There were two sisters walking down by a stream
\n Oh the wind and the rain
\nThe older one pushed the younger one in
\n Oh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
Pushed her in the river to drown
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nWatched her as she floated on down
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
Floated on down to the old mill pond
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nShe floated on down to the old mill pond
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
The miller fished her out with his long long hook
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nAnd he brought this maid in from the brook
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
Made a fiddle bow from her long yellow hair
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nHe made a fiddle bow from her long yellow hair
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
Made fiddle picks from her long finger bones
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nHe made fiddle picks from her long finger bones
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
Made a fiddle bridge from her own nose bridge
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nMade a fiddle bridge from her own nose bridge
\nCried oh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
And he made a fiddle from her own breast bone
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nThe sound could melt a heart of stone
\nOh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
The only tune that fddle would play
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nThe only tune that fiddle would play
\noh the dreadful wind and rain<\/p>\n
And the only tune that fiddle could play
\nOh the wind and the rain
\nThe only tune that fiddle would play
\nWas Oh the dreadful wind and rain.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
heres what it sounds like:
\n[audio:theonlytune.mp3]
\ncreepy but catchy, eh \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Read around online and found that this macabre song is traditionally meant to be sung to children. I got curious about the lyrics and, as with most folk songs, there are a million versions of it<\/a>. Each with a slightly different title, with variations on the theme. But this is what is so fascinating about them! Just passing it on. If you like it i’d suggest giving the entire album a listen. Its very good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We took a short vacation but now we’re back. Putting the final touches on the first sister we will be unveiling from the game quite soon! \ud83d\ude2e While working, I’ve been listening a lot to Mothertounge by contemporary composer Nico Muhly. There are three versions of a folk song on the album with lyrics I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}