I always thought it was a Stephen Foster type of American song, but I stand corrected, it appears to be British:
from http://www.bikwil.zip.com.au/Vintage06/Daisy-Daisy.html#Article Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy All for the love of you! Most of you will know those words and their tune. Perhaps like me you thought this popular music-hall ditty was called Daisy, Daisy. Well, the correct title is Daisy Bell (lyrics and music by Harry Dacre). Actually, the above words are just the chorus (or rather the first half thereof), for there are three verses as well, but these days few people will have heard them. It would seem that the whole song may be legally sung in public without fee or licence, except in music halls! And there was a real Daisy who inspired the song � the Countess of Warwick, Frances Brooke, one of the most desirable women of those times, and one of the wealthiest. Daisy was her nickname. For a while she was the mistress of the Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VII), and they say that he once gave her an ankle bracelet inscribed "Heaven�s Above". This beautiful socialite actually dared turn socialist, but whether that fact impinged on her later money troubles, when she tried selling her Prince's letters to his son George V, I can�t say. In the end, she was bought off by John Boyd Dunlop, the founder of the rubber company, who got a baronetcy in exchange. And here is a little bit more from http://www.gtgtandems.com/tech/daisy.html Daisy Bell Written and composed by Harry Dacre, sung by Miss Katie Lawrence. This song may be sung in public without fee or license EXCEPT IN MUSIC HALLS! >From American Popular Songs by David Ewen: "When Dacre, an English popular composer, first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged duty. His friend (the songwriter William Jerome) remarked lightly: 'It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty.' Dacre was so taken with the phrase 'bicycle built for two' that he decide to use it in a song. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Kate Lawrence. Tony Pastor was the first one to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892." Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do? I'm half crazy, All for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage,..I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two! There is a flower within my heart, Daisy, Daisy! Planted one day by a glancing dart, Planted by Daisy Bell! Whether she loves me of not, Sometimes its hard to tell; Yet I am longing to share the lot of Beautiful Daisy Bell! (chorus) Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do? I'm half crazy, All for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage,..I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two! (chorus) We will go "tandem" as man and wife, Daisy, Daisy! Ped'ling away down the road of life, I and my Daisy Bell! When the road's dark we can dispise P'licman and "lamps" as well; There are "bright lights" in the dazzling eyes Of beautiful Daisy Bell! (chorus) I will stand by you in "wheel or woe, Daisy, Daisy! You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring, you know! Sweet little Daisy Bell! You'll take the lead in each trip we take, Then if I don't do well; I will permit you to use the break, My beautiful Daisy Bell!!! Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Allen Esterson wrote: > > > I wonder if North American TIPSters know the allusion in the title above, > > "Daisy, Daisy"? It's from a song from a long-gone era, the first verse of > > which is below. I don't know from which side of the Atlantic it > > originated, though I always thought of it as a British song. > > I imagine most North American TIPSters over the age of about 35 remember > this song from the 1968 version sung ever more and more slowly by HAL the > computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". I wonder what the song's > original author would think if he or she knew that the version most > well-remembered would be by a dying murderous paranoid computer in a > spaceship on the way to Jupiter (or Saturn, if you read the book instead). > > Paul Smith > Alverno College > Milwaukee > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
