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Can anyone think of a/the song that has the line in it that's something like "riddle muh ree muh rye"? I can hear that line in my head but can't think of any of the rest of it.
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I believe it's a fairly common chorus line found in any number of English folk songs. Good luck tracking it down to an original.
Edit: Afterthought.
Or either Irish, one.
Last edited by Faldage; 08/24/09 10:35 AM.
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You might ask a musicologist or ethno-musicologist (maybe Buffalo Shrdlu knows a candidate) about non-lexical vocables in folk song lyrics or some such. In jazz, it's called scat singing.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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In chorus years ago we sang a song:
(I don't remember the title)
"I love to go a wondering, across the mountain track,
and when I go I always have my knapsack on my back.
Valderee, Valder I" {Ree and Rye - reminded me of what you
are looking for}
VALDEREE, VALDERYE.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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The Happy Wanderer ( link). Written in German as Der fröhliche Wanderer shortly after WW2 by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller ( link). An Austrian rock band, Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (aka EAV, link) supplied new and satirical lyrics to it about the late neo-fascist politician Jörg Haider.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Jackie, I found this: riddle me, and perhaps it's a song written on one of those riddles? or something similar?
formerly known as etaoin...
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The Happy Wanderer ( link). Written in German as Der fröhliche Wanderer shortly after WW2 by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller ( link). An Austrian rock band, Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (aka EAV, link) supplied new and satirical lyrics to it about the late neo-fascist politician Jörg Haider. Thanks so much for helping me to return to a pleasant memory: the years in Chorus.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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