Origins: german clockwinder

Subject: Origins: german clockwinder
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:15 AM

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 06:21 AM

I have the words somewhere, what do you want to know

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 07:31 AM

Thanks I have the words (a version anyway). I'm looking for possible origin.

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: Sooz
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 12:45 PM

New member Gaucho sings it.

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 04:48 PM

Is this another version of the song I know as The German Musicianer? The piano tuner tunes the wife's "piano", which clearly is something else.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:34 PM

yep..same song. The theme is as old as folk music..There is an Elizibethan bawdy song about a tinker mending the wife's pots & kettles ....etc..

I will look in some book and record album notes and see what I can fing..(I think Cliff Haslam recorded it once)...and I know Bob Walser was singing it 15-20 years ago and trying NOT to reveal its source for fear someone would 'steal' it from him..*grin*

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: Susan of DT
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:54 PM

Yes, Cliff sang it on his Folk Legacy album. It is the title song.

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 07:35 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: Gaucho
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 04:31 PM

Unfortunately no commentary on it in the Ballad book I got it from. I always refer to it as a fine example of the little known and long discarded Dublin umpah tradition which ticked over until it sent people cuckoo in the 19th century.

G

Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 11:50 PM

I think the song was in "Bawdy British Folk Songs" by Tony McCarthy, published around 1972. It was new to me at the time.