Английская Википедия:Farmyard Song

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Шаблон:Short description The "Farmyard Song" (Шаблон:Roud) is a cumulative song about farm animals, originating in the British Isles and also known in North America.

It is known by various titles, such as:

  • "I Bought Me a Cat"
  • "The Green Tree"[1]
  • "The Barnyard Song"[2][3]

Summary

In the first verse, the narrator tells of buying or having a cat, horse or other animal, feeding them under a tree, and the call the animal makes. Each subsequent verse introduces a new animal, then repeats the calls of the animals from previous verses.

Versions

There were several versions known in the Thames Valley in the early part of the 20th century.[4] A version collected in Bampton, Oxfordshire around 1916 began as follows:

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Musicologists Loraine Wyman and Howard Brockway collected "The Barnyard Song" in Kentucky in 1916.[5]Шаблон:Rp[2] This version began,

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Some American variants are not cumulative, but instead group all the animal calls together at the end of the song.[3]

Adaptations and recordings

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