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15 Aug 06 - 06:13 PM (#1810635) Subject: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Kate Kestner WILD HOG'S DEN unknown As I rode round to Wild Hog's Den, Deedle-o die, Deedle-o day, As I rode round to Wild Hog's Den, Deedle-o die, Deedle-o day, As I rode round to Wild Hog's Den, I saw the bones of a thousand men. Camewee-quee, quiddle-i-quay Deedle-o die-i-day We fought for two hours and a half, Deedle-o die, Deedle-o day, We fought for two hours and a half, Deedle-o die, Deedle-o day, We fought for two hours and a half, And finaly that wild hog run at last. Camewee-quee, quiddle-i-quay Deedle-o die-i-day This is only two verses of a larger song. My great-granny couldn't remember the rest but that it delt with chasing the hog to ground. It came from the Ozarks in Arkansas but Great Grandma Henson had been a Stewart before she married. They (her grandparents) had come to America after the Battle of Culloden. She was born in Ohio and she marreid and moved to Texas. When my grandmother was 4, they packed a covered wagon and moved to northwest Arkansas in 1910. Someone once suggested that it might be linked to the Calledonian Hog story. I also once heard a song that envolved a knight hunting this dangerous mad hog and before he finds it, a fairy gives him some magical help. The tune to that one is totally unlike the tune to this, but there are key words that match. I lost track of that song's name. |
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15 Aug 06 - 06:28 PM (#1810644) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Barry Finn see this link |
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15 Aug 06 - 06:37 PM (#1810652) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Barry Finn Sorry thread.cfm?threadid=628#2174 Also enter into the search box "Wild Boar" & a number of different versions will come up. Barry |
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15 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM (#1810692) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: GUEST,Lighter That's the first "new" version of "The Wild Boar" in a long time. Also the first, IIRC, in the first-person. Thanks for posting it! Is there any way for you to indicate the tune? |
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15 Aug 06 - 08:59 PM (#1810742) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Susan of DT See Child #18 for several versions |
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15 Aug 06 - 10:18 PM (#1810783) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Stewie A comprehensive thread on this may be found HERE. --Stewie. |
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15 Aug 06 - 10:25 PM (#1810788) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Q (Frank Staplin) Many good versions and history in thread 50640; with some material that is not readily available. Wild Boar History A few versions in the DT. |
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15 Aug 06 - 11:16 PM (#1810811) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Q (Frank Staplin) Kate Kestner, any way you can preserve the tune? Your version is well-worth preserving. |
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16 Aug 06 - 07:21 AM (#1811023) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: John Minear Kate, thanks so much for this version of "Wild Hog". More verses and the tune would be wonderful. I'm wondering if we can somehow transfer this to the other thread. I know it is a long thread, but the intention there was to be a complete as possible. If that is not convenient, I will simply copy Kate's version over to it. T.O.M. |
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16 Aug 06 - 03:03 PM (#1811439) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wild Hog's Den From: Q (Frank Staplin) John, PM or ask Joe Offer. I think he would do it with this one.
-Joe Offer- |