12-string Guitar: I Had Four Brothers Beyond The Sea

This riddle song dates back a long time. Like many riddle songs, the riddles themselves are not too difficult to work out. Here, to pad the song out a bit, they sang words that sounded like they might be 'Latin' such as would be spoken by the priest in church, but really they are just doggerel. This I learned from the BBC Radio Broadcast 'Singing Together'.

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• Brothers
• Beyond
• The
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• threelegsoman
• English
• Folk
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• Lyrics
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• 12-string
• Acoustic
• Guitar

[Mojosbigstick]

We sang this song as children!

I had no luck searching for Perry Merry Dixie, so tried Four Brothers. Thank you so much for recording this!

[threelegsoman]

@Mojosbigstick You are welcome. It is probably the origin of the Riddle Song 'I gave my love a cherry........'

[raymond52044]

New song for me too. Fun.

[00JTM]

This is a great song, I don't think I ever heard of it until now but anyway good job Tony!

[banjodano]

Excellent work my friend! very strange song