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"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]
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".
"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
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This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
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]
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AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. [4] Reviewer Greg Adams called it "one of Arnold's best LPs, featuring his exquisite baritone in an appealingly spare commercial folk setting (acoustic guitar, strings, vocal chorus) in which the pop elements are subdued enough to be inoffensive."