FTX-196 - I'M A BOW-LEGGED CHICKEN

ENGLISH SINGING GAMES -2-

44 Playground Games from the North of England, being the second of two selections of recordings of Singing Games with some Clapping Games - as distinct from the Counting-Out and Ball Bouncing (FTX-194) and Skipping (FTX-197). Most recorded in Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire by Father Damian Webb, in the 60's & 70's, using a "Nagra" portable tape machine.

1. I'M A BOW-LEGGED CHICKEN (1) - 1.02

2. EM-POM-PI (1) (various attempts) - 3.20

3. THERE CAME THREE DUKES A-RIDING (1) - 1.45

4. WE'VE COME TO SEE OUR JENNY JONES - 2.05

5. SALLY WAS A NAUGHTY GIRL (Mary was a bad girl) - 1.56

6. YOU PUT YOUR LEFT LEG IN (The Hokioke) - 2.53

7. SALLY, GO ROUND THE SUN - 0.22

8. THE WIND, THE WIND, THE WIND BLOWS HIGH - 1.40

9. THE BIG SHIP SAILS THROUGH THE ILLY-ALLY-O - 1.26

10. THE BIG SHIP SAILS (2) - 0.28

11. DOWN IN THE MEADOW, WHERE NOBODY KNOWS - 0.50

12. I'M A TEXAS GIRL - 1.14

13. AS I WAS GOING TO HOCKEY (Kentucky) - 0.48

14. RIDING ALONG ON A PUSH-BIKE, HONEY - 1.19

15. I'M A BOW-LEGGED CHICKEN (2) - 0.53

16. THE YELLOW ROSE FROM TEXAS - 1.20

17. THE WIND, THE WIND - 2.21

18. HELEN AND HER STEAM-BOAT - 0.35

19. UM-POM-PE (2) - 0.25

20. MY MOTHER TOLD ME - 0.30

21. WHO STOLE THE COOKIES FROM THE BAKER'S SHOP? (1) - 0.46

22. SHE SAT NEATH THE LILACS AND PLAYED HER GUITAR - 3.20

23. MARY WAS A BAD GIRL - 1.40

24. I FOUND A PEANUT - 1.42

25. WHEN I WAS ONE (1) (1-10) - 3.02

26. UNDER THE BRAMBLE BUSHES - 0.25

27. WHEN BILLY BOY WAS ONE (2) (1-12) - 2.05

28. I WENT INTO A BAKER'S SHOP (1) - 0.56

29. MY MOTHER IS A BAKER, YUM-YUMEE (1) - 1.06

30. UM-POM-PE (3) - 0.28

31. I SAW MY BOY-FRIEND WALKING DOWN THE STREET - 1.33

32. WHEN I WAS ONE (3) (1-10) - 1.24

33. ORANGE BELLS - 1.17

34. AS I WAS GOING TO TURKEY - 1.20

35. THERE CAME A DUKES A-RIDING (2) - 1.54

36. SEE, SEE, MY PLAINSIE - 0.24

37. EM-POM-PE (4) - 0.14

38. UNDER THE BRIAR BUSH - 0.35

39. I WENT TO THE CHINESE RESTAURANT (2) - 0.25

40, THE SPACE-MAN SAYS - 0.28

41. MY MOTHER IS A BAKER (2) - 0.25

42. WHO STOLE THE SHOE FROM THE COBBLER'S SHOP? (2) (1-10) - 1.23

43. IN AND OUT THE DANCING BLUEBELLS (with preparatory argument) - 1.46

44, THE PRINCESS LIVED IN A BIG HIGH TOWER (Sleeping Beauty) - 1.35

#1: St Mary's Juniors, Chorley; #2: Girls from Leyland; #3: St Joseph's Infants, Nelson; #4: St Joseph's Juniors, Nelson; #5-9: Turpin Green, Leyland; #10-17: St Theresa Juniors, Crossgates, Leeds 1975; #18-24 St Josephs Juniors, Castleford, 1975; #25-31 & #44: St Benedicts Juniors, Garforth 1976; #32-43: St Patricks Juniors, Huddersfield, 1978.

Recorded by Damian Webb 1975-78. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1980.