Song Chain

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 11:19 AM

Tried searching on a third phrase and did find something in the DT after all; clearly the same song, but with a lot of different words:
Brisk Young Lad

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Feb 12 - 08:35 AM

Brisk Young Widow

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 20 Feb 12 - 09:33 AM

It's of a brisk young Tailor my story I'll relate,
He lived at an inn called the Ram and the Gate,
The Ram and the Gate was the place where he did dwell,
And wine and women's company he loved exceeding well!

FC

What did the tailors do wrong to become the butt of so many folk lyrics?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 03:50 AM

And wine and women's company he loved exceeding well!

THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 06:17 AM

It fell about the Martinmas time
And a gay time it was then o
That our good wife had puddings to make
And she boiled them in the pan o.

The Barring Of The Door

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 07:26 AM

Black White Yellow and Green

(The strangest plum puddings that I've ever seen).

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:22 AM

The Brown and the Yellow Ale

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Stringsinger
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:54 AM

What would be really interesting to me would be a song chain showing variants of
existing folk songs and their metamorphoses through the ages.

Example: The Ballad of Robert Kidd (Pirate)
Sam Hall.
What Wondrous Love is This (shape note hymn)

The stanzaic forms are similar indicating influences that changed the variants.

Variations for example of the Binorie Ballad, The Twa Sisters, The Wind and the Rain, etc.

Or The Three Ravens, Billy MacGee Macgaw, and possibly the melodic content for Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya'.

Every folk song in tradition has an antecedent either in music or in story content.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 07:30 PM

Then why not start one?

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:37 AM

From:

A board of elder and a board of holly,
Oh, the brown and the yellow ale
And three great yards of a shroud all about me.
Oh, love of my heart


Earl Richard

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:06 PM

She's pretty & fine, this yellow gal....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:42 PM

HENRY MY SON

What color were those eels, Henry my boy?
What color were those eels, my pride and joy
Green and yeller. Green and yeller.
Mother be quick I got to be sick and lay me down to die.

(BTW, I learned it as: "What color was them eels..."   and: "Mother be quick, I think I'm sick...")

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:56 PM

Henry Martin - in the DT

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 07:58 PM

Martin said to his men,
"Fie, man, fie!"

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 08:43 PM

BIG MUDDY

"We were knee/waist/neck deep in the Big Muddy,
But the big fool said to move on."

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:06 AM

Oh it's six weeks come Sunday since ma laddie's went awa,
He's awa tae join the regiment o the gallant Forty Twa.

The Gallant Forty Twa'

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:57 AM

He's awa tae join the regiment

Early one morning, one bright summers' day
Twenty-four ladies were making their way
A regiment of soldiers were marching nearby



Drummer Boy

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Flash Company
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:22 AM

I wish the Queen of England would send for me in time
And place me in some Regiment all in my youth and prime

Rocks of Bawn

FC

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:59 AM

.....I listed in a REGIMENT and a drummer I became
    And there I learned to play upon the drum-a-dum-dum

The Female Drummer

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 08:02 PM

Fareweel Ye Banks O' Sicily:

The drummie is polisht, the drummie is braw
He cannae be seen for his webbin ava
He's beezed himsel' up for a photy and a'
Tae leave wi' his Lola his dearie

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 09:35 PM

Ich bin die fesche Lola, der Liebling der Saison!
Ich hab' ein Pianola zu Haus' in mein' Salon....

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Snuffy
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 06:03 AM

Salon, it's been good to know ya

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 06:40 AM

I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight
Fascists in daytime, mosquitoes at night
I got my orders to cross o'er the sea
So I waved goodbye to the girls I could see,


Jamie Foyers

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: tijuanatime
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:09 PM

The original, Napoleonic Jamie Foyers died thus:

But mounting the ladder for scaling the wall,
By a shot from a French gun young Foyers did fall;


The Keech in the Creel

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 03:38 PM

Keep the home foyers burning.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 04:36 PM

Wir betreten Feuertrunken,
Himmliche, dein' Heiligtum.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 04:21 AM

Engine No 9

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 06:43 AM

Revolution No. 9 (Beatles, White Album)

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: saulgoldie
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 10:41 AM

"White's Squall" by Stan Rogers.

Saul

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Barb'ry
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 11:55 AM

Were you being tongue in cheek about 'White's Squall', Saul? Probably just a typo! (or another song).

Anyway:

and her lover's gone into a white squall

to
My love it will endure dear, like a beacon in the squall
The Oggy Man

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 06:01 PM

A Man's a Man for A' That.
In the DT

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 11:27 PM

From all that dwell below the skies
Let faith and hope and love arise
Let beauty, truth and good be sung
In every land by every tongue

(TtTO the Doxology)
I remember singing this during the services of/at the Unitarian church my family attended when I was a kid...

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 05:18 PM

Back to Beethoven!

Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Subject: RE: Song Chain
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 11:17 PM

Doxology ~~ For Thine is the Kingdom

(Song? ~ Well, there are surely plenty of choral and solo vocal settings of the Paternoster!)

And as for Freude, schöne Götterfunken ~~

Why, Dr Freud, O Dr Freud,
How I wish you had been differently employed...

~M~