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Do re mi (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

27 Apr 98 - 10:55 PM (#26701)
Subject: Do re mi
From: Pam

I need the lyrics for,

Doe, a deer, a female deer . . .

Also see: Origin: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti...(names of notes)

27 Apr 98 - 11:10 PM (#26706)
Subject: Lyr Add: DO RE MI (Rodgers, Hammerstein)
From: Roger Himler

Do Re Mi
w: Oscar Hammerstein II m: Richard Rogers

Again, from The Sound of Music

RUS pg. 23

(Intro)
Let's start at the very beginning.
A very good place to start.
When you read you begin with A, B, C,
When you sing you begin with do re mi (3x)
The first three notes just happen to be
Do re mi (children) do re mi.

Doe - a deer, a female deer,
Ray - a drop of golden sun.
Me - a name I call myself,
Far - a long, long way to run.
Sew - a needle pulling thread.
La - a note to follow 'sew.'
Tea - a drink with jam and bread,
That will bring us back to Doe.

Good luck. Again, not folk, but maybe when it gets older.

Roger in Baltimore

27 Apr 98 - 11:11 PM (#26707)
Subject: Lyr Add: DO RE MI (Homer Simpson parody)
From: Barbara

I'm not sure Rogers and Hammerstein constitute folk, but I expect you could find that in most books of popular musical songs.
Here, however is a rarer version that has been folk processed:

Dough, I use to buy my beer,
Ray, the guy that sells me beer,
Me, the guy I buy beer for,
Fah, a long way to the bar,
So, I think I'll have a beer,
La, la la la la la la
Tea? No thanks I'll have a beer,
And that's how I spend my dough
(repeat as necessary)

Barbara

28 Apr 98 - 09:40 AM (#26732)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: aldus

Could it be that you mean the do re mi song by woody Guthrie.. California is a garden of eden for anyone to live in see, but beleive it or not you won't find it so hot if you ain't got the do re mi......and so on

28 Apr 98 - 01:57 PM (#26763)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Bert

Great one Barbara, I'll have to add that to my repertoire.

29 Apr 98 - 02:18 AM (#26843)
Subject: Lyr Add: DO RE MI (variant of Homer Simpson parody
From: JB3

Another variation from Houston:

Dough, the stuff that buys the beer
Ray, the guy that pours the beer
Me, the one that drinks the beer
Fa, a long way to the john
So, I'll have another beer
La, la la la la la la
Tea, no thanks, I'll have a beer
and that brings us back to beer!

01 May 98 - 01:04 PM (#26988)
Subject: Lyr Add: HOMER SIMPSON'S BEER SONG ('Do Re Mi')
From: Ireland O'Reilly

Yet another variation on the Beer Song:


Homer Simpson's Beer Song

Dough: the stuff that buys me beer.
Ray: the guy that sells me beer.
Me: the guy that drinks the beer.
Far: long way to go for beer.
So, I'll have another beer.
La... I'll have another beer!
Tea? No thanks, I'm having beer.
That will bring us back to... (peers into empty mug)
D'oh!

live on, Homer!

01 May 98 - 01:08 PM (#26989)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Ireland O'Reilly

Actually, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein version in The Sound of Music, there's another little bit that no one put in. It looks a little like gibberish when you write it out, but here goes...

so, do, la, fa, mi, do, re so, do, la, ti, do, re, do.

When you know the notes to sing You can sing most anything!

(that so-fa bit at the top corresponds with the words at the bottom. each syllable gets a note. both of those parts are sung to the same tune. It's in the film.)

Power to the People!

Ireland

01 May 98 - 03:00 PM (#27000)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Susan from California

And the guy who sells beer to Homer is Moe (when Homer goes to the bar), or perhaps he sometimes buys beer from Apu, the convienience store guy :-)

04 May 98 - 09:52 AM (#27211)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Ireland O'Reilly

Susan from Calif.: This, I know. However, I did not make up this version. :) It's been going around in a long e-mail chain, actually. I got it from a pal at Dal. :) there's also a very funky ASCII graphic that goes w/it, but i don't think i can reproduce it here. Too bad, too, 'cause it's very amusin'....

04 May 98 - 10:47 AM (#27216)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: rosebrook

I have heard the part that originally goes:

sol, do, la, fa, mi, do, re.....sol, do, la ,ti, do, re, do

as:

when I get some beer in me, I can sing most anything!

04 May 98 - 11:01 AM (#27218)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Sheye

Does anyone have the french lyrics?

Do, le dos, il a beau dos....??

04 May 98 - 12:50 PM (#27235)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Ireland O'Reilly

"il a beau dos" = he has a nice back. :)

I didn't know before that there were French lyrics, but now I'd like to hear them, too...

04 May 98 - 01:40 PM (#27239)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Sheye

Here's the piecemeal, holes and all:

Do, le dos, il a beau dos
Re, rayons de soleil (??)
Mi, c'est la, moitier d'un coupe
Fa, c'est facile a chanter

Brain freezes up right about there. Help!!!

06 May 98 - 07:18 AM (#27453)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: alison

Hi,

Here's your translation... mind you it's a long time since I've spoken french.

Do,the back, he has a nice back,
Ray, rays of sun,
Me,it's there, half of a cup,
Fa, it's easy to sing.

either my dictionary is wrong.... or this isn't making much sense.

Slainte

Alison

06 May 98 - 09:12 AM (#27459)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Ireland O'Reilly

Alison, your dictionary is not wrong... I have the feeling that whoever made this song in french was probably not a francophone, and was going for sound rather than sense. of course, the "punchline" might be in the last few lines of the song... in which case the meaning would become all too clear to us.

06 May 98 - 05:54 PM (#27515)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: Sheye

Here's the born-again, non-practicing francophone clearing her throat: Where, fair ladies, is the sense in the English lyrics? :>

28 May 98 - 05:44 PM (#29567)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: kiwi

rosebrook -

Actually, the original, the way way way back when original is from a monastic chant, "Ut Queant Laxis". Gave us all the syllables up to "la" - I had to sing it for my school choir two years ago -

Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum
Sancte joanes

Some of the spelling's a little iffy, but there you have it.

Sla/n,
Kiwi

28 May 98 - 08:59 PM (#29589)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: rosebrook

Kiwi,

I can't believe you posted the words to Ut Queant and directed them to me!! As a first year music ed major some twenty plus years ago, we, also had to learn this gregorian chant. Lately, I've been wondering how accurate my memory of the words are. (not too far off!)

How about it, Joe and other former Latin students...anyone have a translation for us?

Rosebrook

29 May 98 - 04:30 AM (#29620)
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: UT QUEANT LAXIS
From: Joe Offer

Norton's New College Encyclopedia of Music says solmization is the use of syllables to designate the notes of the hexachord. Those adopted by Guido d'Arezzo were used in medieval theory as a system of reference and as a means of ear-training. He derived them from a plainsong hymn to St. John the Baptist, in which the first syllable of each line was sung to a note of the hexachord in rising succession (C D E F G A):

UT QUEANT LAXIS
Ut que-ant la-xis
(C D F DE D)
Re-so-na-re fi-bris
(D E C D E E)
Mi-ra ges-to-rum
(E GE D E DE)
Fa-mu-li tu o-rum
(F G A G FDD)
Sol--ve pol-lu-ti
(G AEG F G D)
La-bi-i re-a-tum. Sanc-te Jo-han-nes.
(A G A F GAA G FD C E D)

translation:
O for your spirit, holy John, to chasten
Lips sin-polluted, fettered tongues to loosen;
So by your children might your deeds of wonder
Meetly be chanted.

Lo! a swift herald, from the skies descending,
Bears to your father promise of your greatness;
How he shall name you, what your future story,
Duly revealing.

Scarcely believing message so transcendent,
Him for a season power of speech forsaketh,
Till, at your wondrous birth, again returneth,
Voice to the voiceless.

You, in your mother's womb all darkly cradled,
Knew your great Monarch, biding in His chamber,
Whence the two parents, through their offspring's merits,
Mysteries uttered.

Praise to the Father, to the Son begotten,
And to the Spirit, equal power possessing,
One God whose glory, through the lapse of ages,
Ever resounding.

I cheated and copied a translation I found
-Joe Offer-

MIDI file: UTQUEA~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: Ut Queant Laxis
Text: By unknown
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Ut Queant Laxis
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
C2D2F2D2|E2D2D2E2|C2D2E2E2|E2G2E2D2|E2D2E2F2|
G2A2G2F2|D2D2G2A2|E2G2F2G2|D2A2G2A2|F2G2A2A2|
G2F2D2C2|E2D7/4||

03 Jun 98 - 08:58 PM (#30006)
Subject: RE: Do re mi
From: kiwi@unagi.cybernothing.org

Rosebrook - no kidding? I learned it in my choir class two years ago. Everyone sang verse 1, the one I posted, women verse 2, men verse 3, everyone verse 4. I don't remember the other ones very well, but I'll go look them up with my choir director if anyone really wants to see them.. it's something like "Ille promissi, dubiu superni" etc...

Joe - that translation is for all of the piece. The bit that I posted is the first verse that you have translated.

Sla/n, Kyra

19 Aug 12 - 02:02 AM (#3392084)
Subject: RE: Do re mi (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
From: GUEST,Rand

This is the best I can come up with...

X:1
T:The "Do-Re-Mi" Song
T:Key of D
C:Rodgers & Hammerstein
R:From "The Sound of Music"
O:U.S.A.
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:D
D2 E/2 ^F2 z D/2 ^F D ^F E2 ^F2 G/2-G/2 ^F/2-E/2 G2 ^F2 G/2 A2 z ^F/2 A ^F A z
w:Doe, a deer, a fe-male deer; Ray, a drop of gold-en sun; Me, a name I call my-self;
G2 A/2 B/2-B/2 A/2-G/2 B2 z A2 D/2 E/2-F/2-G/2-A/2 B2 z B2 E/2 F/2-G/2 A/2-B/2 ^c2 z
w:Far, a long long way to run; Sew, a nee-dle pul-ling thread; La, a note to fol-low sew;
^c2 ^F/2-G/2-A/2-B/2 c/2 d2 z d/2-c/2 B G c A d2 z
w: Tea, I drink with jam and bread; That will bring us back to Doe...
D E F G A B c d
w:Dow, Ray, Mi, Far, Sew, La, Tea, Doe

Maybe someone can clean this up for me.
-Rand.

19 Aug 12 - 08:24 AM (#3392178)
Subject: RE: Do re mi (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
From: Cool Beans

"Do Re Mi" is a coded plot synopsis of "The Sound of Music." A dear female brings a ray of sunshine into an unhappy family, finds herself by doing so, they travel far to flee the Nazis with Maria leading them like a needle pulling thread. So there! (La! in French). Tea, anyone?

20 Aug 12 - 04:59 AM (#3392565)
Subject: RE: Do re mi (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
From: GUEST,Grishka

"Tea" would make sense if they were going to England (taking their Austrian jam-and-bread habit with them). How inconsiderate of the Trapps to defy their cabbalistic fate! Dan Brown could make a novel of it.