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Author: beerslayer
Posted: Mar 22 2006 - 06:11 AM
Subject: re[4]: Old folk tune? (Long sample)

That's it! Thanks, Fredkno!

(Song is downloadable from this page, if anyone's curious...)

I wonder if the tune itself might be older, though. There's a timeless quality about this tune that makes it easy to picture kids 200 years ago singing it. Perhaps Mr. Harris was inspired by some existing folk tune?

Either way, it's nice to know where I probably heard it from... :)

Author: fredkno
Posted: Mar 21 2006 - 01:33 PM
Subject: re: re: re: Old folk tune? (Long sample)

"The Thing" by Phil Harris. Trivia: the flip side of the original 45 was a song called "Goofus".

Author: beerslayer
Posted: Mar 13 2006 - 10:33 PM
Subject: re: re: Old folk tune? (Long sample)

Thanks for the reply, Soma.

I found the song you suggested in a few different places online and listened to it, and while it sounds quite similar in some respects to the one I'm looking for, I'm not quite convinced. Perhaps it and "my" song share a common ancestor?

I seem to dimly recall sitting around a campfire with a group of other kids in my younger days singing this one, and those definitely were not the lyrics we were singing. With the clapping or stomping on those three downbeats, it became an audience participation song and great fun (it beat the heck out of singing "Kumbaya" for the three billionth time!).

Author: Soma
Posted: Mar 13 2006 - 04:14 PM
Subject: re: Old folk tune? (Long sample)

I suspect this is the traditional song "The Lincolnshire Poacher".

To compare, go to http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songs-tab/Lincolnshire_Poacher.htm

Author: beerslayer
Posted: Mar 12 2006 - 01:46 PM
Subject: Old folk tune? (Long sample)

This one is driving me nuts (which is why I appeared here tonight). I suspect this is a REALLY old tune (hundreds of years, perhaps), but I'm trying to figure out the origin.


 
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I seem to recall learning some lyrics to it as a kid, which I'm quite sure are not the original lyrics (if any). My memory is quite hazy after all these years, but I think it was something like "I delivered a <CLAP>, <CLAP> <CLAP>, right between the eyes!" (insert your own sound effect) that fits into those last two phrases.

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