547. The Riddle Song (Traditional English)

[coolanddark]

Absolutely beautiful Raymond! One of the worlds greatest songs in my opinion!

[raymondcrooke]

@coolanddark Thanks, Dan. Good to hear from you.

Greetings from London, England.

[RazmiorSiki]

This is awesome !!

[raymondcrooke]

@RazmiorSiki Thank you.

[lesterjallen]

been threw quite a few of your covers now and this is most definatly my favourate theres not enough renditions of traditional songs nower days

just lovley

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for visiting my channel.

[mollynolan1]

Beautiful thank you

[raymondcrooke]

I'm glad you liked it.

[lucydog232]

I like this song!!!!

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for watching, Maddie.

[lucydog232]

How the heck do you know my name and what are you doing up at one a.m checking youtube?

[Simnol]

Always liked this song. Interestingly I've always heard and sung it incredibly low, i like you're mellow version.

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for your comments.

[holymeth]

Hmm I wonder if the song has any point at all. I've read a few old rhymes and they seem to be like this ... a sort of bragging for whomever is singing, a bard for example. A riddle in the form of a song.

The first stanza are the hints, the second stanza the question of what it is, and the third stanza the answer.

Hmm nonetheless quite good, I do love a riddle which you think cannot be answered and is. Though if I may ask, when or how does a chicken pipe?

[raymondcrooke]

I don't think there is much point to the song, though people have tried to read all kinds of meanings into it. It's just part of the riddle tradition that you mention.

Pipping is when the chicken pecks a circle in the egg shell from inside so that it can come out. When it actually breaks a tiny hole this is the pip. A chicken has a little pointed bit on top of its beak which is called the "pipping tooth." Some versions of the song just say "hatching."

[goodlookingdracula]

bravo!!!

my family always loved that song!!!

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for listening and commenting.

[lewdite]

Beautifully done

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks, Lew.

[sinjon1969]

Wonderful song and well played.

(Formely Blue Ukulele)

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks, and welcome back with the new name. What happened to your blue ukulele?

[sinjon1969]

I was having trouble uploading video's and accessing my messages so I deleted it and started a new.

[travis101305027]

Chicken with out bones, very symbolic of society  nice song

[raymondcrooke]

Interesting interpretation. There are obviously many ways of looking at this simple song.

[marcoacca]

A bery beautiful rendition as usual, Raymond!

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks bery much, Marco. :-)

[Serge165]

No problem, and thank you for bringing me back to my true childhood and not the one that was written down by staff in a log book. I may be a bit odd, but you've touched me Raymond'jai. Someday, I will sing for you

[Serge165]

Ah, Raymond, You get me going again on mone of my comment tirades -- In a good way. Well done, first off, second off, this song is used to tell the story of the Princes who court Mikaela Ironbolt, she turns thme both down telling them that she is only 7 and a half.