Hi all,
Used to sing this to my daughters at bedtime, making up lyrics on the fly. Now oldest girl is getting married and thought this song would be a nice dad-bride waltze song. The BBC London Marathon version is great but any other versions out there? Ones with lyrics, Ollie singing it (with the hilarious Canadien accent, eh)?
As I remember it, it goes "When I'm a man, I'll take me a wife;
We'll live in a house on the hill, the hill;
With carriage and horses all white, all white;
And she shall have diamonds and pearls, and pearls;
And she shall have diamonds and pearls."
Thanks for getting me to remember this fine movie. I may purchase in when it comes out on DVD, though I have it on tape... somewhere.
I always thought the third line was "And live by the river, so wide so wide;"
I don't suppose you have any other information about the song?
Thanks.
And I remembered the third line was...
"With roses all red and fences all white"
Perhaps we all remember different verses. I only remember the one.
"The Trap" was the feature film on a UHF station in Philadelphia PA back in the late 60's. It aired 10 times and I watched 8 of them. To this day when I canoe (which is often), I sing the song.