cadence

[Jonathan Lighter]

Of course both can be combined ad lib.

JL


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> The "Duckworth Chant"  (e.g., "I don't know, but I been told....") is more
> melodic than the standard "You had a good home but you left."  Both use a
> descending tune for the "sound off!" chorus.
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> What is essentially the Duckworth melody was already in print in 1941 in
> John Lomax & Alan Lomax's _Our Singing Country_ as the vehicle for the song
> "The Marrowbone Itch," collected in Kentucky in 1937.
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> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
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> > The military has a special sense of "cadence" that isn't in the OED.
>  It's
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> > the rhythmic chant used in marching to help uncoordinated recruits keep
> > the=
> >  beat and distinguish their left foot from right (I'm sure Wilson could
> > ste=
> > p in here and amplify). =20
> > See:
> > http://www.npr.org/2014/06/16/322589902/sound-off-where-the-militarys-=
> > rhythm-came-from
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> > _Springfield [MA] Union_ 10/23/1960 p 19a col 1"Most GI's and former
> > servic=
> > emen remember the chant:=20
> > "You had a good home but you left.  You're right.You had a good home but
> > yo=
> > u left.  You're right.Jodie was there when you left.  You're right.Jodie
> > wa=
> > s there when you left.  You're right.
> > Sound off!  One two.  Sound off!  Three four.Cadence count! One two three
> > f=
> > our=2Cone two -- three four!"
> > That is one of the more familiar chants from the "Jodie Cadence=2C" which
> > s=
> > pread throughout the military service after Jackson devised it to help a
> > gr=
> > oup of unco-ordinated recruits learn how to march in 1943 at Camp
> Barkley=
> > =2C Texas."
> > Note the differences in who originated the Jodie Cadence -- NPR gives
> > credi=
> > t to Pvt Duckworth at Ft Slocum in 1944=3B the cited article gives it to
> > Sg=
> > t Herman Jackson of Camp Barkley in 1943.  Isn't folklore fun?
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