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Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle
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Subject: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: GUEST,AndyJames Date: 02 Oct 09 - 12:15 PM So a choir teacher teaches me this song which he says is "in the folk tradition" and now I'm teaching it to children. But Google doesn't tell me anything about it. What kind of folk song doesn't have Google on its back? Anyway, here are the lyrics: In the valley watching cattle There I heard the sounds of battle And I found a four-leaf clover Hiding in the yellow grass And I found a four-leaf clover Hiding in the yellow grass Tell me, tell me, four-leaf clover If the war will soon be over Then I'll run to meet my father Riding over the mountain pass Then I'll run to meet my father Riding over the mountain pass Pigeon, pigeon by the fountain Fly across the snowy mountain Take this ribbon to my father Tell him that it comes from me Take this ribbon to my father Tell him that it comes from me Father, father, brave and clever Drive the foe across the river Turn around and come back quickly Then so happy we shall be Turn about and come back quickly Then so happy we shall be The only reference I found is this pdf of a handwritten score. Help! Am I teaching schoolchildren a Maoist ballad? |
Subject: RE: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Oct 09 - 03:39 PM Doesen't have any Maoist or other connotation that I can see. A nice little song. The 'us' code indicates United States for the origin. So far haven't found anything. |
Subject: RE: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: GUEST Date: 14 Jul 13 - 12:05 PM We learnt this at school in the 1950's if that's any help - was supposedly Russian in origin - at least that is what we were told then. |
Subject: RE: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 19 - 07:56 AM I also learned this song in school (UK early 2000's) but it was a ~60 year old US teacher who taught it. No idea where she got it from though. Fairly certain I have the sheet music hidden away somewhere. |
Subject: RE: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Nov 19 - 12:50 AM I found a recording here: The performance is by "Mr. D," Clovis De Milo of Seattle, Washington. Apparently, he is or was associated with the Seattle Waldorf School. The song is not in my copy of The Waldorf Song Book, by Brian Masters (Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1987) -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Origins: In the Valley Watching Cattle From: GUEST,Maya Date: 03 Mar 24 - 04:11 AM I have been looking around for this song. I am a student of a waldorf school too, and I was taught this song by a volunteer teacher who had supposedly come from the US or Germany. He had this exact handwritten score and he had given us printouts of it too. He played the guitar along with it. He was pretty old, but not too old. This melody often plays in my head and I have been trying to find out where it's from. |
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