Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?

Subject: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Tametha
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 02:56 PM

In grade school I learned a song that nobody seems to remember. It goes something like: "Hey, ho! Anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have we none. Yet, we will be very, very merry!" It seems like I'm missing another verse, but I can't remember it...help!!! I wanna sing it for my kids...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Barky
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 03:12 PM

Tametha:
I don't think you're missing any verses. It's a round that goes:
"Hey, ho, nobody home. Meat nor drink nor money have I none..."
Right there, the next person starts the same verse. This keeps on going forever and ever and ever and ever... and you get the point.

~Barky

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 03:15 PM

There was a discussion about this last year. Click here for details.

Ed

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 07:02 PM

The song works well as a quodlibet (in harmony with) Shalom, chaverim, Wade in the Water, and the refrain from the Native American chant, Hey, yanna, ho yanna, hey, yan yan (The Earth is our mother).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: vindelis
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 06:50 PM

The lyrics I know are on the previous thread, as the Soul Cake song. I believe it is one of the many wassail songs that used to be sung around about Christmas/Yuletide time of year.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Apr 00 - 03:03 PM

You can find a version of it at www.peterpaulandmary.com. They called their version of it "A'soulin'". I saw the lyrics there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 11 Apr 00 - 04:50 PM

That, and more, may be found through the link Ed provided earlier in this thread.  It's unlikely that Hey Ho has any connection at all to any of the Souling/Soulcaking songs (which belong to All Souls rather than Christmas), other than that Peter Paul and Mary thought it would be nice to stick Ravenscroft's round together with one -possibly two- of them, along with another unrelated verse from a carol.  It may have been someone else a little earlier, but the fact that PP&M appear to claim copyright in the song suggests to me that that was them.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 12:53 AM

Also there is an interesting version by The Minstrels of Mayhem on their recent CD

Don

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,avbcc
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 05:39 PM

it goes hey ho anybody home.,. meat nor drink nor money have i none..yet i will me merry any how

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,TimH
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:12 AM

does anyone know the lyrics in Portugese?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:03 AM

I learned it as "Hey, ho, nobody home, No meat nor drink nor money have I none, Yet I will be very merry..."

Sheila

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Mar 09 - 07:22 AM

From The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1910). The play was first performed 1607, and published in 1613:

Enter another Boy.

2. Boy. Sir, I can get no bread for supper.

Mer. Hang bread and supper! let's preserve our mirth, and we shall never feele hunger, I'le warrant you. Let's have a catch, boy; follow me, come. Sing this Catch.

Ho, ho, no body at home!
Meate, nor drinke, nor money ha wee none,
Fill the pot, Eedy,
Never more need I.

Mer. So, boies; enough. Follow mee. Let's change our place and we shall laugh afresh. Exeunt.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,stephen
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 10:55 PM

i learnt the song as
"hey oh, anybody home meet and drink and money have i none, still i may be merry very merry"
and you would repeat singing it and someone would start singing the same exact verse when you sing still i may be merry very merry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 08:19 PM

hay this is how i believe it goes

hay ho nobody home
meet no drink no money have i done
still
i will be verry merry
sol, sol,sol cake
meet no mistress of sole cake
an apple, a pare, a plum, a charry
any old thing to make us all marry
one for peterm, two for paul, three for he (or him >.< cant remember) who made us all..

written by someone remembered by '~'pinkblossom^v^ hope its correct!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:15 PM

NOO ITS: Hey Ho! Nobody home meat nor drink nor money have we none still i will be very merry. Hey Ho! Nobody home meat nor drink nor money have we none still i will be very merry. HEY!

Katie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,abbey
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 08:29 PM

i learned it as hey ho nobody home meats nor drink nor money have i none still i will be very very merry repeat :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 02:20 PM

It was
Hi Ho Anybody home, eat no drink no money have I none, still I will be haaaappy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 09:18 AM

I learned it as:

Hey ho nobody home nor meat nor drink nor money have I none yet I will be merry hey ho nobody home.


And then you repeat it and someone joins in singing the same verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 08:27 PM

I learned this just today in Choir class, in fact, I was looking for the next few verses, there are about four. The two I know go,

Hi, ho! Anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have I none. Still I will be very merry, hi ho anybody home, hi ho.

And then there's something about a bird and why does it fly in the shadows at such an hour of night, I believe.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,neil
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:59 AM

the song is also old trad scouting song
we still sing it around campfires
whilst doing a canoe paddling action...
very soft at start as you paddle towards a house on the river
hey ho anybody home
meat or drink or money have i non
yet i will be merry.....
louder as you pass the house then
goes away quietly down river

sounds lovely if done right
neil

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,sarah t
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 10:26 AM

This is vs 2:
(Wish I remembered vs 1 :()

God bless the master of this house
And the mistress also
And all the little Children
Around your table grow
The cattle in the stable
The dog at your front door
And all the little children
Around your table grow.

And it is a soulen song. I was taught
This song in high school by an awesome
Teacher by the name of George Georgetti.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 03:41 PM

Hi Sarah, your
'awesome Teacher by the name of George Georgetti'
learnt it this way from Peter, Paul and Mary.
If you check Malcolm Douglas' post from 10 years ago and click on the blue clicky on the 3rd post down - Ed Pellow, you'll find the whole story.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,NK
Date: 08 Sep 10 - 08:24 PM

Well the song lyrics are: Hey, ho anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have I none! Yet I will be merry anyhow. That's the first part. you're supposed to sing it together with 2 more parts. That is how I did it anyway. One person sings this part once, then when they start again, someone else sings this part:
2.
I say (fast) (now normal) hey ho heeeeeey hooo. repeat (going lower)
Then after some time another person starts
3. (go high, then low on Hooooo.)
hey, ho, heeeeeyy hooooo. Repeat
Then all end at the same time, all on Hey! 1st person ends on Hey!
Second ends on i say hey, and third person ends on hey.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:22 PM

its hey ho, anybody home . meat nor drink nor money have i none. yet i will be merry any how.

thts right cuz im an 8th grader and i jus got outta choir like an hour ago.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,indiana_kid
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 05:49 PM

i'm an 8th grader singing it in my choir right now and the words are,
Hey Ho nobody's home. No meat no drink nor money hav I none. Still I will be merry hey ho nobody's home. You guys are all wrong.!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,ry98
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 01:23 AM

Hey Ho anybody home, meat nor drink no money have i none. yet i will be merry any how Hey ho any body home. THOSE ARE THE LYRICS I WAS TAUGHT.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,guest2251
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 06:21 PM

i learned it
hey ho anybody home
meat nor drink nor money have i non
still i will be very very merry
hey ho anybody home

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 11 - 10:48 PM

Voice 1: Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 2 : Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Yet will I be merry.
Voice 2: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 3: Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Hey, ho, nobody home;
Voice 2: Yet wiIll be merry.
Voice 3: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,

Voice 1: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 2: Yet will I be merry.

Voice 1: Yet will be merry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM

I trying to locate the artist that recorded the song in around the 40's. I use to own a old Picture disc 78 on this records. It sounded like the Andrew Sister but it's not. It had a like the Big Band Sound to it with female vocals.
Hi Ho anybody home, no meat no drink no money do I own, still we will be merry, (then it jazz's it up a bit) we will be merry Hi Ho.

Any help would be appreciated. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Thisguy
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 05:03 PM

Everybody sings it differently,
I thought it went
Hey,Ho Nobody home
no meat no drink no money have i none
Still i will go merrily along

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 02:18 PM

the first verse is repeated and you start over again from the second or first verse. i learned it like this

hey ho nobody's home
meat nor drink nor money have i none
yet we will be very very merry
hey ho nobody's home

there is no puncuation for a reason except for the apostrophe because there was none on the paper.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Guest, Beth
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 02:04 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM

I trying to locate the artist that recorded the song in around the 40's. I use to own a old Picture disc 78 on this records. It sounded like the Andrew Sister but it's not. It had a like the Big Band Sound to it with female vocals.
Hi Ho anybody home, no meat no drink no money do I own, still we will be merry, (then it jazz's it up a bit) we will be merry Hi Ho.

Any help would be appreciated. [e-mail]

Mike - My family had that same picture record when I was a child - which is what sent me to this post. I'm working on a project to digitize old family albums for my siblings and believe it or not, dreamed about this one last night - have to ask my mom if she still has this record and if so, will post again who the artist was.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 02:44 PM

An oddity: the first publication of the music, by Thomas Ravenscroft

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/hey_ho.html

doesn't match Beaumont and Fletcher's words (quoted by Jim Dixon upthread), though the two were published close together.

You could maybe make it work by adding B&F's extra half-line to make the round into six parts instead of Ravenscroft's five. Anybody want to try that?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler
Date: 09 Jan 14 - 07:11 PM

When I was a teenager, as a Senior Scout in the UK, we used it as a canoeing song. We went for miles singing this hypnotic round!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: PHJim
Date: 11 Sep 15 - 01:16 AM

Hey Ho Anybody home?
Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Yet I will be merry, very merry,
Hey Ho Anybody home?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 18 - 12:57 AM

Hi ho anybody home meat nor drink nor money Have I None still I will be very merry hi ho anybody home hi ho
Oh poor bird why art thou flying in the shadows at this dark night
Ding dong ding dong wedding bells on an april morn carve my name in a moss covered stone in a moss covered stone
Ding dong ding dong fueneral bells on a septmber morn rose oh rose dead and gone sire dead and gone
Oh poor bird take thy flight high above the sorrows at the dark night