Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?

09 Apr 00 - 02:56 PM (#209273)
Subject: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Tametha

In grade school I learned a song that nobody seems to remember. It goes something like: "Hey, ho! Anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have we none. Yet, we will be very, very merry!" It seems like I'm missing another verse, but I can't remember it...help!!! I wanna sing it for my kids...

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09 Apr 00 - 03:12 PM (#209277)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Barky

Tametha:
I don't think you're missing any verses. It's a round that goes:
"Hey, ho, nobody home. Meat nor drink nor money have I none..."
Right there, the next person starts the same verse. This keeps on going forever and ever and ever and ever... and you get the point.

~Barky

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09 Apr 00 - 03:15 PM (#209279)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Ed Pellow

There was a discussion about this last year. Click here for details.

Ed

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09 Apr 00 - 07:02 PM (#209339)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

The song works well as a quodlibet (in harmony with) Shalom, chaverim, Wade in the Water, and the refrain from the Native American chant, Hey, yanna, ho yanna, hey, yan yan (The Earth is our mother).

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10 Apr 00 - 06:50 PM (#209881)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: vindelis

The lyrics I know are on the previous thread, as the Soul Cake song. I believe it is one of the many wassail songs that used to be sung around about Christmas/Yuletide time of year.

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11 Apr 00 - 03:03 PM (#210172)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Wesley S

You can find a version of it at www.peterpaulandmary.com. They called their version of it "A'soulin'". I saw the lyrics there.

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12 Apr 00 - 12:53 AM (#210464)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: DonMeixner

Also there is an interesting version by The Minstrels of Mayhem on their recent CD

Don

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29 Jan 09 - 05:39 PM (#2552315)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,avbcc

it goes hey ho anybody home.,. meat nor drink nor money have i none..yet i will me merry any how

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11 Mar 09 - 09:12 AM (#2586323)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,TimH

does anyone know the lyrics in Portugese?

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11 Mar 09 - 10:03 AM (#2586342)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Sheila

I learned it as "Hey, ho, nobody home, No meat nor drink nor money have I none, Yet I will be very merry..."

Sheila

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12 Mar 09 - 07:22 AM (#2587053)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Jim Dixon

From The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1910). The play was first performed 1607, and published in 1613:

Enter another Boy.

2. Boy. Sir, I can get no bread for supper.

Mer. Hang bread and supper! let's preserve our mirth, and we shall never feele hunger, I'le warrant you. Let's have a catch, boy; follow me, come. Sing this Catch.

Ho, ho, no body at home!
Meate, nor drinke, nor money ha wee none,
Fill the pot, Eedy,
Never more need I.

Mer. So, boies; enough. Follow mee. Let's change our place and we shall laugh afresh. Exeunt.

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18 Mar 09 - 10:55 PM (#2592275)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,stephen

i learnt the song as
"hey oh, anybody home meet and drink and money have i none, still i may be merry very merry"
and you would repeat singing it and someone would start singing the same exact verse when you sing still i may be merry very merry

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25 Mar 09 - 08:19 PM (#2597438)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

hay this is how i believe it goes

hay ho nobody home
meet no drink no money have i done
still
i will be verry merry
sol, sol,sol cake
meet no mistress of sole cake
an apple, a pare, a plum, a charry
any old thing to make us all marry
one for peterm, two for paul, three for he (or him >.< cant remember) who made us all..

written by someone remembered by '~'pinkblossom^v^ hope its correct!

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28 Mar 09 - 12:15 PM (#2599285)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

NOO ITS: Hey Ho! Nobody home meat nor drink nor money have we none still i will be very merry. Hey Ho! Nobody home meat nor drink nor money have we none still i will be very merry. HEY!

Katie

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04 Jul 09 - 08:29 PM (#2671734)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,abbey

i learned it as hey ho nobody home meats nor drink nor money have i none still i will be very very merry repeat :)

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05 Aug 09 - 02:20 PM (#2694272)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

It was
Hi Ho Anybody home, eat no drink no money have I none, still I will be haaaappy

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10 Oct 09 - 09:18 AM (#2742749)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Guest

I learned it as:

Hey ho nobody home nor meat nor drink nor money have I none yet I will be merry hey ho nobody home.


And then you repeat it and someone joins in singing the same verse.

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12 Nov 09 - 08:27 PM (#2765147)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

I learned this just today in Choir class, in fact, I was looking for the next few verses, there are about four. The two I know go,

Hi, ho! Anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have I none. Still I will be very merry, hi ho anybody home, hi ho.

And then there's something about a bird and why does it fly in the shadows at such an hour of night, I believe.

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13 Nov 09 - 07:59 AM (#2765332)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,neil

the song is also old trad scouting song
we still sing it around campfires
whilst doing a canoe paddling action...
very soft at start as you paddle towards a house on the river
hey ho anybody home
meat or drink or money have i non
yet i will be merry.....
louder as you pass the house then
goes away quietly down river

sounds lovely if done right
neil

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05 Sep 10 - 10:26 AM (#2980375)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,sarah t

This is vs 2:
(Wish I remembered vs 1 :()

God bless the master of this house
And the mistress also
And all the little Children
Around your table grow
The cattle in the stable
The dog at your front door
And all the little children
Around your table grow.

And it is a soulen song. I was taught
This song in high school by an awesome
Teacher by the name of George Georgetti.

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05 Sep 10 - 03:41 PM (#2980542)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: Little Robyn

Hi Sarah, your
'awesome Teacher by the name of George Georgetti'
learnt it this way from Peter, Paul and Mary.
If you check Malcolm Douglas' post from 10 years ago and click on the blue clicky on the 3rd post down - Ed Pellow, you'll find the whole story.
Robyn

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08 Sep 10 - 08:24 PM (#2982788)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,NK

Well the song lyrics are: Hey, ho anybody home? Meat nor drink nor money have I none! Yet I will be merry anyhow. That's the first part. you're supposed to sing it together with 2 more parts. That is how I did it anyway. One person sings this part once, then when they start again, someone else sings this part:
2.
I say (fast) (now normal) hey ho heeeeeey hooo. repeat (going lower)
Then after some time another person starts
3. (go high, then low on Hooooo.)
hey, ho, heeeeeyy hooooo. Repeat
Then all end at the same time, all on Hey! 1st person ends on Hey!
Second ends on i say hey, and third person ends on hey.

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05 Nov 10 - 03:22 PM (#3024510)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

its hey ho, anybody home . meat nor drink nor money have i none. yet i will be merry any how.

thts right cuz im an 8th grader and i jus got outta choir like an hour ago.

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25 Jan 11 - 05:49 PM (#3082373)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,indiana_kid

i'm an 8th grader singing it in my choir right now and the words are,
Hey Ho nobody's home. No meat no drink nor money hav I none. Still I will be merry hey ho nobody's home. You guys are all wrong.!

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08 Sep 11 - 01:23 AM (#3219891)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,ry98

Hey Ho anybody home, meat nor drink no money have i none. yet i will be merry any how Hey ho any body home. THOSE ARE THE LYRICS I WAS TAUGHT.

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20 Dec 11 - 06:21 PM (#3277412)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,guest2251

i learned it
hey ho anybody home
meat nor drink nor money have i non
still i will be very very merry
hey ho anybody home

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22 Dec 11 - 10:48 PM (#3278734)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

Voice 1: Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 2 : Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Yet will I be merry.
Voice 2: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 3: Hey, ho, nobody home;

Voice 1: Hey, ho, nobody home;
Voice 2: Yet wiIll be merry.
Voice 3: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,

Voice 1: Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Voice 2: Yet will I be merry.

Voice 1: Yet will be merry.

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13 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM (#3290372)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,mike

I trying to locate the artist that recorded the song in around the 40's. I use to own a old Picture disc 78 on this records. It sounded like the Andrew Sister but it's not. It had a like the Big Band Sound to it with female vocals.
Hi Ho anybody home, no meat no drink no money do I own, still we will be merry, (then it jazz's it up a bit) we will be merry Hi Ho.

Any help would be appreciated. [e-mail]

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06 Feb 12 - 05:03 PM (#3303276)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Thisguy

Everybody sings it differently,
I thought it went
Hey,Ho Nobody home
no meat no drink no money have i none
Still i will go merrily along

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16 Feb 12 - 02:18 PM (#3309631)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

the first verse is repeated and you start over again from the second or first verse. i learned it like this

hey ho nobody's home
meat nor drink nor money have i none
yet we will be very very merry
hey ho nobody's home

there is no puncuation for a reason except for the apostrophe because there was none on the paper.

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09 Jan 14 - 02:04 PM (#3590439)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Guest, Beth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 13 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM

I trying to locate the artist that recorded the song in around the 40's. I use to own a old Picture disc 78 on this records. It sounded like the Andrew Sister but it's not. It had a like the Big Band Sound to it with female vocals.
Hi Ho anybody home, no meat no drink no money do I own, still we will be merry, (then it jazz's it up a bit) we will be merry Hi Ho.

Any help would be appreciated. [e-mail]

Mike - My family had that same picture record when I was a child - which is what sent me to this post. I'm working on a project to digitize old family albums for my siblings and believe it or not, dreamed about this one last night - have to ask my mom if she still has this record and if so, will post again who the artist was.

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09 Jan 14 - 02:44 PM (#3590446)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Jack Campin

An oddity: the first publication of the music, by Thomas Ravenscroft

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/hey_ho.html

doesn't match Beaumont and Fletcher's words (quoted by Jim Dixon upthread), though the two were published close together.

You could maybe make it work by adding B&F's extra half-line to make the round into six parts instead of Ravenscroft's five. Anybody want to try that?

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09 Jan 14 - 07:11 PM (#3590502)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler

When I was a teenager, as a Senior Scout in the UK, we used it as a canoeing song. We went for miles singing this hypnotic round!

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11 Sep 15 - 01:16 AM (#3736706)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: PHJim

Hey Ho Anybody home?
Meat nor drink nor money have I none,
Yet I will be merry, very merry,
Hey Ho Anybody home?

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05 Mar 18 - 12:57 AM (#3909485)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From: GUEST

Hi ho anybody home meat nor drink nor money Have I None still I will be very merry hi ho anybody home hi ho
Oh poor bird why art thou flying in the shadows at this dark night
Ding dong ding dong wedding bells on an april morn carve my name in a moss covered stone in a moss covered stone
Ding dong ding dong fueneral bells on a septmber morn rose oh rose dead and gone sire dead and gone
Oh poor bird take thy flight high above the sorrows at the dark night

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