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Post by benshelpmeet on Feb 20, 2009 12:49:34 GMT -5
Does anyone know what E-I-E-I-O means?
Old Mc Donald Had a Farm....E-I-E-I-O
One of my children asked me this morning...'' Mama, What does E-I-E-I-O mean?'' Hmmm I'm not quite sure. I've never been asked that before, I have 8 children and been a parent for 22 years. That's a good question.
Anyone know the answer? I'd like to know.
~ sister Darlene ~
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Post by Donna on Feb 21, 2009 6:00:36 GMT -5
I did a query on www.ask.com and this is what I found In the 1917 book, Tommy's Tunes, a collection of World War I era songs by F. T. Nettleingham, the song "Ohio (Old Macdougal Had a Farm)" has quite similar lyrics--though with a slightly different farmer's name and refrain: Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o, And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o, With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow. The Traditional Ballad Index consider the "Tommy's Tunes" version to be the earliest known version of "Old Macdonald Had a Farm", though it cites numerous variants, some of them much older.[1] Two of these variants were published in Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs in 1980. One was "Old Missouri", sung by a Mr. H. F. Walker of Missouri in 1922, a version that names different parts of the mule rather than different animals: Old Missouri had a mule, he-hi-he-hi-ho, And on this mule there were two ears, he-hi-he-hi-ho. With a flip-flop here and a flip-flop there, And here a flop and there a flop and everywhere a flip-flop Old Missouri had a mule, he-hi-he-hi-ho. I think it probably came from the sound of the mule in the above song. Donna
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Post by Tammy on Feb 22, 2009 21:41:48 GMT -5
Thanks, Donna, that was very interesting! I like learning the history of some of those old folk songs. ...We sing it, "A - E - I - O - U", for learning the vowels.
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Post by benshelpmeet on Feb 24, 2009 10:53:48 GMT -5
Thank you Donna for looking that up...that was very interesting!
A-E-I-O-U... ;D thats cute...thats a good idea!
~ sister Darlene ~
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