Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)

Subject: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: GUEST,u2bcool
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 12:09 PM

I'm looking for the lyrics for Reynard or Reanard that also includes the words "With a rat tat ta and a whoopin na, and a sing fi diddle and a sing fi day and throught the woods they ran brave boys, and through the woods they ran"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: PaulM
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 12:22 PM

Click Here WARNING - PDF File.

If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, click here for Google's slightly incorrectly rendered HTML version of the same document.

Paul

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 01:11 PM

Dave Para and Cathy Barton do the most delightful version of this song you'll eve find. Don't know if they're Mudcatters, and I don't have the words, but if you can get their version, it will be worth whatever it takes to do it..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 02:09 PM

I agree with Jerry. Their recording of that song is available from Folk Legacy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 03:37 PM

Marrow Bones (one of 3 anthologies from the Hammond and Gardiner Mss, published by the then EFDS in 1965)has "Three Jolly Huntsmen", collected in 1908 from William Taylor in the Petersfield Workhouse, Hampshire. The verses are similar, but the chorus goes, "With my hip, hip, hip and my holloa / And away went the merry, merry band / With my ran, tan, tan and my chivvy, chivvy chan / All over the merry, merry strand. / With my ugle, ugle, ugle went the bugle horn / Fal-le-ral, fal-le-ral,fal-le-ral-le-dee / And through the woods we'll go, brave boys / and through the woods we'll go.

I sang this at the Four Fools festival a few years ago, and Les Barker said "What a silly song...."

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Anglo
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 10:00 PM

My recollection is that this version (the Marrowbones one) was recorded by the Druids on one of their LPs. Don't have them to check, unfortunately.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 10:01 PM

See also this earlier discussion:  Lyr/Ch/History: 3 Jovial Huntsmen?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Stewie
Date: 06 Jan 02 - 10:25 PM

Anglo, your recollection is correct, but they titled it 'Three Jolly Sportsmen' rather than 'Huntsmen'. The sleeve note says they found out in a Bromyard pub in 1970 that it came from the EFDSS's 'Marrowbones'. It was on 'Pastime With Good Company' Argo ZFB 39 [1972].

Cheers, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:23 AM

The DT file  Three Jolly Sportsmen  is the set from Marrowbones, though whoever submitted it did not name their source and used a different title; perhaps they had learned it from that Druids record.  I put a link to a midi of the tune, and other related material, in the previous discussion mentioned earlier.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:27 AM

BTW Malcolm - news of your cricketing prowess has reached the farthest reaches of Ireland!

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: MAG
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 01:15 AM

This is on a Golden Ring tape -- I don't have it here but I can go get it by whenever. MAG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: MAG
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:20 AM

OK, it was in my car, buried. On "For All the Good People: a Golden Ring Reunion" it is called The Reindeer Song, done together with "Grandma's Song" -- mourns the passing of someone who sang it. Reynard is fox. Sounds like fun to sing in harmony. MAG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: MAG
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 02:21 AM

Oops again; that's Folk-Legacy #C-121 -- MAG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:11 AM

Also on CD, of course - CD-121. Dave Para is an occasional Mudcatter, but we don't hear from him often. Maybe now that Jerry Rasmussen is a regular with us, we can entice Dave to pay more attention!

Have a look at www.folklegacy.com.

Sandy

Subject: Lyr Add: BOWENA (Trad. Wisconsin)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM

[Copied from Judy Cook's web page, with a few punctuation and formatting changes. See PaulM's link above.]

BOWENA
(Traditional Wisconsin)

All versions I've heard of this English hunting song have wonderful and outrageous choruses. This is my favorite; it feels great to sing it. It seems "Bold Reynard" the fox changed his name to "Bowena" when he reached Wisconsin.

CHORUS: Come hic, come hic, come high-low,
Along the merry stream,
With a ra-ta-ta, ti-pa-ti-pa-tan,
And with the royal bow-wow-wow,
Roodle-doodle-doo, the bewbine zing,
Fiddle-diddle-dee and dye-dee,
And through the woods we'll run, brave boys,
And through the woods we'll run.

Come all you gallant sportsmen who love to hunt the fox,
And we'll go hunt Bowena among the rills and rocks. (CHORUS)

The first we saw was a blind man as blind as he could be.
He said he saw Bowena run up the hollow tree. (CHORUS)

The next they saw was a farmer a-hoeing of his corn.
He said he saw Bowena across the waters lorn. (CHORUS)

The next they saw was a fair maid a-combing of her locks.
She said she saw Bowena among the geese and ducks. (CHORUS)

Come all you gallant sportsmen who love to hunt the fox.
We'll go hunt Bowena among the rills and rocks. (CHORUS)

A version of an English song from Folk Music from Wisconsin edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, sung by Mr. J.L. Peters at Beloit, WI on Library of Congress L55. I joined Mr. Peters' three verses with one from England to have more fun with the chorus.

From Judy Cook's CD "Far From The Lowlands"
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Judy Cook / 16125 Malcolm Drive / Laurel, MD 20707 / USA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 06:52 PM

Malcolm - ignore the crack about cricket!

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 07:41 PM

Judy Cook could chime in on the "Pills of White Mercury" thread, too --

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 06:26 PM

Judy certainly could. There was a session at Chippenham Folk Festival 2000, with Judy and Moira Craig, on songs that crossed the Atlantic and back again, including songs about young persons cut down in their prime.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reynard (Through the Woods They Ran)
From: GUEST,Arthur D'Aoust
Date: 16 May 08 - 12:11 PM

try Journal of American Folklore, Vol.27, No.103,(Jan. - Mar.,1914) pp. 67-76. It is avAILABLE FOR $10 on www.jstor.org/stable/534796.

Good luck