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24 Jun 04 - 05:15 AM (#1213391) Subject: Origins: german clockwinder From: GUEST |
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24 Jun 04 - 06:21 AM (#1213409) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: GUEST,Raggytash I have the words somewhere, what do you want to know |
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24 Jun 04 - 07:31 AM (#1213440) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: GUEST Thanks I have the words (a version anyway). I'm looking for possible origin. |
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24 Jun 04 - 12:45 PM (#1213601) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: Sooz New member Gaucho sings it. |
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24 Jun 04 - 04:48 PM (#1213738) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: Uncle_DaveO Is this another version of the song I know as The German Musicianer? The piano tuner tunes the wife's "piano", which clearly is something else. Dave Oesterreich |
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24 Jun 04 - 05:34 PM (#1213758) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: Bill D yep..same song. The theme is as old as folk music..There is an Elizibethan bawdy song about a tinker mending the wife's pots & kettles ....etc.. I will look in some book and record album notes and see what I can fing..(I think Cliff Haslam recorded it once)...and I know Bob Walser was singing it 15-20 years ago and trying NOT to reveal its source for fear someone would 'steal' it from him..*grin* |
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24 Jun 04 - 05:54 PM (#1213774) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: Susan of DT Yes, Cliff sang it on his Folk Legacy album. It is the title song. |
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25 Jun 04 - 07:35 AM (#1214086) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: GUEST refresh |
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25 Jun 04 - 04:31 PM (#1214391) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: Gaucho Unfortunately no commentary on it in the Ballad book I got it from. I always refer to it as a fine example of the little known and long discarded Dublin umpah tradition which ticked over until it sent people cuckoo in the 19th century. G |
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27 Jun 04 - 11:50 PM (#1215259) Subject: RE: Origins: german clockwinder From: GUEST I think the song was in "Bawdy British Folk Songs" by Tony McCarthy, published around 1972. It was new to me at the time. |