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06 Aug 00 - 01:35 PM (#272411) Subject: Lyr Add: FOX WENT OUT From: Sorcha There are lyrics in the DT under [FOXOUT5. I don't know if these will be deemed different enough to add, but here they are.
FOX WENT OUT
1. The fox went out on a chilly night,
2. He ran til he came to a great big pen
3. He grabbed the gray goose by the neck,
4. The farmer's wife jumped out of bed,
5. Then John went to the top of the hill,
6. Well, the fox went home to his den right then, mw,8/6/00
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06 Aug 00 - 02:28 PM (#272442) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Malcolm Douglas Do you have any background on that version, and a tune? Out of interest, versions on the DT are:
The Fox American version, with tune. On the Forum, there are four versions (including the two 14th/15th century texts) and a fragment: Lyr Add: Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night Malcolm |
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06 Aug 00 - 02:46 PM (#272446) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Sorcha No background at all Malcolm except that it was what my father sang. He was born and raised in southern Kansas (USA), but traveled widely due to the Army and Boy Scouting. I think the lyrics may be some he learned in Scouting............I posted the tune in the Please Post Tunes here thread, under [FOXOT5. |
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07 Aug 00 - 04:13 AM (#272742) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: oggie I learnt a hybrid version of this at school (courtesy of the BBC 'Singing Together') which had the verses of the DT 'The Fox' but Sorcha's chorus but with the last two lines repeated as well. e.g.
Town-o. Town-o, All the best Steve
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08 Jan 19 - 07:51 PM (#3970671) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Lighter The (Vancouver) Province (May 19, 1909), p. 6: THE GRAY FOX. (An Old Rhyme.) An old gray fox on a moonlight night, Stood upon his hind legs just about right, Saying I'll have a goosie supper before I lay my body down-e-o; Down-e-o, down-e-o, I'll have a goosie supper before I lay my body down-e-o. He marched right off to a farmers gate, And there spied an old gray drake; He said, "Goosie, goosie, where's your master gone? He's gone somewhere to the town-e-o, Town-e-o, town-e-o, he's gone somewhere to the town-e-o. He seized the drake right back of its neck, And all of his cries were "Quack, quack, quack," And its wings went flip-flap over its back, And its legs hung dingle, dangle down-e-o. Down-e-o, down-e-o, and its legs hung dingle, dangle down-e-o. He marched right off to his rocky den, And there came young ones: eight, nine, ten. While the daddy and the mammy were eating at the meat, The little ones were picking at the bones-o. Bones-o, bones-o, the little ones were picking at the bones-o. Old Mother Fiddle-Faddle lying in bed, Jumped up to the window and poked out her head, Saying: "Blow, boys; blow, boys, drakie is dead, And the old fox took him to the town-e-o. Town-e-o, town-e-o, and the old fox took him to the town-e-o. Up jumped John with a fair good will, He takes down his horn and blows his fill, Saying: "Blow, boys; blow, boys, drakie is dead. And the old fox took him to his town-e-o, Town-e-o, town-e-o, and the old fox took him to his town-e-o. |
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09 Jan 19 - 06:56 PM (#3970847) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: GUEST,Bob Coltman American versions of "The Fox" from about the late 1940s forward are likely to be, or have been influenced by, Burl Ives' widely circulated records of the song. This would apply to the "American version" that Malcolm Douglas lists as his #1. By the way, I remember hearing from the late Jim Butler a Scots version not in the DT (tod = fox) that begins: THE TOD Hech, said the tod, 'tis a braw licht nicht, The wind's in the wast and the mune shines bricht, The wind's in the wast and the mune shines bricht, And I'm awa tae the toon, O. Up gat the auld wife oot o' her bed, An' oot o' the window she cocked her auld heid, Sayin', Eh, goodman, the gray goose is deid, An' the tod has been i' the toon, O. Remainder not recalled. No source known, but Jim, an avid folksong scholar, probably got it from a printed collection. Bob |
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09 Jan 19 - 09:03 PM (#3970865) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Lighter Hi, Bob, Those are the first and last stanzas of a four-stanza version printed in R. A. Smith's "The Scotish [sic] Minstrel" Vol. 5&6 (1824). The middle stanzas: “I was down amang yon shepherd's scroggs, I’d like to been worried by his dogs, But, by my sooth! I minded his hogs, The night I cam to the toun, O!” He's taen the grey goose by the green sleeve, “Eh, ye auld witch! nae langer shall ye live; Your flesh it is tender, your banes I maun prieve, For that I cam to the toun, O!" BTW, your book on Paul Clayton was the key to my recent discussion of his "Jesse James" songs on another current thread. Would appreciate your opinion. Jon |
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09 Jan 19 - 09:16 PM (#3970867) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Lighter Smith's tune is much like that used by Kerryman Sean McCarthy for his song "Mountain Tae" (1970), usually known now as "The Hills of Connemara." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRnKAQ2NZixNzNQ_O1kY896HgFaCdqVh2 |
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10 Jan 19 - 02:49 PM (#3970935) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett Isn't "toon" or "town" FERME TOON", i.e. the song has a Scots origin? Jon Bartlett |
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10 Jan 19 - 03:01 PM (#3970938) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: Mrrzy We had this by Harry Belafonte. |
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10 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM (#3970943) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: voyager Have fun with this - Fox Went Out (Mudcat Thread) 1999 |
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10 Jan 19 - 03:40 PM (#3970946) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: voyager Blue Clicky Thing doesn't work (sorry). Thread is over here - https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13266#108337 |
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10 Jan 19 - 07:53 PM (#3970989) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: FreddyHeadey [^^^^^ to use the blicky for internal links you now need to paste in just from 'thread.cfm... e.g. thread.cfm?threadid=13266#108337 = thread.cfm?threadid=13266#108337] |
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10 Jan 19 - 08:02 PM (#3970990) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AlternateLyric/Fox Went Out From: RTim ‘John Dead’ Chorus: John dead Grey goose gone home And the fox in the way of the morning… Who’ll dig his grave?/ [Chorus]/ Who’ll make his shroud?/ [Chorus]/ Who’ll lower him down?/ [Chorus]/ Who’ll toll his bell?/ [Chorus]/ ‘John Dead’ is a traditional song from the Windward Islands in the West Indies. It was a call to reluctant whalers (like scared “geese)” to come out and face the whale - the “fox” - when the waves are whipped into a hurricane frenzy. Tim Radford |