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09 Jan 07 - 09:59 PM (#1931948) Subject: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: GUEST,guest I am searching for lyrics and information for this song. |
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09 Jan 07 - 10:14 PM (#1931956) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Padre I know a song called 'Tinni, Lend me Your Pigeon' Could it be the same song? Verse: Tinni, lend me your pigeon, my pigeon gons wild (x2) |
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09 Jan 07 - 10:16 PM (#1931958) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Padre And if I can finish: Verse: Tinni, lend me your pigeon, my pigeon gone wild (x2) My pigeon gone wild in the bush, my pigeon gone wild Tinni, lend me your monkey, my monkey gone wild (x2) My monkey done eat bananna, my monkey gone wild etc Padre |
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09 Jan 07 - 10:41 PM (#1931968) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: GUEST zora neale hurston sang it as "Tilly" |
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09 Jan 07 - 10:45 PM (#1931971) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: GUEST,guest yup same saong. do you know any more verses? Where did you learn it? |
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10 Jan 07 - 03:28 AM (#1932065) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Hrothgar "Tiddy" in the Bahamian version June Nichols used to sing. I think I can get some more verses tonight. |
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10 Jan 07 - 09:33 PM (#1932813) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Padre "Rock Creek' used to sing the song, with Wally Macnow on lead vocal, Bill Destler on tenor and me on bass. Wally would know its origin - it does sound West Indian to me. Padre |
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10 Jan 07 - 10:51 PM (#1932857) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: GUEST,Sandy Paton Caroline and I learned it in the Bahamas, more than thirty years ago, with the lender being "mama." Other verses: Mama, lend me your turtle to keep company with mine. My turtle gone swim in the pond, my turtle gone wild. Mama, lend me your donkey, to keep company with mine. My donkey gone run on the track, my donkey gone wild. We used it on our first children's recording - "I've Got a Song" (Folk-Legacy CD-52). Sandy |
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11 Jan 07 - 12:27 AM (#1932928) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Barry Finn I know it from Ken Schatz (Dan's brother) & Alison Kelley known together as NexTradition, they do a lovely job on it too. Don't know where they got it from, it might be on there CD, not sure. Tinni lend me pigeon to keep company with mine (2x) My pigeon gone wild in the bush My pigeon gone wild Tinni lend me your monkey to keep company with mine (2x) My monkey gone wild in the bush My monkey gone wild etc. Barry |
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11 Jan 07 - 01:13 AM (#1932940) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Charlie Baum I know it from several sources, but mainly from a recording by Blind Blake (Alphonso Higgs)--the Blind Blake of the Bahamaas, not the blues musician. It's on his 1951 recording (see http://www.wirz.de/music/blakbfrm.htm )--the same recording where I got the version of "Run Come See Jerusalem" that everyone else learned from. The cut there is titled "My Pigeon Gone Wild." --Charlie Baum |
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14 Jan 07 - 05:18 PM (#1936567) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Ken Schatz Thanks, Barry. Taught to us by Jim Mageean and Johnny Collins, who should have known better - you can't stop this thing: O Tinni lend me your pigeon to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my pigeon gone wild in the bush, my pigeon gone wild (2x) O Tinni lend me your rooster to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my rooster gone crowin' in the day, my rooster gone wild (2x) O Tinni lend me your pony to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my pony gone trottin' up the track, my pony gone wild (2x) O Tinni lend me your donkey to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my donkey gone brayin' in the field, my donkey gone wild (2x) O Tinni lend me your turtle to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my turtle gone swimmin' in the sea, my turtle gone wild (2x) O Tinni lend me your pigeon to keep comp'ny with mine (2x) But my pigeon gone wild in the bush, my pigeon gone wild (2x) |
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14 Jan 07 - 05:25 PM (#1936572) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pige From: Greg B Barry Sez: >I know it from Ken Schatz (Dan's brother) & Alison Kelley known >together as NexTradition, they do a lovely job on it too. Don't know >where they got it from, it might be on there CD, not sure. I know where they got it...on a rainy evening following the Mystic Festival, down in the great cabin of the Mystic Whaler, from the lovely lead singer of the group 'Lireliet.' We sang that thing to death. Funny thing, a Friesien teaching an American a Bahamian song... |
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14 Jan 07 - 08:08 PM (#1936745) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Herga Kitty Thanks Ken - that's how I remember Jim and Johnny singing it at the Herga folk club! Kitty |
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16 Jan 10 - 03:29 PM (#2813832) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pige From: GUEST,liverlipsyyz i know it as an australian folk song. |
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16 Jan 10 - 08:41 PM (#2814008) Subject: RE: Req: Tinni/Tilly/Tiddy/Mama, lend me your pigeon From: Mick Pearce (MCP) You can hear all the Zora Neale Hurston sound recordings, including Tilly, Lend Me Your Pigeon here: Florida Memory. Mick |