Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"The Riddle Song" (Roud 330), also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry", is an English-language folk song, [1] a lullaby most likely originating in England and carried over by settlers to the American Appalachians. [2] As is typical with such songs, it is based on the pentatonic scale. [3]
"The Riddle Song", English lullaby also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry" "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)", a 2000 song by Paul van Dyk in collaboration with Saint Etienne
Many of the songs he published were revived in the Folk music revival, for example "The Riddle Song" ("I gave my love a Cherry"), which he connects with Child No. 1, "Riddles Wisely Expounded". Joan Baez sang ten Child ballads distributed among her first five albums, the liner notes of which identified them as such. [13]
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
It was written by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster, the tune (except for the bridge) being adapted from "The Riddle Song" (also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry"), an old English folk song. Mathis's original version reached number 9 on what is now called the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA in 1957. [3]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Of the songs on the album "Sospan Fach" and "Ar Lan y Môr" are both traditional Welsh folk songs, while "Swansea Town" is written by Swansea songwriter and composer, John M. Davies; the rest are original works by Boyce. "I Gave My Love a Debenture" is a parody of the song commonly known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry".
Love knowing what's happening in the zodiac world? Get your free daily horoscope, and see how it can inform your day through predictions and advice for work, life, and love. aries. 3/21 - 4/19. taurus