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In DT- What's this song?

23 Oct 08 - 08:04 AM (#2473597)
Subject: In DT- What's this song?
From: Mr Happy

While searching for another song in the DT, I came across this:

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9749

What is it?


23 Oct 08 - 09:10 AM (#2473659)
Subject: RE: In DT- What's this song?
From: John MacKenzie

This?

JM


23 Oct 08 - 09:36 AM (#2473674)
Subject: RE: In DT- What's this song?
From: clueless don

If you take the notes given in the @displaysong.cfm?SongID=9749 file, assume a meter of 4/4 (probably the same result with 2/4), assume the key of C or the key of F (F seems more likely), add some headers and bar lines, and treat it as abc notation, you get a tune

X:1
T: hobboots
K: F
cF/F/ F/G/A/B/
cc c2 |
BE/E/ E/F/G/A/
BB B2 |
cF F/G/A/B/
cc cA/B/ |
cc cc/B/
AF Fz2 |

that does not seem to fit the words given in the "THE HOBNAIL BOOTS THAT FATHER WORE" thread that John MacKenzie linked, at least not the verses. However, what I assume is the chorus (I don't know the song):

Now me and me brother from the age of four
Up to eleven, could sleep and snore
So nice and cosy in a box of straw
In the hobnailed boots that me father wore

could possibly be shoehorned to fit the tune.

Don


23 Oct 08 - 04:24 PM (#2474056)
Subject: RE: In DT- What's this song?
From: Joe Offer

Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Happy. I reported it to the DT Attribution and Minor Corrections PermaThread.
-Joe-