Redio-Tedio

X:3
T:Redio-Tedio
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Barry, Eckstorm and Smyth, 1929, pp. 3-4.  Sung by Mrs.
O:Susie Carr Young, Brewer, Maine;  Learned from Sybil
O:Emery in 1882.  Melody recorded by George Herzog.
H:N.B. that Herzog noted this air in 4/4, but in notes of only
half the values given here.
N:Child 2
M:C|
K:Gmix %Pentatonic ( -6 -7) irregular
G | G2 Bc d2 dd | d2 g2 d4 |
w:I want you to make me a camb-ric shirt,
cccc c2 AA | B2 B2 B2>B2 | G2 B2 d2 d2 |
w:Fum a lum a link, sup a loop my knee, With neith-er seam or
d2 g2 d4   | cA A2 BG G2 | dd d2 BG G2 |
w:Need-le work, Red-i-o ted-i-o, tod-dle bod bed-i-o,
dddd d2 cc | B2 A2 G3 |]
w:Fum a lum a link, sup a loop my knee.
W:
W:I want you to make me a camb-ric shirt,
W:Fum a lum a link, sup a loop my knee,
W:With neith-er seam or Need-le work,
W:Red-i-o ted-i-o, tod-dle bod bed-i-o,
W:Fum a lum a link, sup a loop my knee.
W:
W:I want you to buy me an acre of land,
W:Between salt water and the sea-sand.
W:
W:Plow it o'er with an old buck's horn,
W:Plant it o'er with one peppercorn.
W:
W:Reap it down with a peacock's feather,
W:Bind it up with the sting of an adder.
W:
W:Thrash it out with a mouse's tail,
W:Cart it in on the back of a snail.
W:
W:When you have completed your work,
W:Come to me, you shall have your shirt.