An old American Folksong with Concertina!

[M and T Concertina]

Hello!

 

Hope you're having a wonderful day! We have performed an old American folksong on our concertinas, and decided to share it here for your interest. 😁

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy!

[conband]

Fantastic.  Well done.  Now looking forward for more!   Les

[wunks]

Bravo!!

[Owen Anderson]

Interestingly, the chorus that you're singing is totally different than the version I learned as a child in the US. Yet your audience appears to know and expect your version. I wonder if this is an Australian variant on it?

[alex_holden]

2 hours ago, Owen Anderson said:

Interestingly, the chorus that you're singing is totally different than the version I learned as a child in the US. Yet your audience appears to know and expect your version. I wonder if this is an Australian variant on it?

 

It's the same version I remember being taught in northwest England in the 1980s.

[David Barnert]

8 hours ago, Owen Anderson said:

Interestingly, the chorus that you're singing is totally different than the version I learned as a child in the US. Yet your audience appears to know and expect your version. I wonder if this is an Australian variant on it?

 

5 hours ago, alex_holden said:

It's the same version I remember being taught in northwest England in the 1980s.

 

Everywhere but in America, I guess. I never heard the chorus before, either (and I grew up on the song).

[wunks]

It's nearly the same as the refrain for "The Old Chilsom Trail", as I recollect any way...

 

 

Edited August 8, 2022 by wunks

[James Fitton]

Isn't the folk process interesting! I grew up in Manchester, England, in the 70s and 80s, and this is pretty much word-for-word and note-for-note the version I know. Also a fair few more ribald adaptions, but this version sounds "canonical" to my ears (not that that really means much in this context.) Anyway, nicely done and thanks for posting!

[David Barnert]

3 hours ago, James Fitton said:

Isn't the folk process interesting! I grew up in Manchester, England, in the 70s and 80s, and this is pretty much word-for-word and note-for-note the version I know. Also a fair few more ribald adaptions, but this version sounds "canonical" to my ears (not that that really means much in this context.) Anyway, nicely done and thanks for posting!

 

This is essentially the version I learned from my parents in the 1960s in the New York City area (but without the sound effects). In our version, it was “silk pajamas” in the 5th verse and the 6th and 7th verses are unfamiliar to me.

 

https://youtu.be/fPxpF5MWu-A

[JimR]

I was just watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure on tv (there's nothing on). Pee Wee uses the American version.

 

 

[Owen Anderson]

I've heard a lot of variations on the verses. The version I learned as a kid always ended with "We will kill the old red rooster when she comes!", which gets omitted from children's TV renditions.  Across all the versions I've heard in the US, all repeat the verse in the refrain, rather than the aye-aye-yippee-aye-yay refrain.