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Looking for great fun/funny rounds

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GUEST,Eulalee 11 Dec 05 - 10:46 AM
SINSULL 11 Dec 05 - 10:50 AM
GUEST,Pete Peterson 11 Dec 05 - 11:04 AM
lady penelope 11 Dec 05 - 11:05 AM
iancarterb 11 Dec 05 - 11:18 AM
the lemonade lady 11 Dec 05 - 11:37 AM
curmudgeon 11 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM
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Mo the caller 11 Dec 05 - 04:24 PM
Nigel Parsons 11 Dec 05 - 07:44 PM
GUEST,Eulalee 11 Dec 05 - 08:20 PM
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Doug Chadwick 11 Dec 05 - 08:42 PM
SINSULL 11 Dec 05 - 08:49 PM
GUEST,Eulalee 11 Dec 05 - 08:50 PM
Joybell 12 Dec 05 - 01:43 AM
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Splott Man 12 Dec 05 - 03:45 AM
AllisonA(Animaterra) 12 Dec 05 - 05:59 AM
GUEST, Topsie 12 Dec 05 - 06:15 AM
Tootler 12 Dec 05 - 06:40 AM
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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?


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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


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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!


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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


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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
    "To stop the train
    In cases of emergency
    Pull on the cord
    Pull on the cord
    Penalty for improper use
    Five pounds"
from a London subway sign, I believe.


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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


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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.


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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


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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


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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


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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.


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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


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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


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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?


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Subject: RE: Looking for great fun/funny rounds
From: GUEST,Eulalee
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:50 PM

Got it! Thanks!


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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


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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!


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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,


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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


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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.


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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.


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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. :||


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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.


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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!


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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?


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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. :||


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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. :||


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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?


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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


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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


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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


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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?


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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


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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


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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.


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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. :||


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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.


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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


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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


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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


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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...


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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


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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.


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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 ........."


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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


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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. :||


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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.


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