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20 Sep 15 - 07:42 AM (#3738467) Subject: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: Mo the caller Last night at a concert by Cataleya I heard a suite by Paul Patterson, Westerly Winds. I'd never heard of him, but it turned out to be based on West Country folk songs. All easily recognised except I don't know the 'official' words to the first, I was (silently)singing along "Tomatoes are soft and they don't hurt the skin But this one was hard, it was packed in a tin" The weblink says it's called Farmer Giles. I couldn't find it here except a mention as a cod-rustic music hall song in the thread about Buttercup Joe. Any offers? The audience were mostly of a generation that sang these songs at school, and heard them on the Wireless, so we found it hard to keep quiet. |
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20 Sep 15 - 04:56 PM (#3738577) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: Steve Gardham There is a long thread already on this song titled something like 'Tomatoes don't hurt' |
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20 Sep 15 - 06:27 PM (#3738598) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: GUEST,# Tomatoes are soft and they don't hurt the skin If you Google the above line just as is--no quotation marks--numerous site will have takes of it to offer, including two previous threads from Mudcat, one at 47 posts and t'other at 72. |
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21 Sep 15 - 03:43 AM (#3738667) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: Mo the caller Thanks, I enjoyed re-reading that old thread. But it doesn't quite answer my question. That is the parody version that I remember. Is there an original West Country folk song called Farmer Giles? |
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21 Sep 15 - 03:51 AM (#3738671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: Tradsinger Is this the one? http://glostrad.com/farmer-giles/ Tradsinger |
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21 Sep 15 - 08:25 AM (#3738749) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: Mo the caller That looks like it. Thanks. Though the 'spoken introduction had me confused at fist - I've heard that sung to a different tune. |
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21 Sep 15 - 04:12 PM (#3738885) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farmer Giles From: GUEST,# Glad you got it, Mo. Good work, Tradsinger. |