Origins: Old Enoch he came home...

Subject: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: GUEST,Captain Colin
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 09:16 PM

...he came with a rat-tat-tat.. My mother used to sing a silly nonsense song with this beginning but I've never heard it anywhere else. She in turn learned it from my grandad. Did he make it he make it up to amuse the kids or does anyone else know it? It sounds like an old Music Hall song to me.

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 07:30 AM

Is that related to the one of which the only line I can remember is "his old peg-leg went rat-tat-tat upon the kitchen door (floor?)?

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: GUEST,Captain Colin
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:16 AM

No, nothing about peg legs in my song Paul- mine turned into a story of what might these days be called a domestic disturbance- but thanks for replying!

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:55 AM

The one I was thinking of was Peg Leg Sam, and there have been threads about that. But this thread should sort you out: Enoch knocked me over.

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:25 PM

Thanks again... but no, that's not the one that I heard at my mother's knee (or some other low joint).

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: GUEST,Captain Colin
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 02:09 PM

No other clues anybody??

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: Goose Gander
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 02:53 PM

From the Roud Index, maybe this helps?

'OLD ENOCH'

Thompson, Pioneer Songster (1958) pp.189-191
Previous Source: Stevens-Douglass MS (New York, USA; 1841 – 1856)
First Line: "Old Enoch was aged he wished to be still . . . ."
Roud #2581

This is the only reference.

Subject: RE: Origins: Old Enoch he came home...
From: GUEST,Captain Colin.
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 07:57 PM

Thanks Michael.. but not the one. Looks like I'm at a dead end with this one!