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We all know the theme song - but what's that melody

posted 14 years ago by ChubbyBannister
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that they wrote a new narrative lyric for at the beginning of each episode? My sister says it's an English folk song she had to sing in college (she was a voice major), but couldn't remember the words. It also appears in a classical piece - the Nell Gwynn Dances by German, maybe?

Perhaps it's something really familiar to those of you across the pond, but trying to ID that tune is driving this American crazy.

P.S. just saw the Scott/Crowe Robin Hood - I enjoyed it, but I still think the Richard Greene TV series is the best. I was pleasantly surprised to see Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea as Alan A'Dale (Alan A'Doyle?). Nice to have an Alan who can really sing and play the strings.

[–] poordogabone-1 14 years ago

The tune for the opening couplets is the English folk song "Early One Morning"—just the first two lines. The whole first verse is:

Early one morning, just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing in the valley below:
"Oh, don't deceive me;
Oh, never leave me.
How could you use a poor maiden so?"

I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba

[–] ChubbyBannister 14 years ago

Thank you so much!

[–] poordogabone-1 14 years ago

Thank you so much!

No problem. Besides being a Robin Hood fanatic, I'm a rather eclectic musician: classic rock, folk, Broadway, and light and grand opera. It's rather frightening what I know in terms of trivia.

However, if it's important, I probably know nothing—absolutely nothing.

I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

That's pretty cool, man.