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15 Mar 99 - 08:33 PM (#63280) Subject: Looking for a song: shovel/hoe and fiddle/bow From: erisw@marininstitute.org I'm trying to find the name of a song. The lyrics go something like this:
but did not take up the fiddle and the bow or if they did they would play but a sorry tune" It is allegedly from the Gold Rush era. |
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11 Nov 08 - 05:48 AM (#2490588) Subject: RE: Looking for a song: shovel/hoe and fiddle/bow From: maeve Okay... Here's Old Ned by Stephen Foster, from the Digital Tradition. It includes the first part of the quoted lyrics. Perhaps your request song is related? Old Ned Old Ned here too, on another interesting site: here (click) |
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17 Nov 08 - 03:57 PM (#2496080) Subject: RE: Looking for a song: shovel/hoe and fiddle/bow From: GUEST,John from Kemsing When I was a child in S.E.London my mother, the most inoffensive lady you could wish meet, taught us this version of "Old Ned" and I know there was not an iota prejudice in her veins. To us children it was just one of the many songs our family sang. "There was an old nigger and his name was Uncle Ned. He`s gone dead long ago. He had no hair on the top of his head In the place where the hair ought to grow. He had no hair on the top of his head He had no eyes for to see He had no teeth for to eat the oat cake So`s obliged to let the oat cake be. CH:- So put away the shovel and the ee-i-oh Put away the fiddle and the bow. There`s no more work for poor Old Ned `Cos he`s gone where the good niggers go-i-oh He`s gone where the good niggers go. |
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17 Nov 08 - 06:18 PM (#2496206) Subject: RE: Looking for a song: shovel/hoe and fiddle/bow From: Q (Frank Staplin) "Uncle Ned," 1848, text, midi and mp3, and title page of original sheet music, here: Uncle Ned |
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14 Oct 10 - 03:32 PM (#3007050) Subject: RE: lyr req: Uncle Ned - shovel & hoe From: GUEST THERE WAS A OLD NIGGAR AND HIS NAME WAS UNCLE NED AND HE DIED LONG AGO LONG AGO FOR HE HAD NO WOOL ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD IN THE PLACE WERE THE WOOL OUGHT TO GROW. LAY DOWN YA SHOVEL AND YOUR O O O O HANG UP YOUR FIDDLE AND YOUR BOW O O THERES NO MORE HARD WORK FOR POOR OLD NED CAUSE HES GONE WERE THE GOOD NIGGARS GO. THIS IS HOW I WAS LEARNT THIS SONG 35 YEARS AGO BY MY OLDER SISTER. |
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14 Oct 10 - 04:25 PM (#3007089) Subject: RE: lyr req: Uncle Ned - shovel & hoe From: Q (Frank Staplin) The best copies of Stephen Foster lyrics, plus excellent midis, here: Stephen Foster Songs Click on Foster Collection. The best because they follow the original sheet music. Many other popular songs of the period here also. Uncle Ned often listed or published as "Old Uncle Ned," as it is here; the original sheet music just has "Uncle Ned." Uncle Ned Unfortunately the DT lacks the original verses of several of Foster's songs. |
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14 Oct 10 - 05:16 PM (#3007115) Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE NED (Stephen Foster) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: Uncle Ned Composed and arranged by Stephen Foster, 1848 1 Dere was an old Nigga, dey called him Uncle Ned- He's dead long a-go, long a-go! He had no wool on de top ob his head- De place whar de wool ought to grow. Bass Voice Den lay down de shubble and de hoe- Chorus Add Soprano or alto Hang up de fiddle and de bow: No more hard work for poor old Ned- He's gone whar de good Niggas go. No more hard work for poor old Ned- He's gone whar de good Niggas go. When old Ned die de Massa take it mighty bad, De tears run down like de rain; Old Missus turn pale, and she gets berry sad Cayse she nebber see Old Ned again. Den lay down de shubble and de hoe..... His fingers where* long like de cane in de brake, He had no eyes for to see; He had no teeth for to eat de corn cake So he had to let de corn cake be. Den lay down de shubble and de hoe ...... D. C. Chorus *were (Misprint) Songs of the Sable Harmonists, W. C. Peters, Louisville. Levy Collection, John Hopkins. |