27 May 01 - 03:20 PM (#471395) Subject: In der Vintertime From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Would like more words to an old childrens song. In der vintertime in der valley vile/ When der vint blows on der vindowpanes/ And the vimmen of der woderwille/ Ride welocipedes around der westibule. |
27 May 01 - 03:29 PM (#471397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Pene Azul The lyrics are here (click) in the Digitrad. Jeff |
27 May 01 - 03:44 PM (#471402) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Thanks. I tried digitrad but didn't enter it right, I guess. The words are a little different, but the source is obviously the same. There are still more verses out there somewhere. |
27 May 01 - 09:28 PM (#471532) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Uncle_DaveO I learned this jolly little song from a 10-inch LP, on red vinyl, sung by Carl Sandburg, the poet and folksong aficionado. I usually sing it in tandem with another Scandinavian-dialect song from childhood, which starts out, "It's gonna be a long, hard vinter And vat vill de birdies do den, d' pyur tings? Dey'll fly in d' barn, yust to keep demselfs varm, And pyut deir head under deir vings, d' pyur tings!" I THINK this is in the DT. In fact I THINK I submitted it. Whether it has made it into the DT yet, I don't know, because the posters are way overloaded. I'll search and see whether it's there or I have submitted it, and if not I'll post it. Dave Oesterreich |
27 May 01 - 09:48 PM (#471541) Subject: Lyr Add: LONG, HARD VINTER From: Uncle_DaveO I've searched the forum and DT, and haven't found it, so here is: LONG, HARD VINTER It's gonna be a long, hard vinter It's gonna be a long, hard spri-ing, It's gonna be a long, hard soomair, It's gonna be a long, hard fa-all,
Learned in my misspent youth in Minnesota, say 55 years ago.
DRO
Dave Oesterreich |
27 May 01 - 09:57 PM (#471549) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Uncle_DaveO Dicho, I just found your Vintertime song in the DT, and while it cites Carl Sandburg as the source it's not either your song, exactly, or the one that I have the red vinyl disk by Sandburg whereof I spoke. The one I have and sing is essentially the first verse of the one in the DT, but starting "In de vinter, in de vintertime" rather than "valley green", and the third line is "And de vimmen in de vaud'ville" rather than "working in vaudeville", which doesn't scan very well in any case. And Sandburg in my recording ends, "Ahh, vimmens! Ahhhh-ahhh ahh-ahh ahh-ahh mens!" Sort of a hymn-ending feeling to the tune of the ending. Dave Oesterreich |
27 May 01 - 10:54 PM (#471579) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: dick greenhaus The version posted in DT is from Carl Sandbag's American Songburg. I remember the little red vinyl record vividly. I was delighted when Lyrichord released it on CD (CAMSCO sells it.) |
28 May 01 - 12:08 AM (#471602) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Thanks, DaveO, for Long, Hard Vinter. It is new to me. I was raised in the US southwest, and I heard In der Vintertime from Mormon friends. A lot of change could have taken place on the song's long journey from Minnesota. I doubt that Sandburg ever heard it sung, as the second verse requires some stretching to fit. |
12 Jul 02 - 03:59 PM (#747348) Subject: Lyr Add: VINTER IN THE VALLEY GREEN From: Mrrzy VINTER IN THE VALLEY GREEN Remembered by Mrrzy It was vinter in the valley green |
12 Jul 02 - 04:01 PM (#747352) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Vinter in the Valley Green From: Mrrzy Forgotten lines: between We're the boys of Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Bowling Green... and Boys! Don't bowl on the green! should come: We're the boys of Bowling Green... And between Here, Prince! and Then there was granny comes:,p>And the moral of the story is to be able to distinguish the difference between asthma (inhale deeply) and passion (exhale strongly)... |
12 Jul 02 - 05:43 PM (#747402) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Vinter in the Valley Green From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Posted somewhere else, Child No. 36 and 3/4, but too lazy to look- A variation: "In der vintertime in der valley vile Ven der vind blows 'genst der vinderpanes and de vimmen uv de wodeville Ride welocipedes round der westibule." Vilosovy? Ven dat age I vas I from noddink neu. |
12 Jul 02 - 10:39 PM (#747511) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Vinter in the Valley Green From: NH Dave Ride welocipedes round der westibule." Of de Wiking Hotel" Dave |
11 Sep 04 - 04:07 PM (#1269435) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Sharon I learned this song as a child from my great aunt Lois in 1963:
when the wind blows on the window panes and the people all go to sunday school, ride velocipides in the vestibule. And the preacher says to the people gay, cut the monkey biz on the sabbath day. |
11 Sep 04 - 05:29 PM (#1269504) Subject: ADD: In De Vinter Time From: Joe Offer The version in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag is just a bit different, and Sandburg's background note is a kick. Here 'tis: In de Vinter Time In de vinter, in de vinter-time, Ven de vin' blows on de vindow-pane An' de vimmen, in de vaud'vil Ride de veloc'pede in de vestibule, Ah, vimmens! Ah, mens! Notes: This is sung by superincumbent cucumbers in Iowa and elsewhere. We have it from students and faculty members of Cornell College. The tempo is mazurka and came with Polish and Czeko-Slovak emigration to the Corn Belt. Click to play(may not be ready right away)The Traditional Ballad Index lists only the Sandburg version: In de Vinter TimeDESCRIPTION:
Ven de vin' blows on de vindow-pane, An' de vimmen, in de vaud'vil, Ride de veloc'pede in de vestibule, Ah, vimmins! Ah, mens!" EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Sandburg) KEYWORDS: nonsense FOUND IN: US REFERENCES (2 citations): Sandburg, p. 334, "In de Vinter Time" (1 short text, 1 tune) DT, VINTIME File: San334 Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2004 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
04 Feb 05 - 06:17 PM (#1399446) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST remember ending asking "How's your mother?" |
30 Sep 05 - 06:55 PM (#1573004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Michelle Yes. After the line about asthma and passion: So, how's your mother? How's your father? How's your sister Sue? And while we're talking 'bout your family, How's your old wazooooo? And there was granny, etc. |
01 Oct 05 - 09:25 AM (#1573362) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Wow, Mrrzy!!! I am in awe. I can only pay tribute by adding a little thing Mother used to sing around the house, probably learned at Girls' Camp, where she learned all the best of her weird tidbits from the world of song: Where do mosquitoes go, Nobody knows, In the winter time... Probably a piece of a pop song but I haven't located it. Bob |
01 Oct 05 - 09:37 AM (#1573371) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Bob Coltman All this prompted me to get off my duff and look the song up. All I could find out was that sheet music does exist. A copy is in the Florenz Ziegfeld collection, but is only listed, not accessible. Lester Levy and American Memory don't have it. Help, Masato? Anyone? The correct title is "Where Do Mosquitoes Go In the Winter Time?" Thread creep, I guess, but it IS one of the silly Winter Time song cluster, if not exactly a relative. ABC of the fragment: Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know In the winter time?... G GGGFE A AFD A F D A G and, on final line, A F D .B C Bob |
01 Oct 05 - 12:34 PM (#1573478) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Jim McLean It all reminds me of an old joke: Two men arguing over the pronunciation of Hawaii. One says 'Hawaii' and the other says 'Havaii' so they ask a passerbye for his opinion. 'Havaii' he says. 'Thank you', they say. 'You're velcome,' he replies. |
31 Jul 06 - 11:27 PM (#1798401) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Where do mosquitoes go My grandmother used to sing this one, and from what I can remember some 45 years or so later, the tune followed an ABA form, and the words were: Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know, in the Wintertime? What do they wear for underwear, when they reach that southern clime? Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know, in the Wintertime? caitlinstjohn@yahoo.com |
29 Jun 07 - 11:04 AM (#2090075) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Dot I have been looking for this songs origins my whole life! My mother used to sing it to us, but slightly different from the versions here: In de valley, in de vinter-time, Ven de vin' vhistles through de vind-mills, An' de vimmen, in de vaud-e-vil Ride veloc'pede in de vestibule, Ah, vimmens! Ah, mens! Born around 1906, she sang us WW 1 tunes and other early 1900's tunes (Collegiate, The Walloping Willoughby...etc,) Has anyone ever heard the following: Ever since I was a little girl so high, Heaven seemed to be so far up in the sky, Little did I know that it was here on earth, In the very land that gave me birth. (chorus) Oh, the sun shines bright, On the fields of white, And the birds make music all day, I mean, away down south in Dixie... (my memory gets sketchy here).. Dixie, my home... and more - whipoorwills in distant hills and such... my memory fails me |
02 Jul 07 - 08:31 AM (#2092304) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Jim Dixon Dot: I answered your question in another thread: Lyr Add: Away Down South in Heaven (Green, Warren). It's usually best for each song to have its own thread, unless you're talking about closely related songs. |
02 Jul 07 - 12:30 PM (#2092452) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,leeneia "Copenhagen was taken, hoorah, hoorah (bis)" What's bis? Thanks, everyone, for posting this deathless literature. I bet if someone did this on MTV it would sweep the nation. However, I doubt if the dreck police would allow that to happen. Or is MTV dead by now? |
02 Jul 07 - 01:07 PM (#2092482) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Q (Frank Staplin) bis- in music, it means to repeat |
27 Sep 07 - 08:57 PM (#2158964) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Melanie I leanred this version at summer camp once: It was vinter in the valley green and the vind blew on the vindowpanes And all the vomen in the vaudeville wrote philosophy in the vestibule Copenhagen was taken, hoorah, hoorah (twice) And all the shtrange people shtood up in the shteeple and shpit on the people below. *POOEY* AAAA vomen... AAAAmen! Octelebra August, September, October No wonder we are sober, WE AIN'T GOT NO BEER! My little brother Hymie by the window stood He saw a tree there standing And on the tree a peach there hanging He LOOKED the window out He LEANED the window out He FELL the window out He died, he did, he died of a broken rib he did (twice) We are the boys on the bowling green, bowling green, bowling green... (twice) Boys, don't bowl on the green! The green is for the king The king is for the queen The queen is for the prince! Prince? What prince? Fingerprints? Nahhh Footprints? Nahhh Here, Prince! The moral of the story is to be able to distinguish the difference between asthma (inhale) and passion (exhale) How's you mudder? |
01 Sep 09 - 06:19 PM (#2714062) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,s in de vintertime in de valley green ven de vind blows through de vindowpane all the vimon folk from a vau-da-ville ride velocipedes through de vestibule of de viking hotel |
07 Nov 09 - 05:39 PM (#2761761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST this is my version It was vinter in the Valleygreen and the vind blew on the vindowpane and the vomen in the Vaudeville rode volosopedes in the vestibules. Copenhagen was taken hoorah hoorah Copenhagen was taken hoorah hoorah And all the shtraight people shtood up in the shteeple and shpit on the people below. Ahhhh vomen, ahhh men. We were off to leiber august september october novonder ve are sober ve ain't got no beer. My little brother Heinrich, by the window stood. Inside, out looking, he saw a tree there standing, and on that tree a peach there hanging. He leaned the window out, he fell the window out, his head upon the rocks there lay, peachless. He died he did he died of broken ribs, he did e died he did he died of broken ribs. Oh we're the boys from bowling green, bowling green, bowling green. We're the boys from bowling green. Boys, don't bowl on the green. The green is for the king, the king is for the queen, the queen is for the prince. Prince? What prince? Fingerprints? No. Footprints? No. Here Prince! The moral of the story is to know the difference between panic (inhale) and passion (exhale). So how's your mother, how's your father, how's your sister Sue? And while we're talking, 'bout your family, how's your old wazoo? |
07 Nov 09 - 10:07 PM (#2761868) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Joe Offer Can you tell us how you came across your version? It adds a lot to what Sandburg put in print. -Joe- |
06 Dec 09 - 11:40 PM (#2782580) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,S. Sherman And here's a slightly different version. Have no idea when (or how) I learned it but I probably learned it from my mother in the 1950s. VINTER IN THE VALLEY GREEN It was vinter in the valley green and the vind blew against the vindowpanes And the vomen in vaudeville wrote velocities in the vestibule Copenhagen was taken, hoorah, hoorah Copenhagen was taken, hoorah And all the shtrange people shtood up in the shteeple and shpit on the people below. Ah vomen... Ah men! And off to lieber August, September, October No vonder ve are sober, we ain't got no beer! My little brother Heinrich by the window stood Inside, outlooking, at a tree there standing And on the tree a peach there hanging He LEANED the window out He FELL the window out His head there lay upon the rocks Peachless. He died, he did, he died of a broken rib he did He died, he did, he died of a broken rib Oh, we are the boys from the bowling green, the bowling green, the bowling green We are the boys from the bowling green--- Boys! Don't bowl on the green! The green is for the king The king is for the queen The queen is for the prince! Prince? What prince? Fingerprints? Nahhh Footprints? Nahhh Here, Prince! The moral of the story is to be able to distinguish the difference between asthma (inhale) and passion (exhale) How's your mother? |
07 Dec 09 - 03:09 AM (#2782640) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Genie Joe, the MIDI in the DT - which is the same one you posted a link to here - does not seem to scan with the lyrics it's supposed to go with. I've tried and tried to figure out ways of phrasing so that those words will scan with it, but to no avail. Can someone either sing the bloody thing and digitally share it with us? Or is there such a creature already online where we can find it? If not, I'm gonna hafta make up my own tune. Y'all've been given fair warning! Genie |
07 Dec 09 - 03:38 AM (#2782648) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Joe Offer I dunno, Genie, that sounds like a dare.... Click to playBut now dose other ones, I dunno about dem. Maybe Mrr or Dave O or Bob Coltman or Melanie or some nice person would send me a MIDI or MP3.... -joe@mudcat.org- And in the interest of full disclosure, Click here for a recording by Sandburg. |
07 Dec 09 - 08:57 AM (#2782840) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Genie Thanks, Joe. Wunnerful, wunnerful! Now THAT works! The lyrics in the DT have an extra word in one line and lack a word in another, so they don't fit as well. |
10 Mar 10 - 02:08 PM (#2861197) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST I am unsure of the melody but here's what I know of the Mosquito song: Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know In the wintertime? What do they wear for underwear? What do they wear for underwear, I'd like to know? Do the young hum dingers Sharpen up their stingers In the warmer climbs? Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know In the winter time? Zing! I got aboard a ferry Zing! Thought I'd take a ride Zing! To visit my auntie Mary Who happened to be living over on the Jersey side Zing! Along came a 'skeeter Zing! Big as a kangaroo Zing! Backed up and stung me On the place where I can't tell you! Couldn't go in the parlor Couldn't go in the kitchen Couldn't go were the company was 'cause I was a-itchin! Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know.... |
10 Mar 10 - 03:38 PM (#2861285) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: Uncle_DaveO Where do mosquitoes go, I'd like to know, in the Wintertime? The answer, seriously, is that the males die, and the females sort of hibernate. Actually not "hibernate", but slow their body processes by a lot, using up the "fat" they stored in warmer weather. Fact. Dave Oesterreich |
03 Oct 10 - 10:27 PM (#2999081) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In der Vintertime From: GUEST,Heyyy It was vinter in the valley green and the vind blew on the vindowsill and the vominous philosopher gave philosophy to the rest of us. Copenhagen was taken, hoorah! hoorah! Copenhagen was taken hoorah! hoorah! And all the stray people shtood up on the shteeple and shpit on the people below. Atoui, avenomi. Octilibober, September, October, no vonder we're sober we aint got no beer. My little brother's standin by the windowsill. And outside, a tree there standing. And on that tree, a peach there hanging. He looked the window out. He leaned the window out. He fell the window out. He died, he did, he died a broken rib he did. He died, he did, he died a broken rib he did. We're the boys of bowling green, bowling green, bowling green. We're the boys of bowling green; boys don't bowl on the green! The green is for the King, the King is for the Queen, the Queen is for the Prince. Prince, what Prince? Fingerprints? Nahhh. Footprints? Nahhh. Here Prince! The moral of the story is how to distinguish the difference between asthma (inhale), and passion (exhale). How's your mother? |
13 Nov 15 - 12:40 AM (#3750406) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg) From: GUEST,Bonnie Amazing to find this thread. I was searching to find out the origins of this little ditty my grandfather, Calvin Bryce Hoover (1897-1974), used to sing. Even though these lyrics are a little different, to me they're the right ones, because they were the way he always sang it. In de vinter-time, in the valley green When the wind blows on the window panes And the washer-women in the waterworks Ride velocipedes in the vestibules. And that's all of it that I ever remember hearing. Quite a mystery it has always been to me, and this thread hasn't gotten to the bottom of it either! I probably heard it from him sometime in the early 1960s. Even if someone made up the 'washerwomen in the waterworks' to avoid women being in vaudeville, to me the washerwomen phrase has a wonderful sing-song rhythm that also evokes a Scandinavian accent. |
13 Nov 15 - 05:48 PM (#3750620) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg) From: Joe_F My mother had essentially Sandburg's first verse, but then another one that went Ven de falling-apple season's chust begun An de vormy apples fall from off de trees An de caterpillars mit deir hair in curls Pick dem apples up to make sveet ci-der. Ah, vimmen, ah, men. |
13 Nov 15 - 08:12 PM (#3750671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg) From: Uncle_DaveO A line that puzzled me as reported in a few of the above posts: And off to lieber August, September, October and Ve are off to lieber August, September, October and Octelebra August, September, October and We were off to leiber august september october and maybe another variant or so. I'm firmly of the opinion that the beginning of that line was originally "Ach, du lieber August" (Or "Augustine"), which was folk processed by folks who didn't understand German or the well-known song that starts that way, which garbled the German words, and maybe somebody thereafter garbled THOSE folk-processed words, and so forth. Dave Oesterreich |
12 Jul 21 - 10:17 PM (#4113135) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In de Vinter Time (from Carl Sandburg) From: GUEST,randomtree Just wanted to contribute my own encounter to this wonderful thread - I was on a multi-night backpacking trip in the Finger Lakes region of New York State in August 2008, part of a freshman preorientation program at Cornell University. This "song" was taught by one of the guides. It wasn't actually a song, just a set of lines that were spoken by everyone in the group with emphasis in all the right places. After the trip I wrote it all down, and have included that version below. Fascinating to see the many similarities and a few differences from the versions you have all shared!! Especially interested to hear that the song was being taught at Cornell College in Iowa (no relation to Cornell University) - I imagine it must have gained currency in college outdoor education circles in the '70s! -Noah === It vas a vinter in the vonderland and all the vicked vimen vere velocitating in the vestibule. Copenhagen was taken, hurrah, hurrah! Copenhagen was taken, hurrah, hurrah! And all of the people went up in the steeple to spit on the people below. Pitooey! Ah, ah, women! Ah, ah, men! My leetle brother Heinrich, he leaned the window out. And there he saw a tree. And on the tree a peach. He leaned the window out, he fell the window out! His head on the rocks below... Peachless! He died, he did, he died o' broken ribs he did! He died, he did, he died o' broken ribs he did! Let's go bowling on the bowling green, the bowling green, the bowling green! Let's go bowling on the bowling green, so early in the morning! But we CAN'T go bowling on the bowling green! Why CAN'T we go bowling on the bowling green? Because the bowling green belongs to the king! The king? What king? The husband of the queen! The queen? What queen? The mother of the prince! The prince? What prince? Hand prints, hoof prints? *dog whistle* Here Prince! The moral of THIS story is, don't confuse ASTHMA *inhale wheezily* with PASSION *exhale dreamily* |