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Mockingbird/nebuchadnezzar DigiTrad: HUSH LITTLE BABY (2) HUSH, L'IL BABY Related threads: Lyr Req: Mockingbird (21) (origins) Origins: Hush little baby, don't say a word (60) Lyr Req: Hush Little Baby - parodies (21) Lyr Req: Help: Mockingbird (13) Lyr Req: Mockingbird lullaby (5) (closed) Lyr Req: MockingBird (9) Lyr Req: Mockingbird (Carly Simon & James Taylor) (3) Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird (7) Lyr Req: Mockingbird (3) (closed)
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Subject: Mockingbird/nebuchadnezzar From: GUEST,pavane Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:50 AM These two songs seem to be versions of a common story in which one party gives the other a series of gifts, each of which may turn out to be faulty in some way. Mockingbird (e.g. recording by Carly Simon & James Taylor)
(Childrens skipping rhyme) Is there a single 'name' for this group of songs? Are there many variants? Are they related to the Riddle song or the Lovers tasks (Scarborough fair group of songs)? |
Subject: RE: Mockingbird/nebuchadnezzar From: masato sakurai Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:39 AM This type is called "chain songs" HERE, in which "the verse is expanded either by starting each new line with the last words of the previous one or in a question-response form." ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Mockingbird/nebuchadnezzar From: masato sakurai Date: 13 Aug 02 - 08:54 AM There's a similar (but different) type which is called "Call-and-Answer Songs" HERE. "Many French folksongs are sung in a call-and-answer style. Each verse contains two lines and (usually) a French equivalent of "tra la la". Each successive verse starts with the last last line of the previous verse, (usually) repeats it, and introduces a new line. Thus a leader can sing the new line at the end of each verse and the whole group can sing the rest." |
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