21 Aug 04 - 12:12 AM (#1252749) Subject: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: GUEST,klickitat Looking for verses and variations to "The Tailor & The Mouse." Thanks, in advance, Blessed be klickitat |
21 Aug 04 - 01:04 AM (#1252769) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Malcolm Douglas The onsite search engine (see "Lyrics and Knowledge Search" box at the top of every page) finds several references to published examples, and one file in the DT: The Tailor and the Mouse That one is taken from the Burl Ives Song Book; no previous source is indicated for text or tune. Another, slightly longer example (tune very close) was printed in Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools, 1905; it seems to have been collected by Baring-Gould. Apparently derivative of The Tailor and the Louse, which has been discussed here in the past. |
21 Aug 04 - 02:24 AM (#1252797) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Billy the Bus Wheww.. klickitat and Malcolm - you've put my brain-cell into overdrive. I'm trying to recall words from 50 years ago. Mumble... Best lyrics I found that relate to my childhood memories are Here - but there are missing verses... The chorus is slightly different too. I'll try to think. Cheers - San (NZ) |
21 Aug 04 - 02:36 AM (#1252800) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: GUEST,KT Whew! Another stroll down memory lane. This one's right up there with "I'm a Peddler" and "Old Bone Bags." Hi diddle um tum....tirum tum tum....... |
21 Aug 04 - 02:55 AM (#1252804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Little Robyn Hey Sam, was that on Broadcast to Schools? I remember it from 50 years back too. Perhaps the Wellington teachers all learnt it at Training Col. and then taught it to us? You weren't at Petone Central back then, were you? Robyn |
21 Aug 04 - 03:05 AM (#1252808) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Billy the Bus G'day Robyn - it probably was Broadcast to Schools - but at "Ypuk" not Petone - didn't hit the Hutt until 1953 - for Intemediate, then HVHS - Cheers - Sam |
21 Aug 04 - 05:12 AM (#1252853) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: rich-joy Nice version on Kathy Kallick's recent Copper Creek album "My Mother's Voice" ... Cheers! R-J |
22 Aug 04 - 11:09 AM (#1253456) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: GUEST,klickitat that is a nice version, rich-joy klickitat |
22 Aug 04 - 05:35 PM (#1253761) Subject: Lyr Add: THE TAILOR AND THE MOUSE From: Q (Frank Staplin) Malcolm mentioned the version in Gould and Sharp, Since Klickitat is looking for variations, perhaps it should be posted. THE TAILOR AND THE MOUSE 1. There was a tailor had a mouse, Hi diddle unkum feedle! They lived together in one house, Hi diddle unkum feedle! CHORUS: Hi diddle unkum tarum tantum Through the town of Ramsey, Hi diddle unkum over the lea Hi diddle unkum feedle! 2. The tailor thought the mouse was ill, etc. He gave him part of a blue pill, etc. 3. The tailor thought his mouse would die, etc. He baked him in an apple pie, etc. 4. The pie was cut, the mouse ran out, etc. The tailor followed him all about, etc. 5. The tailor found his mouse was dead, etc. So he caught another in his stead, etc.
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23 Aug 04 - 01:58 AM (#1254181) Subject: Tune Add: THE TAILOR AND THE MOUSE From: Malcolm Douglas And here is the tune for it. X:1 T:The Tailor and the Mouse B:Sharp & Baring-Gould, English Folk-Songs for Schools, 1905, no. 49 Z:Collected by Sabine Baring-Gould? L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 M:4/4 K:Bb "Allegretto"d2|B2 G2 G2 G2|F2 D2 F4|D2 D D D2 d2| w:There was a tai-lor had a mouse, Hi did-dle un-kum B4 G2 d2|B2 G2 G2 G2|F2 D2 F4|D2 D D D2 d2|B4 G2 z2| w:fee-dle. They lived to-gether in one house, Hi did-dle un-kum fee-dle. B2 G G d2 G2|B2 G2 d2 G2|A2 c2 c2 c2|A4 c2 z2| w:Hi did-dle un-kum ta-rum tan-tum Through the town of Ram-say, B2 G G G2 G2|F2 D D F4|D2 D D D2 d2|B4 G2:|] w:Hi did-dle un-kum o-ver the lea, Hi did-dle un-kum fee-dle. See Martin Graebe's Sabine Baring-Gould site for the MS reference. I am reminded of The Haggis of Dunbar... |
23 Aug 04 - 10:18 AM (#1254471) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Compton Can obtain "Tailor and a Louse" John Kirkpatrick / A.L. Lloyd lyric (which is V. similar if you want it! |
23 Aug 04 - 09:50 PM (#1254913) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Rapparee I remember this from a songbook used in St. Francis Solanus grade school, Quincy, Illinois, around 1953. It was the Baring-Gould version. |
13 Nov 10 - 07:03 PM (#3031386) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: GUEST,N The lyrics Q posted are the exact ones I remember from childhood. In Michigan when I went to elementary school there in the 1960's, there was a radio program produced by the University of Michigan called "Festival of Song". It was on a couple times a week, and schools could use it to supplement their music program. There were songbooks (different every year), and I remember we had this one in the 1967-68 school year. |
16 Nov 10 - 11:38 PM (#3034045) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Jim Dixon Sheet music for THE TAILOR AND THE MOUSE, arranged for piano and 4 voices, can be seen in One Hundred Folk-Songs: From Many Countries edited by Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (Boston: C. C. Birchard & Co., 1910), page 112. An arrangement for one voice can be seen in Grammar School Songs: A Collection of Songs for Fun and Fancy by Charles Hubert Farnsworth (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), page 12. The lyrics are identical to those posted by Q above. |
25 Apr 22 - 04:36 PM (#4140181) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Joe Offer Tailor and the Mouse, TheDESCRIPTION: "There was a tailor had a mouse, Hey diddle inkum feedle, They lived together in one house...." The mouse eats the tailor's hat. The mouse grows ill; the tailor tries to save it, then puts it in a pie. The mouse escapes and dies. The tailor finds anotherAUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould and Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools) KEYWORDS: burial death humorous animal food clothes escape FOUND IN: REFERENCES (2 citations): SongsOfAllTime, pp. 68-69, "The Tailor and the Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune) DT, TAILMOUS* Roud #16577 NOTES [33 words]: Roud lumps this with "Tailor and Louse." Obviously there are similarities in both plot and lyrics -- this is probably a derivative of that -- but I'd consider them clearly separate as they stand. - RBW Last updated in version 6.3 File: SATTaMou Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2022 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. THE TAILOR AND THE MOUSE (DT Lyrics) There was a tailor had a mouse Hi diddle um come feed-a They lived together in one house Hi diddle um come feed-a
Hi diddle um, come tintrum tantrum Through the town of Ramsey, Hi diddle um, come over the lea Hi diddle um come feed-a The tailor had a tall silk hat The mouse he ate it, fancy that The tailor chased him over the lea The last of that mouse he never did see. From the Burl Ives Song Book @kids @animal filename[ TAILMOUS TUNE FILE: TAILMOUS CLICK TO PLAY RG
Note from Joe Offer: The DT lyrics are an accurate transcription of the song, found on pp 24-25 of the Burl Ives Song Book (Ballantine Books, New York, 1953) - but note the spelling in the chorus:
Through the town of Ramsey, Hi diddle um, come over the lea Hi diddle um cum feed-a |
26 Apr 22 - 10:47 AM (#4140262) Subject: RE: Origins: The Tailor & The Mouse From: Waddon Pete My version of this lovely little song comes from The Daily Express Community Songbook published in 1927. In the preface to the book it notes that on November 20th 1926 ten thousand people assembled in the Albert Hall (London UK) to launch the Daily Express Community Singing Movement. It lists the Tailor and the Mouse as a Somerset Folk Song. The tune is also slightly different. The only question really is: Where is Ramsey? There are many contenders with the front runners being in the Isle of Man and Cambridgeshire. But not in Somerset! |