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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]
"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
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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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]
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, The Riddle Song (I gave My Love a Cherry), Single Girl; Sweet Betsy from Pike, Sally Goodin', Sally Ann "Ghost Dance" Sonata No.7 (1987) Medicine Song ; Song of the Fox , Bird , Song of the Fox Society (Lakota people) Ghost Dance , Ghost Dance , Song of the Earth Maker
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