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To me whack fol the diddle di do, to me whack fol the diddle day. though one version, collected in Virginia from Asa Martin and titled "Lightning and Thunder", ends with the birth of a baby: The knife it was got and the britches cut asunder [sung three times] And then they went at it like lightnin' and thunder. Sing fol-de-rol-day.
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da In the merry month of June, when first from home I started, And left the girls alone, sad and broken-hearted. Shook hands with father dear, kissed my darling mother, Drank a pint of beer, my tears and grief to smother;
"Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [1] [2] [3] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established.
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They also presented a version of "House of the Rising Sun", with Graeme Garden singing a fairly straight version of the song and the rest of the group providing highly mannered interjections, such as "tiddly-pom" and "whack-fol-riddle-me-o". Yet, despite the whimsy, it was clear that the cast members were very capable singers.
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A similar version was included in Cecil Sharp and Sabine Baring-Gould's English Folk-Songs for Schools, published in 1906. [4] It was collected several times in England in the early 20th century with a variety of lyrics. In 1948 it was included by Pete Seeger and Ruth Crawford in their American Folk Songs for Children and recorded by Seeger in ...