#englishfolksong — Public Fediverse posts
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"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
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"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkZaFNi6c -
"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkZaFNi6c -
"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkZaFNi6c -
"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkZaFNi6c -
Nominations please for the "Book of extremely short English folk songs." Penguin never got round to this, so here's a start:
"I'll give you one, oh
Oh no you won't you know."#folk #folksong #FolkMusic #EnglishfolkSong #bookofextremelyshortenglishfolksongs