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T:False Knight Upon the Road
T:The Fause Knight upon the Road
C:Trad
B:Bronson
O:Creighton, I932, pp. I-2. Sung by Mr. Faulkner and Mr
O:Ben Henneberry, Devil's Island, Nova Scotia.
N:Child 3
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Gmix % Hexatonic ( -4) irregular
G2 E2 | DDDD | G2 GG | BBBB |
w:Oh, what have you in your bag? O, what have you in your
B2 A2 | GG G2 | E2 DD | G2 BB |
w:pack?_ Cried the false knight to the child on the
A3 G | GG G2 | E2 DD | G2 BB |
w:road. I have a little primer and a bit of bread for
dd Ige | dBBB | B2 GA | B"rit."G G2 |
w:din-ner, Cried the pret-ty lit-tle child on-ly sev-en years
G3 || Ig | edef | g2 dd | edef |
w:old. Hi did-dle dee-dle dum, dee-dle did-dle dee-dle
g3 z | egef | gfge | dB AG |
w:dum, Dee-dle dee-dle dee-dle did-dle, dee-dle dee-dle
A3 g | edef | g2 dd | edef |
w:dum, Diddle did-dle did-dle dee, dee-dle dee-dle dee-dle
g2 fe | dBBB | BAGA | B2 "rit."G2 | G3 z |]
w:dum, Did-dle did-dle did-dle dee-dle did-dle dee de dum.
W:
W:"Oh, what have you in your bag? O, what have you in your pack?"
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"I have a little primer and a bit of bread for dinner,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:Hi diddle deedle dum, deedle diddle deedle dum,
W:Deedle deedle deedle diddle, deedle deedle dum,
W:Diddle diddle diddle dee, deedle deedle deedle dum,
W:Diddle diddle diddle deedle diddle dee de dum.
W:
W:"What is rounder than a ring? What is higher thana king?"
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"The sun is rounder than a ring. God is higher thana king,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"What is whiter than the milk? What is softer than the silk?"
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"Snow is whiter than the milk. Down is softer than the silk,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"What is greener than the grass? What is worse than women coarse?
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"Poison is greener than the grass. The devil's worse than women coarse,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"What is longer than the wave?* What is deeper than the sea?"
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"Love is longer than the wave. Hell is deeper than the sea,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:"Oh, a curse upon your father and a curse upon your mother,"
W:Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
W:"Oh, a blessing on my father, and a blessing on mymother,"
W:Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.
W:
W:Chorus
W:
W:*Or, "way.,'
W:Mrs. Creighton's note: "The singer dances to the chorus."