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Tune for Wee Cooper o' Fife
"Wee Cooper O'Fife " (Roud 117) is a Scottish folk song about a cooper who has "a braw new wife" who will not cook, clean, and sew in case she "spoil her comely hue". A town in Fife is called Cupar; this is a pun.
Verses get added, with one version having him put a sheep skin jacket on her and beating it. It was recorded by Burl Ives on 11 February 1941[1] Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger Hedy West , Ed McCurdy , and Ian Campbell.[2]
The Wee Cooper O'Fife is also the name of a Scottish country dance devised by Hugh Foss to fit the tune of the folk song, which is unusual in having ten-bar rather eight-bar phrases.[3]
Similar songs [ edit ]
Other versions of the song are known as "Dan Doo", "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Little Old Man Lived Out West".[4]
The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin [ edit ]
"The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin " is an English Child ballad 277. In this song, a man has married a woman of higher birth than him. She scorns the household labor. The man kills a wether (castrated male sheep), skins it, and wraps her in it. He declares that he can not beat her, but he can certainly beat a wether's skin. She recants her refusal and works.
In other variants, such as "Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero", he does not have a pretext for beating her.
Dan Doo [ edit ]
Dan Doo is a British folk song that was brought to the United States.[5] Wisconsin Folk Song Recording Project .[5] Max Hunter Song Collection at the University of Missouri . Frank Proffitt recorded it on Frank Proffitt Sings Folk Songs on Folkways Records . It has been published as a children's ballad [6] [7] [8] [6]
The Library of Congress has a version of the song sung by Charles Dietz and recorded in Monroe, Wisconsin by Leland Coon in 1946.[9]
The Library of Congress has a recording of it.[10]
Risseldy Rosseldy [ edit ]
An American variation of the song, entitled "Risseldy Rosseldy", was sung by the school children in the 1963 film The Birds birds . "Risseldy Rosseldy" was also featured as a musical number in Wee Sing in Sillyville
Popular culture [ edit ]
The song was part of the South Park Season "The Scoots ", which is the fifth episode of the 22nd season.
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Wee Cooper of Fife" . Yet Another Digital Tradition Page . Retrieved 2021-06-21 .
^ "Dance: The Wee Cooper O' Fife - SCDDB" . my.strathspey . 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2021-06-21 .
^ Bronson, Bertrand Harris (8 March 2015). The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4: With Their Texts, according to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America ISBN 9781400867523
^ a b "Wisconsin Folksong Collection – UW Digital Collections" .
^ a b Bronson, Bertrand Harris (8 March 2015). The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4: With Their Texts, according to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America ISBN 9781400867523
^ Musick, Ruth Ann (7 December 1960). "Ballads, folk songs & folk tales from West Virginia" . West Virginia University Library – via Google Books.
^ West Virginia Songbag page 218
^ "Dan doo" . Library of Congress .
^ "Little old man he lived in the West" . The Library of Congress . Retrieved 2021-06-21 .
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