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- From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
- Subject: Re: Source of "Mr. Fox's Garden"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.215621.12494@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:56:21 GMT
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- In article <1hqfhaINNaue@shelley.u.washington.edu>, peekstok@stein.u.washington.edu (Anna Peekstok) writes:
- >Can anyone enlighten me as to the origin or source of the eerie "Little
- >Sir Hugh"-type song that is called "Mr. Fox's Garden"?
- >
- >It's about a girl named Mary who chases her golden ball into Mr. Fox's
- >garden, where she is imprisoned as a servant by Mr. Fox, who has one red
- >eye. He forbids her to go into a certain room, so of course she does, and
- >sees there a sword and her golden ball. The ending is ambiguous; Mr. Fox
- >jumps out at her, but the song ends before we find out what happens.
-
- Is that the one with the chorus that starts "The wall is high", with a
- big scary one-octave leap before the word "high"? If so, it's performed
- by Frankie Armstrong, and possibly written by her as well, and I think
- it's on the "I Heard A Woman Singing" album.
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