tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73149751757926964092024-03-12T18:31:14.216-05:00Archipelago<b>ɑrkɨˈpɛləɡoʊ</b>, <i>noun.</i> A chain of scattered islands in a large expanse of water.The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-12234748130086457382023-12-01T12:36:00.001-06:002023-12-01T12:36:32.184-06:00Connecting and Coffee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Anne White</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y84NmDOMpXLF8LahD30UL3iDgf8THZqgU72alBWPUL9tzph4u_qLr4JpMwRkq-QalCu3okJ48sXDufkTEUu0EBwb04TIEFvogxJK9VYickOixBOYXGkm_G0-9BVrBH35lwJPV_RLdElEXEI7FLEe8p1CP5hDRGo1Nbg2w0DfcGZ1KQSUlEXbHhxLT298/s1530/coffee.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y84NmDOMpXLF8LahD30UL3iDgf8THZqgU72alBWPUL9tzph4u_qLr4JpMwRkq-QalCu3okJ48sXDufkTEUu0EBwb04TIEFvogxJK9VYickOixBOYXGkm_G0-9BVrBH35lwJPV_RLdElEXEI7FLEe8p1CP5hDRGo1Nbg2w0DfcGZ1KQSUlEXbHhxLT298/s320/coffee.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">A few years ago, my husband and I bought an electric coffee percolator. We usually make a potful in the late morning, and spend our “coffee break” together before going back to whatever we’re working on. I had thought for awhile that it might be nice (and a bit Mitfordish) to grind our own beans, so when we saw not one but three different electric grinders at the thrift store, we picked out one that looked clean and sturdy. It even came in its original box, which we thought was a good sign.</span></p><p class="yiv6841994083ydp111d2b0bCSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraphChar" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv6841994083ydp111d2b0bCSP-ChapterBodyText" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; outline: none;">However, packaging isn’t everything.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;"></span></span></p><p class="yiv6841994083ydp111d2b0bCSP-ChapterBodyText" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; outline: none;">We bought a bag of coffee beans, watched someone’s “unboxing” video online, and prepared to grind. We plugged it in, the motor ran, and a few of the beans got a bit chewed up, but it obviously wasn’t working properly. <span style="outline: none;"> </span>Did we have one of the parts in upside down? Was anything jamming the works? No, everything seemed fine. My husband, ever ready with the screwdriver, took the thing apart, and he saw the problem: the drive shaft was broken, so the grinding burrs wouldn’t turn. It didn’t matter how clean or new it looked, what kind of coffee we used, or for what grind we set it. Without that main connection, the machine was useless. My husband snipped off the cord (those often come in handy) and put the rest aside as e-waste.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;"></span></span></p><p class="yiv6841994083ydp111d2b0bCSP-ChapterBodyText" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; outline: none;">Is there an educational metaphor in a broken grinder? In a Herbartian view of education, we might ourselves be viewed as machines in need of replacement parts. Should we say that students (or other people) who lack drive are useless, and, worse, unrepairable? Perhaps yes to the first, but no to the second. Since we hold to a more organic view of the mind, we can also take confidence in the work of the Spirit that strengthens both our “drive” and our ability to connect, to see and form relationships.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;"></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: inherit; outline: none;">I think we got more out of our dud coffee grinder than just an extra cord.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: inherit; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: inherit; outline: none;">P.S. I heard an interesting thought about the quality of coffee beans, too, but I'll save that for another post.</span></div>Anne Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04094131363286846013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-78686813413305972832023-11-07T08:36:00.004-06:002023-11-07T10:27:34.314-06:00How Six Voices, One Story Came To Be (For Those Writing Their Own Chapters)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8Uac77TZ5E8B5DqD6rltDt0INUphH5UzVA4MQPskXE3eegZyDtrvy3lzoo_sokup-_E7kD0S2uU0xwG32GrBsjEjPdd2laGYQNkr_nOydMClTPRnnHqQP4hyGVyRrqezyu1aOeHjp0b_HX2Shg3GqaTnfKmbqzeoUaRadb-SrBSFZZ3Tuk7fPmytEQo/s2044/20231016_113406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1987" data-original-width="2044" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8Uac77TZ5E8B5DqD6rltDt0INUphH5UzVA4MQPskXE3eegZyDtrvy3lzoo_sokup-_E7kD0S2uU0xwG32GrBsjEjPdd2laGYQNkr_nOydMClTPRnnHqQP4hyGVyRrqezyu1aOeHjp0b_HX2Shg3GqaTnfKmbqzeoUaRadb-SrBSFZZ3Tuk7fPmytEQo/w200-h194/20231016_113406.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of you reading this know about the new book written by
the AO Advisory, <i>Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline</i>. Some of
you may have already read it. What you may not know, although Donna-Jean hints
at it in the introduction, is that this book took several years to go from “we
could do that” through “are we ever going to do that” to “here it is.” We
wanted to write something that was not only our story, but that would be a book
of encouragement; not only about Charlotte Mason, but about the ways that God
works in drawing people (many people!) together to act on small ideas; not only
about how a curriculum came together, but also a deep friendship.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The project, as we originally envisioned it, was going to be
a “let’s make this simple” collaboration:
you bring salad, you bring lasagna, I’ll bring dessert. Everybody contribute
what they can, and we keep writing until we have enough pages. But for some reason, the book kept stalling.
We all had other things to do, sometimes very big things, and it seemed we
would always have time enough to get back to it. Then, about a year ago, a new
version of the book started to take shape. Instead of just a few long chapters,
we began to pull some of our other writing together: talks, blog posts, even
emails. It tells our story in a different way than we had planned, but that’s
so often the way things have gone. It’s also a reflection of the way the
Advisory have worked together: occasionally in person, quite often by video
chat, but most often and always through daily writing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The minutes of an Advisory meeting from about two years ago
(yes, we are That Organized) record that
“We talked about the need for all of us to encourage those whose chapters are
unwritten…” At the time, that referred only to ourselves, but as I look at that
now, I think it is more about the fellow travelers, those whose chapters are
partly written or who have just begun. As Wendi Capehart once wrote, “We pray
that our efforts continue to be a legacy for others seeking to strengthen their
own precious family bonds by educating their children using this beautiful
philosophy of education popularized by Miss Charlotte Mason.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i>Six Voices, One Story</i> is available on Amazon in
hardcover, paperback, and Kindle versions.)</span></span>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-59111529338610493472023-08-30T18:53:00.002-05:002023-08-30T21:52:21.040-05:00Hearts and Zucchini<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"> by</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">JoAnn Hallum</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">It'</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">s a new school year and I have seen all the printables and wooden blocks, the panic and the purchases, the general clamor to figure out how to home educate your kid.</span></p><div><br /></div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">A child is a human, and humans have brains, but they also have souls. They have things that interest them, and usually it’s an inconvenient interest. There are often piles of rocks stuffed into pockets and once I had a child who developed an obsession with collecting milk cartons. Three-year-olds are especially wild in their interests. But go ahead. Sit them down. Show them the letter A. We might as well all be bored together. We need to feed the cogs of the global economy, isn’t that why you were born!?</span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHSgnS2fPpbxC9MrzlnFADRcnhJ4zC7Wh7kP0oIK3U09w_6WF9U6o97BqNSuUstPohhpfkYin8u8_BQ0WnvqYtOPSc8uJIH-GHVDnvvnGToJdJRjaK6mSAR3J1gN8KdMPMCbiF6ZELUkwz7nhaN0dYEu2BPaVGBHQGu0wrMAdb5GXlPJHJ1BlyjHwV3M/s4032/princess.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHSgnS2fPpbxC9MrzlnFADRcnhJ4zC7Wh7kP0oIK3U09w_6WF9U6o97BqNSuUstPohhpfkYin8u8_BQ0WnvqYtOPSc8uJIH-GHVDnvvnGToJdJRjaK6mSAR3J1gN8KdMPMCbiF6ZELUkwz7nhaN0dYEu2BPaVGBHQGu0wrMAdb5GXlPJHJ1BlyjHwV3M/s320/princess.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I am reading the Princess and the Goblin to my 8-year-old. Maybe you haven’t read it but you should know, for safety’s sake, the only way to keep Goblins away is to sing silly songs. A poetic chant. A laugh in the face of reason. The data monsters are real, they have come to the surface. They promise you knowledge but you’ll only get information.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">You will have a head full of facts while you drown in reality.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMxFE_qXSyGHWvMqbjNdSS6hnxptSvJCo5aXtRMdxlJleDhcEIs7JKkvnEJNyxiIU92ybBMW_1rDz2YPuFFeRbHFkTT9V1WX1agkPmDR--v58bAKKKeBjJLQkBdDR_HGpD5xeA2oN-UCNXDWS768s9rtBWGFGwPlAWaNpA3JJIrxKEj3RV4h3UW_hQ3EA/s4032/zucchini.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMxFE_qXSyGHWvMqbjNdSS6hnxptSvJCo5aXtRMdxlJleDhcEIs7JKkvnEJNyxiIU92ybBMW_1rDz2YPuFFeRbHFkTT9V1WX1agkPmDR--v58bAKKKeBjJLQkBdDR_HGpD5xeA2oN-UCNXDWS768s9rtBWGFGwPlAWaNpA3JJIrxKEj3RV4h3UW_hQ3EA/s320/zucchini.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Now is the time for poems. Now is the time to grow hearts and zucchini. Now is the time to read the books that kept us human for so long. There are enough computers. We need more harvest mice scampering by. We need more gardens with thistle and dock. We need the charms of the old words to keep the goblins away.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">There was a time when people knew the world was full of forests, but they didn’t care enough about the trees to keep them. The Limberlost swamps are gone. We used to know about bread, and how to make it, but now we can find it easily, in its mummified form. We have lost our way, with pure knowledge, fake bread, and a lack of love. The cure is in the books, it’s in the words, it’s in the silly rhyme you learned in ancient times on a knee.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Beware! If you find knowledge, you will fall in love and everyone will think you are crazy for getting emotional about Charles Dickens. But the Goblins won’t get you, and you will have gotten an education. You will care, and you will know the lyrics to the songs that will carry us through. One, two, hit and hew!</span><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><i>This post is written by guest blogger JoAnn Hallum, a mom of four boys who homeschools them using AmblesideOnline. JoAnn writes on her Substack at </i></span><a href="https://joannhallum.substack.com/">JoAnn’s Substack | Collections | Substack</a></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSBSIwoRC5vNw_f0WSQ7iY7V7lgBQk8CEgJ471ClgrBWG7OAQSFTcs6RsntCwNOw6Nb1QWtPcHdogrjiTCTqk16gAyjODQe98nR8gBJ9a75w8Kn5t5U9jokjE-0vYzJ0CV5TvALwojrYtD3XoZAAcke3hWwwwHiuMilKOPXvRiHnn-OoIvV2CZCyyVoA/s1170/JoAnn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1170" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSBSIwoRC5vNw_f0WSQ7iY7V7lgBQk8CEgJ471ClgrBWG7OAQSFTcs6RsntCwNOw6Nb1QWtPcHdogrjiTCTqk16gAyjODQe98nR8gBJ9a75w8Kn5t5U9jokjE-0vYzJ0CV5TvALwojrYtD3XoZAAcke3hWwwwHiuMilKOPXvRiHnn-OoIvV2CZCyyVoA/s320/JoAnn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div></div>Donna-Jean Breckenridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458231034482560795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-45147811514176740752023-08-23T22:53:00.000-05:002023-08-23T22:53:41.620-05:00Single Readings and CM Exams<p><i>Several years ago, Wendi Capehart planned a post to share her thoughts on Charlotte Mason-style term examinations. We are pleased to (finally) post this, and trust that it will bless those who have missed Wendi's voice.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I am coming to this as somebody who singularly failed at exams and really regrets it. One of the benefits of exams that I see, from my spot with my nose pressed firmly on the glass window, outside looking in to the Little Shop of CM Regrets, is that the exams themselves work to help focus the child's attention and probably gently prompt some internal review in ways the child doesn't even realize. With re-reading before the exam, that beneficial spur is blunted.</p><p>I would be hesitant to lose that benefit. Now, if a kid wanted to reread his favourite paragraph to Dad at dinner, I wouldn't discourage that. And I can see an occasional exception made for something like the <i>Parables of Nature</i>, with its deep spiritual lessons, and sharing with Dad is also incredibly wonderful and important and you wouldn't want to interfere in that or discourage it. But I would probably not include a reread story in the exam.</p><p>I would want to be very careful that rereading something before exams does not become a habit, because it will take the edge off the keen interest and attention and focus of CM's only one reading, and then later comes the exam tool. If we're used to doing a lot of rereading, the single reading feels so counterintuitive. CM said that really, when it comes to education, the mind can know nothing save the answer to the questions it puts to itself. That's something to think about.</p><p>A few weeks ago I was reading some material on studying and learning, and I read this interesting study that showed the most effective way to study had nothing to do with flash cards, and highlighters and notes--it was to read the material carefully, turn it over, and then write down as much as you could remember. Basically, a written narration. What we are hunting for is for the children themselves to basically find themselves so beguiled by the stories they do all the reviewing themselves, internally, by <i>thinking</i> about them. This happens under various conditions:</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> Narration</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> Short readings that stop before they are ready for them to stop, so they are left hanging, wanting more. they think about the story more this way.</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> When you start to read the next time, you ask first, "Where were we? What was happening?" And they review again.</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> Timelines and maps, if applicable, are another review.</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> Free play--when they incorporate the readings into the story.</p><p> <strong style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">·</strong> Sometimes when you ask (after the narration), does this remind you of anything else? They will review a few stories, looking for connections (which is something the brain does naturally anyway).</p><p>And because all this comes from within the child, it has increased power and the child remains alert--and once he's had his first exams, he remembers how that goes, and, I presume, will have that extra little bit of push to remember, to think about, what he's read.</p><p>Warmly,</p><p> Wendi Capehart</p>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-59864633931504006102023-04-17T13:27:00.007-05:002023-04-17T13:37:07.963-05:00Introducing the AO Folk Songs for 2023-2024<h2><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">TERM 1</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-september-2023-aiken-drum.html">Aiken Drum</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-october-2023-ash-grove.html">The Ash Grove</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-november-2023-lion-sleeps.html">The Lion Sleeps Tonight</a></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">TERM 2</span></b></div><span><span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-january-2024-water-is.html">The Water is Wide (Oh Waly, Waly)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-february-2024-now-is-hour.html">Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-march-2024-log-drivers.html">Log Driver’s Waltz</a></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span>TERM 3</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-april-2024-mans-man-for.html">A Man’s a Man for A’ That</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-may-2024-simple-gifts.html">Simple Gifts</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/folk-song-for-june-2024-click-go-shears.html">Click Go the Shears</a></p></div></span></span></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of you may remember these songs from the last time we worked our way through the cycle of folk songs. But if you're new here, and even if you're not, we think you'll get more out of these songs if you read the blog posts we've put together for them.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;">For selected video links, please visit our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs"><b>Folk Songs page</b></a> at AmblesideOnline.org. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;">We are also featuring each folk song on its very own post here on Archipelago, <b>linked in the list above</b>. These posts will be linked from the <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank"><b>AO Folk Songs page</b></a>, too. This way, when you start preparing to introduce a new song, it will be easy as pie to click straight to that song's blog post. <b>Be sure to check out each song's post for recommended lyrics and recordings, and interesting info about each song.</b></span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div><b style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now For A Few Helpful Hints</span></b></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><span>If you’re new around here (and if so, <i>welcome</i> and we’re so glad you’re here!), please (we beg you!) </span>read/re-read Wendi Capehart’s post <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2019/07/folk-songs-some-back-story.html" target="_blank"><b>Folk Songs: Some Back Story</b></a>. It'll do you good.</span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span><span>Then read her brief but terrific <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2018/05/ao-folk-songs-2018-2019.html" target="_blank"><b>introductory comments here</b></a>, where she shared some of her easy but brilliant ideas for living the folk singing life.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span><span>And if you’re still not quite sure why we AO folks make such a fuss about singing, please read </span><b><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2019/09/folksongs-some-real-life-experiences.html" target="_blank">Folk Songs: Some Real Life Experiences</a> </b>for a hearty dose of encouragement. </span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br />You may also enjoy this essay by Lynn Bruce: <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs-unplugged" target="_blank"><b>Folk Songs, Unplugged</b></a>. </span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: inherit;">Here's to another great year of folk songs!</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-81940771894278336522023-04-17T13:26:00.031-05:002023-07-27T09:08:58.210-05:00Folk Song for June 2024: Click Go the Shears<div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">"<b style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; scroll-behavior: auto; transition-duration: 0ms;">Click Go the Shears</b>" is a traditional "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush">bush</a> ballad," which many Australians remember learning in their first years of school. The song describes the process of shearing sheep with blade shears, and the roles of the different people in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_shed">shearing shed</a>, including the "ringer" and the "tar boy."</p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Variations in the Lyrics</b></span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">Is it a "blue-bellied joe," a "bare-bellied ewe," or a "bare-bellied yoe?" Is there a correct, "authorized" version? Apparently not! We have chosen one set of lyrics, but if you learned it a different way, feel free to use your favourite version.</p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><br /></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One or Two Cautions</span></span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the last verse, the "old shearer" takes his paycheque and heads to the pub. You may or may not choose to include this verse.</span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, the original version of the verse about the "colonial experience man" (a young Englishman sent out to the colonies) uses a non-family-friendly word, and this is still used in certain recorded versions. However, even some of our Australian AO informants were not aware of that, as they were taught only the first verse, or (if they did learn the rest) that he was "smelling like a flower" (or similar words).</span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So if you would like to simplify the song, especially for younger children, it would be fine to sing just the first verse and the chorus.</span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Out on the board the old shearer
stands,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grasping his shears in his thin bony hand,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied yoe —</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Glory, if he gets her won’t he make the ringer go.</span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Chorus:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Click go the shears, boys — click, click, click,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wide is his blow and his hands move quick,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied yoe.</span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. In the middle of the floor in his
cane-bottomed chair,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paying strict attention that it’s taken off clean.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Chorus)</span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. The tar boy is there, awaiting in
demand,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With his blackened tar pot, in his tarry hand,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sees one old sheep with a cut upon its back;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is what he’s waiting for — it’s “Tar here Jack!”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Chorus)</div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. The colonial experience man, he is
there of course,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With his shiny leggings on, just got off his horse.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He gazes all around, like a real connoisseur,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With brilliantine and scented soap — he’s smelling like a flower.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Chorus)</div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Shearing is all over and we’ve all
got our cheques,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So roll up your swags, boys, we’re off on the track,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first pub we come to, it’s there we’ll have a spree,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And everyone that comes along, it’s “Come and drink with me!”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Chorus)</div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Video Links</b></span></span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOSks3RRYo">This version by the Stringybark Band includes lots of footage and photos of sheep shearing.</a> (The Colonial Experience man is there, "smelling pretty good.")</span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFqMGGsQFc">Rolf Harris's version</a> is sung with much enthusiasm, and includes some spoken explanation of the difficult words. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">One verse refers to drinking. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Another way around the problem line: "You can hear him whistling, 'Ain't I the perfect lure?'")</span></p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><a href="http://ozfolksongaday.blogspot.com/2011/02/click-go-shears.html">This blogpost</a>, suggested by an Australian AO user, includes a recording of a gentleman singing the song. (Caution: it does include the non-family-friendly word, and an extra verse which you might not want to sing with children.)</p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwDybaE1UY">This recording by Slim Dusty seems to be popular.</a> (This version includes only the first and last verses, and then switches to other songs..Also, for North Americans: it goes a bit slower!)</p><p style="animation-delay: -0.01ms; animation-duration: 0.01ms; animation-iteration-count: 1; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px; scroll-behavior: auto; text-align: start; transition-duration: 0ms;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCjWaK_0Yp4">Finally, for fun: Olivia Newton-John!</a></p></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-20836309905576948202023-04-17T13:26:00.030-05:002023-04-18T07:06:25.517-05:00Folk Song for April 2024: A Man's a Man For A' That<div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal">“A Man’s a Man for A’ That” was written by the Scottish poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns">Robert Burns</a>. (Alternate titles are “Is There Honest Poverty” and “For A' That and A' That.” )</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like other poems by Burns, it
was intended to be sung, and when Burns sent it for publication (in 1795), he
included a tune based on “Lady Macintosh’s Reel,” which he had also used for
earlier songs (including “<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Merry_Muses_of_Caledonia/I_am_a_Bard">I am a Bard of No Regard</a>”). </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The song was soon translated into other languages, including
<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotz_alledem">German</a> and <a href="https://www.dinna-fash-sassenach.com/en/robert-burns.html">French</a> (scroll down to find the poem). It became widely known because of its message of equality,
especially during the European uprisings of the nineteenth century.</span></p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have included the original lyrics, and also a
version in more standard English that was published in the 1840’s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Understanding the Words</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lyrics are written in “light Scottish dialect,” meaning
that, with a bit of attention, most of the words can be understood by English
speakers outside of Scotland. One of the
few words whose meaning cannot be guessed by context is “coof,” which means a
dunce or a fool (maybe a “goof?”). “Hodden grey” is a homespun cloth. A guinea
was a gold coin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But what does “for a’ that” mean? It depends on the context. The closest current
phrase might be “in spite of everything”; but the phrase can also be used to
mean “et cetera,” for instance in the line “His ribband, star, an’ a’ that.”
The German translation uses the phrase “trotz alledem,” and in French it is
“après tout.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lyrics</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
Is there for honest poverty <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> That hings his
head, an’ a’ that? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The coward slave—we pass him by, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> We dare be poor
for a’ that! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For a’ that, an’ a’ that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Our toils obscure,
an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The rank is but the guinea(’s)
stamp, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> The Man’s the
gowd for a’ that! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">What tho’ on hamely fare we dine, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Wear hodden grey,
an’ a that?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Gie fools their silks, and knaves
their wine; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> A Man’s a Man for
a’ that! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For a’ that, and a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Their tinsel
show, an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor,
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Is king o’ men,
for a’ that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Ye see yon birkie ca’d a lord, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Wha struts, an’
stares, an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> He’s but a coof
for a’ that: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For a’ that, an’ a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> His ribband,
star, an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The man o’ independent mind ,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> He looks an’
laughs at a’ that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">A prince can mak a belted knight, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> A marquis, duke,
an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">But an honest man’s aboon his
might, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Gude faith, he
mauna fa’ that! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For a’ that, an’ a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Their dignities
an’ a’ that; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The pith o’ sense, an’ pride o’
worth, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Are higher rank
than a’ that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Then let us pray that come it may, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> As come it will
for a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the
earth, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> May bear the
gree, an’ a’ that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For a’ that, an’ a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> It’s comin’ yet, for
a’ that, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">That Man to Man, the warld o’er, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Shall brithers be
for a’ that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Simplified Lyrics</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is there, for honest poverty,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> That
hangs his head, and all that?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The coward slaves, we pass him by,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> We
dare be poor for all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For all that and all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Our
toil’s obscure, and all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> The
man’s the gold for all that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">What though on homely fare we dine,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Wear
hodden gray, and all that?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Give tools their silks, and knaves
their wine,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> A
man’s a man, for all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For all that, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Their
tinsel show, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The honest man, though e’er so
poor,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Is
king of men, for all that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">You see yon fellow called a lord,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Who
struts and stares and all that?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Though hundreds worships at his
word,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> He’s
but a dunce for all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For all that, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> For
all that, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The man of independent mind, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> He
looks and laughs at all that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">A prince can make a belted knight,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> A
marquis, duke, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">But an honest man’s above his
might,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Good
faith has he for all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Their dignities, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> For
all that, and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">The pith and sense and pride of
worth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Are
higher ranks than all that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Then let us pray that come it man,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> As
come it will for all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">That sense and worth; o’er all the
earth,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> May
bear the palm; and all that;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">For all that, and all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> It’s
coming yet for all that,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">That man to man, the world all
o’er,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"> Shall
brothers be for all that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Video Links</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDLVUmby92w" style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a 1975 recording by The McCalmans.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
</span>And here is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMRbOupoUfM">Ian F. Benzie singing</a>, with a video showing scenes of Scottish life and artwork.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">American users may be particularly interested in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP7Bj8THjto">this recording by folk singer Earl Robinson</a>, from his 1963 album </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Songs for
Political Action</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">Finally, we present <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o">Sheena Wellington singing "A Man's a Man For A' That" at the Opening of Parliament in 1999</a>.<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"> Advisory member Leslie Laurio comments, “</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">it makes one proud to be Scottish! (And I'm not Scottish.)”</span></p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-19286722182586149892023-04-17T13:26:00.029-05:002023-04-18T07:02:37.296-05:00Folk Song for February 2024: Now is the Hour (Māori Farewell Song)<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Now is the Hour” (Pō Atarau) began as a piano piece called “Swiss Cradle Song,” written by an
Australian composer in the early twentieth century. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Māori words were added in 1915, and the song was used as
a farewell to soldiers going to fight in World War I. The song went through several other adaptations, and eventually caught the attention of English
singer Gracie Fields, who learned it while visiting New Zealand. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVI1apgT0w">She recorded it in 1947</a> (or 1948, depending on the source), with a new title (“Now is the Hour”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Pe</span>rformers such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DMApyBzIQ">Bing Crosby</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBebrgrlui8">Vera Lynn</a> also recorded the song at that time.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(Gracie Fields' recording adapts the words to take the point of view of the one who is leaving--"When I return," etc.)</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lyrics</b></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now is the hour when we must say
goodbye<br />
Soon you'll be sailing far across the sea<br />
While you're away, oh, then (please) remember me<br />
When you return, you'll find me waiting here</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Additional Lyrics (Bing Crosby recording)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Sunset glow fades in the west<br />
Night o'er the valley is creeping<br />
Birds cuddle down in their nest<br />
Soon all the world will be sleeping<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Additional Lyrics (Vera Lynn recording)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">I'll dream of you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">if you will dream of me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Each hour I'll miss you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">here across the sea. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">It's not good-bye,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">it's just a sweet adieu<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">Some day I'll sail <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">across the seas to you. </p><pre><br /></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Recommended Video Version</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Musician <a href="https://jessielloyd.com/">Jessie Lloyd</a> is (from her website) a</span><span style="background-color: white;">n Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait singer, social historian and cultural practitioner of Indigenous song. She is also the founder of the </span><a href="https://www.missionsongsproject.com/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Mission Songs Project</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ_sHU8iN1o">In this video</a>, she tells about interviewing family members for their memories of this song, and notes that the tune was also used for the hymn <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/search_me_o_god_and_know_my_heart_orr">"Search Me, O God"</a> by J. Edwin Orr. She sings the first verse of "Now is the Hour" in English, adds a verse of the hymn, sings it again in </span>Māori, then repeats the English verse again. (The music begins at 2:00).</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div><p></p>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-74543259381698683622023-04-17T13:26:00.025-05:002023-04-18T06:59:21.028-05:00Folk Song for March 2024: The Log Driver's Waltz<div style="text-align: center;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This month we have a lively song from Canada that celebrates
the old occupation of log driving, that is, moving “convoys” of timber down
rivers, usually from the forest to the sawmill. When the river was wide enough,
the logs could be bundled into rafts; but in narrower stretches, the logs would
have to be steered through in smaller groups, or one at a time, to avoid log
jams. The log drivers stood on the logs,
walked along them, ran from one log to another and pushed them along the river
with poles, with the strength and agility of dancers. It might have looked like
fun, but it was a dangerous job, and the log drivers risked being
injured or killed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just after World War II, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hemsworth">Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth</a> was working as a
surveyor in the northern parts of Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador, and it was
there that he found inspiration for many of his songs, including “The Log
Driver’s Waltz.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What is Birling?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The log driver goes “birling down the white water,” but this
is often misheard as “whirling” or “twirling.” “To birl” is a Scottish word to
spin or whirl, and the word “birling” became used to describe the action of
trying to stay upright on a rolling log.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Lyrics</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. If you ask any girl from the parish
around</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What pleases her most from her head
to her toes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She'll say I'm not sure that it's
business of yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I do like to waltz with a log
driver <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Chorus]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For he goes birling down and down
white water<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's where the log driver learns
to step lightly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, birling down and down white
water<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The log driver's waltz pleases
girls completely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. When the drive's nearly over I like
to go down</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And watch all the lads as they work
on the river<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know that come evening they'll be
in the town<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And we all like to waltz with the
log driver <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Chorus]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">To please both my parents, I've had
to give way</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And dance with the doctors and
merchants and lawyers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their manners are fine, but their
feet are of clay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For there's none with the style of
my log driver <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Chorus]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now I've had my chances with all
sorts of men</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But none as so fine as my lad on
the river<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So when the drive's over, if he
asks me again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think I will marry my log
driver <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Chorus]<span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Video Links</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The song became very popular in 1979 when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8&feature=fvst">Canada’s National Film Board produced an animated version</a>, featuring singers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_%26_Anna_McGarrigle">Kate and Anna McGarrigle</a>. The film begins with footage of real log drivers, then transitions into animation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXuIguwykgo">Here is the NFB cartoon in French!</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroRRXVVres">This version, by Captain Tractor</a>, goes a little faster.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfQ64vQZPo">Here is a cheerful version with the Toronto SymphonyOrchestra</a>. (The soloist is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Bambrick">Heather Bambrick</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And a really fun bonus link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9pAzMUq8M">The Fiddleaires</a>.</span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-234281400843443172023-04-17T13:26:00.023-05:002023-04-17T15:47:25.279-05:00Folk Song for May 2024: Simple Gifts<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium;">Who were the Shakers?</span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Shakers are a Christian sect which began in England and was then brought to the American Colonies. Their proper name is the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing. They practice pacifism and a communal lifestyle, and are also known for their “simplicity” in various aspects of life, such as their plain furniture.</span></p><p>
</p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What is “Simple Gifts?”</span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The song is attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett of the Shaker community in Alfred, Maine, and it was apparently written to accompany a dance ritual. (<a href="https://www.shakermuseum.us/">The Shaker Museum website</a> has posted <a href="https://www.shakermuseum.us/tis-gift-simple-things-arent-simple-seem/">a different view of the origins of the song</a>.) It remained largely unknown outside of Shaker circles until the American composer Aaron Copland used its melody in <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6RYZygevA">Appalachian Spring</a></i>, in 1944.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Is it "A Gift" or "The Gift?"</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Most written lyrics for the song say "'Tis the gift to be simple." However, at least one of the videos linked below has it as "'Tis a gift to be simple," and if you listen to the way many people sing it, it sounds more like "a" than "the." You can choose whichever way you prefer.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Other Uses of the Tune</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">English songwriter Sydney Carter adapted the tune and lyrics for his hymn "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Dance_(hymn)">Lord of the Dance</a>" (1963).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis
the gift to be free,<br />
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,<br />
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,<br />
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.<br />
When true simplicity is gain'd,<br />
To bow and to bend we will not be asham'd,<br />
To turn, turn will be our delight,<br />Till by turning, turning we come round right.<o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><h3 style="background: white; margin-top: 3.6pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Video Links</span></h3><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjFjxRdzuJc">This video by Charles Szabo</a> (with piano accompaniment and on-screen lyrics) is a good one for learning the song.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/4RPUjuraS5U">This recording with folk instruments</a> (autoharp and Seagull Merlin strumstick) is also very nice for singing along.</div><div><br /></div><div>American folk singer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTDgc96bg8">Judy Collins included Simple Gifts</a> on her 1970 album <i>Whales and Nightingales.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baNueuDCue0">Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer Alison Krauss recorded it as a duet in 2001.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>John Williams created an instrumental version titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7kU4_uuHFw">"Air and Simple Gifts,"</a> which was performed (by Anthony McGill, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriela Montero) at the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009.</div>
<div style="background: white; border-bottom: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm;">
<h2 style="background: white; border: none; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additional Verses: A Challenge</span></h2><div>Many people have added verses to this song, according to their own philosophies and convictions. Perhaps this is a writing challenge that AO students would also enjoy.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-35098509587850295202023-04-17T13:25:00.018-05:002023-04-18T11:57:38.044-05:00Folk Song for October 2023: The Ash Grove<div style="text-align: center;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The autumn is, in much of the northern hemisphere, a good
time to focus on changing seasons, especially that which is seen in the
trees. The folk song for this month, ”The Ash Grove,” is about a “broad leafy dome” where the singer used to wander; but it is also about change and loss. <o:p></o:p></span>The Welsh song was known as early as 1802, but the melody is likely much older than that. If you have ever taken recorder lessons, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjIJ0X9qViI">you may have played it</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The tune of “The Ash Grove” has been used for other purposes, including several Christian hymns. One of better known of these is “Let All Things Now Living,” by Katherine K. Davis; another is “Sent Forth By God’s Blessing.” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because “The Ash Grove” was originally written in Welsh (its
Welsh title is “Llwyn Onn”), there are various translations into English. </span>There have also been translations into other languages, such as German. W<span style="font-family: inherit;">e
are including four sets of lyrics: those written by Thomas Oliphant (included
in an 1862 book called </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Welsh Melodies, with Welsh and English Poetry</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">); a
later adaptation by John Oxenford; one by Harald Boulton; and one from the twentieth century (see
below for details). Feel free to choose the one you like best.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics #1 (Oliphant Translation)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Down yonder green valley, where streamlets meander,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When twilight is fading I pensively rove,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amid the dark shades of the lonely ash grove.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'Twas there, while the blackbird was cheerfully singing,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I first met my dear one, the joy of my heart!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Around us for gladness the bluebells were ringing,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ah! then little thought I how soon we should part.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Still glows the bright sunshine o'er valley and mountain,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Still warbles the blackbird its note from the tree;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Still trembles the moonbeam on streamlet and fountain,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But what are the beauties of nature to me?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With sorrow, deep sorrow, my bosom is laden,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All day I go mourning in search of my love;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ye echoes, oh, tell me, where is the sweet maiden?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"She sleeps, 'neath the green turf down by the ash grove."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: large;">Lyrics #2 (Oxenford Version)</b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">1.</span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The
ash grove, how graceful, how plainly 'tis speaking;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The harp (or wind) through it playing has language for me,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When over its branches the sunlight is breaking, (or: Whenever the light
through its branches is breaking,)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A host of kind faces is gazing on me.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The friends of my childhood again are before me;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each step wakes a memory as freely I roam.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With (soft) whispers laden the leaves rustle o'er me;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ash grove, the ash grove alone (again) is my home.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When twilight is fading I pensively rove,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amid the dark shades of the lonely ash grove.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'Twas there while the blackbird was cheerfully singing</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I first met that dear one, the joy of my heart.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Around us for gladness the bluebells were ringing,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But then little thought I how soon we should part.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. My lips smile no more, my heart loses its lightness;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No dream of the future my spirit can cheer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I only can brood on the past and its brightness;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The dear ones I long for again gather here.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From ev'ry dark nook they press forward to meet me;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I lift up my eyes to the broad leafy dome,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And others are there, looking downward to greet me;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ash grove, the ash grove again is my home.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics #3 (Harald Boulton Translation, in <i>Songs of the Four Nations</i>, 1900)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(A note from Advisory member Anne White: In one of the first years of this curriculum, I taught the <i>The Ash Grove</i> to my daughter, and this is the version we learned, so it's included here with a nostalgic sigh for the "memories most tender.")</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fair woodland bowers are peopled with flowers,<br />The trees, long forsaken, with green buds abound;<br />But trust not the weather though all bloom together;<br />When the ash trees awaken. then summer's come round.<br />Ah! sweet was the pleasure, in long days of leisure.<br />When life lay before us, in greenwood to rove;<br />Mild breezes were blowing, glad streamlets were flowing,<br />The birds sang in chorus throughout the Ash Grove.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Tis years since together we hailed the warm weather,<br />When ash trees in maytime awaken to life.<br />Old comrades, light-hearted, long since have departed.<br />Instead of youth's playtime, there's sorrow and strife.<br />Yet when woodland bowers are filled with fresh flowers,<br />'Neath trees of green splendour 'tis comfort to rove;<br />Though glimpses of gladness are mingled with sadness,<br />With memories most tender I seek the Ash Grove.</p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lyrics #4 (Rodney Bennett Translation)</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><i>The Arnold Book of Old Songs</i> was published in 1950, and its story can be told only briefly here. British composer Roger Quilter
wrote piano accompaniments for sixteen folk songs, and four of those were
given newly-translated English lyrics by Rodney Bennett. The new set of lyrics
for “The Ash Grove” were written in honour of Quilter’s nephew Arnold Guy
Vivian, who had died during the war, and for whom the book was named. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">1.Away in the shadows a lone bird
is singing,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The wind whispers low in a
sighing refrain;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Their music makes memory’s voices
go winging:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The Ash Grove in beauty I see
once again;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The voices of friends that the long
years have taken,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Oh faintly I hear them, the song
and the word.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">How much in the heart can so
little awaken:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The wind in the leaves and the
song of a bird.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">2. How little we knew, as we laughed
there so lightly,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">And time seemed to us to stretch
endless away,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The hopes that then shone like a
vision so brightly<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Could fade as a dream at the
coming of day!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">And still, spite of sorrow,
whene’er I remember,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">My thoughts will return like a
bird to the nest,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">No matter though summer may wane
to December,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">And there in the ash grove my
heart be at rest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: large;">Video Links</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCecCsW3Rsw">The King’s Singers, recorded in 1991</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qak5Vb209Ng">Laura Wright, from her album <i>The Last Rose</i></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDcXR4Ut1i0">Raymond Crooke, playing the guitar and singing John Oxenford’s lyrics</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/bxdxID6qw44">Blackmore's Night, with Candice Night singing the Oxenford version</a></p><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-4612010689881010662023-04-17T13:25:00.016-05:002023-04-18T07:03:31.426-05:00Folk Song for January 2024: The Water is Wide (Oh Waly, Waly)<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly,
Waly" or "Waly, Waly") is a
Scottish folk song that was also known in southern England. “Waly”
means “wail” or “woe.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Folklorist Cecil Sharp included the song (compiled from various versions) in <i>Folk Songs From Somerset</i> (1906).
There were, in fact, so many different versions of this song, that it can be considered a
“family of lyrics.” Since it has
“grandparent” songs (such as the ballad “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Douglas_(song)">Jamie Douglas</a>”), it also has “cousins”
based on those earlier sources (such as “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickfergus_(song)">Carrickfergus</a>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and "<a href="https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/peggygordon.html">Peggy Gordon</a>"); and there are also “descendants,”
including the modern version of “The Water is Wide,” which was popularized by Pete Seeger. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The melody has been arranged
by classical composers, such as Benjamin Britten and John Rutter (it is the
third movement in Rutter's <i>Suite for Strings</i>). It has also been used for Christian
hymns, such as John Bell’s “When God Almighty Came to Earth; and other hymns
(such as “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”) can be sung to this tune.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Which Version to Sing?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like so many folk songs, there are versions and verses that are family-friendly,
and there are others that are not. Even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtalAWoUbI">Pete Seeger’s version</a> has verses that
you may prefer not to sing with children; please preview.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Here are the lyrics <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yeFAlLrBk8">as sung by Karla Bonoff</a> (a favourite version of Advisory member Leslie Laurio).</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 1</span></span></span>. The water is wide, I can’t cross o’er</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and neither have I wings to fly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Give me a boat that can carry two<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And both shall row, my love and I</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Oh, love is gentle and love is kind</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sweetest flower when first it’s
new<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But love grows old and waxes cold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And fades away like morning dew.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(instrumental bridge)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. There is a ship and she sails the
sea,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She’s loaded deep as deep can be,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But not as deep as the love I’m in,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know not how I sink or swim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. The water is wide, I can’t cross o’er<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And neither have I wings to fly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Give me a boat that can carry two,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And both shall row, my love and I.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
And both shall row, my love and I.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Where does the “Waly, Waly” fit in?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The original Scottish words to the song can be read online (such as on
Wikipedia), and they include these words of lament:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O Waly, waly up the bank,<br />
And waly, waly doun the brae,<br />
And waly, waly, yon burn-side,<br />
Where I and my love wont to gae.<br />
I lean'd my back into an aik,<br />
I thocht it was a trusty tree;<br />
But first it bow'd, and syne it brak,<br />
Sae my true love did lightly me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">But modern English versions do not include them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Other Video Links</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Advisory member Donna-Jean Breckenridge likes <a href="https://youtu.be/opfEk_Yoksk">this version by James Taylor</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Donna-Jean also likes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nrJ6cUdhnQ">this recording by Joan Baez</a>, from the
album <i>Farewell Angelina.</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://youtu.be/BAtalAWoUbI">Here is Pete Seeger's recording</a>, from the album <i>Pete
Seeger Now</i>. This is a good one for singing (and humming) along. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Finally, one that’s a bit more upbeat: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFqtKeTrMc">Bob Dylan with Joan Baez</a>, recorded in 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div><p></p>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-37281425793755516752023-04-17T13:25:00.014-05:002023-04-17T13:44:52.216-05:00Folk Song for November 2023: The Lion Sleeps Tonight<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Story of This Song</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The folk songs for September and October had roots going back beyond anyone’s remembering. This month’s song, however, is the
opposite. The first version of the song, titled <i>Mbube </i>(Lion), was
written and recorded by <a href="https://youtu.be/mrrQT4WkbNE">Solomon Linda and his singing group the Evening Birds,in 1939</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the song seemed to evolve and take on a life of its own,
first in Zulu and then in English, it was often mistaken (or misappropriated) as a
traditional folk song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1949, Alan
Lomax, the folk music director for Decca Records, played the record for Pete
Seeger. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VUYPVMtWY">Seeger’s group The Weavers recorded an adapted version of the song,calling it “Wimoweh”</a>; and it became popular as well with other folk groups such
as The Kingston Trio.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, “Mbube/Wimoweh”<i> </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had to undergo one more transformation before
it became “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” as we know it today. In 1961, RCA Records
hired<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>composer George David Weiss to
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c">arrange the song for the doo-wop group The Tokens</a>. Weiss added some English
lines to the song that hadn’t existed before: </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"In the
jungle, the mighty jungle, The lion sleeps tonight" and
"Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It took until 2006 before the family of
Solomon Linda came to a legal and financial agreement with the company who held the rights to the
music. But there is one more
twist: in 2012, “Mbube” (in its original version) fell into the public domain. The adapted song “The Lion
Sleeps Tonight,” however, is still under copyright.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Singing It at Home</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With all these versions, each more intricate than the last,
what is the best way to approach singing this song with your family?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those with young children may enjoy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1JOh1Y34U">this presentation by the
South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, from their children’s album <i>Gift
of the Tortoise</i></a>. It begins with a story (spoken by <span style="background: white;">Gcina Mhlophe</span>) and
moves into a simple, repetitive version of the song. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A family lived close to the jungle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the end of the day they all sit together around the fire<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They have their supper and relax and talk a little<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The youngest boy becomes afraid </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He hears all the sounds of the wild animals in the forest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheetahs, wolves, jackals and lions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He starts crying at the darkness<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And wild sounds that fill him with fear </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then his mother takes him in her arms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And sings to him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The family is always strong together<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They protect one another </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grandparents, his father and mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers and sisters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They all join and sing together<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soon he falls asleep, only the beautiful song fills his ears<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the jungle, the mighty jungle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the jungle, the mighty jungle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hush, my baby, don't fear my darling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hush, my baby, don't fear my darling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the jungle, the mighty jungle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the jungle, the mighty jungle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hush, my baby, don't fear my darling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hush, my baby, don't fear my darling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lion sleeps tonight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube, mbube, mbube, mbube </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mbube<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">More Challenging Versions</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those with older children, or who are more familiar with
Zulu words, may enjoy looking on Youtube for live performances of the song by
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, or for their recording of the more original
“Mbube/Wimoweh” on their album <i>Africa in Harmony</i>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbQVdLRqJ1w">Here is anotherversion by the Soweto Gospel Choir</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just a Fun
Version</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Gt-NvyxPw">From t<i>he
Muppets Tonight</i> television series</a>. Any tired parent could identify with
this lion. "Come on guys, I've gotta work in the morning!"</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div></span></span></div></div></div><p></p>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-47186113825630786142023-04-17T13:25:00.012-05:002023-04-17T13:44:13.508-05:00Folk Song for September 2023: Aiken Drum<div style="text-align: center;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our first song of the year is "Aiken Drum,” a Scottish folk song.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are two quite different versions. The first, also spelled Aikendrum, is known as the Scottish country dance version; and the
second is a funny song about a man who “played upon a ladle” and whose clothes
were made of all kinds of foods. <a href="https://www.candomusic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Aiken-Drum-pdfs-1.pdf ">This useful document at Can Do Music</a> shows some of its evolution. For instance, we now sing that Aiken Drum lived "in the moon," but the original phrase was likely "in the toon," or "town."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which song are we recommending for AO users? Either, or
both. Those with younger children may prefer to stick to the second version as
it is simple to learn and fun to sing. Canadian children’s entertainer Raffi
included an updated version of Aiken Drum in his 1976 album <i>Singable Songs
for the Very Young</i>, in which Aiken Drum’s hair was made of spaghetti and so
on. We prefer the more traditional version in which “his coat was made of
good roast beef” and “his buttons were made of penny loaves.” However, there is a tradition of
allowing listeners to choose which foods make up Aiken Drum’s wardrobe, so feel free to add your favourites. Just
don’t leave out the ladle.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those who already know this song, who have older children,
or who want to explore Scottish heritage, may be more interested in the
“country dance” version, which was recorded by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger on
their 1956 album <i>Classic Scots Ballads</i>. MacColl notes that the lyrics
refer to “<span style="line-height: 107%;">the state of the Whig and Jacobite armies immediately previous
to the battle of Sheriffmuir,” but that
“the name ‘Aikendrum’ is taken from a Scots children’s song for no other
apparent reason but that it ‘sings’ well.” So, interestingly, the nursery song seems
to have existed before the “history” version.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics (Version One)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ken ye how a Whig can fight,
Aikendrum, Aikendrum?</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;">Ken ye how a Whig can fight, Aikendrum?</div><div style="text-align: left;">He can fight the hero bright, with his heels and armour light</div><div style="text-align: left;">And the wind of heavenly night, Aikendrum, Aikendrum:</div><div style="text-align: left;">Is not Rowley in the right, Aikendrum?</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did ye hear of Sunderland,
Aikendrum, Aikendrum?</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;">Did ye hear of Sunderland, Aikendrum?</div><div style="text-align: left;">That man of high command who had sworn to clear the land,</div><div style="text-align: left;">He has vanished from our strand, Aikendrum, Aikendrum:</div><div style="text-align: left;">Or the eel has ta'en the sand, Aikendrum.</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Donald's running round and
round, Aikendrum, Aikendrum.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;">Donald's running round and round, Aikendrum.</div><div style="text-align: left;">But the Chief cannot be found, and the Dutchmen they are drowned,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And King Jamie he is crowned, Aikendrum, Aikendrum:</div><div style="text-align: left;">But the dogs will get a stound, Aikendrum.</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have heard of Whigs
galore, Aikendrum, Aikendrum.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;">We have heard of Whigs galore, Aikendrum.</div><div style="text-align: left;">But we've sought the country o'er, with cannon and claymore,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And still they are before, Aikendrum, Aikendrum:</div><div style="text-align: left;">We may seek forevermore, Aikendrum!</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</p><p style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ken ye how to gain a Whig,
Aikendrum, Aikendrum?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ken ye how to gain a Whig, Aikendrum?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Look jolly, blythe and big, take his ain blest side, and prig,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the poor, worm-eaten Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For opposition's sake you will win!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lyrics (Version Two)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a man lived in the moon,
lived in the moon, lived in the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a man lived in the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his name was Aiken Drum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chorus:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he played upon a ladle, a
ladle, a ladle,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And he played upon a ladle,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and his name was Aiken Drum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his hat was made of good cream
cheese, of good cream cheese, of good cream cheese,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his hat was made of good cream
cheese,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his name was Aiken Drum. (Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his coat was made of good roast
beef, of good roast beef, of good roast beef,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his coat was made of good roast
beef,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his name was Aiken Drum. (Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his buttons were made of penny
loaves, of penny loaves, of penny loaves,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his buttons were made of penny
loaves,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And his name was Aiken Drum. (Chorus)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Video Links</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edqpo4rIHmE" style="font-family: inherit;">Aikendrum</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, as recorded by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpc1GfhWzVc">Raffi’s version of Aiken Drum</a>. Although the foods have been
“adulterated,” this recording is useful for learning the song, as you hear
Raffi and children singing without instruments.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1apJXnyNApc">The Scottish folk group The Singing Kettle</a> performs the song for children and also includes updated foods such as cake. (The tune they
use is slightly different than Raffi's.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our helpful <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2023/04/introducing-ao-folk-songs-for-2023-2024.html">intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span>links </span></i><i><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div></span></span></div></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-30557759916363328052022-12-23T18:02:00.000-06:002022-12-23T18:02:29.005-06:00An Act of Faith<p>In Jan Karon’s Christmas story, “Shepherds Abiding,” she wrote, “In the face of losing everything one hoped for, lighting a tree was an act of faith.” The main character, Father Tim, is cheered by the sight.</p><div dir="auto">“Well done! he thought, pulling his hat down and his collar up. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">“He walked more briskly, glad to be alive on the hushed and lamplit street where every storefront gleamed with promise.”</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">This Christmas, you may be surrounded by hard things. It may be the loss of a loved one this past year (we at AmblesideOnline grieve our beloved friend and Advisory member, Wendi Capehart), it may be a shattered dream, it may be a financial struggle or a wayward child. But Christmas takes courage, as Advisory members Donna-Jean Breckenridge and Lynn Bruce recounted recently in an episode of The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins. And sometimes just the act of lighting a tree, baking some cookies, and wrapping a gift takes all the courage you’ve got. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Know that we pray for you. In the prayer of Father Tim in that same book, “Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who settest the solitary in families: We commend to thy continual care the homes in which thy people dwell. Put far from them, we beseech thee, every root of bitterness, the desire of vainglory, and the pride of life. Fill them with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness. Knit together in constant affection those who, in holy wedlock, have been made one flesh. Turn the hearts of the parents to the children, and the hearts of the children to the parents; and so enkindle fervent charity among us all, that we may evermore be kindly affectioned one to another; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">To our beloved <a href="http://AmblesideOnline.org">AmblesideOnline</a> Community around the world, we on the Advisory wish you a very Merry Christmas, a Happy and Blessed New Year, and a reminder of the greatest news of all: Emmanuel! God with us. Jesus is real - the Story is true! </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">To hear the entire podcast, click here:</div><div dir="auto"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thenewmasonjar.com/047-2/&source=gmail&ust=1671925904175000&usg=AOvVaw3GjRTZezsiO5NFjwer7BXN" href="https://thenewmasonjar.com/047-2/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://thenewmasonjar.com/<wbr></wbr>047-2/</a></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 2px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; width: 22px;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNcZc43SkfbWZFgJLjwYrL_Fe6kCDZ4PqZW6n-kXJYq5HjpeSTg9IYk0eY076T0s2oe7TTvxAKaybCKD5BYkMIu-ZHQzX9po2kPSfLUXtsX87zGe5_aX64cferpKVQbrRSSvkOpr2Y2Odui5xt0-LrnPpJWVzqDw84NmJBBHNNWb4qxa3QpxAaEv1/s2048/Christmas%20tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNcZc43SkfbWZFgJLjwYrL_Fe6kCDZ4PqZW6n-kXJYq5HjpeSTg9IYk0eY076T0s2oe7TTvxAKaybCKD5BYkMIu-ZHQzX9po2kPSfLUXtsX87zGe5_aX64cferpKVQbrRSSvkOpr2Y2Odui5xt0-LrnPpJWVzqDw84NmJBBHNNWb4qxa3QpxAaEv1/s320/Christmas%20tree.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 2px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; width: 22px;"><br /></div></div>Donna-Jean Breckenridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458231034482560795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-67980933295752522992022-11-18T12:28:00.002-06:002022-11-18T12:33:06.403-06:00 What We Talk About When We Talk About Chili<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by Anne White</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">In her 1995 book <i>The Tightwad Gazette II</i>, Amy Dacycyzn included an article called “The Chili Chart,” explaining it this way: “It's always interesting to examine how widely the costs can vary when you purchase or prepare a particular dish in different ways: in this case, chili.” Using a basic recipe (ground beef, beans, tomatoes, etc.) to define the proportions and ingredients of “chili,” she used a graph to show that, even within that definition, the cost of a cupful of chili could vary wildly according to, say, whether one used dried vs. canned beans, or homegrown vs. store-bought peppers and tomatoes. And that variation was only within the recipe as given: reducing the amount of ground beef, or replacing it with plant protein, or choosing a more luxurious meat option such as, say, ground-up steak, would have changed the price even more.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The cost of homeschooling is, similarly and exasperatingly, almost impossible to calculate, even limiting it to material costs (as opposed to lost earning opportunities for the teaching parent, or, on the other hand, money saved through not having to pay for packaged lunch food and fashionable shoes). Even for one year, for one child, using a definite curriculum such as AmblesideOnline, there are many variables. New or used? Print or e-book or audio? Owned or borrowed? Do you include your math curriculum, or outside classes like Latin or co-op drama? Do you count in a percentage of your electronic equipment? Board games? Craft supplies? Museum admissions? Gardening seeds? Biscuits for afternoon tea? Will you try to recoup some of your expenses by reselling books afterwards, or do you have other children who will take their turns with them? And don’t forget about professional development for the teacher, such as books and conferences; and memberships in various sorts of homeschooling associations.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">We could create, as the government food experts do, “food basket” versions of a typical AO year. There would have to be some parameters, such as no substitutions, and exclusion of math curriculum, microscopes, and watercolour paints. We could, perhaps, create a Chili Chart of options from “luxury” to “economy.” Super deluxe: leatherbound first editions. Moderate: Some new books, largely paperback; some used, and some borrowed from the library. Super cheap: homemade printouts of online free books, in the smallest readable font. Super cheapest: somebody else’s homemade printouts passed on to you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part of the problem, though, with statistical “food baskets” is that they can be misinterpreted so that you think that’s exactly what you should be buying. This happened where I live early in 2020, when a news source published typical food items people should keep on hand in case they were unable to access supermarkets. Customers quickly emptied the shelves of spaghetti sauce and beans, because that's what was on the list. But it wasn’t meant to be a specific shopping list, more of a reminder that one should have some extra food—of whatever sort one normally eats—on hand. In the same way, the real-life version of homeschooling is that you might have multiple children sharing a resource, you might be doing science in a weekly group (and not need to buy any books), or you might have accidentally read or listened to one of the literature books before and have to substitute. You might be overseas, or travelling, and have to use as much free and online as possible. You might need to buy a full-on foreign language curriculum, or you might have your in-laws happily teaching it for free.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">But is the point of a Charlotte Mason education to keep the cost as low as possible? On the “yes” side, Mason boasted that her methods were “economical,” as indeed they can be. She was also interested in seeing her ideas applied in low-budget situations: with young working adults who had to buy their own books; in schools in mining areas; and with families overseas who likely would have had to keep shipping costs to a minimum even in those days.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the other hand, she used the word “generous” to describe the ideal curriculum. She criticized those who did have sufficient financial resources, but who refused to buy the books that, she believed, would not only enrich an educational curriculum, but actually form its backbone. She made the point that, as we do not feed children’s bodies on “smoke and water feasts,” so we cannot feed their minds properly without acquiring nutritious mind-food. One imagines Mason, perhaps not settling for the cliché of “for the price of a cup of coffee,” but insisting nevertheless that the best books are not simply an expense, but an investment in children’s minds.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Ruskin, in the preface to Of Kings’ Treasuries, had this to say about book-buying, and the example of ourselves as readers that we set for children:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">… valuable books should, in a civilized country, be within the reach of every one, printed in excellent form, for a just price; but not in any vile, vulgar, or, by reason of smallness of type, physically injurious form, at a vile price. For we none of us need many books, and those which we need ought to be clearly printed, on the best paper, and strongly bound. And though we are, indeed, now, a wretched and poverty-struck nation, and hardly able to keep soul and body together, still, as no person in decent circumstances would put on his table confessedly bad wine, or bad meat, without being ashamed, so he need not have on his shelves ill-printed or loosely and wretchedly-stitched books; for though few can be rich, yet every man who honestly exerts himself may, I think, still provide, for himself and his family, good shoes, good gloves, strong harness for his cart or carriage horses, and stout leather binding for his books. And I would urge upon every young man, as the beginning of his due and wise provision for his household, to obtain as soon as he can, by the severest economy, a restricted, serviceable, and steadily—however slowly—increasing, series of books for use through life; making his little library, of all the furniture in his room, the most studied and decorative piece; every volume having its assigned place, like a little statue in its niche, and one of the earliest and strictest lessons to the children of the house being how to turn the pages of their own literary possessions lightly and deliberately, with no chance of tearing or dog’s ears.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">That is my notion of the founding of Kings’ Treasuries; and the first lecture is intended to show somewhat the use and preciousness of their treasures: but the two following ones have wider scope, being written in the hope of awakening the youth of England, so far as my poor words might have any power with them, to take some thought of the purposes of the life into which they are entering, and the nature of the world they have to conquer.</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So take some thought, as you budget and plan, of the real purposes of your homeschooling. Treat your bookshelves, and their contents, as the most studied and decorative things in the room. Then enter in and conquer.</span></div>The AmblesideOnline Advisoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632952365811151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-89651043928908924972022-07-22T22:00:00.000-05:002022-07-22T22:25:13.565-05:00Introducing... Our AO Folk Songs for 2022-2023!<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">TERM 1</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-september-2022-did-you-go.html" target="_blank">Did You Go To the Barney?</a></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-october-2022-waltzing.html" target="_blank">Waltzing Matilda</a></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-november-2022-fox.html" target="_blank">The Fox</a></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">TERM 2</span></b></div><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-january-2023-mermaid.html" target="_blank">The Mermaid</a></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-february-2023-wayfaring.html" target="_blank">Wayfaring Stranger</a></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-march-2023-whoopie-ti-yi.html" target="_blank">Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies</a></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">TERM 3</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-april-2023-red-river.html" target="_blank">Red River Valley</a></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-may-2023-crawdad-song.html" target="_blank">Crawdad Song</a></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/folk-song-for-june-2023-ill-fly-away.html" target="_blank">I’ll Fly Away</a></b></div></span></span></span></h2><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We are so excited about this year's selections! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For selected video/mp3 links, please visit our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs"><b>Folk Songs page</b></a> at AmblesideOnline.org. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">This year, we are featuring each folk song on its very own post here on Archipelago, linked in the list above. These posts will be linked from the <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank"><b>AO Folk Songs page</b></a>, too. This way, when you start preparing to introduce a new song, it will be easy as pie to click straight to that song's blog post. <b>Be sure to check out each song's post for recommended lyrics and recordings, and interesting info about each song.</b></span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">My<b> </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank"><b>Youtube playlist for AO Folksongs 2022-2023</b></a> is where you'll find carefully selected versions of the term’s songs (the versions recommended to go with our lyrics, and many more besides). I enjoy hearing different interpretations by various artists. I find it helps us enter into the creative stream of these timeless songs, and to better understand their enduring appeal to all generations and to all kinds of folks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><b>And Now For A Few Helpful Hints</b></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></b></p><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>If you’re new around here (and if so, <i>welcome</i> and we’re so glad you’re here!), please (we beg you!) </span>read/re-read Wendi Capehart’s post <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2019/07/folk-songs-some-back-story.html" target="_blank"><b>Folk Songs: Some Back Story</b></a>. It'll do you good.</span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>Then read her brief but terrific <a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2018/05/ao-folk-songs-2018-2019.html" target="_blank"><b>introductory comments here</b></a>, where she shared some of her easy but brilliant ideas for living the folk singing life.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>And if you’re still not quite sure why we AO folks make such a fuss about singing, please read </span><b><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2019/09/folksongs-some-real-life-experiences.html" target="_blank">Folk Songs: Some Real Life Experiences</a> </b>for a hearty dose of encouragement. </span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br />You may also enjoy my essay <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs-unplugged" target="_blank"><b>Folk Songs, Unplugged</b></a>. </span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Here's to a jolly great year of folk songs! </span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(106, 168, 79); color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Many heartfelt thanks to </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Nicole Capehart Ramsey</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Rebecca Capehart Judy</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>and </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b> for sharing their invaluable insights about this year’s song lineup. </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>I love you girls so much, and I love that folk songs matter so much to you, and </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>that you’ve all grown up to be folk singing mamas.</b></i></div></span></h3></div>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-68324654110826286312022-07-22T18:18:00.001-05:002022-07-22T18:18:44.655-05:00Folk Song for April 2023: Red River Valley<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes things just ain’t what they seem. Turns out, there are two Red River Valleys on the North American continent. There's the Red River which defines the border between Texas and Oklahoma, and another which runs northward (one of the few North American streams that do) from the southern borders of North Dakota and Minnesota all the way up into Manitoba in Canada. Though many associate this song with Texas cowboys and western lore, it actually originated around 1870 in Manitoba (with possible Celtic/Gaelic origins going even further back). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edith Fowke, the noted Canadian folklorist, said it was the best-known folk song across at least five Canadian provinces well before the turn of the century. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For more juicy folklore on the song’s roots in Canadian history, <a href="http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/72/redrivervalley.shtml" target="_blank"><b>this page is helpful</b></a>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>Recordings that feature all of the typical verses are a real challenge to find! This live performance by </span><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFVrDAnrGc" target="_blank"><b>Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak</b></a> (who learned the song as small children from their grandparents) absolutely </span><span>nails it. They sing the exact set and sequence of the lyrics I remember from childhood. </span></span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Red River Valley</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">From this valley they say you are going</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For they say you are taking the sunshine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">That has brightened our pathway awhile</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Do you think of the valley you're leaving</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">O how lonely and dreary ’twill be</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Do you think of the fond hearts you're breaking</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the sadness you’ve cast over me</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">CHORUS</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Come and sit by my side, if you love me</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Do not hasten to bid me adieu</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Just remember the Red River Valley</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>And the one who has loved you so true</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I have waited a long time my darlin’</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For the sweet words you never would say</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Now, alas, all my fond hopes have vanished</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For they tell me you’re goin’ away</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">As you go to your home by the ocean</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">May you never forget those sweet hours</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">That we spent in the Red River Valley</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the love we exchanged with the flowers</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">See my playlist for versions of Red River Valley by Gene Autry, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Wills. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></p></div>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-367121296174730352022-07-22T17:44:00.009-05:002022-07-22T18:13:16.339-05:00Folk Song for June 2023: I'll Fly Away<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'll Fly Away is one of the most recorded gospel songs of all time and also a folk standard, particularly among Bluegrass performers. It’s been featured in numerous films and TV shows, and performed in styles that cross many genres of music. It’s in most good hymnals. (It’s still protected by copyright by the songwriter’s descendants, so sing away to your heart’s content but maybe don’t record it for profit!)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">These lyrics best follow this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GMgbE5xL5U" target="_blank"><b><i>a cappella</i> recording by Truth & Peace</b></a>, which uses the traditional version found in hymnals.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll Fly Away</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Some glad morning when this life is o’er</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To that home on God’s celestial shore</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CHORUS</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <i> I’ll fly away oh glory</i></b></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> I’ll fly away (in the morning)</b></span></i></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> When I die hallelujah by and by</b></span></i></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> I’ll fly away</b></span></i></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. When the shadows of this life have grown</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like a bird from prison walls has flown</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Just a few more weary days and then</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To a land where joy shall never end</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll fly away</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFamN-oXRMQ" target="_blank"><b>Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch</b></a> sang I'll Fly Away on the O Brother, Where Art Thou movie soundtrack album, which won 2 Grammys. Later the track was included on the album Down From the Mountain, which also won a Grammy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>Check the playlist and our Folk Song page for this and other exemplary versions which span many music genres.</span><span><br /></span><span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</b></div></span><span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span>For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span>links </span></b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span>These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></div></span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-19390424442047735772022-07-22T17:43:00.007-05:002022-07-22T18:21:14.821-05:00Folk Song for March 2023: Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">In cowboy lingo, a dogie is an orphaned or runt calf. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This is an old classic western song which has appeared in several old Western movies and TV shows, and has been recorded widely by cowboy singers, folk singers, and country singers. It's written in ¾ time (a waltz), which lends an air of clip-clopping along on horseback.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cFji4CmHE" target="_blank"><b>Roy Rogers</b></a> sang this song in the film, West of the Badlands. These lyrics follow his version.</span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Dogies</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">1. As I was a-walkin one morning for pleasure,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I spied a cow-puncher all riding alone;</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a-jingling,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And as he approached he was singin' this song,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">CHORUS</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,</span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It's your misfortune, and none of my own.</span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,</span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For you know that Wyoming will be your new home.</span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">2. It’s early in spring we round up the dogies,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We mark ‘em and brand ‘em and bob off their tails;</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Round up the horses, load up the chuck-wagon,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then throw the dogies out on the north trail.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">3. Your mother was raised a-way down in Texas,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Where the jimson weed and sand-burrs grow;</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We'll fill you up on prickly pear and cholla</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Until you are ready for Idaho.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">See my playlist for old recordings by Cisco Houston and a 1937 movie clip of Gene Autry singing this song in his cowboy movie of the same name.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><br /></b></i></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-40687494183785225872022-07-22T17:42:00.025-05:002022-07-22T18:25:39.590-05:00Folk Song for November 2022: The Fox<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">One of the oldest known folk songs, The Fox dates at least as far back as the 15<sup>th</sup> century! (Check the song's Wikipedia page if you’d like to see the lyrics in Middle English.) This one becomes more fun the faster you sing it, so start at a comfortable learning tempo but do gradually pick up the pace as you learn it!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It’s the longest lyric set of the folk songs for this year, but it's easier to learn than you might anticipate because it tells a story, so the verses have a logical narrative sequence, and also because there are repeated lines in each verse. So take heart! Just bite off one verse at a time and soon you'll all have it down pat. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>Also, we oh-so-helpfully scheduled it for November in case your kids want to keep plugging away at it over Christmas break. </span>You’re welcome. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">😆</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>The recording by Peter, Paul, and Mary is jolly and funny, while the Nickel Creek recording showcases superb musicianship (this track is from their 2000 debut album, which was nominated for 2 Grammys)— and is perfectly suitable for dancing a reel if you’re so inclined!</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mwg40c2SU" target="_blank"><b>Peter, Paul, and Mary's version</b></a> (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t3fBEEnQuM" target="_blank"><b>Nickel Creek's version</b></a> (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The Fox</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh the fox went out on a chilly night</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Prayed for the moon to give him light</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For he had many a mile to go that night</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Many a mile to go that night before he reached the town-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He ran till he came to a great big pen</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Where the ducks and the geese were kept therein</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He said, "A couple of you are gonna grease my chin</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Before I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">A couple of you are gonna grease my chin before I leave this town-o!"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He grabbed the grey goose by the neck</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Threw the ducks across his back</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He didn't mind the "quack, quack, quack"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the legs all danglin' down-o, down-o, down-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He didn't mind the "quack, quack, quack" and the legs all danglin' down-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then old mother Flipper Flopper jumped out of bed</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Out of the window she popped her head</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cryin', "John, John, the grey goose is gone</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the fox is on the town-o, town-o, town-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">John! John! The grey goose is gone and the fox is on the town-o!"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then John he ran to the top of the hill</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Blew his horn both loud and shrill</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The fox he said, "I better flee with my kill</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">For they'll soon be on my trail-o, trail-o, trail-o,"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The fox he said, "I better flee with my kill for they'll soon be on my trail-o!"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well he ran till he came to his cozy den</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There were his little ones, eight, nine, ten</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cryin', "Daddy, daddy, better go back again</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">'Cause it must be a mighty fine town-o, town-o, town-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Daddy, Daddy, better go back again cause it must be a mighty fine town-o!"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then the fox and his wife, without any strife</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cut up the goose with a carving knife</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">They never had such a supper in their life</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the little ones chewed on the bones-o, bones-o, bones-o</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">They never had such a supper in their life and the little ones chewed on the bones-o!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Here's a music video which features <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUCWwpWHJ6M" target="_blank"><b>Peter Spier’s picture book</b></a> illustrating The Fox song, which younger children will enjoy.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><br /></b></i></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-52408520687105436232022-07-22T17:42:00.018-05:002022-07-22T18:23:35.455-05:00Folk Song for January 2023: The Mermaid<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">My grandchildren insisted we include this one! Scholars have traced the roots of The Mermaid back at least 400 years. Some say it’s a sea <i>ballad </i>which sailors sang while off-duty, while others claim it was a sailor’s work song and therefore can be classified as a <i>chanty</i>. Whatever you want to call it, 'tis a fine, rollicking tune, me hearties!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Important to know: In maritime folklore, the sighting of a mermaid spelled certain doom for sailors and their ships.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Fun fact: JRR Tolkein wrote a song in Old English to the tune of The Mermaid.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Feel free to omit a verse or two for very, very young children, if that seems best. But... learn one verse at a time and I suspect they will surprise you! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">My search for lyrics turned up innumerable variations, and no two were alike. The lyrics here most closely follow this recording by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fevre8LlSoQ" target="_blank"><b>Smithsonian Folkways</b></a>. </span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The Mermaid</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">On Friday morning we set sail</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Not being far from the land</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It was there we espied a fair mermaid</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">With a comb and a glass in her hand</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">CHORUS:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>And the ocean's waves do roll</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>And the stormy winds do blow</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>And we poor sailors are skipping at the top</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>While the landlubbers lie down below below below</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>While the landlubbers lie down below</b></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The boatswain at the helm stood</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And was steering his course right well</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">With tears a-standing in his eyes,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Saying oh how the seas do swell</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And then spoke the mate of our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And a well-spoken man was he</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Saying, “I have a wife in fair Plymouth town</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And this night a widow she will be.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then spoke the captain of our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And a valiant man was he</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Saying, “For the want of a longboat</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We shall sink to the bottom of the sea.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS}</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And up spoke the cookie of our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And a gruff old soul was he</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Saying, “I care much more for me pots and me pans</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Than I do fer the bottom of the sea!”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS] </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then up spoke the boy of our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And a well-spoken lad was he.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Saying, “I have a mother in fair Bristol town</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And this night she will weep for me.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The moon gave light and the stars shone bright</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And my mother is looking for me</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">She may look, she may weep with a watery eye</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">She may look to the bottom of the sea.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then once around spun our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And twice around spun she</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And the third time around spun our gallant ship</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And she sank to the bottom of the sea</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[CHORUS]</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">If that seems like a Whole Lot of Chorus Repeats, just think how long it will keep the kids happily occupied when they start singing it outside! Masterly Inactivity at its finest, Mama! 😉</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Do check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwDOAzGLuhw" target="_blank"><b>Brobdingnagian Bards</b></a>' lively version with comic touches and slightly different lyrics.</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-83939412207054054632022-07-22T17:42:00.013-05:002022-07-22T18:16:04.440-05:00Folk Song for May 2023: Crawdad Song<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Of all the songs for this year (which I heard <i>over and over</i> while researching this year's selections!), this is the one that I most often found myself singing around the house. Who knows, Crawdad Song may be what it takes to entice me to figure out what to do with that ukulele hidden in my closet. (Shhh!)<br /></span></span><span><span>😅</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span><span><span>Crawdad Song has roots in African-American blues and gospel. If the tune sounds familiar, it may be because it’s essentially the same as the old gospel song <b>This Train is Bound for Glory</b>. Do check it out these old recordings by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQu9XpKY98c" target="_blank"><b>Big Bill Broonzy</b></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glw776P0sxQ" target="_blank"><b>Pop Winans</b></a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjgt-_Qc" target="_blank"><b>Sister Rosetta Tharpe</b></a> (all linked on my playlist). Wonderful!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span><b>Froggie Went a-Courtin’ </b>is another song that uses a very similar tune, making it fun and easy to learn<b> </b>alongside Crawdad Song. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgPXkWUO-s" target="_blank"><b>Pete Seeger’s version</b></a> is great. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys946aLVB2I%5C" target="_blank"><b>The Spoon Lady</b></a> (with whom Wendi Capehart was borderline obsessed!) combines the two songs. Don't miss The Spoon Lady, whatever you do!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><span>Our lyrics for Crawdad Song most closely follow the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNAf3SucSQ" target="_blank"><b>Smithsonian Folkways version by Cisco Houston</b></a>, </span><span>(which cannot be added to YouTube playlists, but you'll find an Amazon affiliate link for it on our Folk Songs page at AO, and as alwa</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino;">ys you can bookmark the Youtube link here.)</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Crawdad Song</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">1. You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You get a line and I'll get a pole</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We'll go down to the crawdad hole</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">[<i>A fun, optional verse; try singing a child’s name instead of “now”]</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well get up now, you slept too late, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Get up now, you slept too late, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Get up now, you slept too late</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The crawdad man done passed your gate</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">2. What ya gonna do when the lake runs dry, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">What ya gonna do when the lake runs dry, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">What ya gonna do when the lake runs dry</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Sit on the bank, watch the crawdads die</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">3. Well, I heard a duck say to a drake, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I heard a duck say to a drake, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I heard a duck say to a drake</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There ain’t no crawdads in this lake</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">4. Well, yonder comes a man with a sack on his back, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Yonder comes a man with a sack on his back, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Yonder comes a man with a sack on his back</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Got all the crawdads he can pack</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">5. Well the man fell down and he broke that sack, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The man fell down and he broke that sack, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The man fell down and he broke that sack</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">See those crawdads backing back</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">6. Well I sell crawdads three for a dime, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I sell crawdads three for a dime, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I sell crawdads three for a dime</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And your crawdads ain’t as good as mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Now you get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You get a line and I'll get a pole</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We'll go down to the crawdad hole</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Honey, Baby mine</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">See my playlist for more delightful recordings of Crawdad Song by Andy Griffith and the Dillards, Foggy Mountain Boys, and Woody Guthrie for Smithsonian Folkways.</span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-47652280634870020312022-07-22T17:41:00.003-05:002022-07-22T18:22:27.019-05:00Folk Song for February 2023: Wayfaring Stranger<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well-known as both a gospel song and a folk song, Wayfaring Stranger probably dates back to the early 1800’s, though the date and songwriter are unknown. It has been featured in at least two modern films: Cold Mountain, performed by Jack White, and the World War I drama 1917, where it was hauntingly sung <i>a capella</i> in a quiet forest by singer/actor Jos Slovik just before going into a deadly battle. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">You could while away many hours on YouTube listening to amazing versions from around the world which span several decades. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">But for children, we want a simple, straightforward, beautifully sung version that is faithful to the traditional notation.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIuWTkRvn00&list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr&index=11" style="font-family: trebuchet;" target="_blank"><b>This <i>a cappella</i> version by Narrow Way</b></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">is perfectly suited for our purpose.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Wayfaring Stranger</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I am a poor, wayfaring stranger,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">While traveling through this world of woe.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Yet there's no sickness, toil, nor danger</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">In that bright land to which I go.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm going there to see my Father,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm going there no more to roam.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over Jordan,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over home.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I know dark clouds will gather o'er me,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I know my way is rough and steep.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Yet beauteous fields lie just before me,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Where God's redeemed their vigils keep.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm going there to see my Mother,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">She said she'd meet me when I go.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over Jordan,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over home.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I want to wear a crown of glory,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">When I get home to that good land.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I want to shout Salvation's story,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">In concert with the blood-washed band.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm going there to meet my Saviour,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">To sing His praise forevermore.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over Jordan,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I'm only going over home.</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">On my Youtube playlist, don’t miss Rhiannon Giddens’ utterly gorgeous version of Wayfaring Stranger, recorded in an ancient church in Ireland, or the two videos of Jack White. His studio version from the Cold Mountain soundtrack is haunting, but it’s his live performance (with three of the top bluegrass musicians of our day) that lays raw the bone deep world-weariness, tinged with hope in the gospel, that makes this song transcend time and place. Last but not least, don’t miss the video of it sung in the old traditional Sacred Harp style, with the solfa shape notes sung prior to the first verse. This is how I like to sing it best! There are many other versions there to enjoy as well.</span></div><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</span></b></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>links </b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center; text-indent: 18px;"><i><b><br /></b></i></p>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7314975175792696409.post-55426160117218126682022-07-22T16:21:00.013-05:002022-07-22T18:29:17.055-05:00Folk Song for September 2022: Did You Go To the Barney?<p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Our first song of the year is a tribute to the memory of our dear Advisory sister Wendi Capehart. She loved singing this song with her grandchildren. The Advisory treasures our shared memory of watching Wendi work her legendary folk singing magic while teaching this song to a crowd of happy moms at a conference in Canada some years ago. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Note: Due to Youtube’s protective regulations for video content aimed at children, there is no version of this song which can be included in Youtube playlists. No worries, we've linked to an Amazon mp3 file on the <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank"><b>AO Folk Songs page</b></a>, or you could just bookmark the link here to </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og7fPoUWaf8" style="font-family: trebuchet;" target="_blank"><b>Peggy Seeger's version</b></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> on Youtube.</span></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did You Go To the Barney?</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">1. Did you go to the barney? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you see my mulie? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you ride my mulie? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And how did he ride?</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He rocked just like a cradle,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He rocked just like a cradle.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">2. Did you go to the barney? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you see my mulie? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you feed my mulie? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And what did you feed him?</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I fed him corn and fodder.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I fed him corn and fodder.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">3. Did you go to the millie? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you get any flour? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did you bake any cakes? Yes ma’am.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And why did you bake them?</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh I’ll marry next Thursday morning,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh I’ll marry next Thursday morning.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did You Go To the Barney is a <i>call-and-response</i> tune (see this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_and_response_(music)" target="_blank"><b>Wikipedia entry</b></a> for a sense of the global history of call-and-response traditions). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The tune of this song shares roots with some similar folk songs, albeit with slight melodic variations. Here are two which your children will enjoy exploring for extra fun. (These also cannot be added to Youtube playlists; check the <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank"><b>AO Folk Songs page</b></a> for Amazon links.)</span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Did You Feed My Cow?</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbKtS5j1ig" target="_blank"><b>Ella Jenkins</b></a> (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFQT5zNZWk" target="_blank"><b>Ella Jenkins with choir</b></a> (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">1. Well, did you feed my cow? (Yes, ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, did you feed my cow? (Yes, ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, tell me, what did you feed her? (Corn and hay)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, tell me, what did you feed her? (Corn and hay)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">2. Well, did you milk her real good? (Yes, ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, did you milk her like you should? (Yes ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, show me, how did you milk her? (Squish, squish, squish)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, now, how did you milk her? (Squish, squish, squish)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">3. Well, did my cow get sick? (Yes, ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh, was she really, really sick? (Yes ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, show me, how did she look? (Uh, uh, uh)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Again now, how did she look? (Uh, uh, uh)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">4. Well, did those buzzards come? (Yes, ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh, did those buzzards come? (Yes ma’am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Well, tell me, how did they come? (Flop, flop, flop)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">How did they come? (Flop, flop, flop)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh, John the Rabbit</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D9Wp-K_IcJs" target="_blank"><b>Mike & Peggy Seeger</b></a> (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3eFpe2WUM" target="_blank"><b>A field recording of 4 teenage girls</b></a> in the 1930’s-40’s (Youtube)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Oh, John the rabbit (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Got a mighty habit (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Jumpin' in my garden (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cuttin' down my cabbage (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">My sweet potatoes (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">My fresh tomatoes (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And if I live (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">to see next fall (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I ain't gonna have (Yes, ma'am!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">No garden at all (NO, ma'am!)</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJAhhrS4W86M2GfSscxrx-CjaSxmDkRr" target="_blank">Lynn's Youtube Playlist</a> for AO Folk Songs 2022-2023</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://archipelago7.blogspot.com/2022/07/introducing-our-ao-folk-songs-for-2022.html" target="_blank">Our helpful intro post</a> is sure to liven up your folk song adventures.</b></div></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on our folk songs, and for Amazon affiliate </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span>links </span></b></i><i><b><span>to purchase individual songs, </span><span>see our <a href="https://amblesideonline.org/folksongs" target="_blank">AO Folk Songs page</a>.</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These affiliate links help support AmblesideOnline.</span></b></i></div><div><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div><i><b><span><br /></span></b></i></div></span></span></div></div>Lynn Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993480021529143159noreply@blogger.com0