Looking for Winnie the Pooh Song
Jeff Harrington
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I'm a librarian in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm trying to find the music for a
song called "Christopher Robin says his prayers" which was written by A.A.
Milne and Harold Fraser-Simson in 1935. I assume it came from Winnie the
Pooh. If anyone has a copy of the music or knows where I can get one,
I'd appreciate it if they could get in touch with me at the address below.
Many thanks in advance!
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Sue Dirani
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(902) 424-2475, FAX (902) 424-0633
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James Langdell
>
>Sue Dirani has asked me to post this for her:
>I'm a librarian in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm trying to find the music for a
>song called "Christopher Robin says his prayers" which was written by A.A.
>Milne and Harold Fraser-Simson in 1935. I assume it came from Winnie the
>Pooh. If anyone has a copy of the music or knows where I can get one,
>I'd appreciate it if they could get in touch with me at the address below.
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>Information Services, Nova Scotia Provincial Library
>(902) 424-2475, FAX (902) 424-0633
>sdi...@nshpl.library.ns.ca
I found this listing in UC's melvyl system:
11. MUSIC SCORE
Author: Fraser-Simson, Harold, 1878-1944.
Title: The hums of Pooh; lyrics by Pooh, music by H. Fraser-Simson,
introduction and notes by A. A. Milne, decorations by E. H.
Shepard, additional lyric by Eeyore. New York, E. P. Dutton
[1948, c1930]
Description: ix, 67 p. illus. 32 cm.
Notes: Lyrics from Winnie-the-Pooh and The house at Pooh Corner, by A.
A. Milne.
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Deryk Barker
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: I'm a librarian in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm trying to find the music for a
: song called "Christopher Robin says his prayers" which was written by A.A.
: Milne and Harold Fraser-Simson in 1935. I assume it came from Winnie the
: Pooh. If anyone has a copy of the music or knows where I can get one,
: I'd appreciate it if they could get in touch with me at the address below.
Actually from either 'When We Were Very Young' or 'Now We Are Six'
Milne's two collections of non-Poohabilia (as it were).
This is the verse which inspired
Hush, hush, noboday cares!
Christopher Robin has fallen downstairs.
(Who wrote that BTW?)
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David Brooks
>Actually from either 'When We Were Very Young' or 'Now We Are Six'
>Milne's two collections of non-Poohabilia (as it were).
Also the source of "Halfway Down the Stairs", which was a hit for Kermit's
Nephew Robin in 1977, again with music by Simson.
I really don't see any problem with calling a good-sized music store and
giving the composer's name.
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Greg L Russell
Sorry, I only know the words:
Hush, hush, whisper who dares.
Little boy sits at the foot of the stairs.
Blood on his hands, fur on the mat.
Christopher Robins castrated the cat.
Apologies for any offence caused - I'm rediscovering WTP through
my children.
Greg Russell
Stephen Wilcox
idea...@dorsai.org (Jeff Harrington) writes:
>
>Sue Dirani has asked me to post this for her:
>I'm a librarian in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm trying to find the music
for a
>song called "Christopher Robin says his prayers" which was written by
A.A.
>Milne and Harold Fraser-Simson in 1935. I assume it came from Winnie
the
>Pooh. If anyone has a copy of the music or knows where I can get one,
>I'd appreciate it if they could get in touch with me at the address below.
>
When I was young(er), the Hums of Pooh were some of my favourite songs.
And it was Pooh that first introduced me to Beethoven. We had a record of
Winnie the Pooh which used the second movement of the `Moonlight' sonata
as music between chapters.
The bad news is that `Christopher Robin is saying his prayers' is not
only fairly kitsch as a poem, it is also not in either of the Pooh books,
so it is not a Hum. It is in one of Milne's other books, probably Now We
are Six.
The words:
Little boy kneels at the foot of his bed.
Da da da da da da da da head.
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares.
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
There are more verses, along the lines of `God bless Daddy and God bless
Mummy, and God bless Nurse', which dates it appallingly. The tune is:
C D E /F E D /E C E /G - -
C D E /F E D /E C E /G - -
c - - /B - - /A G A /G - -
F E F /D E F /G E D /C - -.
This means that somewhere at home there is an old LP with this song on,
which would have details of composer et al. Of course home is in Bristol,
not Oxford, and I am not going there for a while.
The only other song I remember bits of is `They're changing guards at
Buckingham Palace/ {drum drum drum drum}/Christopher Robin went down with
Alice {drum drum drum drum}/Alice is marrying one of the guards/A
soldier's life is terribly hard/{drum drum drum} Said Alice.
I used to know the Hum to be sung while hanging on a blue balloon
pretending to be a cloud, but sadly that one's been confused by that
awful song from `The Snowman'.
Ah! Nostalgia!
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Stephen Wilcox ** Since singing is so good a thing,
wil...@maths.ox.ac.uk ** I wish all men would learne to sing.
Iain G Liddell
>
>This is the verse which inspired
> Hush, hush, noboday cares!
> Christopher Robin has fallen downstairs.
>
>(Who wrote that BTW?)
>--
>Deryk.
According to my copy of Faber Book of Parodies (ed. Simon Brett),
this was J B Morton.
Iain
Craig_E...@transarc.com
Winnie the .. Stephen Wil...@maths.ox. (2246)
> I used to know the Hum to be sung while hanging on a blue balloon
> pretending to be a cloud, but sadly that one's been confused by that
> awful song from `The Snowman'.
Wumf! I read all the Pooh stories dozens of times to my two guys who
are now a little old for it, and I gave up on extemporizing tunes for
the Hums and Songs such as an X might sing to a Y in Z circumstances.
My tunes didn't turn out so well, or I didn't like them. (Hadn't given
them as much thought as had Pooh, no doubt.) But is there really music
to go with these Hums/Songs? Would it be as delightful as the text?
(Loaded question, no doubt.) Cottleston Pie could be a winner.
Craig
Anthony M. Becker
Sir Arthur Sullivan set a number of the Songs/Hums, as well as some of
the poems from the non-Pooh books. There is a recording that was
available some time ago through the Musical Heritage Society. My
favorites are: How Sweet to Be a Cloud, Cottleston Pie (most
definitely a winner), and Three Cheers for Pooh.
Tony
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Patsy Moore
Fraser-Simpson is out of print, but the following can supply a sheet
music copy from archive: Express Music Ltd., Unit 11, Woodford Estate,
Southend Road, Woodford, Green, Essex, IG8 8HN, ENGLAND. Telephone:
(London)0815500550. Cost: UKP6.95 plus postage. Copyright holder in UK
is Warner-Chappell. Canadian equivalent of our Performing Right Society
should know if/where it's available in Canada. I haven't heard anyone
sing it for years but used to hear it a lot probably in forties and
early fifties. Good luck!
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James Langdell
>Sir Arthur Sullivan set a number of the Songs/Hums, as well as some of
>the poems from the non-Pooh books. There is a recording that was
>available some time ago through the Musical Heritage Society. My
>favorites are: How Sweet to Be a Cloud, Cottleston Pie (most
>definitely a winner), and Three Cheers for Pooh.
I don't think Sullivan from beyond the grave (d. 1900) to compose these
settings of poems from A. A. Milne's books, written in the 1920s.
Here's the correct reference to the authorized musical settings,
which are by Harold Fraser-Simson (1878-1944).
11. MUSIC SCORE
Author: Fraser-Simson, Harold, 1878-1944.
Title: The hums of Pooh; lyrics by Pooh, music by H. Fraser-Simson,
introduction and notes by A. A. Milne, decorations by E. H.
Shepard, additional lyric by Eeyore. New York, E. P. Dutton
[1948, c1930]
Description: ix, 67 p. illus. 32 cm.
Notes: Lyrics from Winnie-the-Pooh and The house at Pooh Corner, by A.
A. Milne.
He composed these originally in the 1920s, as the books were appearing.
The book compiles all of the songs that were in separate collections.
There's also settings of songs from "When We Were Very Young" in a
volume titled "Teddy Bear"; I'll have to take a look again at "The Hums
of Pooh" to see if all the non-Pooh verse was included in that later
compilation.
In the course of searching the University of California's Melvyl archive
again, I found a listing for an old 78 of Helen Traubel singing
"Vespers" from "When We Were Very Young."
Harold Fraser-Simson also wrote a number of musicals, including
"Toad of Toad Hall" based on "The Wind in the Willows."
Anthony M. Becker
>bec...@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Anthony M. Becker) writes:
>>Sir Arthur Sullivan set a number of the Songs/Hums, as well as some of
>>the poems from the non-Pooh books. There is a recording that was
>>available some time ago through the Musical Heritage Society. My
>>favorites are: How Sweet to Be a Cloud, Cottleston Pie (most
>>definitely a winner), and Three Cheers for Pooh.
>I don't think Sullivan from beyond the grave (d. 1900) to compose these
>settings of poems from A. A. Milne's books, written in the 1920s.
>Here's the correct reference to the authorized musical settings,
>which are by Harold Fraser-Simson (1878-1944).
>11. MUSIC SCORE
>Author: Fraser-Simson, Harold, 1878-1944.
>Title: The hums of Pooh; lyrics by Pooh, music by H. Fraser-Simson,
> introduction and notes by A. A. Milne, decorations by E. H.
> Shepard, additional lyric by Eeyore. New York, E. P. Dutton
> [1948, c1930]
>Description: ix, 67 p. illus. 32 cm.
>Notes: Lyrics from Winnie-the-Pooh and The house at Pooh Corner, by A.
> A. Milne.
I'm sure that you are correct. I was just trying to remember it from
off the top of my head after not having seen the recording for about 10
years. However, there IS a recording available through MHS.
zanh...@gmail.com
Sorry to drudge up a 24-year-old thread here, but if you were still looking for sheet music to Cottleston Pie I think you'll find it here: http://www.fabermusicstore.com/Cottleston-Pie-32848.aspx
It appears to be the version that Rowlf plays, with the exception that it seems to be missing the modulation to G# minor.
Regards,
Zander.