Dutch "sets"
Very often, at parties and at dances, dutch musicians were known to play a kind of "sets Only we don't call them sets, we call then "medley" for some reason. I never heard a Dutch word used for it. These medleys were played in traditional music as well as in popular music. A special form of this contamination of melodies is a kind of game, that was played at the preschool as wel as on weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. The songleader, at preschool the teacher and at grown-up paries often an accordion player, opened with aq special song that goes like this:
Drie maal drie is negen Ieder zingt zijn eigen lied
Drie maal drie is negen Jantje zingt zijn lied Freely translate it would be Three times three equals nine Everybody sings a song Three times three equals nine
Johnnie sings his song.
Instead of "Johnnie" the name of the next person who is dared to start the next song is sung. Most of the times this person sings just a choore, sometimes one leading verse of a song, and everybody joins in.
Then it starts al over again. Sometimes the last person that was called will call the next, sometimes the song leader will call the next one. It goes on until every had "sung his song¨.
In the tabs I added this times I start with the 3x3 song. The other tabs are children songs.
The first is about the son of count that lives in the Haque. It is a little hard to make a singable translation, because in Dutch Hague(Haag) en Count(Graaf) rhymes.
The second song is called Kortjakje, een old Dutch children song but the melody is even older. it is from france, " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" and it happen to be the same melody as the English song "Twinkle Twinkle Little starr" or "Baba black sheep" and so many more.
The last song is more complicated and is divided in two parts The first is a 6/8 time and the second is a 8/8, so played twice as fast as the other songs. It is about getting water and a king that drives through puddles an to church, nonsense like a lot of children songs are.
For now I leave you just with the Banjo tabs. Like you know I am working on a book. And all of this is still a work in progress.
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