Hidden Residence Songs

Subject: Hidden Residence Songs
From: lloyd64
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 07:10 PM

Underground Music

During WWII the occupied countries had residence songs that had hidden meanings. I only know one, it's about the UM-PA-PA band that marched into Denmark, and how no one like the band so they waited for the day when they could send the band marching back home. I'm sure there are others. Maybe other times in history people had hidden residence songs. Can anyone help?

Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Midchuck
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 07:21 PM

Do you mean "resistance?"

Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: lloyd64
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 07:25 PM

Resistance, right. Thanks

Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Helen
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 06:01 PM

I think there are a lot of Irish songs like that. I'm not sure but I think Roisin Dhu/Black Rose is one of them, where the rose is used to refer to Ireland. I also think that Four Green Fields might be one too. There will be Mudcats who know more about it than me. I'm not a singer so I don't know the words of songs very well.

Helen

Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 06:24 PM

Would "Follow the Drinking Gourd" fit in this category? Or "Jimmy Crack Corn"? And, surely, there are Bonnie Prince Charlie songs like this. What about the fiddle tune, "White Cockade"?

Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 06:29 PM

When the Jacobites sang about "Geordie Whelps ridin' on a goosie" they were treading on thin ice.

Rick