Whack Row de dow-Green Converse

Comment by Silas Tackitt on August 31, 2010 at 8:24pm

Seen it, but never heard it played.

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/otcgi/llscgi60
Whack Row De-Dow, or, A Hunkey Boy is Yankee Doodle.
Words Written by Miss Fanny Herring. Music arranged by W.L. Hobbs.
New York : Firth, Pond & Co., 547 Broadway
1861

It's mentioned in Hooley's Opera House Songster, but it's at the back of the booklet listed as a song in another songster.

There's a Tony Pastor songbook with the tune, appropriately titled, "Billy Boot and Timmy Twist" which is sung to the air of Whack Row De Row. Here's the link : http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt8_6aucrg0C&pg=RA4-PA50&d... This volume is from 1867 which shows the tune had some legs.

Comment by Ian Bell on August 31, 2010 at 9:41pm

I believe "Whack Row De Dow" is Irish for "Doo Dah Doo Dah" - I'm stumped on this one. You're right about "Wait For The Wagon" though - I can hear that in there too. Just more loose musical chromosomes floating around I guess.

Comment by Tim Twiss on September 1, 2010 at 7:40am

Thanks Silas...good cross reference.

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