There are at least two other folksongs of the same name, one associated with a children’s game RN19232 (first line: Over the garden wall I let my baby fall) and the other a bawdy song RN8382 (first line: I went to pee behind a tree). It has been adopted as a traditional song on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing in the repertoire of a number of source singers, and recorded in a suitably truncated version by The Carter Family in the 1930s. Over the Garden Wall appeared widely in a number of 19th-century songsters and broadsides, on both sides of the Atlantic. The song was subsequently successful in the Halls: it featured in the repertoire of both Vesta Victoria and later in that of the Bristolian who first sang Rawtenstall Annual Fair, Randolph Sutton.
Hunter defected to the Mohawks in 1874, and wrote this song for one of its main performers five years later. In Britain there were two main rival blackface minstrel troupes: the Mohawk Minstrels (who performed in residency in London ) and the Manhattan Minstrels (who tended to tour the provinces and only rarely appeared in London).
The song was written by Harry Hunter (1841-1906) one time leader of the burnt cork-faced minstrels: The Manhattan Minstrels. With a lad and ladder, she managed to creep So while the old fellow was snoring asleep, We hadn't much money, but wedding's are cheap, There's always a night as well as the day, I have an impression he's bringing a stick."īut I brought the impression of half a brick,īut where there's a will, there's always a way, 'B' is for beloved that I call to him before he left my side. She was not very tall so she stood in a chair,īut her father stamped and her father raved,īut she screamed in a fright, "Here's father, quick, The Lyrics for Langtree's Lament by Over The Garden Wall have been translated into 3 languages 'A' is for the apple that he gave to me, But I found a worm inside.
This could be signifying Wirt as he expresses an inclination to remain in Pottsfield and after his ultimate decision to keep traveling essentially confronting and overcoming death, he ceases to recite his morose poetry only picking it back up after his being betrayed by Beatrice.She whispered and said she'd be true to me, This is evidenced by the fact that despite proclaiming to be "clocked in till the work day's over" he says that he is anxiously waiting instead of working, in this case, the night would mean death, alongside the woman who is described. One interpretation is that the narrator is awaiting death. Janet Klein) Over the Garden Wall, The Blasting Company, Janet Klein. Lazy 'cross the sky, with no end in sight Chris Isaak) Over the Garden Wall, The Blasting Company, Chris Isaak.
The ending credits of the Composer's Mix from the episode Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee in the DVD includes the lines (which presumably were to go after the first stanza): I know she's never late, still anxiously I wait I know she’s never late, still anxiously I wait Time’s a gentle stream, longer than it seems Langtree can be seen playing this song on the piano.
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Patient is the Night is a song featured in Over the Garden Wall in the episode Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee when Wirt, Gregory, and Beatrice are sentenced to a few hours of manual labor from Enoch in Pottsfield.
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