Charlie Zahm, on his album The Celtic Balladeer (1999).Bill Staines, on his album One More River (1998).Peter, Paul and Mary, on the album Peter, Paul and Mommy, Too (1993).Benjamin Luxon and Bill Crofut, on the album Simple Gifts (1989).A cartoon made by Weston Woods Studios (1988).Fred Penner, on Special Delivery, LP (1983), later reissued as Ebeneezer Sneezer, (1994), CD.Tim Hart, as "A Fox Jumped Up" on the album The Drunken Sailor and other Kids Favourites (1983).Tom Glazer, on the album Children's Greatest Hits, Vol II (1977).Roger Whittaker, on the album The Magical World of Roger Whittaker (1975).MacLean & MacLean, as a parody with vulgar lyrics on MacLean & MacLean Suck Their Way to the Top.The Young Tradition, as "Daddy Fox," on the album So Cheerfully Round (1967) TRA 155.Jon Pertwee, on the album Children's Favourites (1966) MFP 1175.The Smothers Brothers, on the comedy album Think Ethnic (1963).Tom Glazer, from the Album Come On and Join in the Game (1960s).Jimmie Rogers, from the album Jimmie Rogers Sings Folk Songs (1960).The Brothers Four, on the album Rally 'Round! (c.Salli Terri, on Songs of Enchantment (1959).Gateway Singers, on Live at Stanford (1957).Odetta, on Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957).Pete Seeger, on Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes Folkways, LP (1955).Harry Belafonte, on Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites RCA LPM-1022, LP (1954)."The Fox" has been recorded or covered by: With how, fox, how! With hey, fox, hey! Comme no more unto oure howse to bere oure gese aweye!Īnd assoyled our gese both grete and small. The second, called "The False Fox" ("false" here meaning "deceitful"), is as follows: The first, usually called "The Fox and the Goose", goes as follows: 1500), and are written in Middle English. The two earliest versions both date from the fifteenth century ( c. Old Mother Widdle Waddle jumpt out of bed,Īnd out at the casement she popt out her head:Ĭrying the house is on fire, the grey goose is dead,Īnd the fox he is come to the town, oh! (The cover of 'The Fox' by Marty Robbins has the same lyrics as below.) In Joseph Ritson's Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810), the song is recorded (under the name "Dame Widdle Waddle") thus: They never had such a supper in their lifeĪnd the little ones chewed on the bones-o, bones-o, bones-o,Īnd the little ones chewed on the bones-o. Then the fox and his wife without any strife 'cause it must be a mighty fine town-o, town-o, town-o!" There were the little ones eight, nine, ten. He’ll soon be on my trail-o, trail-o, trail-o." The fox he said, "I'd better flee with my kill Then John he went to the top of the hill, Old Mother pitter patter jumped out of bed Ĭrying, "John, John! The grey goose is goneĪnd the fox is on the town-o, town-o, town-o!"Ĭrying, "John, John, the grey goose is gone He didn't mind their quack, quack, quack,Īnd their legs all a-dangling down-o, down-o, down-o, Where the ducks and the geese were put therein.īefore I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o, Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o,
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