Threescore Miles and Ten Can You Get There B Candle Light Yes Nd Back Again
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From: Allan C.
Date: 06 May 03 - 07:37 AM
I recently saw still another film (not the ane cited adjacent) in which snatches of the "Dublin" vocal listed here was sung. While I know that the original "Babylon" or "Glesca-Lea" source lyrics tin be institute here in the DT, I am curious to know the words to the "Dublin" version. Does anybody have them?
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From: Jimmy C
Date: 06 May 03 - ten:03 AM
I remember ths movie simply exercise non know all the words to the song. I believe office of it went
Click, Click my petty equus caballus
Click, Click over again sir
How many miles to Dublin Town
Three Score and X Sir
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From: Guest,noddy
Engagement: 07 May 03 - 05:nineteen AM
depends on where you starting time from!
Just I would not start from hither.
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From: Jim Dixon
Appointment: 08 May 03 - 08:21 AM
According to this page, "How Many Miles to Dublin Town" was likewise included in the 1938 film, "In Old Chicago," starring Alice Faye, Tyrone Ability, and Don Ameche.
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From: GUEST,NH Dave
Appointment: 08 May 03 - 08:52 AM
I believe the song was also in The Boy With Green Hair , starring, among others, Pat O'Brien and a very young Dean Stockwell.
Dave
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From: Joe Offer
Appointment: 08 May 03 - 06:32 PM
Folk Songs of Old New England has this:
HOW MANY MILES TO LONDON TOWN? How many miles to Londom boondocks?
4-score and ten!
Tin can I get there past candle-calorie-free?
Yes! and back again!
Open up the gate and allow me pass!
Toll outset yous pay!
I take no gold, what shall I do?
Plough and go away.
The players form ii lines, facing each other across a broad space. One actor stands in the centre. At the cease of the rhyme, the players run from side to side, and those defenseless past the ane in the center must help take hold of the others until all are caught.
Is it a unlike version of the same song? In that location's a vocal called "How Many Miles to Beth-east-le-hem" in Ruth Crawford Seeger'southward American Folk Songs for Christmas but I tin't observe the blankety-blank book merely now.
-Joe Offer-
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From: MartinRyan
Date: 08 May 03 - 07:06 PM
Sam Henry'due south Songs of the People has it as "How many Miles to Babyland?" with the following comments:
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Other titles: ".... Babylon (Bethlehem)?" The dialect pronunciation of the name of the word "Babyland" has led to its corruption to "Babylon", a meaningless title which spoils the theme.
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Huntingtons notes refer to other placenames - but no mention of Dublin.
Regards
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From: Invitee,lewis
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 02:10 PM
Chip,scrap, my fiddling horse
Chip, chip, again sir.
How many miles to London town?
Four score and so some.
Chip, Flake, my little equus caballus
Chip, chip, again sir.
Will I be home before it's nighttime?
There, back, and then some.
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From: GUEST
Engagement: 11 Aug 08 - 02:30 PM
As children my father (1916-1994) bounced united states of america on his genu and sang:
Chub, chub, my piddling horse,
Chub, chub once again.
How many miles to Dublin?
Iii-score and ten.
Will nosotros be at that place by candlelight?
Yes we will and back again.
Chub, chub, my little equus caballus.
Chub, chub again.
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Cheers.
-Joe Offer-
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From: Guest,Jane
Date: 25 Sep 08 - ten:55 PM
My grandmother, who was from Moygara, County Sligo, used to sing to u.s. (while bouncing united states on her knee):
Up upwards little horsey,
Up up again.
How many miles to Dublin?
Iii score ten.
Will we be at that place by candlelight?
Certain and back again,
And so upward up little horsey
Up up again.
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From: quokka
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:01 PM
My Dad,also from Sligo, used to sing this to us besides,while billowy on his knee.
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From: GUEST,Susan McKenna
Date: 06 November 08 - 08:45 AM
My husband has told me that equally a little boy, he was often bounced on the knee of his grandmother, Catherine Donohue McKenna's, born in Ireland, to the words of:
"Upwardly, up little horsie, Up, upward once again,
How many miles to Dublin,
3 score and ten.
Will I be back by candlelight?
Yeah, and back once more."
My husband bounced our boys, now, 32 and 28, on his knees to the same rhyme.
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From: Guest,leeneia
Date: 06 Nov 08 - 09:23 AM
A few years ago I went to the American Royal Livestock testify and watched the Arabian horse competition. There I heard more than one rider encourage her horse with a funny little clicking of the natural language against the teeth.
(At my business firm, we call it the 'true cat-feeding noise' for reasons which should be obvious.)
I am sure that the 'click, order or prune' words in a higher place are supposed to exist this noise. Kids would dearest information technology!
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From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Nov 08 - 02:xv PM
Getting flashbacks of hearing "Clip, clop, a chapallín" as a line in this one, as a child! "capallín" is, literally, a "little equus caballus" or pony.
Regards
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From: GUEST,Lynka3
Engagement: 13 Nov 08 - 09:42 PM
My Mum sang it to me at night...
Chip Chip my piddling horse
Chip Chip again Sir
How many miles to Dublin Town
4 score and ten Sir
Bit Fleck my niggling horse
Bit Flake over again Sir
will I become ther for candle lighht
Yep, and back again Sir.
However, as four score and ten is 90 miles, that seemed a bit long so I wonder id four score shouldnt be iii score?
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From: Invitee
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:41 PM
Chip chip my pony boy
And chip chip again sir,
How many miles to Dublin town?
Fore score and ten sir.
Will I exist at that place by candlelight?
Yes, and back over again sir.
Chip, chip my pony boy
And chip scrap again sir.
My second generation Irish gaelic grandmother (who passed away at 94 years one-time; buried in "Good Luck Cemetery" on St. Patrick's Twenty-four hours, 2008), also sang this song while bouncing grandchildren and nifty-grandchildren on her knee. I miss her.
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From: Jim Dixon
Date: xvi Mar 09 - 07:53 AM
From Popular Rhymes of Scotland past Robert Chambers (London and Edinburgh: Westward. & R. Chambers, 1870):
HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?
Two boys, belongings each other's hands, brand their arms represent a gate. A number of the others approach.
Boys. How many miles to Babylon?
Gatekeepers. 60 and x.
Boys. Volition we be there past candlelight?
Gatekeepers. Yeah, and back once more.
Boys. Open your gates and permit united states go through.
Gatekeepers. Not without a beck and a boo.
Boys. There'southward a beck, and there's a boo [beck and bow], Open your gates and permit us become through.
All then laissez passer under the uplifted arms of the two gatekeepers.
This is the simplest kind of game in which the enquiry as to the distance of Babylon occurs. In another of a more than complicated kind, two boys, remarkable as good runners, and personating the male monarch and queen of Cantelon, are placed between two doons or places of safety, at one of which a flock of other boys pitch themselves. The runners and then come forward, and the following dialogue takes place betwixt them and some member of the company, all of whom are considered as knights. The romantic nature of the language is very remarkable:
Knight. Male monarch and queen of Cantelon,
How many miles to Babylon?
King. Eight and 8, and other eight.
Knight. Will I get in that location by candlelight?
King. If your horse be adept and your spurs be bright.
Knight. How mony men accept ye?
King. Mae nor ye daur come and see.
The company and so break forth and make for the opposite doon with all their might, and fugitive the two runners, who pursue and try to catch as many as possible. On catching whatsoever, the runner places his hand upon their heads, when they are said to exist taned, and are set aside. The game is repeated and continued till all are taned.
[p.southward.: I would bet "Babylon" was corrupted to "Babyland" rather than the other way circular. –JD]
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From: Invitee
Date: xx Sep 09 - 09:33 PM
I learned,
Fleck Chip, My niggling horse, Chip Chip Again sir
How many miles to Dublin town?
Fore score and x sir.
Chip Fleck my petty equus caballus, Chip, Bit, Over again Sir
While I be at that place earlier the dawn, at that place and back again sir..
Nosotros're 1st, 2d and 3rd generation Irish as well.
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From: GUEST,Jim
Appointment: 13 Nov 09 - 08:36 PM
Wow! I actually googled the words hoping to find another verse, but I guess there isn't one. Good to encounter the variants - my dad and his - also Irish gaelic - would bounciness us as children on his knee and sing:
Fleck, chip, my little horse.
Chip, chip, once again sir.
How many miles to London town?
Iv score and 10, sir.
Scrap, flake, my little horse.
Bit, chip, again sir!
Will I get there by candle calorie-free?
You tin can, and back over again, sir!
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From: Guest,Anton O' Fiaic
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM
My version:
Clip, Clop, little horse,
Clip, Clop again sir.
How many miles to Dublin,
three score and 10 sir.
Will nosotros be there past candlelight,
yes and back again sir
Clip, Clop, picayune equus caballus,
Clip, Clop, once more sir.
P.Due south. Irish gaelic built-in (1943) & raised, this is the verse my Male parent sang.
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From: Guest,Trevor
Appointment: 05 Mar x - 12:32 PM
The Moving-picture show "The Male child With Greenish Hair" from 1948 has this vocal as the finale,
Chip, chip, my little horse.
Bit, chip, again sir.
How many miles to London town?
Four score and 10, sir.
Bit, chip, my little horse.
Fleck, chip, once again sir!
Will I become there by candle light?
You can, and back again, sir!
Then it repeated I recall I don't have TiVo so I could not rewind to be !00%, besides that'due south Hollywood non Ireland.
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From: GUEST,Sheree
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:53 PM
I know I am answering this late nonetheless I just this infinitesimal finished watching Th Boy With The Green Hair and it does Non say how many miles to London Town but it does say how many miles it Dubin Townm. The song was sang by Dean Stockwell and the e'er and then very Irish gaelic Pat O' Brien who often inserted lilliputian Irish tunes in his movies.
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From: GUEST,P. Cameron
Date: 21 Mar 10 - 12:21 PM
Flake, flake my trivial horse, bit scrap again sir; How many miles to Dublin town? Iv score and ten, sir. Bit chip my little horse, chip chip again sir; Can I get there by candle light? Yeah ye can,and back, sir
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From: GUEST,Meeping Chocolate
Date: 21 April x - 02:08 AM
I learned it a tad differently, but I only saw "The Boy With Green Hair" one time, so I probably wouldn't know. Anyway:
Chip, Flake, my little horse,
Chip, Chip again,sir,
How many miles to Dublin town?
4 score and ten, sir.
Chip, Chip, my lilliputian horse.
Bit, Chip, again sir.
Tin we make it by candle light?
At that place and back once again sir.
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From: GUEST
Date: xiv Jul x - 04:07 AM
My mom bounced many babies including her ain on her knee to this rhyme. She was born in Belfast in 1944 and sadly passed abroad here in Canada concluding November (2009).
Her version was:
Chip Chip my picayune horse
Chip Chip Again sir
How many miles to Dublin boondocks,
4 score and x sir
Chip Chip my lilliputian horse
Chip Chip again sir
Can I get at that place by candelight
You can and back again sir
I miss her and then much, but I can hear her singing with me, when I bounce my son on my knee ... love u mom
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From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 01:42 PM
My grandparents from County Sligo and Cavan sang this song to my dad, and he sang information technology to me. I have bounced my children and grandchildren on my knee joint or pes to this vocal. Ane of the joys of my life has been to come across the twinkles in their little eyes and smiles on their face up every bit they bounced to the rhythm of the song.
I sing:
Chip Chip my little equus caballus
Chip Chip Over again sir
How many miles to Dublin town,
Iv score and ten sir
Flake Chip my little horse
Chip Chip once more sir
Tin can I get there by candelight
You lot can and back over again sir
It is good to see that then many others share this simple joy.
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From: Invitee
Appointment: 24 Aug 10 - 09:33 AM
My Dad sings to my son bouncing him on his knee
Chock Brimming my picayune equus caballus
Chock Chock again
How many miles to Dublin,
Three score and x
Will I be there for candlelight
Yes and back again
with your Brimming Brimming a
picayune horse Chock Chock once more
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From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 04 Feb eleven - 08:thirteen AM
According to google maps, it is 276 miles to include the Holyhead ferry.
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From: Guest,CAEREN
Engagement: 06 Aug 11 - 04:27 PM
FOUR SCORE AND TEN SIR, Volition I Exist In that location Past CANDLE Light, Y'all Volition AND BACK Once again SIR
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From: GUEST,mick
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 08:02 AM
i vaguely recall a motion-picture show darby o'gill and the niggling people when the wee man was in the horse's ear was a while back because a very young sean connery was in information technology
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From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 13 - 10:07 PM
This is what my Granny (Irish born and raised) and my mother sang to me when I was a baby:
Hub Hub a little equus caballus
Hub Hub again
How many miles to Dublin town?
Six score and ten
Will I be there by candle light?
Yep, and back again
Hub Hub a niggling horse
Hub Hub again
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From: Invitee,Guest Sandi
Appointment: 25 Jul fourteen - 03:41 PM
I saw Boy with Greenish Hair every bit an 8 year onetime in 1948, learned the song on the spot and have been looking for more verses ever since. Since it seems at that place are none, I will teach it with an boosted verse inserting London for Dublin and irresolute from 4 score and ten sir to 3 score and ten sir in the 2nd verse I am making up-just to make it a trivial longer. It's a cracking little folk song. I guess i could make it any length and insert lots of different towns, including one's one home town, etc. That's the cracking thing about traditional folk music.
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From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Jul 14 - 03:49 PM
http://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=P6XyB7WZXgg
YouTube strikes once again.
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From: Guest,Geoff Middleton
Date: 10 May 15 - eleven:05 PM
My Lancashire Grandma used to sing this:
Chip bit my little man
Chip chip again sir
Is this the way to London Boondocks?
Yes and back once again sir
Chip scrap my lilliputian homo
Chip chip again sir
Can I get there past candlelight?
Aye and dorsum once again sir
She would finish by saying:
My tale'south ended, my back's bended
Become to the next door and you'll soon become it mended.
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From: Thompson
Appointment: xi May 15 - 03:fifteen AM
We sang "Giup, giup a chapallaín" - (pronounced Jiup - and presumably a fast way of saying "Gee up".)
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From: Bugsy
Appointment: eleven May 15 - 08:00 AM
My dad used to sing whilst bouncing u.s.a. on his leg (Crossed legged)
How many miles to Banbury Cross?
Three score and ten sir
Can I get there by candle light?
Yes, and back again sir
If your feet are nimble and light
You tin can get in that location past candlelight
Scrap Chip my piddling equus caballus
Scrap Flake again sir
Bit Chip my little horse
There and back over again sir.
Thank you
Bugsy
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From: Invitee,Colette
Date: 24 Sep 17 - 12:12 PM
For some baroque reason this vocal has been going around in my head for twenty-four hours now. My dad would let united states climb on his knee joint while he sang this over and over...he could never do information technology enough, for us and nosotros would plead once more and again and he would always oblige. He was from co. Carlow.
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