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25 Jan 01 - 09:23 PM (#382732) Subject: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: GUEST,Catherine Does anyone know the history of the well-known round: Heigh ho, nobody home Meat nor drink nor money have I none. Still I will be very merry. (or Yet will we be merry) Thanks! Catherine |
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25 Jan 01 - 09:27 PM (#382735) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: Callie Can't help with the history, but I have heard a recent-ish recording which had creepy overtones. Edie Brickell sings it at the end of one of her songs on Rob Wasserman's "Trios". good luck Callie |
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25 Jan 01 - 09:33 PM (#382743) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: David Coffin I was told by an audience member at a concert last month that it originates from a Welsh Carol. I've seen it credited to "an old English canon" but not those words. Jean Ritchie wrote words based on Psalm 133 that go thusly: What a goodly thing If the children of the world Could dwell together In Peace. (O,) Good luck. It's beautiful round. I led an audience of 1200 in Sanders Theatre in Cambridge MA and as each part dropped out the last part remaining was the balcony and it truly had a spectacular effect. Ah well, on we go. Gloucesterman. |
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25 Jan 01 - 09:38 PM (#382745) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: Malcolm Douglas You might like to have a look at these previous discussions in the Forum: Hey Ho, Nobody Home Hey! Ho! Anybody Home? Hey, ho, know this song? Found using the very useful "Digitrad and Forum Search" on the main Forum page. I typed in nobody home. Malcolm |
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31 Oct 14 - 03:16 PM (#3673409) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: GUEST,Julie http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/hey-ho-nobody-home-an-illustrated-song/ |
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31 Oct 14 - 04:45 PM (#3673430) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: GUEST,# http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=3235&c=116 Dates to 1609 anyway. |
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31 Oct 14 - 05:23 PM (#3673439) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: Jack Campin Two links in one thread here give the origin. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=20212 It was used as a theatre song in 1607 in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle": http://www.mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2587053 and the music was first published by Thomas Ravenscroft in 1608: http://www.mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=3590446 The coincidence in dates suggests very strongly to me that it was written, words and music both, for that production, and doesn't date to any earlier antecedent - why publish the music for something that was old news? |
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17 Nov 14 - 09:56 AM (#3677793) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: GUEST,hocpoc I sang this song as a child in Italy and was called "Vent fin vent du matin" (Wind fine wind of the morning) the translation of the French children's song "Vent frais, vent du matin" now I find that is a English song!!! It 'a beautiful song to sing !! |
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18 Nov 14 - 06:57 AM (#3678039) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: GUEST,Guest Peter, Paul and Mary sang a version back in the day. |
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21 Feb 16 - 11:50 AM (#3774145) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: kendall I learned this in 8th grade. |
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21 Feb 16 - 02:21 PM (#3774165) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: Stower Its first appearance, as far as I know, was in Thomas Ravenscroft's publication, Pammelia, 1609, which you can find here. It's difficult to know with Ravenscroft what he took from other collections, from broadsides (there's certainly some of that), or what he wrote himself, as his song publications make no distinction. In the days before copyright, he didn't need to. It's in Ravenscroft's books that we also find the first extant versions of There Were Three Ravens and Three Blind Mice, which I'd say there's a good chance he wrote, for reasons I won't go into here (so as to avoid thread drift). Hey ho specifically is here. Watch out for the moveable clef. |
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21 Feb 16 - 08:41 PM (#3774216) Subject: RE: Heigh ho nobody home--history? From: Mrrzy Heigh ho is also how the British children's books I read spelled a yawn. Cool thread, as usual. |