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Does anyone have lyric/chords for Cyril Tawney song.

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Orsino

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Oct 31, 1999, 2:00:00 AM10/31/99
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I once heard a song called I think Strawberry Fair by Cyril Tawney, and
wonder if anyone has the chords/guitar tabs and lyrics for this.

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Orsino
East Yorkshire
UK

Chris Ryall

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Nov 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/1/99
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Orsino <Ors...@grafrajohn.karoo.co.uk> wrote -

>I once heard a song called I think Strawberry Fair by Cyril Tawney, and
>wonder if anyone has the chords/guitar tabs and lyrics for this.
>Orsino
>East Yorkshire
>UK

Eek! It's traditional, and collected by the extraordinary cleric
and squire Sabine Baring-Gould. Says here he heard it in a Devon pub.
From Lloyd's 'Folk song in England' we get the fragment (2nd verse?):

Oh I have a lock that doth lack a key
Ri tol, ri tol, riddle tol de lido
I have a lock that doth lack a key
Tol de dee
I've got a lock Sir, she did say
If you've got the key then come this way
Ri tol, ri tol, riddle tol de lido
<ends there>

It seems he found it too rude "but lost - fortunately so -
on half the old fellows that sing the song" and bowdlerised
it out of existence before publishing.

I remember the 1st verse from childhood,
presumably from folk songs for children.

As I was going to Strawberry fair
Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
As I was going to Strawberry fair
Fol the day
As I was going to Strawberry fair
'twas there I met a maiden fair
Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
Riffle rifle fol the diddle day

.. but nothing about locks or keys.
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Chris Ryall

Martin Banks

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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In article <+jQ7GeAy...@cavendish.demon.co.uk>,
ch...@cavendish.demon.co.uk (Chris Ryall) wrote:


> As I was going to Strawberry fair
> Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
> As I was going to Strawberry fair
> Fol the day
> As I was going to Strawberry fair
> 'twas there I met a maiden fair
> Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
> Riffle rifle fol the diddle day

That is the version recorded by Anthony Newley in the late 60s/ early 70s, isn't it?

Made it to the charts, IIRC. I *think* it came out as a sort of riposte to the Simon and
Garfunkel `Scarborough Fair' record.....but I could be wrong:-)


Faith Myers

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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Martin Banks <ban...@cix.co.uk> wrote in message

> That is the version recorded by Anthony Newley in the late 60s/ early 70s,
isn't it?

(Here I go, showing my age again!!)

This was definitely in the 1960s, late 1963 to be precise, and it was
Anthony Newley. I have clear recollections of listening to it on the radio
of the (shared) car which took a group of us from Teacher Training College
(that's what they were called then!) in Bromsgrove to various schools in the
Smethwick area in November/December 1963, for teaching practice.

The last line was spoken, rather like a coster's call:-
"Strawb'ries, strawb'ries! The donkey's eaten all the strawb'ries!"

Faith
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Mark Bluemel

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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In article <941622098.19854.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,

"Faith Myers" <fmy...@xenopus.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The last line was spoken, rather like a coster's call:-
> "Strawb'ries, strawb'ries! The donkey's eaten all the strawb'ries!"

'E pinched them off me barrer!

Mark "feeling my (great) age" Bluemel

BTW: I seem to remember a send-up of this already fairly light-hearted
number entitled "Lynchee Fair" - featuring "Lotus Blossom Goldstein,
Kosher Geisha made in Asia". Is my raddled mind playing tricks on me?


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JLinwood

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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In article <941622098.19854.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Faith Myers"
<fmy...@xenopus.co.uk> writes:

>This was definitely in the 1960s, late 1963 to be precise,

It was 1961.
jim

Johnny Adams

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Nov 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/3/99
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In article <17599f0b...@usw-ex0102-014.remarq.com>, Mark Bluemel <mark.bluem...@siemens.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>In article <941622098.19854.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>"Faith Myers" <fmy...@xenopus.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The last line was spoken, rather like a coster's call:-
>> "Strawb'ries, strawb'ries! The donkey's eaten all the strawb'ries!"
>
>'E pinched them off me barrer!
>
>Mark "feeling my (great) age" Bluemel
>
>BTW: I seem to remember a send-up of this already fairly light-hearted
>number entitled "Lynchee Fair" - featuring "Lotus Blossom Goldstein,
>Kosher Geisha made in Asia". Is my raddled mind playing tricks on me?
>

No - I have to admit to singing that one in early folk club days - it would be
very non-pc now I guess!

Johnny Adams

Martin Banks

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Nov 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/4/99
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In article <19991103134457...@ngol03.aol.com>, jlin...@aol.com
(JLinwood) wrote:

> It was 1961.

Good God. Was it that early?

Chris Ryall

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Nov 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/4/99
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Martin Banks <ban...@cix.co.uk> wrote -

>In article <+jQ7GeAy...@cavendish.demon.co.uk>,
>ch...@cavendish.demon.co.uk (Chris Ryall) wrote:
>
>
>> As I was going to Strawberry fair
>> Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
>> As I was going to Strawberry fair
>> Fol the day
>> As I was going to Strawberry fair
>> 'twas there I met a maiden fair
>> Riffle rifle fol the diddle dado
>> Riffle rifle fol the diddle day
>
>That is the version recorded by Anthony Newley in the late 60s/ early 70s, isn't
>it?
>
>Made it to the charts, IIRC. I *think* it came out as a sort of riposte to the
>Simon and
>Garfunkel `Scarborough Fair' record.....but I could be wrong:-)
>
Could be - I recall it from a primary school not far from Grimethorpe
in 1959 .. but my eyes are dim, I cannot see .. chris
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Chris Ryall

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