Aiken Drum Piano Sheet Music
Aikun Drum is a Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, first penned in 1820, by James Hogg, and published in 1821, in the book Jacobite Reliques. The tale is of a fictitious character, Aikun Drum, with repeating versus. The repetition was used to teach children various foods, by substituting a different food for every verse.
Each part of Aikun Drums clothes is supposedly made out of a different food item such as a hat of cream cheese and a coat of roast beef. An extract of the nursery rhyme below displays the chanting nature of the ancient tune. Upon sight alone, the melody may almost be imagined, if only faintly familiar with the English folk songs of the period.
And his hat was made of good cream cheese, of good cream cheese, of good cream cheese,
And his hat was made of good cream cheese,
And his name was Aiken Drum.
And his coat was made of good roast beef, of good roast beef, of good roast beef,
And his coat was made of good roast beef,
And his name was Aiken Drum.
And his hat was made of good cream cheese,
And his name was Aiken Drum.
And his coat was made of good roast beef, of good roast beef, of good roast beef,
And his coat was made of good roast beef,
And his name was Aiken Drum.
Although a nursery rhyme, Aiden Drum is part of English tradition. The Tune is documented as an important part of English language in the oral form. It features in the Roud Folk Song Index, which contains 21,600 folk songs throughout English history, and from all around the world.
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