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larryhammerTBD is in a phase of demanding we sing to her frequently, and I've taken to ransacking leafing through our folk song collections for something, anything, that I remember from my childhood. "The Grandfather Clock" was a nice rediscovery, as was "Erie Canal."* Aside from the problem of not having the True, Correct Version of "Froggy Went a-Courting,"** there is a significant omission from all of them -- none seem to have this favorite:
* Original title: "Low Bridge, Everybody Down." Huh. Also, originally three verses instead of two.
** The one from an old Pete Seeger LP with the chorus "Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese / here's to the pears and the apple trees / and here's to the lovely strawberries / ding-dang-dong went the wedding bells."
---L.
Subject quote from "Low Bridge, Everybody Down," Thomas S. Allen.
White coral bells upon a slender stalk,Does anyone else know this round? Or other, similar bits of loveliness?
Lilies-of-the-valley deck my garden walk.
Oh, don't you wish that you could hear them ring?
That will happen only when the fairies sing.
* Original title: "Low Bridge, Everybody Down." Huh. Also, originally three verses instead of two.
** The one from an old Pete Seeger LP with the chorus "Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese / here's to the pears and the apple trees / and here's to the lovely strawberries / ding-dang-dong went the wedding bells."
---L.
Subject quote from "Low Bridge, Everybody Down," Thomas S. Allen.