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| "The Arkansas Traveler" | |
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| Vocal by Mose Example | |
| Written | Mid-19th century |
| Published | c. 1862 |
| Genre | Folk |
| Composer(southward) | Sandford C. Faulkner |
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"The Arkansas Traveler" is a mid-19th century folk vocal popularized by American vocalizer and guitarist Mose Example. It is based on the composition of the same proper name by Sandford C. Faulkner. The score was kickoff published past Westward. C. Peters in 1847 under the name "The Arkansas Traveller and Rackinsac Waltz".[i]
It was Arkansas' state song from 1949 to 1963, and the state historic vocal since 1987. The official lyrics were written by a committee in 1947 in preparation for its naming as the official state song. The other official Arkansas land songs are "Arkansas" (country anthem), "Arkansas (Yous Run Deep In Me)," and "Oh, Arkansas."[2]
The 1922 version by native-Arkansan "Eck" Robertson was amid the outset fifty recordings named to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.[1]
Background [edit]
The song is traditionally known to have had several versions of lyrics, which are much older than Arkansas' copyrighted state historic vocal.[3]
Other versions [edit]
The Turn of the Melody. Traveller Playing the "Arkansas Traveller," lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1870
Land historic vocal [edit]
Composed by the Arkansas State Song Pick Committee in 1947.
Far and far away down in Arkansas,
In that location lived a squatter with a stubborn jaw.
His nose was ruby reddish and his whiskers gray.
And he would sit down and dabble all the night and all the mean solar day.
Came a traveler downwardly the valley, asked if he could observe a bed.
Yes, try the road, the kindly squatter said.
And so, could yous betoken me out the way to find a tavern or an Inn?
Quite a little piece I reckon, tho I've never been!
And, when the rain came downwardly on the cabin flooring,
The squatter only fiddled all the more.
Why don't you mend your roof, said the traveler assuming.
How tin I mend my motel when the rain is wet and common cold?
Squatter pick a sunny morning when the air is dry and overnice,
Patch up your motel, that is my advice.
The squatter shook his hoary head, and answered with a stubborn air,
Cabin never leaks a drop when days are bright and fair!
Peter Pan version [edit]
Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas,
An sometime man sat in his little cabin door
And fiddled at a melody that he liked to hear,
A jolly onetime tune that he played by ear.
Information technology was raining hard, but the fiddler didn't care,
He sawed away at the popular air,
Tho' his rooftree leaked like a waterfall,
That didn't seem to carp the man at all.
A traveler was riding by that day,
And stopped to hear him a-practicing away;
The cabin was a-float and his feet were moisture,
But still the one-time homo didn't seem to fret.
So the stranger said "At present the way it seems to me,
Yous'd better mend your roof," said he.
Simply the onetime human being said as he played abroad,
"I couldn't mend it now, information technology's a rainy twenty-four hour period."
The traveler replied, "That's all quite true,
But this, I call up, is the affair to do;
Get busy on a day that is fair and bright,
So patch the old roof till it's adept and tight."
But the sometime man kept on a-playing at his reel,
And tapped the footing with his leathery heel.
"Get along," said he, "for you give me a hurting;
My cabin never leaks when it doesn't pelting."
Albert Bigelow Paine's 1st version [edit]
from The Arkansaw Carry: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure. The second version is the original version. The first version is the version taught to Northern school Children.
Oh, 'twas downwards in the woods of the Arkansaw,
And the dark was cloudy and the wind was raw,
And he didn't take a bed, and he didn't have a seize with teeth,
And if he hadn't fiddled, he'd a travelled all night.
Just he came to a cabin, and an old grey man,
And says he, "Where am I going? Now tell me if you tin can."
"Oh, nosotros'll have a little music beginning so some supper, likewise,
But before we have the supper we volition play the music through.
You'll forget about your supper, you'll forget about your abode,
Y'all'll forget you ever started out in Arkansaw to roam."
Now the old human being sabbatum a-piddling past the little cabin door,
And the melody was pretty lively, and he played it o'er and o'er,
And the stranger sat a-list'ning and a-wond'ring what to practise,
As he fiddled and he fiddled, but he never played it through.
And then the stranger asked the fiddler, "Won't you play the rest for me?"
"Don't know it," says the fiddler. "Play it for yourself!" says he.
Then the stranger took the fiddle, with a riddy-diddle-diddle,
And the strings began to tingle at the jingle of the bow,
While the old man sat and listened, and his eyes with pleasure glistened,
Equally he shouted, "Hallelujah! And hurray for Joe!"
Albert Bigelow Paine's second version [edit]
Oh, there was a little boy and his proper noun was Bo,
Went out into the woods when the moon was low,
And he met an old bear who was hungry for a snack,
And his folks are notwithstanding a-waiting for Bosephus to come dorsum.
For the boy became the teacher of this kind and gentle creature
Who can play upon the fiddle in a very skillful way.
And they'll never, ever sever, and they'll travel on forever,
Bosephus and the fiddle and the one-time blackness carry.
Traditional children'south version [edit]
I'grand bringin' habitation a baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'one thousand bringin' home a babe bumblebee—Ow! It stung me!
I'1000 squishin' upwards my babe bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm squishin' upward my babe bumblebee-Yuck! It's dirty!
I'chiliad lickin' upwardly my infant bumble bee
Won't my mommy exist so proud of me
I'g lickin' up my baby bumble bee-Ick! I feel sick!
I'm throwin' upwardly my baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm throwin' up my baby bumble bee-Oh! What a mess!
I'thou wipin' up my baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be then proud of me
I'grand wipin' upwards my infant bumble bee-Oops! Mommy's new towel!
I'grand wringin' out my baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'yard wringin' out my infant bumble bee-Good day-bye baby bumblebee!
Alternate Children's version [edit]
I'chiliad bringin' home a infant bumblebee Won't my mommy be so proud of me I'k bringin' home a infant bumblebee—Ow! He stung me!
I'thousand bringin' home my baby dinosaur Won't my mommy kick him out the door? I'm bringin' home my baby dinosaur-Ouch! He kicked me!
I'thou bringin' home my baby hippopotamus Won't my mommy fuss, and fuss, and fuss?
I'm bringin' abode my babe hippopotamus-Ouch! He swallowed me!
Uses in film [edit]
"The Arkansas Traveler" was frequently featured in animated cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s, most prolifically by Carl Stalling in music he equanimous for the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series. It usually was played, sloppily, when a yokel, hillbilly, or "country bumpkin" character would appear on screen. A slow version of the "Bringing dwelling house a baby bumble-bee" version is sung by Beaky Buzzard in the short The Bashful Buzzard.
The popularity and joyfulness of "The Arkansas Traveler" was attested to in the 1932 Academy Award-winning Laurel and Hardy short, The Music Box. In this motion-picture show, the boys labored to haul a thespian piano up a long flying of stairs and into a house through a bedroom window. Nearly the determination of their adventure, equally they are starting to make clean up their mess surrounding the newly installed piano, Stan and Ollie play a scroll of "Patriotic Melodies". They dance with much grace and amusement to "The Arkansas Traveler", followed briefly past "Dixie". Marvin Hatley, who equanimous Laurel and Hardy'due south "Cuckoo" theme song, was the pianist for this sequence; the player pianoforte was not real.
Vaudeville [edit]
"The Arkansas Traveler" was a popular one-act sketch on the vaudeville circuit. It revolved effectually the encounter of a (usually lost) traveling urban center person with a local, wise-dandy fiddle player. Various jokes at the expense of the "urban center slicker" were interspersed with instrumental versions of the vocal. In many versions, the city person is also a fiddle player, and equally the sketch progresses, eventually learns the melody and plays along with the country bumpkin. Columbia Recording artist, Dan Hornsby was the commencement recorded vocalist for this song which is found in his discography listed on Wikipedia.
The gimmicky vocaliser Michelle Shocked includes a vaudeville-way version of "Arkansas Traveler" on her 1992 album of the same name. Jerry Garcia and David Grisman likewise practise a version on their 1993 album Not for Kids But.
In other media [edit]
Dan Hornsby'due south Original Arkansas Traveler Office 1 (with Clayton McMichen, Columbia 15253D) - 1920s version for Columbia Records, and Original Arkansas Traveler Part 2 (with Clayton McMichen, Columbia 15253D)
Charles Ives uses the melody in his theater orchestra slice called "Country Band" March.
Eck Robertson and Henry C. Gilliland's 1922 recording of "Arkansaw Traveler" [sic] (Victor 18956) was selected for the 2002 National Recording Registry.
The song is the centerpiece of The Legend of the Arkansas Traveler, a brusk "Concert Paraphrase on an Old American Fiddle Melody" for orchestra equanimous by Harl McDonald in 1939.
Children's entertainer Raffi used the melody of "The Arkansas Traveler" for the song "Peanut Butter Sandwich," which appears on his album Singable Songs for the Very Young.
The "Baby Bumblebee" version was sung on two episodes of Barney & Friends, and i video from its predecessor, Barney and the Lawn Gang.
Pete Seeger recorded the vaudeville version of "Arkansas Traveler" for his 1954 album "Frontier Ballads"
The Jukebox Band perform their version of this song in a Shining Time Station episode, Win, Lose or Draw.
Rockstar Inc. 2018 release Red Dead Redemption 2 The saloon piano players frequently play The Arkansas Traveller in the lineup of Western pianoforte music among others.
The instrumental version is heard in the dance scene in the twelfth episode of Call of the Wild.
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman perform a version on their 1993 anthology Non For Kids Only.
The instrumental versions are used as the cultural theme songs for the U.s. in the video game serial Culture.
Meet likewise [edit]
- List of U.S. state songs
References [edit]
- ^ a b Worthen, William B. (July 17, 2018). "Arkansas Traveler". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas. Retrieved November xi, 2018.
- ^ Arkansas Code. Vol. 1A. The Country of Arkansas. 1987. pp. 52–53. ISBN978-i-5221-4781-vii – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Ware, David (June 5, 2021). "Official State Songs". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
Farther reading [edit]
- Knox, Thomas W. (1894). "Chapter XXIV: A Rapid Pursuit—"The Arkansas Traveler"—Game Chickens and Cocking Mains". The Lost Ground forces. New York: The Merriam Company. pp. 157–163. OCLC 1048799575. OL 6551679M – via Internet Archive.
External links [edit]
- Works by or virtually Arkansas Traveler at Internet Annal
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arkansas_Traveler_(song)