Dance to your daddy (Percy Snowdon)
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- Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2003-04-15). Score information: A4, 24 pages, 258 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: No. 2 from 'Northumbrian Folk Songs'
General Information
Title: Dance to Your Daddy
Composer: Percy Snowdon
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy,
to your mammy sing;
You shall have a fishy
In a little dishy,
you shall have a fishy
When the boat comes in.
Here's your mother comin'
like a canny woman,
here comes your father,
drunk, he canna stand.
Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy
my little lad.
You shall have a fishie
on a little dishie,
you shall have a fishie
when the boat comes in.
Dance to your daddy
my bonnie laddie,
dance to your daddy
my little lamb.
You shall have a coatie
and a pair of breekies,
you shall have a whippie
and some bread and jam.