Knick He Had 10000 Men He Walked Down the Hill and Up the Hill Again
| "The Grand Sometime Duke of York" | |
|---|---|
| Plant nursery rhyme | |
| Published | 1642 |
| Songwriter(s) | unknown |
"The Thousand One-time Duke of York" (as well sung as The Noble Duke of York) is an English children's plant nursery rhyme, oftentimes performed equally an action song. The eponymous knuckles has been argued to be a number of the bearers of that championship, particularly Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827) and its lyrics take get proverbial for futile action. Information technology has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 742.
Words [edit]
Statue of Frederick, Duke of York, in Waterloo Place, Westminster, London
A modernistic version is:
Oh, the grand onetime Knuckles of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the elevation of the colina,
And he marched them downwards again.When they were up, they were up,
And when they were downward, 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 not printed in their modern form until relatively recently, in Arthur Rackham'southward Mother Goose in 1913.[two] Prior to that a number of alternatives have been establish including a annotation that in Warwickshire in 1892 the song was sung of both the Duke of York and the Rex of France; from 1894 that it was sung of Napoleon.[1] The oldest version of the vocal that survives is from 1642, under the title 'Old Tarlton's song', attributed to the stage clown Richard Tarlton (1530–1588) with the lyrics:
The Male monarch of France with twoscore thousand men,
Came up a hill and so came downe againe.[3]
As a result, the argument has been made that it may have been a common satirical verse that was adapted equally appropriate and, because it was recorded in roughly the modernistic form, has get fixed on the Duke of York.[ane] Candidates for the duke in question include:
- Richard, Duke of York (1411–1460), who was defeated at the Battle of Wakefield on xxx December 1460. Richard'south ground forces, some viii,000 strong, was awaiting reinforcements at Sandal Castle in Wakefield (the castle was built on superlative of a Norman motte). He was surrounded by Lancastrian forces some three times that number, but chose to sally along to fight. Richard died in a pitched boxing at Wakefield Dark-green, together with betwixt one third and i half of his ground forces.[iv]
- James II (1633–1701), formerly Knuckles of York, who in 1688 marched his troops to Salisbury Plain to resist the invasion from his son-in-police force William of Orangish, simply to retreat and disperse them as his support began to evaporate.[5]
- The most common attribution is to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), the second son of Male monarch George 3 and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.[1] His most meaning field command was during the Flemish region Entrada of 1793–94. Despite the British troops having some success against the French, in the summertime of 1794 the Duke was obliged to retreat into kingdom of the netherlands and he was later on recalled to England.[half-dozen] Flanders having something of a reputation for being flat, the specific location of the "loma" in the nursery rhyme has been suggested to be the boondocks of Cassel which is built on a hill which rises 176 metres (near 570 feet) above the flat lands of French Flanders in northern French republic.[i] Apart from the ducal title in the vocal and the events of their lives there is no external evidence to link the rhyme to whatever of these candidates.
Song [edit]
"The Grand Old Knuckles of York" is also sung to the tune of "A-Hunting Nosotros Will Get".[7]
Dutch version [edit]
A Dutch accommodation of the song replaces the Duke of York with Maurice, Prince of Orangish (1567–1625), whose practice of preparation mercenaries (completely new, and mocked at beginning) became famous following his success in war. It is non known when the British song crossed the North Sea, merely present it is well-known within the Dutch scouting movement.[8]
| De held prins Maurits kwam | The hero Prince Maurice came |
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d eastward f I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, second edn., 1997), pp. 442–443.
- ^ E. Knowles, Oxford Lexicon of Quotations (Oxford: Oxford University Printing, 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 United kingdom Companion (Robson, 2005), p. 149.
- ^ C. Roberts, Heavy words lightly thrown: the reason behind the rhyme (Granta, 2004), p. 44.
- ^ J. Blackness, Britain as 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 i September 2016.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Old_Duke_of_York
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