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"Sarasponda" is a children's nonsense song that has been considered a popular campfire song. It is often described to be a spinning song, that is, a song that would be sung while spinning at the spinning wheel.
[citation needed] The earliest documented reference is The Hackney Scout Song Book (Stacy & Son Ltd, 1921). It also appears in The Oxford Song Book, Vol.2, Collected and arranged by Thomas Wood (Oxford University Press, 1927). The song has a simple repetitive structure. [1] [2]
"The Rose of Mooncoin" – a County Kilkenny song, written in the 19th century by a local schoolteacher and poet named Watt Murphy [9] "The Rose of Slievenamon" – Recorded by Joseph Locke. Composed by Irish songwriter Dick Farrelly. "She Moved Through the Fair" – a traditional tune collected in Donegal, lyrics by poet Padraic Colum [1]
Lacking "a common fund of song", Ince founded a "Song Book Committee" [2] and in December 1921, the first edition of the new song book was printed. It was a soft-covered pocket-sized book in the traditional Songster format [ 3 ] and included a mix of folk and popular songs, together with some hymns and items composed specifically for Scouts.
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
Above was the Every Boy's Library/Boy Scout Edition with the fleur-de-lis with the Flag of the United States on its right and a Patrol flag on its left. [ 3 ] Later, the books featured an olive-green, linen fabric hard cover and bore a seal red and black fleur-de-lis Boy Scout emblem over two crossed signal flags, with the title at the top and ...
Greg Adams of Allmusic writes, "Scouting Along With Burl Ives is essentially a work-for-hire children's album made for the Boy Scouts and is therefore of limited appeal, but the professionalism and enthusiasm Ives and Bass exhibit are admirable." [4] The album features folk and other songs that might be sung around a campfire. The album is ...
Edmund Butler, 1st Earl of Kilkenny, 12th Viscount Mountgarret (6 January 1771 – 16 July 1846) was created Earl of Kilkenny on 20 December 1793. [1] The son of Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret and Henrietta Butler, he was thus a member of the powerful Butler Dynasty descended from the House of Butler of Ormond, who purchased and resided at Kilkenny Castle from 1391 to 1967.