Lyr Req: Tomorrow the Fox Will Come to Town

Subject: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Compton
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 12:39 PM

I remember the song sung by City Waites and Pyewacket ..but can't see it in the DT search. Anyone out there still singing it and can post me a lyric. Thanks in case.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 01:37 PM

It's from Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia of 1609. You can see it at The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft:

Tomorrow the Fox

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 01:39 PM

An old English Civil War song, from Ravenscroft, Deuteromelia, 1609. Music and words at Tomorrow
Also see: The Fox
Only listings found for the Pyewacket and City Waites versions.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 03:31 PM

See also Masato's reference to the tune (and the Ravenscroft site) in the thread: Lyr Req: Willy prithee go to bed

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Blowzabella
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 04:19 PM

Diabolus in Musica, an Elizabethan period music group, based in Midlands UK, perform it regularly - I have their website at work, but not at home - perhaps someone else can find it quicker than me - they're very nice helpful people - members of early music forum

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Compton
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 07:18 PM

Thanks Q (sounds like a James Bond film)"The Fox" link did the biz!
This site contains a lot of learned people.
Shame no-one can tell me if famous english dance caller Dick Witt is alive or dead.!
See a query I made some months ago.
Dance people are a bit of a stranger, round here !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: masato sakurai
Date: 14 Oct 03 - 08:30 AM

It's on The City Waites' How the World Wags (Helios).

Subject: Lyr Add: TOMORROW THE FOX WILL COME TO TOWN
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:12 PM

Here's my transcription from the site Malcolm Douglas linked to above—with the spelling modernized.

TOMORROW THE FOX WILL COME TO TOWN
(Ravenscroft, "Deuteromelia," 1609)

1. Tomorrow the fox will come to town,
Keep, keep, keep, keep, keep.
Tomorrow the fox will come to town,
Oh, keep you all well there.

CHORUS: I must desire you neighbors all,
To hallow the fox out of the hall,
And cry as loud as you can call,
"Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop!"
And cry as loud as you can call,
Oh, keep you all well there.

2. He'll steal the cock out from his flock....

3. He'll steal the hen out of the pen....

4. He'll steal the duck out of the brook....

5. He'll steal the lamb even from his dam....

["The dance for the English Country Dance Trenchmore (Second Edition Playford) is very close to this tune."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: Martin Graebe
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 02:26 AM

Thanks, Malcolm, for the useful link to Ravenscroft - new to me. And this is one of our 'singing in the car' songs - good fun.

Seeing the reproduced pages reminds me to ask (at risk of thread-creep, I know - but, Hey!) Ravenscroft labels this a 'Freemans song'. Baring-Gould talks in another case of collecting a 'Three Mans song' and gives an arrangement for three voices. Since he researched 'The Owl' which is labelled a 'Freemans song'it must have been more than a slip of the dentures.

Any hints as to what might be going on here?

Martin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tomorrow, the fox will come to town
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 05:41 AM

Original spellings are: "To morrow the Fox will come to towne."