The song was recorded in 1941 by the Almanac Singers (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell, and Lee Hays) on the album Talking Union & Other Union Songs. 10 (The Happy Farmer) cubusdk 40.8K subscribers Subscribe 720 Share 206K views 13. I’m sticking to the union ’til the day I die. 10 (The Happy Farmer) - YouTube 0:00 / 0:59 Robert SCHUMANN: Op. I’m sticking to the union, I’m sticking to the union. Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union, She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called, Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. There once was a union maid, she never was afraid His boots are crackin’ for want of blackin‘Īnd his owd fusty coat is wanting mendingįast forward to June 1940 and Woody Guthrie’s own re-write of the song in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view: Union Maid. The moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin The chorus (‘Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing’) is transformed during the First World War into The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin: (This is, incidentally, also the key to how we know the tune to which Gerrard Winstanley’s Ye Noble Diggers, All would have been sung: it was also, so its metre and structure show, the tune for Jack Hall, John Benbow, and Captain Kidd.) So, yes, in the fine tradition of folk and protest song, tunes are ever re-usable. The tune notably appears frequently as part of the underscore to The Wizard of Oz. Or so I thought … until Maria pointed out the similarity to Robert Schumann’s 1848 piano composition The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work from which, it seems arguable, Mills had, consciously or not, adapted the music of the verse. 'The Happy Farmer' Robert Schumann, Lyrics,' Oh, what can with our flowry plains compare,' Music Notes, Inc. The Happy Farmer Edit Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend, often translated as ' The Happy Farmer ,' is one of the 43 short music pieces that make up Robert Schumanns Album for the Young. I remembered the tune to be that of Kerry Mills and Thurland Chattaway’s Red Wing which I thought to be around 1915 it turns out that it was in fact composed and written in 1907, an early recording of the song by Frank C Stanley and Henry Burr dating from 1910: One of our workshop participants then asked me whether I knew how old the song Union Maid might be. This invariably led to our talking about the songs referenced in the lyric, and in particular to our playing through a recording of Union Maid. The song has, like many a great protest song, a very catchy and memorable sing-along chorus: (For a non-verbal idea to line up check out this post.Our ‘protest song’ workshop has latterly been rehearsing a new song, Si Kahn‘s They All Sang ‘Bread and Roses’, first recorded in 1990 by American folk singer and political activist Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015), one of the original members of The Weavers. Green is quiet and they know it – Please line! Red is quiet and they know it – Please line up! It’s time to look up on the board to see what happens next! To the Tune of If you’re Happy and You Know It It’s time to look up on the board, on the board, on the board. My hands are laying by my sides, I’m standing straight and tall, my eyes are looking forward and I’m ready for the hall, I’m ready for the hall. To the Tune of the Gilligan’s Island Theme Song My art goes in the folder, My art goes in the folder, Hi Ho the Dairy-O, My art goes in the folder. My name is on my paper, My name is on my paper, Hi Ho the Dairy-O, My name is on my paper. Listen to The Happy Farmer on the English music album Manhattan Minuet by The Beau Hunks Sextette, only on JioSaavn. Singing these over and over can make you a little crazy, so I was desperate for some new material! To the Tune of The Farmer in the Dell It’s so fun! Here are some of my old favorites along with some new songs I made up for this year. The first few weeks of Kindergarten art I practically sing the entire lesson from start to finish just to hold their attention. Singing the directions activates students’ brains in a new way and makes even some of the most reluctant listeners tune in to what you’re saying. I use piggyback songs with my K-2 students all the time! A piggyback song involves taking a popular song everyone knows, like Old MacDonald, and changing the words to fit your content.
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