| Author | Topic: Add: Daddy Fox | |
| dmcg | Posted - 24 Aug 02 - 10:04 am | |
Old Daddy Fox went out one night When the moon and the stars did shine so bright, He went into the old farmers yard, Where the ducks and the geese did quack so hard, hard, Where the ducks and the geese did quack so hard Old Mother Wigger Wagger jumped out of bed, She down with the window and out with her head, Crying, Rise, Jack, rise, the grey goose is dead, And the fox is gone out of the town, town, And the fox is gone out of the town Out jumped the little ones, eight nine ten The lick-ed up the goose no plate, knife or fork, And the young one picked all the bones, bones, And the young ones picked all the bones. Source: Garners Gay, EDFS Publications Notes: This version collected by Fred Hamer from Mrs Julian in Cornwall. This song is extemely widespread - Mr Hamer refers to three different versions in Cornwall and also that his mother used to sing him to sleep with her Irish version. Vance Randolph published it in "Osark Folksongs" under the title "The Fox Walked Out". The earliest printed reference Vance Randoph found cited by Peter and Iona Opie, namely Gammer Gurton's Garland, 1810 The song was further popularised as a result of various Burl Ives recordings. Edited By dmcg - 8/24/2002 10:04:15 AM | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 24 Aug 02 - 01:59 pm | |
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| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 24 Aug 02 - 03:48 pm | |
Roud 131 Pretty much ubiquitous in the English-speaking world. In some American versions the victim has become a duck. There is a printed set of the first half of the 19th century at the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection: The Fox Ran Thro' The Town. Comic Song. A fox went out one moonshiny night, For he prayed to the moon to afford him a light Arranged for voice and piano. Sung by Mr. Howard. Baltimore: F.D. Benteen, n.d. Box: 047 Item: 029 The piece is undated, but other material "as sung by Mr. Howard" bears dates between 1831 and 1841. The Bodleian Library site lists a broadside by Disley (between 1860 and 1883), The fox came thro' the town, O ("The fox he went out one cold winter night ...") Opie P 550(5); but no image is available at this time. There are two late medieval lyrics (C14/15) telling much the same story, The False Fox and The Fox and the Goose, which may perhaps be ancestral. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 17 Jan 03 - 02:05 pm | |
Two American versions: The Fox (Towneo) (lyrics & sound recording; As sung by Becky Drury, (She didn't give her home town) on July 14, 1967), from The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection. THE FOX AND THE GOOSE (THE FOX WALKED OUT) (lyrics & sound recording; Sung by: Mrs. Claude Collie), form The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection. | ||