Subject: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Eulalee Date: 11 Dec 05 - 10:46 AM I'm looking for suggestions for great rounds or short songs to teach at group sings. Particularly interested in the quirky and funny. Any suggestions? |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: SINSULL Date: 11 Dec 05 - 10:50 AM I know a man named Michael Finnegan He grows whiskers on his chinnegan Cuts them off but they grow in again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Pete Peterson Date: 11 Dec 05 - 11:04 AM try www.roundz.tripod.com for a link to Sol Weber's collection of rounds, some serious, some humorous, all wonderful. Best source I know! |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: lady penelope Date: 11 Dec 05 - 11:05 AM Dunno the name of the tune but at school we learnt Mr Rabbit Mr Rabbit Your ears are mighty long Yes my Lord, they're put on wrong Every little soul must shine, shine, shine Every little soul must shine (clap) shine, shine. On the bawdy side there's always (to the tune of Frere Jacque) I like spanking, I like spanking Spanking nuns, spanking nuns I like spanking dead nuns, I like spanking dead nuns Dead nuns' bums, dead nuns' bums. Traditional Hey ho nobody at home Meat nor ale nor money have I none Yet will I be merry |
Subject: ADD: To Stop the Train (round) From: iancarterb Date: 11 Dec 05 - 11:18 AM There's a nice two liner from the Washington Department of Ag sign "Apple maggot quarantine area" I believe Tom Hunter set the tune I've heard. He also was the first person I heard sing
In cases of emergency Pull on the cord Pull on the cord Penalty for improper use Five pounds" |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: the lemonade lady Date: 11 Dec 05 - 11:37 AM Hey Sinsull, did you know you can sing I know a man named Michael Finnegan He grows whiskers on his chinnegan Cuts them off but they grow in again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again and Lord of the Dance together. It's good fun and sounds wonderful! Sal |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: curmudgeon Date: 11 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM A standard annual round at our sessions, to the tune of "Frere Jacques," This Thanksging, this Thanksgiving, Don't eat bread, don't eat bread, Shove it up the turkey, shove it up the turkey, Eat the bird, eat the bird. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: NH Dave Date: 11 Dec 05 - 12:09 PM There's one we learned at camp that goes like this: Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set. Sarasponda, sarasponda sarasponda ret set set. A doray-oh, A doray boomday-oh. A doray boomday ret set set, ah say pa say oh. Boom-be-da, boom-be-da, boom-be-da, boomÉ Comments: Split group into 2 parts. Sing through together, then one group continues singing the boom-be-da part, while the other sings through the verse. Then switch. The tune for this round can be found here, and if you open this URL twice and time it right, you can even hear the two copies of the URL "sing" the round as a round. There's even some sheet music here if you like to save the song in this fashion. I believe this Dutch round is supposed to mimic the sounds of a flying shuttle loom - one where the shuttle is shot from the shuttle box at one side of the loom to the other, by jerking on a control or drive rope - as it weaves cloth. The booming imitates the sound of the beater reed being pulled back against the newly woven clith, to pack the threads in tightly without any gaps. Dave |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mo the caller Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:24 PM To Frere Jacques again "Life is but a meloncholy flower" (each line repeated) Life is but a Meloncholy flower Life is but a melon- Choly flower. Have fun |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Nigel Parsons Date: 11 Dec 05 - 07:44 PM Just to make the atrocious puns obvious, read Mo The Caller's rhyme with this: To Frere Jacques again "Life is but a meloncholy flower" Life is butter Life is but a Meloncholy flower Meloncholy flower Life is but a melon- Life is but a melon- Cauliflower Cauliflower Cheers Nigel |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Eulalee Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:20 PM Thanks Everybody, this is great! Mo, I can't figure out how to get the Meloncholy flower into the Frere Jacques tune. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Doug Chadwick Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:38 PM It fits this way: Life is butter = Frère Jacques Life is but a = Frère Jacques Melancholy flower = Dormez-vous Melancholy flower = Dormez-vous Life is but a melon = Sonnez les matines Life is but a melon = Sonnez les matines Cauliflower = Din dan don Cauliflower = Din dan don DC |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Doug Chadwick Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:42 PM or, to be clearer still, the line "Melancholy flower" is (Melan)-(choly) (flower) = (Dorm)-(ez ) (- vous) DC |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: SINSULL Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:49 PM Does Michael Finnegan get to tear off his shirt and sweat all over his partner? |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Eulalee Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:50 PM Got it! Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Joybell Date: 12 Dec 05 - 01:43 AM My dame hath a lame, tame crane My dame hath a crane that is lame Oh say, Gentle Jane does your dame's lame tame crane, Drink and come home again. Fun and easier than it seems. Cheers, Joy |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Little Robyn Date: 12 Dec 05 - 01:47 AM C-O-F-F-E-E Don't drink too much coffee, Not for children is this Turkish drink, Shakes your nerves and makes your heart go on the blink, Don't be a Turk my dear, It's not the custom here! |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Splott Man Date: 12 Dec 05 - 03:45 AM Again to Frere Jacques Llanfairpwllgwyn, Llanfairpwllgwyn, Gyllgogerychwyrn, Gyllgogerychwyrn, Drobwllllantysilio, Drobwllllantysilio, Gogogoch, Gogogoch, |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 12 Dec 05 - 05:59 AM "life is but a melancholy flower" needs to be sung to Frere Jacques in a MINOR mode- it's wonderful! Also~ I sat next to the Dutchess at Tea It was just as I feared it would be Her rumblings abdominal were simply phenomenal And everyone thought it was me, oh~ and~ Benjy met the bear The bear met Benjy The bear was bulgy The bulge was Benjy and a classic by Moondog~ Nero's expedition up the Nile failed Because the water hyacinths Had clogged the river, Denying Nero's vessels passage Through the Sud of Nubia |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 12 Dec 05 - 06:15 AM Whose pigs are these? Whose pigs are these? They are Tom Pott's I know them by their spots And I found them in the vicarage garden. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Tootler Date: 12 Dec 05 - 06:40 AM One we used to sing in the Scouts. Ging Gang Gooly Gooly Gooly Gooly Watcha Ging Gang Goo, Ging Gang Goo. Repeat Hayla, Hayla Shayla, Hayla Shayla Hayla Ho Repeat Shalli Walli, Shalli Walli, Shalli Walli Oompah, Oompah, Oompah, Oompah. Total nonsense words as far as I am concerned, but I suspect derived from something in an African Language as Baden Powell spent time in Africa. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 12 Dec 05 - 09:30 PM Little Jack Horner was an informer For the FBI. He Busted his friends again and again and Said, "Oh, oh, oh, What a good boy, what a good boy, What a good boy am I!" Then of course there are those old catches in which, when all the parts are going, new meanings emerge; e.g., He who would an alehouse keep Must have three things in store: A chamber with a featherbed, A chimney, and a hey-nonny-nonny, etc. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. :|| |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Willa Date: 13 Dec 05 - 12:06 PM Beware the law of gravity That makes the bread you have for tea Fall to the ground Butter side down Sounds very impressive! Can do you an abc version if you want it. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Artful Codger Date: 13 Dec 05 - 12:24 PM There's P.D.Q. Bach's "Art of the Ground Round". I'm thinking particularly of "Loving Is As Easy". Also a round I learned at a folk-dance party: What a queer bird the frog are When he sit he stand almost When he walk he fly almost When he sing he cry almost And he ain't got no sense hardly He ain't got no tail hardly EITHER! He sit on what he ain't got hardly... Cheers! |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Eulalee Date: 13 Dec 05 - 09:01 PM Thanks! Some of these sound like what I'm looking for - any way to get the melodies to them? Some of them I've been able to figure out or vaguely remember and can make sense of but of the one's I can't . . . I'm particularly interested in the Artful Codger's "What a queer bird...", and the two from Joe f. I like those catches - they can be really fun. Also Willa's "Beware the Law of Gravity" but I have no idea of the tunes for them. I'm new to this whole forum thing - how do people get melodies? |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:08 PM Eulalee: "Little Jack Horner" (with somewhat different words) is in _Rounds Galore!_, collected & published by Sol Weber (1994). "He That Will an Alehouse Keep" is in _The Penguin Book of Rounds_, collected by Rosemary Cass-Beggs (Penguin Books, 1982). Both books have many other amusing rounds. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: The roots of wit and charm tap Secret springs of sorrow. :|| |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 13 Dec 05 - 10:13 PM P.S. I might also mention _Round the World of Sound_, by Moondog (Louis Hardin) (1971). His rounds are whimsical & difficult. A short one goes "Be a hobo and go with me from Hoboken to the sea". --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Too lively, and you're dead. :|| |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: samirich Date: 13 Dec 05 - 11:29 PM Ta ti ti to G G -- D G_ _ Whose pigs are these Ta ti ti ta - e terry G G -- D G_. g-a Whose pigs are these? They ti ti ti ter-ry ter-ry ter-ry ti ter-ry B B A a a g g g g F d d are John Pott's, you can tell em by the spots, and I terry terry terry ti ta ta e g g g g g F G G found em in the vicarage gar-den. ta=quarter note ti=eighth note to=half note ta.= dotted qtr note The song starts on middle g and ends there. It is a four part round, fun to sing and most importantly is easy. Supposedly it works well with two other rounds, but I have not found out what they are? Anyone have a clue? |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Willa Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:14 PM Near as I can get it. 'Beware the law of gravity.' Numbers refer to beats. Note are middle C and above, except for A,etc which are below middle C. A-|- is a tied note.Haven't used the abc for a while and haven't time at present to brush it up. E2|A3 A|G3G|AGE2-|--E2E2|F3F|E3D|ECA,2-|A,4|D4|C3B,|A,4-|-A,4|B,B,3|E,4|A,4-|-A,2 |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Chris Green Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:18 PM There's a Tudor catch that goes Tis women make us love Tis love that makes us sad Tis sadness makes us drink And drinking makes us mad |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Rabbi Burns Oivey Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:21 PM A genuine round, but some may not approve, sad Archibald (bald bald) king of the Jews (jews, Jews) Bought his wife (wife, wife) a pair of shoes (shoes, shoes) When the shoes (shoes, shoes) began to wear (wear, wear) Archibald(bald bald) began to swear (swear swear) When the swear (swear swear) began to stop (stop stop) Archibald (bald bald), he bought a shop (shop shop), When the shop (shop shop)began to sell (sell sell), Archibald (bald bald), he bought a bell (bell bell) When the bell (bell bell) began to ring (ring ring) Archibald (bald bald) Began to sing (sing sing): Repeat |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: samirich Date: 15 Dec 05 - 09:59 AM Where might one find the music to Archibald and the Tudor Catch? |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mo the caller Date: 15 Dec 05 - 11:04 AM I knew that(or part of it) as a rhyme Nebukadnezza king of the Jews Sold his wife for a pair of shoes When...etc |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Moonunit Date: 15 Dec 05 - 03:49 PM The Tudor catch 'Tis Women' can be found as a pdf file here (see the top of page three): http://www.laymusic.org/music/drinking/book/drinking.pdf |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mo the caller Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:54 AM samirich gave a Tune for "Whose pigs". Did the G mean the same as g etc. (I remember it as being all on thr 6 notes between D & B I've not heard it as a round, but many years ago someone sang it on the BBC radio 2 folk programme and it took my fancy. I have been singing the second line as B B A B whose pigs are these That may be my memory at fault (the folk process?), and I dont know if it would work as a round. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 16 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM Oddly enough, just this afternoon I had occasion to quote: "Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Jews, Pulled off his stockings, but left on his shoes". --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Living too long is more to be dreaded than dying too soon. :|| |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Artful Codger Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM Mozart also wrote several quite nice rounds. Two that come to mind are "Heiterkeit und leichtes Blut" and "Difficile lectu mihi mars". Note the scatological German pun in the first line of the latter--typical for Mozart's sense of humor. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,wandris Date: 17 Dec 05 - 05:13 PM I remember this as a rhyme that girls used to use with skipping |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: samirich Date: 22 Dec 05 - 03:07 PM Mo: Sorry for not getting back sooner. Yes they are the same pitch. I believe I made them lower case because they were 16th notes. This definitely works as a round, can send it to you if you wish. Some Other rounds are "Rose, Rose" and the "Marjory round" or "Come get your dinner sow." Both make for very pretty rounds. I believe Ravenscroft has several rounds as well that are pretty easily found. Sammy Rich |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mo the caller Date: 22 Dec 05 - 04:25 PM I dont really understand any notation except the dots on a stave, but since I only sing in the bath I cant really do rounds.Thanks anyway.I'm sure your version works, it was mine I wasn't sure about |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mo the caller Date: 22 Dec 05 - 04:26 PM Of course if there are any offers to come and sing in my bath... |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Judy Cook Date: 22 Dec 05 - 11:16 PM Happy days to all those that we love Happy days to all those that love us Happy days to all those that love them that love those that love them that love those that love us. A fine round with pleasing sentiment. --J Digital Tradition |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Hrothgar Date: 23 Dec 05 - 02:29 AM My father killed a kangaroo, Wasn't that a terrible thing to do? He gave me the gristly bits to chew, My father killed a kangaroo. Or Jerilderie, Jerilderie, Was captured, was captured By the Kellys, by the Kellys, Come drink and be merry. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Hrothgar Date: 23 Dec 05 - 02:32 AM Black socks they never get dirty, The longer you wear them the stronger they get; Sometimes I think I should launder them, Something keeps telling me "Don't wash them yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet ........." |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Artful Codger Date: 25 May 06 - 09:12 PM Way back when this thread was fresh, I posted the text for a round "What a Queer Bird". I've finally gotten around to making an ABC of the tune, as well as of a few other rounds I had laying around on strips of sheet music. First the bare texts, then an ABC file with all of them: What a queer bird What a queer bird the frog are! When he sit he stand almost, When he walk he fly almost, When he sing he cry almost, And he ain't got no sense hardly, He ain't got no tail hardly EITHER! He sit on what he ain't got hardly! (The "EITHER", should be shouted rather than sung.) This terrible cow There once was a man, a man who said, "How Can I soften the heart of this terrible cow? If I sit on this stile and continue to smile, Can I soften the heart, the heart of this cow?" Marguerite Marguerite, come feed your black sow, All on a misty morning. Come get your dinner, sow, come, come, come, Else you will get nary a crumb. Well rung, Tom! Well rung, Tom boy, well rung, Tom! Ding, dong! Cuckoo! Well rung, Tom! The owl and the cuckoo, the fool and his song; Ding, dong! Cuckoo! Well rung, Tom! When Jesus wept (From the first Golden Ring album, if memory serves.) When Jesus wept the falling tear In mercy flowed beyond all bound When Jesus groaned a trembling fear Seized all the guilty world around. % Rounds: ABC Notation S:The Artful Codger X:1 T:What a queer bird M:3/4 L:1/8 K: G g/g/g g3 d | g2 G2 z G/A/ | w: What a queer bird the frog are! When he BB BB B A/B/ | cc cc c B/c/ | w: sit he stand al- most, When he walk he fly al-most, When he dd dd d e/f/ | g G g G g f/e/ | w: sing he cry al-most, And he ain't got no sense hard-ly, He d G d G d G | g/g/ z/ A/ G/A/B/c/ d/e/f/g/ || w: ain't got no tail hard-ly EI-THER! He sit on what he ain't got hard-ly! X:2 T:This terrible cow M:3/4 L:1/4 K:Am E | A B c | (B e3/2) d/ | c f e | A z w: There once was a man,_ a man who said, "How A/B/ | c B A | G E G | A>A G | A z w: Can I sof-ten the heart of this ter-ri-ble cow? A/B/ | c e f | (g/e/) c B | A d B | c z w: If I sit on this stile_ and con-ti-nue to smile, A/B/ | c B A | E z E | E E E | e2 || w: Can I sof-ten the heart, the heart of this cow?" X:3 T:Marguerite M:C L:1/8 K:DDorian % no sharps/flats D3 F E4 | D2 DF E2 C2 | w: Mar-gue-rite, come feed your black sow F2 FF G2 c2 | (A3 B/A/) G4 | w: All on a mis-ty mor-__ning. c2 Ac BA G2 | A2 F2 G4 | w: Come get your din-ner, sow, come, come, come, D2 E2 G2 G2 | DD D2 C4 | w: Else you will get na-ry a crumb. X:4 T:Well rung, Tom! M:C| L:1/8 K:A FE EA | AB A z | w: Well rung, Tom boy, well rung, Tom! DE z/ e/c | AE A z/E/ | w: Ding, dong! Cuc-koo! Well rung, Tom! The AB/B/ c/A/z/ A/ | ee/d/ c z | w: owl and the cuc-koo, the fool and his song; FE z3/2 e/ | c/AG/ A z | w: Ding, dong! Cuc-koo! Well rung, Tom! X:5 T:When Jesus wept D:The Golden Ring M:3/4 L:1/4 Q:1/4=120 K:Gm G | d2 c | (d/>e/ f) B | (d/>c/ B) A | G2 w: When Je-sus wept__ the fal-__ling tear G | G2 F | (B A) G | G2 D | G2 w: In mer-cy flowed_ be-yond all bound d | (g d) f | (B c) d | d2 d | d2 w: When Je-_sus groaned_ a trem-bling fear B | (d/>c/ B) A | (B e) d | (B/>A/ G) F | G2 || w: Seized all__ the guil-_ty world__ a-round. % End of file |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Ron Davies Date: 25 May 06 - 10:30 PM Can You Dig That Crazy Gibberish? (in the DT) Especially good with gestures. People wind up pointing in different directions in quick succession while declaiming "Oh look there's a chicken..." Kids seem to love it. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Sooz Date: 26 May 06 - 02:34 AM There are three Scottis songs that can be sung at the same time: As I came over the bonnie brig o' banff, Sandy he belongs to the mill and the third is made up of nonsense syllables making it very difficult to explain! It is great fun to sing and sounds good as well. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Stephen Malinowski Date: 28 May 06 - 10:06 AM You can get the score for the Frog Round here: http://www.musanim.com/frog/ You can also hear it, watch a movie of it, and do exercises with it. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 28 May 06 - 08:38 PM Why shouldn't my goose Sing as well as thy goose When I paid for my goose Twice as much as thine? --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Be sincere: fool yourself first. :|| |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Artful Codger Date: 30 May 06 - 05:36 AM Thanks for the pointer, Stephen. Thought I should mention here that the score attributes the words for "What a Queer Bird" to Ogden Nash. I couldn't listen to the music at that page, but scanning the score, it looks to be a better version than mine. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Grab Date: 30 May 06 - 07:55 AM Animaterra, Artisan did that "Nero's expedition" round at their workshops. For anyone who's not heard it, the rhythm is something else - there's big pauses (for a very precise, and odd, number of beats) between lines. Another one that Artisan do is "Freedom Train". This old freedom train's been such a long time coming Ain't nobody can't afford to miss so climb on while it's running Gimme that freedom, Gimme that freedom Gimme that freedom freedom freedom Chikachik Done right, the "Chickachik"s come one after another to give a continuous train noise. Graham. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Kristin Date: 02 Oct 07 - 11:47 PM The way I learned "Freedom Train" in choir was This old freedom train is such a long time in a comin There ain't no one can't afford it So you'd better climb aboard it Gimme that fre-edom Gimme that fre-edom Gimme that freedom freedom freedom CH-CH (sounds like a train) Every syllable is spoken directly on the beat until you get to the fre-dom part. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mike Miller Date: 03 Oct 07 - 12:06 AM Joe F has made a swell suggestion but that song is more fun to do if you add some movement. It goes, thusly. Why shouldn't my goose Sing as well as thy goose When I paid for my GOOSE Twice as much as thine. On that last GOOSE, we jump up and say it as though we were being "goosed". Watching a slew of seated singers rising and falling like fans doing "The Wave". |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Mark Cohen Date: 03 Oct 07 - 12:38 AM In an early post on this thread, iancarterb noted a two-line round from the Washington Dept. of Agriculture, and said he thought Tom Hunter had written the tune. He quoted one of the two lines: "Apple maggot quarantine area." He was partly right. The whole song is: Apple maggot quarantine area Do not transport home-grown fruit and the tune is mine. Though it's an honor to have someone think it's one of Tom's. The song is in Linda Allen's collection "Washington Songs and Lore"...but she got the last note wrong! I can't do ABC, but the tune goes something like this: 1-3 | 2-4 | 3-2-1 | 2-1-8 | 1 5 | 5-5 | 5 1 | 2_ There are a lot of my favorite rounds in this thread. I've learned many of my favorites from Lani Herrmann, like these: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bea-ear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't (then it repeats, of course) We welcome in the morning We welcome in the day 1, 3, 5, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 5, 2, 3, 4, sharp, 5 And the 8 is the same as the 1 But an octave apart Try to sing it by heart Good night, good night Time sends a warning call Sweet rest descend to all Time, time sends a warning call Sweet rest, sweet rest descend to all And an incomparable one by Moondog: Nero's expedition up the Nile Failed Because the water hyacinths Had clogged the river Denying Nero's vessels passage Through the Sudd of Nubia Thanks, Lani! Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Fantum Date: 03 Oct 07 - 07:51 AM Another verse to Michael Finnegan I know a man named Michael Finnegan He grows whiskers on his chinnegan Cuts them off but they grow in again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again I know a man named Michael Finnegan He grew fat and he grew thin again Then he died and had to begin again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:45 AM Here's one I learned at an early-music workshop. It is a lament on the topic of life on the east coast of America. Four long hours of driving. One short dip in the ocean. Miserere nobis. I will send Joe a MIDI so you can play it here. Its tonality is very archaic. First I will play the round, then do it again with two parts.
Click to play |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Anne Lister Date: 03 Oct 07 - 04:13 PM Back to Frere Jacques ... another two sets of words: Water melons, water melons How they drip, how they drip Up and down your elbow, up and down your elbow Spit the pip (spit) Spit the pip (spit) And of coure the immortal Father Christmas, Father Christmas He got stuck, he got stuck Climbing down the chimney, climbing down the chimney What bad luck, what bad luck. And back to the Goose ... if you have a big enough group of people, it works in 16 parts. As in "Why shouldn't/why shouldn't/why shouldn't" as starting points. If you jump up and down on the high "goose" then it looks wonderful. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: dick greenhaus Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:53 PM Elephants (The Force of Habit---Round) A.E. Housman, Johan Franco A tail behind, a trunk in front complete the usual elephant The tail in front, the trunk behind is what you very seldom find. If you for specimens should hunt with trunks behind and tails in front That hunt will occupy you long, the force of habit is so strong. Here Lies a Woman (Round) Hilton [1] Here lies a woman. Who can deny it? She died in peace tho' lived unquiet. [2] Her husband prays if o'er her grave you walk You would tread soft, you would tread [3] Soft, for if she wakes, for if she wakes She'll talk, tread soft, for if she wakes, she'll talk. Miss Smith (1) Oh Miss Smith, Oh do be careful. Do not heed that wolf. His honey dripping (2) Words, Miss Smith, will break your tender heart! He (3) Says you're sweet, he says you're pretty, says he'll never kiss another girl. But if he does, he'll still be true to you, the mean deceiver. Mister Bach (1) Mister Bach wrote several tunes just like this. (2) Organ sonatas, fugues, cantatas, I never know which is which. Perfect Woman No perfect woman lives, so poor a thing is life How can a perfect man obtain a perfect wife? No perfect woman lives. And yet So rich a thing is life that every perfect man can get A perfect woman for his wife, a perfect woman for his wife. All in digiTrad (with tunes) |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Oct 07 - 02:08 AM Leeneia sent me a MIDI for posting, and I have obediently posted it. The tune sounds like Gregorian chant to me, something I learned fro Sister John Bosco in fifth grade, when I had a schoolboy crush on her. Nice tune, Leeneia. -Joe-
|
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Saro Date: 04 Oct 07 - 03:03 AM I wrote this one a while ago "Early to bed and early to rise Makes you wealthy, makes you wise. I would rather be foolish and poor And stay in bed a little while more." Saro |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 04 Oct 07 - 06:43 AM Quick and easy to learn:
At the break of day
If you do not feed him
This is what he'll say Haaaa,He Haaaa Heeeee Haaaa, Heee Haww, He Haw, He Haw.
Sincerely, |
Subject: Old Woman From: GUEST,Bakequery Date: 27 Jul 08 - 08:50 AM Old Woman Old Woman Do you you want to marry me? 2x Speak a little louder sir I'm rather hard of hearing 2x There are other verses which I can not remember right now. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,doc Date: 21 Feb 09 - 04:36 PM The verses from the Artful Codger remind me of a song we learned at camp when I was 10, but not as a round: The frog he am a queer bird, He ain't got no tail almost hardly, When he run he yump, When he yump he sit down Cause he ain't got no tail almost hardly. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Dante Ferrara Date: 22 Mar 09 - 02:03 PM I've recorded many on my new CD 'Bazimakoo'. Though huge fun, they are mainly for adults |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Heather Date: 27 Jul 11 - 06:53 PM Does anyone know the tune for this one? Happy days to all those that we love Happy days to all those that love us Happy days to all those that love them that love those that love them that love those that love us. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,sola Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:40 PM I recall: guys: Old woman, old woman, will you do my washing? girls answer: Speak a little louder, sir--I'm very hard of hearing. guys : Old woman, old woman, will you do (my cleaning?)? girls: same answer--(or a little hard of hearing>?) guys: s?t like come and sit with me... girls: ...I'm slightly hard of hearing guys: Old woman, old woman, will you...marry me? girls: (I will marry you?) I hear you very clearly. I was looking this up to see if anyone else had all the words. I learned it in the 4th grade (1956 ot 7) in Nancy, France--Am. school |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST Date: 23 Aug 13 - 01:31 PM To stop the train In cases of emergency just pull down the chain pull down the chain penalty for each inproper use five pounds |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST Date: 09 Sep 13 - 05:38 PM another one to Frere Jacques Harry Potter Harry Potter Where's he gone? Where's he gone? Run off with Hermione Run off with Hermione Poor old Ron Poor old Ron And one we did at school : Said Aristotle unto Plato "Have another sweet potato" Said Plato unto Aristotle "Thank you, I prefer the bottle." |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 10 Sep 13 - 10:27 AM The music of some of those rounds is neither well known nor easy to find. Would posters please attach ABC representations (as for example I did in this thread) or stable links to sheet music etc.? If it is in the DT, either a link or the exact title would be welcome. TIA. Don't bother with good ol' Jacques and his brothers, though. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Sep 13 - 02:41 PM For the ABC-uninitiated (most readers?): I can help prepare ABCs and MIDIs for those who can make a scan of a score or record their singing to an MP3. Similarly, if you send me a MIDI, I can put it in Joe's repository and post a link here, along with an ABC transcription. PM me to make arrangements; include your email address. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Bettynh Date: 10 Sep 13 - 03:41 PM Bill Harley sings this, but I doubt that he wrote it: Black socks, they never get dirty, The longer you wear them the stronger they get. Sometimes I think I should wash them, But something inside me says No, no, not yet. Not yet, not yet, not yet... Here's a junior high chorus singing it. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Bettynh Date: 10 Sep 13 - 04:22 PM Christine Lavin and the Mistletones are credited with the Tacobel Canon: OGuac-a-mo-le, guac-a-mo-le, guac-a-mo-le, guac-a-mo-le Taco salad taco salad taco salad taco salad Taco salad taco salad taco salad taco salad Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Fajita! Lots of cheese and some sour cream some lettuce salsa don't forget the refried beans Lots of cheese and some sour cream some lettuce salsa don't forget the refried beans Hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it Hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it hot really hot add a little jalapeno make it This is a well-done version. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: Bettynh Date: 10 Sep 13 - 04:28 PM From Joanne Hammil, A Question of Tempo When I'm under pressure I get speedy and tense up and then ironically I don't get as much done as I could if I would slow Down, breathe deep, stay centered and calm -I Try, but I can't! I'm thinking of adding a relaxation class into my schedule so I can be more steady even though I'm adding more... ('cause...) ending: More, more, more, more, more, more, more! Listen here |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: dick greenhaus Date: 11 Sep 13 - 01:25 AM A DT search for the keyword "round" will give some worthwhile results. Many with tunes. I'm fond of "Miss Smith", "Liszt and Bach" and "Smetana" |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST Date: 11 Sep 13 - 05:24 PM Developing the Tudor Catch, another hundred years later Purcell took it further into Catch rounds which were in and of themselves quite innocuous. But when the music was added, pauses in the parts aligned with the lead lines to produce an obscene result as the melody line switched leads. Now, I'm not suggesting you do something that extreme, but the idea might really work for kids if it's just a tad naughty. And for those of you looking for the music-hall monologues, they're almost all here. |
Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds From: GUEST Date: 09 Jan 16 - 01:07 PM Anyone know which "Great Tom" bell the catch "Well Rung Tom" refers to? I had assumed the bell at Christchurch, Oxford, but there is also one in St. Paul's Cathedral and a few others dotted around England. |
Share Thread: |
Subject: | Help |
From: | |
Preview Automatic Linebreaks Make a link ("blue clicky") |