Art Supplies Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night

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Trick Went Out on a Chilly Night (An Quondam Vocal), 2014 Reissue
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated past Peter Spier

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Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (An Onetime Song)
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Peter Spier
Published by Dell Dragonfly Books, New York, 1961
ISBN 0-440-40829-6

The paperback version of Peter Spier's analogy comes with an audio recording both read and sung past children's entertainer Tom Chapin.

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Link to Random House publisher's webpage for Peter Spier'south Illustration of FOX, here:
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/brandish.pperl?isbn=9780440408291
This link includes an image viewer for many of the pages.

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Image of a beautiful ii page spread from this illustration, hither:
http://world wide web.randomhouse.com/kids/interiors/0-440-40829-six.html

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For a Scholastic/WestonWoods study guide to get with Peter Spier'southward illustration of the song, click hither:
http://westonwoods.scholastic.com/products/westonwoods/study_guides/fox_went_out.pdf

Westonwoods made an accolade winning video for this award winning book:

You can read about and buy the video hither:
http://westonwoods.scholastic.com/products/westonwoods/catalog/product.asp?cid=58
The toll (maybe this is the price for libraries, since information technology is on a page marked "LIBRARIANS") is a baffling $49.95, merely hopefully a school or library has information technology bachelor for cheque-out!

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Peter Spier's illustration of "Flim-flam Went Out on the Chilly Night" is also included in,

The Wheels on the Bus Sing-Forth Travel Kit (Scholastic Storybook Treasures)
This kit features activities and videos and CD of songs for Singable Picture Books, including:
Trick Went Out on a Chilly Night, The Wheels on the Bus, Joseph Had A Fiddling Overcoat (and MANY more!)

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Fob Went Out on a Chilly Night
Traditional Words and Music
Illustrated by Wendy Watson
ISBN 0-688-10766-4

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Academy of Florida Digital Collections offers an early illustrated version of the song which you can view online and for free, here:
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00003013/00001/1j?search=Children%27s+songs

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A version of this same book, with a few verses and music also included and colour plates, but different publisher, here (Ballantyne, R. M ( Robert Michael ), 1825-1894 ):
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00003102/00001/1?search=Children%27s+songs

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The Story of Mr. Fox (Good Lilliputian Pigs Library Vol. 3)
Traditional Words and Tune, "Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night"
Published in Boston, c1858, by Brown, Taggard & Chase

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THE FOX is featured in:

Favorite Folk Songs
Compiled by Peter Yarrow
Music by Various Artists, Arranged by Peter Yarrow
Illustrated by Terry Widener
Collection of lullabies, illustrated from the:

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A fantastic blog article about THE FOX from Jim Moran (educator, radio host and folk musician) on his web log "Comparative Video 101":
http://compvid101.blogspot.com/2012/01/folk-royalty-fox-went-out-on-dank.html
This article contains some of the same videos that I've posted hither, plus others, some song history and thoughtful commentary on the Fox and the importance of group singing for children.

I left a annotate on this blog and Mr. Moran wrote dorsum:

Jim Moran said…
Your site is delightful, and thank you so much for the kind words and the link there. More importantly – skillful luck with your work with singing with children. I have reflected in at least a half a dozen articles on my site on the importance of the elementary schoolhouse singing sessions that we had weekly when I was in grade school in the 1950s. I fear they have been virtually completely abandoned today – and children grow from singing, especially group singing, at present fully as much equally they always did.
MAY 5, 2013 AT 1:31 PM

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An interesting Wikipedia article about the song, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_(folk_song)

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A link to Bluish Grass Picker'south Tune Book (by Richard Matteson, Jr.) in Google Books has info nigh the song history:
"The earliest version of this piece appears to have been a Centre English poem fround in the British Museum dating from the fifteenth centruy."

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Beatrix Potters rendition of the Fox, Gray Goose, and Duck in "Squire Play a trick on Went Out in a Hungry Plight"

Princeton University's Cotsen Children's Library website has an interesting paragraph nigh this moving-picture show:
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/cotsen/exhibitions/BeatrixPotter/BP16.html

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I adore Nikel Creek's rendition of this vocal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3O38cXQOI

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You can hear a prune of Nikel Creek'due south studio version of "The Fox," here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fox/dp/B001EV5UHM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301851383&sr=one-1-spell

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I besides beloved Niggling Mo' Mccoury's version of "The Fox," yous can hear a prune, here:
http://world wide web.amazon.com/gp/production/B0011YX4JS/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk14

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Bulge Ives recorded one of the quintessential renditions of "The Fox,"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fox/dp/B0049XFHBG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&south=dmusic&qid=1301853612&sr=1-1

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A musical version of the song, hither:
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/what-children-sing/what-children-sing%xx-%200103.htm

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A vintage-y recording on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLYsvNzf-s

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www.youtube.com/sentinel?v=3jtk7J8vVTs

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Pete Seeger

world wide web.youtube.com/watch?5=JUiP7tdk7_8

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The hunky Jake Gyllenhaal

www.youtube.com/lookout?v=yBUPNCEuavI

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Jolly Rogues

world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=4DCTYPTsTuc

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A mom and instructor with words and guitar chords in the video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwCkDcu7aE

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Play a joke on WENT OUT ON A Chilly Night (THE Fob)
Traditional Words and Music
As with many old folk songs, the lyrics to this song vary widely.

The fob went out on a chilly night.
And he prayed to the moon to give him light,
For he'd many miles to go that night
Before he reached the boondocks-o, boondocks-o, town-o.
For he'd many miles to go that night
Earlier he reached the town-o.

He ran till he came to the farmer's bin,
Where the ducks and the geese were kept penned in.
"A couple of you will grease my mentum
Before I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o.
"A couple of you will grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o."

First he caught the grey goose by the neck,
And then he swung a duck beyond his back.
And he didn't listen the quack, quack, dishonest
Or their legs all dangling down-o, downwardly-o, down-o.
And he didn't mind the dishonest, quack,
Or their legs all dangling downwards-o.

Then erstwhile mother Giggle-Gaggle jumped out of bed.
Out of the window she popped her head,
Crying, "John!  John! Our greyness goose is gone,
And the flim-flam is in the town-o, town-o, town-o,"
Crying, "John!  Our grey goose is gone
And the fox is in the town-o."

Then John, he ran to the top of the hill,
Blew his horn both loud and shrill.
The flim-flam, he said, "I better go with my kill
Or they'll soon be on my tail-o, tail-o, tail-o."
The fox, he said, "I better go with my kill
Or they'll soon exist on my tail-o."

He ran till he came to his nice warm den.
There were the petty ones, 8, nine, ten.
They said, "Daddy, improve become back again,
Because it must be a wonderful boondocks-o, town-o, town-o."
They said, "Daddy, better go back once again,
Considering information technology must be a wonderful town-o."

Then the trick and his wife, without any strife,
Cut up the goose with a fork and a knife.
They never ate such a dinner in their life
And the picayune ones chewed on the bones-o, bones-o, bones-o.
They never ate such a dinner in their life
And the little ones chewed on the basic-o.

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Flim-flam  is one of the songs we selected to be office of
"Oh, What a Beautiful Day: Sing Books with Emily, the Cabaret."

Completing my Song Arts and crafts Worksheet is part of my procedure of preparing songs for functioning,

 Emily's Song Craft Worksheet

1 Q: Who wrote the words?

1 A: "Traditional," information technology's folk vocal dating back hundreds of years.  The original author is unknown and, though the story remains largely the aforementioned, lyrics vary widely.

2Q: Who wrote the music?
2A: "Traditional"

3Q: When was the song written?
3A:  Possibly as early as the 15th century.  It may have started out as a verse form written in Middle English.

4Q: At what bespeak in the lyricists' and composer's career was the vocal written?
4A: NA

5Q: What is the song from?
5A: The vocal is from world musical heritage.

6Q: If from a show, what character sang information technology?
6A: NA

7Q: If from a prove, from what situation does the song ascend?  Why does the character sing the song?  What function does the song/character play in the story?
7A: NA

8Q:  What other contextual elements of the vocal are significant?
8A: It is important that the fox is oftentimes viewed every bit a sly preditor, and, though this vocal does not refute the foxy reputation, we practice come to empathise the fox'due south motivation for hunting, to put nutrient on the tabular array for his large family.

9Q: Was the vocal written for a particular vocalizer?  Why?
9A: NA

10Q: If not from a show, why did the songwriter write the song?
10A: I remember this allows for an interesting opportunity to, through the movtivations of animals, to explore, understand and translate some actions and movtivations of humans.  I'one thousand also engaged in the idea that the globe does not cease when we sleep and much goes on in this globe that humans never see and rarely consider.

11Q: What do you feel the lyricist is trying to say?
11A: The pull a fast one on has a family, too.  And, the world is live and flourishing with adventures fifty-fifty whe we aren't looking.

12Q: Does the song tell a story or just express feelings or ideas?
12A: This vocal tells a story

13Q: Who else has recorded this song:
13A: Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, Smothers Brothers, Harry Belafonte, Nikel Creek…and soon: Emily!

The rest of the questions require VERY personal answers and I volition spare you lot those!

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Annex, Summer 2011

My family and I went on vacation to our usual haunts of Colonial Willimasburg and Fort Story, VA.  Just off Merchant's Square in Williamsburg is a little used bookshop called Mermaid Books and I like to stop at that place for possible interesting Singable Picture Book finds.  This time, sparking the first incident in a week saturated with foxy images, I found a paperback version of a volume I'd been looking for "Begetter Fox's Pennyrhymes."  The title caught my eye a few months ago when researching "Play a joke on Went Out on a Dank Nighttime." Only I didn't know much about information technology.  And so I found that the author had as well written music for these rhymes in, "Father Fox'southward Feast of Songs," then I began the hunt (and I practice and then love the hunt).

I was and so happy to find a sweet interpretation of the character of Fox in the "Pennyrhymes" volume, as the character of Fox was problematic for me at first. "Fob Went Out on a Chilly Night" has, over a long period of time, and as the result of some of the nigh serious effort I've ever put into a vocal, become one of my favorites to share at Sing Books gatherings.  Children immediately responded to the song…the skillful potent rhythm, the fast words, and story well-nigh a crafty brute was always entertaining.  But I found the central character hard to interpret.  As I recently wrote to a friend, "The vocal gave me troubles for a long while, I couldn't get a handle on why to sing a vocal to kids about a fox killing a goose and a duck.  Plus, my research on the vocal suggested that information technology's origins were settled in the play a joke on character's nature every bit a mean predator.  But, based on the fact that the children e'er responded with such delight for the vocal I pressed on.  Finally, from focusing on the end of the song, I realized that the fox's motivations are for his family.  This fox is not trying to make evil, he is doing the all-time he can to provide for his family ("the niggling ones eight, 9, x").  Isn't that, afterwards all, what most people are trying to do: provide for their loved ones and become through the day (or night, in the instance of the nocturnal pull a fast one on) every bit best they can?  Realizing that made the song meaningful for me and I was able to record it and put it in the prove with great delight."

All this on my mind, I was delighted to detect a pull a fast one on wall hanging wood sculpture at the Nancy Thomas Gallery:

Then there were the "Beware the Fox" ceramics for sale at Colonial Williamsburg stores:

After Williamsburg we headed on toward our beach haunt at Fort Story near Virginia Beach.  Our usual cabin was non ready, so the first night nosotros stayed in a small firm, not near the sandy beach, only right on a rocky shore close to the water.  This business firm had a screened front porch that looked right out onto the ocean and surrounded by thickets of brambles that grew upward out of the sandy dunes.  I was sitting on the front porch of firm, reading Begetter Play a joke on'south rhymes, when I heard a slight russle and looked upwards.  There just coming out of the brambles was a gorgeous read fox.  He sniffed around for a while on the edges of the thicket.  He sat and scratched his muzzle then kept on searching.  He found a mouse or a small bird and picked it up in his mouth and quietly russled dorsum into the thicket.  Was there a den in there somewhere with the niggling ones 8, 9, x?  Could have been.  It was a magical moment and the climax of my week of foxes.

It's now a couple weeks subsequently, in the first calendar week of August 2011 and I'm excitedly waiting to get a CD of music from Clyde Watson, the writer and composer of Father Trick's Pennyrhymes and Father Fox'southward Banquet of Songs (and sister of the illustrator Wendy Watson).

It all combines to seal my heart in beloved and please around the character of Fob, who, sneaky though he might be, is likewise a loving parent, doing the best he tin to get in through the day.

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Addendum, September 2011

I've come to think of "The Fox" as complicated character.  Not 1 single fox, but the idea of The Fob every bit a single entity an each encounter is just a bit and slice of a larger whole.

Just today I was talking to my dad most The Play tricks woods sculputre I bought in Williamsburg, VA this past summer.  Poor fella was a casualty of the earthquack the East Declension expereinced on August 23, 2011.  Mr. Play tricks was proudly supervising our living room drapery when the convulsion hit.  He tumbled down and both his leg broke off.  My dad agreed to accept him abode to Indiana and repair Fox good equally new.

Just later that, sifting through some wonderful pictures kids had fatigued in celebration of Sing Books, I ran across this picture by Connor:

(Artwork by Connor, Kindergarten 2010-2011)

The Pull a fast one on is always a favorite, one of the most requested songs.  The Flim-flam is a wonderful vocal and kids respond to information technology for so many reasons (including the tempo, strong vanquish, engaging story, and the mystical appeal of Play tricks).

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Kids REALLY Love the play a trick on!  Here's some other motion picture, by Celeste, who fabricated sure to include the name of her favorite song on the picture,

Artwork by Celeste, Kindergarten 2010-2011

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Addendum

I do and then love the character of Fob.  He appeals to me on many levels and he simply keeps on popping up.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Book by Roald Dahl
Illustrated past Quentin Blake

"Fantastic Mr. Trick," the book,  is illustrated by Quentin Blake and contains two brusque songs, and as far as I'm concerned, this qualifies it as a bona fide Singable Picture Book:

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Boggis and Bunce and Bean
Words by Roald Dahl
Boggis and Bunce and Bean
I fatty, 1 hort, 1 lean>
These horrible crooks
And then different in looks
Were none the less every bit mean.

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Home Again Swiftly I Glide
Words by Roald Dahl
Home once more swiftly I glide,
Dorsum to my beautiful bride.
She'll non feel so rotten
As soon every bit she'southward gotten
Some cider inside her inside.

Oh poor Mrs. Badger, he cried,
So hungry she very nearly died.
But she'll not feel and so hollow
If only she'll consume
Some cider inside her within.

A musical setting for "Boggis and Bunce and Bean" rhyme can exist heard in the pic version of "Fantastic Mr. Trick":
http://www.amazon.com/Boggis-Bunce-And-Bean-Reprise/dp/B003ADBZ94/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&southward=dmusic&qid=1318523402&sr=1-7
(Information technology would be a skilful idea to irksome it down a good bargain for kids to enjoy singing it…)

Yous can hear the vocal in this YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gp3Rkf1FGs

And, seems to me, the tune could also be used to sing the second rhyme…only, over again, slow information technology down a little!

It'due south fun to spend an hour or so with Mr. Fox in the flick, which is delightfully fantastic and wonderfully voiced, but non very much like the book:

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A special thank you to the Fabulous Clyde Watson for reminding me about the Fantastic Mr. Play a trick on!

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Addendum, January  2012

I'm continually delighted to notice evidence of the influence the character of Fox has upon the collective cultural imagination of us man-folk.

It was a lot of fun to see an Antiques Road Show appraisement of a foxy painting by William H. Bear, painted in 1874.  Wonderfully, the painting'due south original frame sports a plaque with the caption," Haven't Seen Your Hen?"

Click here to the archive page for this appraisal which includes an paradigm of the painting and a video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200502A36.html

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Annex, 5/13/2013

I wanted my ain re-create of FOX WENT OUT ON A Chilly Nighttime, as illustrated by Wendy Watson, for a long fourth dimension.  It only arrived.  I bought a very good ex-library hardcover edition from Amazon and it is equally sweet and delightful an analogy equally one would expect from Wendy Watson.

Fox Went Out on a Dank Night
Traditional Words and Music
Illustrated past Wendy Watson
ISBN 0-688-10766-4

Every bit with any old folks song, the lyrics will often vary from 1 printed version to another (and amid the many people who sing and perform it) and that is the case here.  I've been singing this for kids with Peter Spier's illustration (which I too adore) and the lyrics within are slightly unlike than that, but the differences are wonderful and it will be lots of fun to sing both.  For example, in Peter Spier'south illustration, the adult female who discovers the play a trick on and sticks her head out of the window is "Old Female parent Giggle-Gaggle," only in Wendy Watson's analogy, the woman is "Old Mother Slipper-Slopper," who Ms. Watson adorably draws wearing sloppy slippers.

The inside cover book flap for Wendy Watson'due south analogy offers this info:

This archetype folk vocal of a fox in pursuit of his dinner was first published in the 1810 edition of Gammer Gurton'southward Garland.  Information technology has been a childhood favorite ever since…

Information technology's hilarious to me, that, in the text mentioned higher up from Gammer Gurton'south Garland, the woman is chosen "Onetime Mother Widdle Waddle."

In the 1810 Gammer Gurton's Garland, this is all there is of what was to become the song FOX WENT OUT ON A Chilly NIGHT:

Dame WIDDLE WADDLE.

Old Mother Widdle Waddle jumpt out of bed,
And out at the casement she popt out her caput:
Crying the business firm is on fire, the greyness goose is dead,
And the fox he is come up to the town, oh!

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Addendum xi/28/2014

Peter Spier'due south inimitable analogy is reissued in 2014, with artwork restored this illustrated song archetype again shines gloriously.  In previous edition, half the pages were blackness and white.  Peter Spier went back to his original classic pictures and recolorized everything and added colour where previously the pages were just blackness and white. This is very exciting!  It's one of the kids' favorite songs in classrooms and they are going to dear this reissue.

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2014 reissue cover for Play a joke on WENT OUT ON A Chilly NIGHT

Pull a fast one on Went Out on a Chilly Night (An Old Song), 2014 Reissue
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated by Peter Spier

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Commodity about the reissue, hither:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/1962honorfoxwentoutchillynight

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More about the reissue from publisher in Canada:
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/249418/flim-flam-went-out-chilly-dark#9780385376167

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Visit Amazon to "Await Inside" and see some of the new pages:
http://smiling.amazon.com/Fox-Went-Out-Chilly-Night/dp/0385376162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417285215&sr=8-2&keywords=peter+spier+2014

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