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Subject: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Mike Miller Date: 12 Nov 98 - 06:27 AM Need help to identify name of instrumental piece played at the end of track 6 "Doodle let me go" visiting Albany folk club, Western Australia December 18th(Christmas bash) and would like to play it. |
Subject: RE: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Barbara Date: 13 Nov 98 - 12:38 AM I know a sea chanty with that in the chorus: "Doodle(or doona) let me go me gals," could that be the same song? Blessings, Barbara |
Subject: RE: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Date: 13 Nov 98 - 09:18 PM Yup thats the song! The instrumental played on a bouzuki could be Appaluchian(did I spell that correctly) I dont recognise it as Irish or English . Thanks for the reply have only recently installed the net . Great to to know that folk is alive and growing out in the big world. |
Subject: RE: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Barbara Date: 13 Nov 98 - 11:03 PM Not sure what it's called. Here's what I remember: When I was up at Madame Geshin's down in Calleo Hurrah, me yellow gals, doona let me go! She chased me round the sofa boys, wasn't it a show? Hurrah, me yellow gals, doona let me go! CHORUS: Doona let me go, me gals, Doona let me go! Hurrah, me yellow gals, Doona let me go!
She grabbed me by the bobstick boys, wasn't it a show...
Same alternating lines, but I don't remember any more. No bets on the spellings, either because I've only heard it sung. If you want more words, try starting a thread with the name in the title. More sea shanty people will see it then. |
Subject: RE: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Barbara Date: 13 Nov 98 - 11:14 PM It's in the database as [Doodle let me go] Put that in the box upper right in brackets, and it'll come right up. |
Subject: RE: Bob Fox & Stu Luckley CD From: Barry Finn Date: 13 Nov 98 - 11:53 PM She took me in , she gave me gin She danced me round the floor
Hurrah me yellow gals, doodle let me go
She bounced up, she bounced she bounced down
Hugill calls it 'Doodle Let Me Go' & 'Do Let Me Go', I've also seen it as "Yellow Gals'. For such a rusting shanty that's been fairly popular it's not in many collections nor has it been recorded alot. A yellow gal would be a light skined woman of part African descent. Hugill starts off his first verse with
"Oh, once I met a dou-dou fair" Dou-Dou is a West Indian term for a fine women. With the way this song is sung I'd take it for not so much an Irish born shanty as I would a mix of Irish-Afro American. The doodle to start it off with could be a corruption of "Dou-Dou let me go me gal...". The use of the "Hurrah" is in many shanties, but in far more of the ones infulenced by Black sailors. It also lends itself to more harmony in such a short chorus than you'd find in a European bred shanty. Anyway, much of that is my on opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. Barry |
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