| Author | Topic: Add: Old Threshing Song | |
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Jan 04 - 02:11 pm | |
It's all very well to have a machine To thrash your wheat nad barley clean, To thrash it and wim it all fit for sale, Then go off to market so brisk and well, Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary, And make her old table shine. The man who made her he made her so well, He made every cog and wheel to tell. While the big wheel runs the little one hums, And the feeder sits above the drum, Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary, And make her old table shine. There's old Father Howard the sheaves to put, While old Mother Howard she does make up. And Mary she sits and feeds all day, While Johnny he carries the dtraw away, Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary, And make her old table shine. At sevn o'clock we do begin And we generally stop about nine or ten To have our beer and oil her up, Then off we go till one o'clock, Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary, And make her old table shine. Then after a bite and a drink all round The driver he climbs to his box again And with his long whip he shouts, All right, And he drives 'em round till five at night. Singing rumble-dum-dairy flare up Mary, And make her old table shine. Source: Bob Copper, A Song For Every Season, CopperSongs, 1971 Notes: From Jim Copper's songbook. See The Copper Family website. I have introduced an extra rest before 'Singing Rumble-dum-dairy' to preserve the timing of the bar. Database entry is here. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Jan 04 - 02:15 pm | |
In the seventies, it was the fashion to have a little quotation before chapters in text-books to relieve the monotony. When I was preparing some articles on databases, and how table optimisation could improve overall performance, but needed considerable processing to set up, I quoted the 'At seven o'clock we do begin' verse at head of the chapter. I wonder how many other folk songs have appeared in textbooks outside the literary and musical. | ||