the same as the chorus for 'Away with Rum'. |
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Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum From: Herga Kitty Date: 14 Feb 08 - 04:03 PM It was in the Forest School Camps songbook that I acquired at camp 40 years ago (and still possess), and is still in their online version.... Kitty
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