| Author | Topic: Add:The Farmyard | |
| dmcg | Posted - 15 Aug 04 - 01:47 pm | |
Up was I on my father's farm On a Mayday morning early Feeding of my father's cows On a Mayday morning early. With a moo, moo here And a moo, moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, Here a pretty moo; Six pretty maids come and gang along o' me To the merry green fields and the farmyard. Up was I on my father's farm On a Mayday morning early Feeding of my father's goats On a Mayday morning early. With a nan, nan here And a nan there, Here a nan, there a nan, Here a pretty nan; Six pretty maids come and gang along o' me To the merry green fields and the farmyard. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 15 Aug 04 - 03:03 pm | |
This appears in Singing Together, Autumn 1966 edition. | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 15 Aug 04 - 03:30 pm | |
The Farmyard, or The Merry Green Fields was noted by Cecil Sharp from Eliza Gardey, aged 74, at Marylebone Workhouse, London, on 22 October 1908 (Sharp MSS ref. Folk Tunes 1984). It was first printed in Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools, London: Novello, 1908-1925, No. 985. Also in Karpeles, Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, II, 425-426, with the singer's name given as "Goodey" (apparently a mistake). Number 745 in the Roud Folk Song Index, though it seems likely that the songs listed under 887 also belong with it. Something of a loose song family which also includes Old MacDonald and a stage song of 1706, In the Fields in Frost and Snows which appears in D'Urfey, Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719-1720, II, 214-16: from Thomas D'Urfey and William Worthen Appleton, Wonders in the sun; or, The kingdom of the birds: London, 1706). Examples also found in America: see mudcat thread Up was I on my father's farm. | ||