#2: Re: Ping: Abby Sale
Posted on 2006-07-22 16:25:24 by Abby Sale
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:20:50 -0700, Karen Rodgers
<<a href="mailto:not@a.valid.address.for.newsgroups" target="_blank">not@a.valid.address.for.newsgroups</a>> wrote:
>Hi Abby,
>
>Got a question for you. Can you tell me what a "zipper" song is?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Karen Rodgers
Quoting Azizi
from Peter Berryman's "Whither Zither' blog:
"I'm referring to zipper songs which are known as such because their lyrics
for the most part don't vary from verse to verse except for a spot where
replacable words or phrases can be "zipped" into and out of the song, like
the animals in Old MacDonald. Or like the activities in the song Ain't It a
Shame which I learned years ago, along with many other wonderful zipper
songs, from a Leadbelly's Last Sessions LP:
Ain't it a shame to [go fishin'] on a Sunday, ain't it a shame. (repeat)
/Ain't it a shame to [go fishin'] on a Sunday, When you got Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday/ Oh, Thursday Friday Saturday, ain't it a shame."
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Or any cumulative song. Or my favorite children's car driving song, Jenny
Jenkins. Or those Seeger-singalong songs - Down by the Riverside, etc.
Must be a bunch in Rise Up Singing.
BTW All, I'm in Raleigh, NC now. Don't bother to visit me in Florida
anymore. Visit here.
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#3: Re: Ping: Abby Sale
Posted on 2006-07-22 18:23:14 by Karen Rodgers
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:25:24 GMT, Abby Sale
<<a href="mailto:NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com" target="_blank">NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com</a>> wrote:
>Quoting Azizi
>
>from Peter Berryman's "Whither Zither' blog:
>
>"I'm referring to zipper songs which are known as such because their lyrics
>for the most part don't vary from verse to verse except for a spot where
>replacable words or phrases can be "zipped" into and out of the song, like
>the animals in Old MacDonald. Or like the activities in the song Ain't It a
>Shame which I learned years ago, along with many other wonderful zipper
>songs, from a Leadbelly's Last Sessions LP:
>
>Ain't it a shame to [go fishin'] on a Sunday, ain't it a shame. (repeat)
>/Ain't it a shame to [go fishin'] on a Sunday, When you got Monday,
>Tuesday, Wednesday/ Oh, Thursday Friday Saturday, ain't it a shame."
>=====================================================
>Or any cumulative song. Or my favorite children's car driving song, Jenny
>Jenkins. Or those Seeger-singalong songs - Down by the Riverside, etc.
>Must be a bunch in Rise Up Singing.
Thanks, Abby, I appreciate it.
Karen R.
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#4: Re: Ping: Abby Sale
Posted on 2006-07-24 02:31:04 by Joe Fineman
Abby Sale <<a href="mailto:NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com" target="_blank">NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com</a>> writes:
> Or those Seeger-singalong songs - Down by the Riverside, etc.
I believe, in fact, that Pete Seeger invented the term. IIRC, on one
of his records, introducing "Union, union are we", he seems to take
credit for it.
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