I Pick Things Up and I Put Them Down Again
| "The Yard Quondam Duke of York" | |
|---|---|
| Nursery rhyme | |
| Published | 1642 |
| Songwriter(s) | unknown |
"The G Former Duke of York" (also sung as The Noble Duke of York) is an English children's plant nursery rhyme, oft performed every bit an action vocal. The eponymous duke has been argued to be a number of the bearers of that title, specially Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827) and its lyrics have get proverbial for futile action. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 742.
Words [edit]
Statue of Frederick, Duke of York, in Waterloo Place, Westminster, London
A modern version is:
Oh, the k erstwhile Duke of York,
He had x g men;
He marched them up to the peak of the hill,
And he marched them down again.When they were up, they were upwards,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only halfway up,
They were neither up nor down.[1]
Origins [edit]
Richard Tarlton in the 1580s with his pipe and tabor
Like many popular nursery rhymes the origins of the song have been much debated and remain unclear. Unusually the rhyme clearly refers to an historical person and debates have tended to broadcast around identifying which Duke is being referred to in the lyrics.[1] The lyrics were non printed in their modernistic form until relatively recently, in Arthur Rackham'southward Mother Goose in 1913.[2] Prior to that a number of alternatives have been found including a note that in Warwickshire in 1892 the song was sung of both the Knuckles of York and the King of French republic; from 1894 that it was sung of Napoleon.[1] The oldest version of the song that survives is from 1642, under the title 'Old Tarlton'due south song', attributed to the stage clown Richard Tarlton (1530–1588) with the lyrics:
The Male monarch of France with twoscore 1000 men,
Came up a hill and and then came downe againe.[3]
Equally a upshot, the statement has been made that information technology may have been a mutual satirical verse that was adapted as advisable and, because it was recorded in roughly the modern course, has become fixed on the Duke of York.[1] Candidates for the knuckles in question include:
- Richard, Duke of York (1411–1460), who was defeated at the Battle of Wakefield on xxx December 1460. Richard'due south army, some 8,000 strong, was pending reinforcements at Sandal Castle in Wakefield (the castle was built on top of a Norman motte). He was surrounded by Lancastrian forces some 3 times that number, but chose to sally forth to fight. Richard died in a pitched battle at Wakefield Greenish, together with between 1 third and one one-half of his army.[four]
- James 2 (1633–1701), formerly Knuckles of York, who in 1688 marched his troops to Salisbury Plain to resist the invasion from his son-in-law William of Orange, only to retreat and disperse them equally his support began to evaporate.[v]
- The nigh common attribution is to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), the second son of Male monarch George Three and Commander-in-Principal of the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.[one] His most significant field command was during the Flemish region Campaign of 1793–94. Despite the British troops having some success against the French, in the summer of 1794 the Duke was obliged to retreat into the netherlands and he was afterwards recalled to England.[6] Flanders having something of a reputation for beingness flat, the specific location of the "colina" in the nursery rhyme has been suggested to be the town of Cassel which is built on a colina which rises 176 metres (about 570 feet) above the flat lands of French Flemish region in northern France.[1] Autonomously from the ducal title in the song and the events of their lives there is no external evidence to link the rhyme to any of these candidates.
Song [edit]
"The Grand Old Duke of York" is also sung to the tune of "A-Hunting We Will Get".[7]
Dutch version [edit]
A Dutch adaptation of the song replaces the Duke of York with Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), whose practice of preparation mercenaries (completely new, and mocked at first) became famous post-obit his success in war. It is not known when the British song crossed the Northward Sea, but nowadays it is well-known within the Dutch scouting motility.[8]
| De held prins Maurits kwam | The hero Prince Maurice came |
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Printing, 1951, 2d edn., 1997), pp. 442–443.
- ^ East. Knowles, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941, 6th edn., 2004).
- ^ J. Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and Henry Chettle, eds, Tarlton's Jests: And News Out of Purgatory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1844), p. xxix.
- ^ J. Swinnerton, The History of Britain Companion (Robson, 2005), p. 149.
- ^ C. Roberts, Heavy words lightly thrown: the reason behind the rhyme (Granta, 2004), p. 44.
- ^ J. Black, Britain equally a military power, 1688–1815 (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 195.
- ^ Cub Scout Songbook. Boy Scouts of America. 1955.
- ^ "De held prins Maurits". Scouting Marca Appoldro. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Old_Duke_of_York
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